Yasser G. Hegazy, received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1996. Currently, he is a Professor of electrical engineering and the president of the German University in Cairo (GUC). Professor Hegazy has a solid international publication record in the fields of power system reliability, distributed generation, and power quality. He is a senior member of IEEE power and energy society and a reviewer of IEEE transactions in power systems, power delivery and energy conversion. Prof. Hegazy received the 2004 State encouragement award in Engineering Sciences from the Egyptian academy for science and research and the IEEE PES chapter, outstanding engineering award 2016.