Shady S. Refaat received the B.A.Sc, M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2002, 2007, and 2013, respectively, all from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. He has worked in the industry for more than 12 years as Engineering Team Leader, Senior Electrical Engineer, and Electrical Design Engineer on various electrical engineering projects. He has worked as an associate research scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar for more than 11 years. Currently, he is a senior lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a member of the Smart Grid Center – Extension in Qatar (SGC-Q). He has published more than 185 journal and conference articles, one patent, and one book. His principal work area focuses on electrical machines, power systems, smart grid, Big Data, energy management systems, reliability of power grids and electric machinery, fault detection, and condition monitoring and development of fault-tolerant systems. Also, he has participated and leads several scientific projects over the last nine years. He has successfully realized many potential research projects.