Arif Ahmed received a B.Sc. degree (with distinction) in electrical and electronic engineering from American International University-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2011, an MBA degree with a major in finance from United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2012, an M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2015, and a Ph.D. degree, Victoria Doctoral Scholarship, from Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), Wellington, New Zealand, in 2019. He is currently with the Technical University of Munich Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (TUMCREATE), Singapore. He is currently serving as the IEEE IAS SB Chapters Area Chair for R10 South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. His research interests are in the area of power system analysis, power system stability, power system state estimation, distributed generation, and microgrids.