Hamid Reza Shaker received the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2010. From 2009 to 2013, he was a Visiting Researcher at MIT and held postdoctoral and assistant professor positions at Aalborg University. He then served as an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, from 2013 to 2014. He is currently Professor at the SDU Center for Energy Informatics, University of Southern Denmark. At SDU, he leads the strategic research area of Digitally Enabled Asset Maintenance and Management, with research interests spanning smart grids and microgrids, district heating systems, smart buildings, and industrial infrastructure. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. His SDU profile lists 215 research outputs, and he serves in editorial roles for several journals while also contributing to international conference technical program committees.