Robert S. Balog is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Texas A & M University and holds a joint appointment at Texas A & M University at Qatar. He is the Director of the Renewable Energy and Advanced Power Electronics Research Laboratory, Director of the Solar Energy Technology Testing Laboratory and Co-director of the National Science Foundation Next Generation Photovoltaics I/UCRC at Texas A & M University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Illinois and serves on UL technical standards development committees related to photovoltaic energy systems. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an elected Member-at-Large of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and a Technical Program Chair of the 2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE).