Dr. Mohamed Shawky received his BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Mansoura University, Egypt, in 1997 and 2002 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick (UNB), New Brunswick, Canada, in 2005. Dr. Shawky has worked as a designer engineer for photovoltaic systems (1997- 1998) for an agent of Siemens (ASET Company). He joined Mansoura University as research and teaching assistant in the Electrical Engineering Department and was involved in consultant activities with external companies (1998-2002). Dr. Shawky has also worked as a research and teaching assistant in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the UNB, Canada (2002-2005). He joined McGill University as a postdoctoral fellow in the power electronics group. Dr. Shawky joined Vestas Wind Systems , where he worked in technology R&D in the Wind Power Plant Group, Arhus, Denmark. He later worked at Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority, TRANSCO, as senior study and planning engineer and was seconded to assistant professor at Mansoura University. He is currently an associate professor in the EECS Department at Masdar Institute and affiliated a visiting professor at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA in 2012. He was awarded the Expert and Key Employee benefits in Denmark after the assessment and evaluation from the Danish Innovation Counsel and recommendation from Vestas Wind Systems A/S in Denmark. Also, he conferred the Faculty Award for Excellence in Collaborative Research (Academic Year 2012-2013) in recognition of research achievements as interdisciplinary faculty at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He appointed as an Associate Editor for IET Renewable Power Generation and IET Power Electronics Journals. Dr. Shawky’s research involves power system, power electronics, FACTS technologies, system control, wind turbine modeling and development, renewables energy integration and interconnections.