Mohd Tariq received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with a focus on power electronics and control from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Aligarh Muslim University, where he directs various internationally and nationally sponsored research projects and leads a team of multiple researchers in the domain of power converters, energy storage devices, and their optimal control for electrified transportation and renewable energy application. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Rolls-Royce-NTU Corporate Laboratory, Singapore, where he worked on the design and development of power converters for electric aircraft. He has authored more than 150 research papers in international journals/conferences, including many articles in IEEE transactions/journals. He is also an inventor, with approximately 25 patents granted/published by the patent offices of the USA, Australia, UK, India, and China. He was a recipient of the 2019 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Electrical Systems in the Transportation Journal for his work on electric aircraft. He is a Young Scientist Scheme Awardee (2019) supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Gov. of India, and also a Young Engineer Awardee (2020) by the Institution of Engineers (India).