Dr. Saifur Rahman is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering and the director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a director of the IEEE Board of Governors. He is serving as the Vice President of the IEEE Publications Board in 2006. Dr. Rahman is a member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE. His research interests include alternate energy systems, infrastructure studies and parallel computing. He has authored over 300 technical papers and presentations in these areas. Dr. Rahman has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in energy technologies, artificial intelligence and critical infrastructure studies.