Dr. Massoud Amin, IEEE and ASME Fellow, is president of Energy Policy and Security Associates (https://eps-associates.com), an emeritus Professor, Director, and Honeywell H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor Award Recipient, at the University of Minnesota. He is widely credited as being the “father of the smart grid”, and a cyber-physical security leader, who led the development of 24 technologies transferred to industry and directed all security-related R&D for all North American utilities after the 9/11 tragedies. In fact, he was at a meeting less than a mile from the Pentagon, discussing disaster risk management with White House OSTP, U.S. DoD officials, and representative of other agencies when the terrorist attacks took place on September 11, 2001. Read full bio at https://massoud-amin.umn.edu.

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