M. Hadi Amini is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, where he received his M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015. Prior to that, he received his B.Sc. from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2011, and his M.Sc. from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, in 2013, both in Electrical Engineering. He serves as reviewer for several high-impact journals, and international conferences and symposiums in the field of power systems. Hadi currently serves as the President of Carnegie Mellon University Energy Club. He serves on the technical program committee of "IEEE Int'l. Conf. on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies" (SEST 2019). He has published more than 50 refereed journal and conference papers in the smart energy systems and electrified transportation network-related areas. He serves as the lead editor for Sustainable Interdependent Networks. Heis the recipient of the best paper award of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy in 2016, best reviewer award of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid from the IEEE Power & Energy Society in 2017, outstanding reviewer award of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy in 2017, and the dean's honorary award from the president of Sharif University of Technology in 2007. Hadi is a member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Sigma Chapter, the honor society of IEEE. He ranked 26th among about 270,000 participants in the Iranian Nationwide University Entrance Exam for B.Sc. degree in 2007. His current research interests include interdependent networks, distributed/decentralized optimization algorithms in energy systems, transportation electrification, smart grid, and cybersecurity of power systems. Kianoosh G. Boroojeni received his Ph.D. in Computer Science. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Tehran in 2012 and his M.Sc. from Florida International University in 2016. His research interests include smart grids and cybersecurity. He is the author/coauthor of three books published by MIT Press and Springer. During his Ph.D. years, he published more than thirty publications in the form of book chapters, peer-reviewed journal papers, and conference papers. He is currently collaborating with Dr. S. S. Iyengar to study some network optimization and security problems in the context of smart urban development. S. S. Iyengar is a Distinguished University Professor, Distinguished Ryder professor, and Director of the School of Computing and Information sciences and is the founding Director of the Discovery Lab at Florida International University. He has published over 600 research papers and has authored/coauthored/edited 24 books published by MIT Press, John Wiley & Sons, Prentice Hall, CRC Press, and Springer. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, a Fellow of AAAS, a Fellow of NAI, a Fellow of AIMBE, a Fellow of the Society of Design and Process Program (SPDS), and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (FIE). He was awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and was awarded the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for the contributions to sensor fusion algorithms and parallel algorithms. He is also a senior Fulbright distinguished specialist award winner. He is a Golden Core member of the IEEE-CS, and he has received a Lifetime Achievement Award conferred by the International Society of Agile Manufacturing (ISAM). Prof. Iyengar is TIMES NETWORK NRI award winner in 2017. He has served on many National Science Boards such as NIH-National Library of Medicine in Bioinformatics, National Science Foundation review panel, NASA Space Science, Department of Homeland Security, Office of Naval Security, and many others. He is also the founding editor of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. He has been the editor for many IEEE journals. He is presently the editor of ACM Computing Surveys and other journals. His work has been featured on the cover of the National Science Foundation's breakthrough technologies in both 2014 and again in 2016. Panos M. Pardalos is a Distinguished Professor and the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in the Departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, and a world-renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, and Data Sciences. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, and INFORMS and was awarded the 2013 Constantin Caratheodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization. In addition, Dr. Pardalos has been awarded the 2013 EURO Gold Medal prize bestowed by the Association for European Operational Research Societies. This medal is the preeminent European award given to Operations Research (OR) professionals for "scientific contributions that stand the test of time." Dr. Pardalos is also a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Spain, and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is the founding editor of Optimization Letters, Energy Systems, and co-founder of the International Journal of Global Optimization. He has published over 600 papers, edited/authored over 200 books, and organized over 80 conferences. He has about 56,000 citations on his work, an H-index of 95, an i10- index of 575 (Google Scholar), and has graduated 62 Ph.D. students so far. Frede Blaabjerg is a professor at Aalborg University, Department