Dr. GÜNEŞ received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Istanbul University in 1999, 2005, and 2010 respectively. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Istanbul University – Cerrahpaşa in Istanbul, Turkiye, where he has been a faculty member since 2001.

Ms. Yazjeen earned her B.S in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jordan University of Science & Technology in 2019. She has worked on several projects including DC house energy management system, home automation systems, and a voice-controlled robot. Her current research areas include embedded systems, electrical machines and control, power electronics systems, and smart sensor systems.

Ms. Elbeheiry earned her BS in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 2020. She was previously an undergraduate research assistant in the REAPER lab. Her current research areas include power electronic converter and controls and machine learning techniques for power and energy systems.

 Dr. Metry received his B.S. degree from Texas A&M University at Qatar in electrical and computer engineering, with honors, in May 2014 and the Ph.D. from the  Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Texas A&M University, College Station, in 2020. Morcos was a research trainee in the Research and Development department of Qatar Foundation. He joined Texas A&M University at Qatar as a postdoc in 2020 and was promoted to Assistant Research Scientist in 2022. In 2022, he was a visiting researcher with the department of energy technology, Aalborg university, Aalborg, Denmark. His interest areas are in photovoltaic integration with the power grid using advanced control methods.

Ms. Shukri earned her BS in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 2019. Her current research areas include mechatronics arc fault generator; computer-controlled photovoltaic electrical curve tracer; machine learning techniques for power and energy systems. She is now a PhD student in the REAPER lab.

Dr. Bayhan earned BS, MSc (2008), and PhD (2012) degrees in electrical engineering from Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, and has been a faculty member in its Department of Electronics and Automation since 2009. His research interests include power electronics, renewable energy conversion for PV and wind systems, condition monitoring and power quality detection in power systems, microgrid, and smart grid applications. He has published more than 60 high impact journal and conference papers, and is a co-author of one book and two book chapters.

Ms. Ameen earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University at Qatar in electrical engineering in December 2018.

Aaqib received his BS in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, India in 2011. He served as an operational and design engineer for NTPC Ltd, one of the largest generation utilities in the world, for over three years. Mr. Aaqib is under the supervision of Prof. Begovic, in collaboration with the REAPER Lab. His research interests include wide area control and protection, power system optimization, integration of renewable energy and resilient energy infrastructures.

Dr. Shadmand received his PhD in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, USA in 2015. His research interests include renewable energy, community-scale microgrids, hybrid energy systems, and model predictive control. He served as principle investigator on a NPRP project funded by the Qatar Foundation.

Dr. Ge received his PhD in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2000. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2000—2002), a Visiting Scholar at University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (2004—2005), and was a Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA (2007—2008). His research interests include renewable energy power generation, electrical machines and control, power electronics systems, and control theories and applications.

Mr. Hart recieved his B.A. in History and East Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2013. He began to pursue his Masters in Public Service Administration at the Bush School in August 2013. His focus at the Bush School is Energy Economics and American Military Affairs. He will commission as a Medical Service Corps officer in May 2015. He serve as a project specialist for the NSF I/UCRC Next Generation Photovoltaics Balance of Systems Center.