Mahmoud A. Attia, He is currently working as an Associate Professor of electrical power engineering at Ain Shams University. He received B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University (ASU), Egypt in 2005, 2010 and 2015 respectively. He has joined ASU teaching stuff since 2007. He authored many journal and conference papers. He is a reviewer for power component and systems journal, Ain Shams Engineering Journal Elsevier and International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems. 2009, He was in Technical committee of ASU international conference ASCEE-3. He was a Member of "Continuous Improvement & Quality Assurance Unit of Faculty of engineering ASU" till 2017. He is the author of books 'Optimal Allocation of FACTS Devices in Electrical Power Systems: A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach', in April 2013 and ‘Enhancing Power System Performance with Growing Wind Power Penetration: optimal Allocation of FACTS', in July 2015 LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. He contributed in book ‘Sustainable Energy Technologies and Systems’, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2019. He is an editorial member of i-manager's Journal on Circuits and Systems. He is an editor in chief of i-manager's Journal on Instrumentation and Control Engineering. He is a Guest editor of special issue “Sustainable Microgrid Systems: Technologies, Applications and Trends”, Processes, MDPI. His research areas include the applications of artificial intelligence, evolutionary and heuristic optimization techniques to power system operation, planning, and control.