Prof. Santiago Grijalva is the Southern Company Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Advanced Computational Electricity Systems (ACES) Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include future electricity systems, decentralized power system control, and applications of machine learning and AI to power systems. He has been principal investigator for numerous industry and Government research programs, published 300 peer-reviewed papers, and managed $50 million in research grants . From 2013 to 2014 he served at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) as founding Director of the Power System Engineering Center (PSEC). Dr. Grijalva has received multiple academic and professional awards and has served as a strategic advisor to Fortune 500 energy companies. He holds master's degrees in electrical engineering, information systems management, and data science. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002), where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Energy Systems (2004).