the IEEE Power and Energy Society.
Venkata Dinavahi received the BEng. degree in electrical engineering from the Visveswaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India, in 1993, the MTech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 1996, and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2000. Presently he is a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His research interests include real-time simulation of power systems and power electronic systems, electromagnetic transients, device-level modeling, large-scale systems, and parallel and distributed computing. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
James W. Feltes received his BS degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Union College.
He joined Power Technologies, Inc. (PTI), now part of Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution Inc., in 1979 and is currently a senior manager. At PTI, he has participated in many studies involving planning, analysis, and design of transmission and distribution systems. He has also been involved in many projects involving the development of models for studies of power system dynamics, testing to record equipment response, and model parameter derivation.
He is a registered professional engineer in the state of New York and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society and Industry Applications Society and is active on several IEEE committees and task forces.
Georgios B. Giannakis (Fellow’97) received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was with the University of Southern California (USC), where he received his MSc in Electrical Engineering, 1983, MSc in Mathematics, 1986, and PhD in Electrical Engineering, 1986. He was a faculty member with the University of Virginia from 1987 to 1998, and since 1999 he has been a professor with the University of Minnesota, where he holds an ADC Endowed Chair, a University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Chair in ECE, and serves as director of the Digital Technology Center.
His general interests span the areas of statistical learning, communications, and networking – subjects on which he has published more than 470 journal papers, 770 conference papers, 25 book chapters, two edited books, and two research monographs. His current research focuses on Data Science, and Network Science with applications to the Internet of Things, and power networks with renewables. He is the (co-) inventor of 34 issued patents, and the (co-) recipient of 9 best journal paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) and Communications Societies, including the G. Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. He also received the IEEE-SPS Norbert Wiener Society Award (2019); EURASIP’s A. Papoulis Society Award (2020); Technical Achievement Awards from the IEEE-SPS (2000) and from EURASIP (2005); the IEEE ComSoc Education Award (2019); the G. W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research from the University of Minnesota, and the IEEE Fourier Technical Field Award (2015). He is a foreign member of the Academia Europaea, and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the European Academy of Sciences, IEEE and EURASIP. He has served the IEEE in a number of posts, including that of a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE-SPS.
Manimaran Govindarasu currently holds the Mehl Professor of Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. His area of expertise includes CPS for the smart grid, cyber security, and real‐time systems and networks. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Ye Guo is an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University. He received his bachelor degree in 2008 and doctoral degree in 2013, both from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University between 2014 and 2018. His research interests include distributed optimization, game and market theory, state estimation, and their applications in power and energy systems. He has received the Best-of-the-Best paper award and another Best Paper Award at IEEE PES General Meeting, 2019, and another Best Paper Award at IEEE PES General Meeting 2020. He also received the Best Poster Award at PSERC IAB Meeting 2018.
Ibrahim Omar Habiballah is an Associate Professor of EE Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. In his area he taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in electrical, power systems, power transmission, and electrical machines. His research interests include power systems in general, power system state estimation, power system optimization, HV insulators, and energy conservation.
Araceli Hernández received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain, in 2000. Currently, she works at the Department of Control, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computing at UPM, where she is an Associate Professor. Her fields of interest include power system analysis and power quality estimation and measurement.
Hadis Karimipour received the PhD degree from the University of Alberta in 2016. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include large‐scale power system state estimation, cyber‐physical modeling, cybersecurity of the smart grids, and parallel and distributed computing.
Vassilis Kekatos is an Assistant Professor at the Bradley Department of ECE at Virginia Tech. He obtained his Diploma, MSc, and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2001, 2003, and 2007, respectively. He was a recipient of a Marie Curie Fellowship during 2009–2012 and a research associate with the ECE Department at the University of Minnesota, where he received the postdoctoral career development award (honorable mention). During 2014, he stayed with the University of Texas at Austin and the Ohio State University as a visiting researcher. His research focus is on optimization and learning for future energy systems. He is currently serving in the editorial board of the IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid.
Mert Korkali received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is currently a Research Staff Member at the Computational Engineering Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA. His current research interests lie at the broad interface of robust state estimation and fault location in power systems, extreme event modeling, cascading failures, uncertainty quantification, and probabilistic grid planning. He is the Co-chair of the IEEE Task Force on Standard Test Cases for Power System State Estimation. He is currently serving as an Editor of the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy and of the IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and an Associate Editor of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. Dr. Korkali is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Massimo La Scala is Professor of Electrical Energy Systems at Politecnico di Bari and IEEE Fellow. He has been Principal Investigator of numerous research projects in smart grids and smart cities and scientific consultant of the Ministry of the Economic Development in Italy and of AEEGSI the Italian Regulatory Authority of Electricity, Gas and Water. He is the director of the “Laboratory for the development of renewables and energy efficiency: Lab ZERO” at Politecnico di Bari.
Yu Liu was born in Hefei, China, in 1990. He received the BS and MS degrees in Electric Power Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2011 and 2013, respectively, and the MS degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2013 from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, where he is currently working toward the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include power system protection, parameter estimation, and circuit fault locating.
A.P. Sakis Meliopoulos was born in Katerini, Greece, in 1949. He received the ME and EE Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University
