Claudio A. Cañizares. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Escuela Politécnica Nacional-Ecuador, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently a University Professor and the Hydro One Endowed Chair with the ECE Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. His current research interests include modeling, simulation, computation, stability, control, and power and energy systems optimization. He is with the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid EIC, the PES Delegate-Elect to the IEEE Board, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.