**Ali Raza** received the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2016. He is currently an Associate Professor at UET Lahore. He also served as a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, UK, in 2018, focusing on HVDC hybrid circuit breakers. He has authored and co-authored 50+ journal articles and 15+ IEEE conference papers. His research interests include HVDC transmission, power system protection, Smart Grids, renewable energy integration, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity of modern power systems. He serves as an Associate Editor for *IEEE Access* and *Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems*. He received the Best Research Paper Award at the IEEE CCSSE Conference in China in 2014 and served as General Chair of ICEEST 2022.