Vinod received his M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IITD), New Delhi, India and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal, Canada. From December 2008 to March 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. In 2010, he was a visiting faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. His research interests include applications of power electronics in distribution systems and renewable energy resources, grid interconnection issues, power quality enhancement, active power filters and electric vehicles.