Born in August 1949, Mr. Saifur Rahman won the IEEE Power andEnergy Society Meritorious Service Award in 2012. He has madetremendous contributions in the field of alternate energy and energyefficiency, publishing over 150 journal papers in the related fields.HeistheJosephLoringProfessorofelectricalandcomputerengineering and the founding director of the Advanced ResearchInstitute at Virginia Tech, USA. He is or has been a guest professoratTsinghuaUniversity.BeijingJiaotongUniversity,SoutheastUniversity,HohaiUniversity,NortheastChinaElectricPowerUniversity and Guangxi University – all in China.