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Linda M. Zeger is the founder and principal consultant of Auroral LLC, which provides advisory services focusing on the smart grid, in data science strategy and data quality improvement, system performance assessment, experimental design, and performance evaluation of communication and artificial intelligence components. Her over 25 years of experience includes contributions she has made to a variety of novel performance improvement capabilities and analytics techniques to a range of systems including communication and sensor networks. Her experience includes consulting, research, smart grid edge standards development, program management, and instruction. She is the holder of a number of patents and she has given presentations to a wide range of audiences. She is the author of numerous published papers in journals and conferences across several disciplines. She has also held positions with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Princeton University, and Florida Polytechnic University, and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in statistics at Educational Testing Service. She holds a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard.

Karen Burnham is a Principal Scientist at Electro Magnetic Applications in Denver, CO.  She is an iNARTE certified EMC engineer with experience in both the aerospace/defense and automotive industries.  At NASA JSC, she worked on the Orion spacecraft and pyrotechnic systems.  She was able to work on the Dream Chaser spacecraft and the F-35 fighter jet.  She spent several years working at Ford Motor Company on traditional vehicles like the Ford Edge and Lincoln Continental as well as on their line of electric hybrid vehicles such as the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator.  Ms. Burnham is a member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors where she serves as Assistant Vice President of Standards.  She holds a BS degree in Physics from Northern Arizona University and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston.

Matthias Preindl received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Padua, Italy, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and information technology from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the Ph.D. degree in energy engineering from the University of Padua, in 2008, 2010, and 2014, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Power Electronic Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, USA. Prior to joining Columbia University in 2016, he was an R&D Engineer of Power Electronics and Drives at Leitwind AG, Italy (2010-2012), a Post Doctoral Research Associate with the McMaster Institute for Automotive Research and Technology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (2014-2015), and a Sessional Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University (2015). 

He serves as Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Associate EiC of Springer Nature/China SAE Journal of Automotive Innovation, and was the general chair of the 2022 IEEE/AIAA ITEC+EATS. Dr. Preindl is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IET. He received the Futura Foundation Award (Italy, 2016), NSF CAREER Award (USA, 2017), Horiba Awards Honorable Mention (Japan, 2019), Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards honorable mention (co-recipient, USA, 2022), as well as best paper and presentation recognitions including the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics best paper award and MIT A+B best paper award. His research interests include the design and control of motor drives, power electronics, and batteries for transportation electrification and renewable energy.