Aranya Chakrabortty received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 2008. From 2008 to 2009 he was a postdoctoral research associate at University of Washington Seattle. From 2009 to 2010 he was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Texas Tech University. Since 2010 Aranya has joined the electrical and computer engineering department at North Carolina State University where he is currently a professor. His research interests are in applying control, optimization and learning theories for solving various problems on power system modeling, dynamics and controls. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2011, and was named a university faculty scholar by NC State Provost office in 2019. Since 2020, Aranya has also been serving as a program director at NSF where he currently manages the research portfolio on power and energy systems.