Dr. Mukherjee comes with 33 years of research, engineering, academic and management experience in Power Systems Operations, Power Generation Engineering, Transmission Planning, Energy Markets, Electrical Grid Resiliency and Distributed Generation of Power Systems. Srijib has an MBA in Finance from Duke University, Ph.D. and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Power Engineering from Manipal University. He is presently a Senior Scientist at Oakridge National Laboratory with a Joint Faculty, Professor appointment with the University of Tennessee's Bredesen Center. Srijib's research and engineering interests are in the technologies surrounding autonomous cars, electric charging infrastructure and energy storage. His experience spans 14 years with US electric utilities (CP&L/Duke Energy, Nevada Power/NV Energy, and FP&L/NextEra Energy), 13 years with various technical and management energy consulting firms (Quanta Technology/Quanta Services, Pike Electric and Mott MacDonald), 10 years as an Adjunct and Research Faculty member at The University of North Carolina, Charlotte and The University of Tennessee, Bredesen Center and 4 years with Government Agencies (NOAA and ORNL). He has published over 23 peer reviewed, refereed research papers in various journals and conferences, 5 DOE Reports and has 2 patents and 1 invention disclosure under patent application. He is also a veteran Program Evaluator (PEV) for the Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology (ABET), an alternate Board Member of the IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities (IEEE CEAA), a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Power & Energy Magazine , and a State Delegate for the National Society of Professional Engineers. Additionally, he is licensed to practice engineering as a Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the States of NC, NV and CA and licensed to operate the US Grid as a NERC Certified System Operator. Srijib has mentored advised and chaired 12 Ph.D. and master’s students thesis committee’s in Energy Science and Power Systems research. He volunteers his time to tutor high school math (Algebra, Geometry and AP Calculus) to low income students in his school district. He is a parent with two college age children (one in medical school and the other a Senior Cadet at a Military College). He enjoys gardening, tennis and non-fiction books.