George Stefopoulos is the Director of the Advanced Grid Innovation Laboratory for Energy (AGILe) at the New York Power Authority (NYPA). He has been with NYPA since 2009 initially as a Research and Technology Development Engineer and then as NYPA’s Smart Grid Solutions Architect. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an associate member of Institute of Engineering Technology (IET). George received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2001 and he also holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2002 and 2009 respectively) as well as a MBA degree from Pace University of New York (2015).