Ahmed Galal Abokhalil is an associate professor at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia, and Asiut University, Egypt. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Assiut University, Egypt in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in Yeungnam University, South Korea, in 2007. His current research interests include renewable energy, smart grids, power electronics, motor drives, power quality, artificial intelligence, evolutionary and heuristic optimization techniques, and distributed generation. He acts as an Editor and Associate Editor for many international journals. In addition, he has chaired many international conference sessions.