Julian L. Cardenas-Barrera is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada. He is also a NB Power Industrial Research Chair on Smart Grid Technologies. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1994. His research interests include: energy forecasting, smart grid automation and control, renewable energy integration, energy storage and management, smart grid communication and networking, data analytics, and machine learning.