Zhihua Qu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in June 1990. Since then, he has been with the University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, where he is currently a Pegasus Professor, the Thomas J. Riordan and Herbert C. Towle Chair, and the Founding Director of the RISES University Research Center on Energy Systems. His areas of expertise are nonlinear systems and control, with applications to energy and power systems. In energy systems, his current research covers modeling and control of inverter based resources, distributed optimization, grid cybersecurity, and grid resilience.