Advances in Electric Power and Energy. Группа авторов

to 1972. He was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro for two years and subsequently served for eight years on faculty at Memorial University of Newfoundland since 1974. He was appointed Chairman of Electrical Engineering Program in 1976. In 1981, he joined the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) as Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1997, TUNS was amalgamated with Dalhousie University. Dr. El‐Hawary has been Associate Dean of Engineering at Dalhousie between 1995 and 2007, Director of International and External Relations for the Faculty of Engineering in 2008–2009, and Chair of the Senate of Dalhousie University in 2001–2007. He cherished having had the opportunity to be part of educating, mentoring, and touching the lives and careers of countless students in the field of Electrical Engineering over his long and distinguished career.

Throughout his career, Mo authored over 10 textbooks and almost 200 full journal papers. He was the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Press Power Engineering Series Editor and Founding Editor in Chief of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Magazine, and Power Letters of PES. He was Associate Editor for the three major Electric Machines and Power Systems' Journals and Editor of Electrical Power Engineering, McGraw‐Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He was a Fellow of IEEE, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Engineers Canada, and the Engineering Institute of Canada. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Power and Energy Society.

      He served as a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of IEEE and as President of IEEE Canada. He served on the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board, Fellows Committee, IEEE Press Board Chairman, Power Engineering Society (PES): System Operations Committee Chair and, member of HKN Board, and Vice President, Development, IEEE Canada Foundation. He has been recipient of IEEE Canada, W. S. Read Service Award, 2010. In 1999 IEEE awarded him the EAB Meritorious Achievement, Power Engineering Educator of the Year, and IEEE Canada General A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal.

       ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

      Venkataramana Ajjarapu currently holds the David Nicholas Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. His area of expertise includes power system stability, reactive power control, and optimization. He is a Fellow of the IE.

      Aditya Ashok is a senior research engineer in the Electricity Infrastructure and Buildings division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and has been with PNNL since February 2016. Aditya received his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in May 2017. Aditya’s research interests include analyzing cyber vulnerabilities in energy delivery systems, assessing potential impacts to system operations, reliability, and economics, and developing novel algorithms to mitigate cyber vulnerabilities and help enhance the overall security and resilience of energy delivery systems.

      Bernd Brinkmann received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Germany, in 2011. After gaining experience as a design engineer and software developer, he is currently pursuing the PhD degree in Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His research interests include state estimation uncertainty, distribution network observability, and optimal meter placement.

      Eduardo Caro received the Electrical Engineering degree from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 2007, and the PhD degree in the University of Castilla‐La Mancha, Spain, 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. His research interests include power system estimation, optimization, and electricity load forecasting.

Sungyun Choi received the BE degree in Electrical Engineering from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2002 and the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Network and System Engineer, and from 2007 to 2013, he was a Research Assistant with the Power System Control and Automation Laboratory, Atlanta, GA, USA. Since 2014, he has been a Senior Researcher with Smart Power Grid Research Center, Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Uiwang, South Korea. His research interests include smart grid technology, autonomous operation of microgrids, power system protection, distributed dynamic state estimation, and communication networks and systems in power industries.

      George J. Cokkinides was born in Athens, Greece, in 1955. He received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1978, 1980, and 1985, respectively. From 1983 to 1985, he was a Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Since 1985, he has been with the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include power system modeling and simulation, power electronics applications, power system harmonics, and measurement instrumentation. Professor Cokkinides is a member of 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