Rachid Darbali-Zamora is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Resilient Energy and Distributed Systems Integration (REDSI) group at Sandia National Laboratories. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico- Mayagüez in 2013 and 2016, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in the field of Power and Energy Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. Dr. Darbali-Zamora was awarded the NASA Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium (PRSGC) fellowship in 2015, the Transformational Initiative for Graduate Education and Research (TIGER) fellowship in 2016 and the GEM fellowship in 2018. In 2019 he became an adjunct professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, supporting the graduate program in the Electrical Engineering Department. During his time at Sandia, he has received the 2024 IEEE Albuquerque Section – Outstanding Young Engineer Award, 2024 Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) Luminary Award, and 2025 IEEE Albuquerque Section – Outstanding Humanitarian Award for his technical contributions and mentoring. In 2025 he was recognized with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Star of Tomorrow Award. His research interests include distributed energy resources, photovoltaic inverters, wind turbine generators, grid services for voltage and frequency, power management, AI-driven controls, microgrids, and resilient energy systems.