Venkata Dinavahi, PhD, PEng, FIEEE, is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He received the BEng degree from the Visveswaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India, in 1993, the MTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 1996, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2000. He was the founding chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Task Force on Interfacing Techniques for Simulation Tools from 2006-2014. He contributed to several IEEE PES Working Groups and Task Forces notably in the Analytical Methods for Power Systems (AMPS) committee. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of CIGRÉ and a Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta. He was the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Engineer Award from the IEEE PES/IAS Northern Canada Chapter.
Ning Lin, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Alberta. He received the BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2008 and 2011, respectively, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2018. From 2011 to 2014, he worked as an engineer on power system automation, flexible AC transmission system (FACTS), and high-voltage direct current (HVDC). His research interests include electromagnetic transient simulation, transient stability analysis, real-time simulation, AC/DC grids, parallel processing, and high-performance computing of power systems and power electronics.