He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2005. His research interests include power system operation and control using smart grid data. Dr. Srivastava is a senior member of the IEEE, secretary of IEEE Power & Energy Society’s (PES) power and energy education committee, co-chair of the microgrid working group, and past vice-chair of the IEEE synchrophasor conformity assessment program. Dr. Srivastava is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, an associate editor of IET generation, Transmission and Distribution, an IEEE distinguished lecturer, and the author of more than 175 technical publications including a book on power system security.