About: in Dr. Lina He is currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. She received her Ph.D. degree from University College Dublin, Ireland in 2014. She also received her Master and Bachelor degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 2009 and 2007, respectively. She was a Senior Consultant and Project Manager at Siemens headquarter in Germany and Siemens US from 2014 to 2017. She was also an Electrical Engineer at State Grid Corporation of China, Tianjin, China from 2009 to 2010. In addition, she was a Research Scholar at Washington State University, WA, USA in 2013. Dr. He received the “Best Paper” Award in 2016 IEEE PES General Meeting in Boston, MA, USA. She was the recipient of the “Outstanding Reviewer Award” of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems from the IEEE Power & Energy Society in 2015. She was also the recipient of the “Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award” from University College Dublin, Ireland in 2012. In addition, she holds two patents on power electronics based self-shunt excitation systems. Her research interests include modeling, protection and security of power electronics based power systems, renewable energy integration, HVDC control and operation, PMUs, wide-area protection and cybersecurity.