of Energy Technology. After graduation he was at ABB Scandia for 1 year and then he got the opportunity to become a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Energy Technology (now department), Aalborg University, 1988-1992, quickly taking larger responsibilities in the department and became a full professor in Power Electronics and Drives at the Institute of Energy Technology in 1998.Between 2000 and 2006, Frede Blaabjerg held positions such as Program Research Leader in Control of wind turbines at the Risoe (2000- 2002); in 2000 and 2002 he was a visiting professor at the University of Padova, Italy, and Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, respectively. From 2006 to 2010 he was the Dean of the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine at Aalborg University, Denmark, an organization with a budget in 2010 at around 1300 Mio DKK. He decided to return to research in 2010. The Danish industry asked him to help to establish research in power electronics reliability, and he was able to initiate the Center of Reliable and Efficient Power Electronics (www.corpe.et.aau.dk), which today has more than ten companies involved in the research as well as many international collaborators. He attracted also an ERC advanced grant called Harmony (www.harmony.et.aau.dk) in 2012. Today, he is Villum investigator. A number of minor projects are also a part of the project portfolio today and his team has 30-40 people (dependent on number of guest and active projects). He became a visiting professor with Zhejiang University in 2009, and he is guest professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shandong University, and Shanghai Maritime University. He has published more than 1000 scientific papers. Conference papers are used as a platform to train PhDs and postdocs and then publish the best results in journals. However, many conference papers have received awards. Today more than 500 papers are published in journals. He has published ten edited books in power electronics and four monographs. The citations are quite high in the field of electrical engineering with +33000 in Web of Science (h-index 87); +51000 in Scopus (h-index 107), and +81000 in Google Scholar (h-index 132). In 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 he was among the most 250 cited in Engineering (Thomson Reuter). He is honoris causa at Politehnica of Timisoara, Romania, and Tallinn Technical University, Estonia. In 2019 and 2020 he will be President of IEEE Power Electronics Society. Asad M. Madni served as President, COO, and CTO of BEI Technologies Inc. from 1992 until his retirement in 2006. He led the development and commercialization of intelligent micro-sensors, systems, and instrumentation for which he has received worldwide acclaim. Prior to BEI he was with Systron Donner Corporation for 18 years in senior technical and executive positions, eventually as Chairman, President, and CEO. Here, he made seminal and pioneering contributions in the development of RF and Microwave Systems and Instrumentation, which significantly enhanced the capabilities of the US Tri-Services and allies. He is currently an Independent Consultant, Distinguished Adjunct Professor/Distinguished Scientist at UCLA ECE Department, Faculty Fellow at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, Adjunct Professor at Ryerson University, and Executive Managing Director and CTO of Crocker Capital. He received an A.A.S. from RCA Institutes Inc., B.S. and M.S. from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Ph.D. from California Coast University, S.E. from MIT Sloan School of Management, D.Sc. (h.c.) from Ryerson University, D.Eng. (h.c.) from Technical University of Crete, Sc.D. (h.c.) from California State University and California State University Northridge, and Ph.D. degrees (h.c.) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He is also a graduate of the Engineering Management Program at the California Institute of Technology, the Executive Institute and Director's College at Stanford University, and the Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives and Promoting Innovation and Organizational Change at Harvard University. He is credited with over 180 refereed publications, 69 issued or pending patents, and is the recipient of numerous national and international honors and awards including IEEE Frederik Philips Medal, UCSD Gordon Medal for Engineering Leadership, Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman Gold Medal, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, IET (UK) J.J.Thomson Medal, IEEE Millennium Medal, TCI College Marconi Medal, UCLA Professional Achievement Medal, UCLA Engineering Alumnus of the Year Award, UCLA Engineering Lifetime Contribution Award, UCLA EE Distinguished Alumni Award, IEEE-HKN Vladimir Karapetoff Award, IEEE AESS Pioneer Award, IEEE HKN Eminent Member Award, IEEE IMS Career Excellence Award, and Tau Beta Pi Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2011 he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to development and commercialization of sensors and systems for aerospace and automotive safety." In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors "for demonstrating a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society."He is a Fellow/Eminent Engineer of 15 of the world's most prestigious professional academies and societies and has been awarded six honorary professorships.
