Dr Nordin Saad is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University USA, a M.Sc. in Power Electronics Engineering from Loughborough University UK, and a PhD in Control and Systems Engineering from The University of Sheffield UK. He was the Head, Department of

Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the current university from 1998 to 2000, having joined the University in 1997. He was appointed as Cluster leader for the Industrial Automation and Control from 2005 to 2012, and subsequently Co-Cluster leader for the Power-Control and Instrumentation from 2013 to 2014. He had also been a member of the SKG14 (Petronas Instrument Skill Group 14) from 2008 to 2012. He was Head, Centre for Smart Grid Energy Research from 2018 to 2020. There is a total of seven Ph.D.s’ and four M.Sc.s’ (by research) that had graduated under his supervision. He had authored and co-authored four books and more about 150 journals, transactions, book chapters and technical papers and received a number of best paper awards at international conferences for the research conducted by his team. His research work encompasses some of the issues that include computer/embedded systems/PLC control of processes, instrumentation and control of process plant facilities, condition monitoring and diagnostic of machines, power electronic converters for high power transmissions, electrical drives control and smart electrical energy systems, and Automation and Industry 4.0. He is a Chartered Engineer registered under the Engineering Council United Kingdom, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE) USA, and a member of the Institute of Measurement and Control (MInstMC) UK.