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Alexis Kwasinski received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, a graduate specialization degree in telecommunications from the University of Buenos Aires, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and 2007, respectively. From 1993 to 1997, he worked for Telefónica of Argentina designing and planning telephony outside plant networks. Then, from 1997 to 2002 he worked for Lucent Technologies Power Systems (later Tyco Electronics Power Systems) as a Technical Support Engineer and Sales Technical Consultant in Latin America. From 1999 to 2002, he was also a part-time instructor in charge of ITBA’s telecommunications laboratory. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

His research interests include power electronics, distributed generation, renewable and alternative energy, and analysis of the impact of extreme events on critical power infrastructure. The latter includes performing damage assessments after several natural disasters, such as hurricanes Katrina (2005), Ike (2008) and Sandy (2012), the 2010 Maule, Chile Earthquake, the 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake and the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake. Dr. Kwasinski is also an active participant in Austin’s smart grid initiative—Pecan Street Inc.—where he is leading the residential systems team. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Argentine Electrotechnical Association during the years 1994 and 1995.

In 2005, he was awarded the Joseph J. Suozzi INTELEC Fellowship and in 2007 he received the best technical paper award at INTELEC. In 2009 he received an NSF CAREER award and in 2011 an IBM Faculty Innovation Award. Dr. Kwasinski is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He has also been invited to participate in DOE workshops to develop technological road maps for data centers power and for microgrids, and to participate in the discussions for a world's standard on low voltage dc power distribution as part of the IEC SG4. He also participated in the discussions to produce NERC's report from the Severe Impact Resilience Task Force. Dr. Kwasinski has participated in competitive proposals review panels and was a member of the evaluation team for a DoE EPSCoR Implementation Award site visit. Dr. Kwasinski has also contributed to the organization of many conferences, including INTELEC 2010 as its treasurer, and APEC 2010, 2011 and 2012 as a track chair for the technical program committee. He is also the chair of the following two technical sub-committees within the Technical Committee “Communications Energy Systems” of the IEEE Power Electronics Society: “Information and Communication Infrastructure Resistant to Extreme Events (ICIREE)” and “Information and Communication Technology Facilities Power Technologies (ICT-FPT)”. Dr. Kwasinski is also the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee of Electric Power and Telecommunications of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Technical Council of Lifeline Earthquake Engineering.

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