Prof. Ashish P. Agalgaonkar completed his PhD studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay, Mumbai, India. He completed BE and ME from the Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, India with First Class with Distinction. Also, while in India, he worked for various organizations including KSB Pumps Limited, Pune, India, Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) (state-owned power utility), Kolhapur, India, and NTPC Limited (formerly the National Thermal Power Corporation), Noida, India in various capacities. He joined the School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, Australia as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in October 2007 to work on an ARC linkage project. He worked on the same ARC project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian (formerly Integral Energy) Power Quality and Reliability Centre (APQRC), School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering (SECTE), University of Wollongong, Australia from February 2008 to November 2010, before taking up a Lecturer position in the School. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at SECTE. His main research areas include the impact of renewable and distributed generation on electricity networks, power system reliability, system stability, electricity markets, and smart grids. He is a member of the Australian Power and Energy Research Institute (APERI) at SECTE, University of Wollongong and a Senior Member of the IEEE.