Dr. Patrick Picher is a Researcher and Project Manager at the Hydro-Québec Research Institute. He earned his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) in 1993, and his Ph.D. from École Polytechnique de Montréal (Montreal, QC, Canada) in 1997. His research focuses on transformer modeling and monitoring. Dr. Picher is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a distinguished member of CIGRE. He has actively contributed to numerous international working groups within CIGRE, IEC, and IEEE.