Dr. Ahmed M. Massoud [SM'11] received B.Sc. (First-Class Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K., in 2004. He is currently the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the College of Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar, and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Qatar University. He holds twelve U.S. patents and has published over 130 journal articles on power electronics, energy conversion, and power quality. Prof. Massoud's research interests include power electronics, energy conversion, renewable energy, and power quality. He has supervised several M.Sc. and Ph.D. students at Qatar University and has been awarded numerous research grants in areas such as energy storage systems, renewable energy sources, HVDC systems, electric vehicles, pulsed power applications, and power electronics for aerospace applications.