Almoataz Y. Abdelaziz received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1985, 1990 respectively and the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering according to the channel system between Ain Shams University, Egypt and Brunel University, England in 1996. He is currently a professor of electrical power engineering in Ain Shams University. Dr. Abdelaziz is a senior editor of Ain Shams Engineering Journal, editor of Electric Power Components & Systems Journal, member of editorial board and a reviewer of technical papers in several international journals and conferences. He is also a member in IEEE, IET and the Egyptian Sub-Committees of IEC and CIGRE.

Dr. Abdelaziz has been awarded many prizes for distinct researches and for international publishing from Ain Shams University, Egypt. Dr. Abdelaziz has authored or co-authored more than 160 refereed journal & conference papers and 10 books in his research areas which include the applications of artificial intelligence to power systems and new evolutionary & heuristic optimization techniques in power system operation, planning and control.