Ashish Shrestha received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from School of Engineering, Pokhara University, Nepal, and a Master's degree in Planning and Operation of Energy System from School of Engineering, Kathmandu University, Nepal. He was also an Erasmus Mundus candidate at Department of Electrical Engineering, Frederick University, Cyprus, funded by European Union. Currently, he is a PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Cybernetics, University of South-Eastern Norway, Porsgrunn Campus, Norway. Before his PhD, he was working as a lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and as a researcher (activity leader) at Center for Electric Power Engineering (CEPE), Kathmandu University, Nepal, for three and half years. He was also involved in a problem-based learning project funded by Erasmus+ program of the EU. Currently, he is leading a project under funding of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Norway, as the project co-principal investigator. To date, he has published 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and international conference papers and has been assigned as a reviewer for numerous international conferences and peer-reviewed journals from IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, IET, and so on. His research interests include power system dynamics, distributed generation resources, the planning and operation of energy systems, and electric vehicles.