Khurram Afridi is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Caltech, and SM and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. His research interests are in power electronics and wireless power transfer. His experience includes positions at the University of Colorado Boulder, MIT, LUMS, Techlogix, Schlumberger, Philips, Lutron, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was the founding Project Director of the LUMS School of Science and Engineering. He is a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He has received Caltech’s Carnation Merit Award, the BMW Scientific Award, the LUMS Werner-von-Siemens Chair, Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award, Michael Tien ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He holds twenty-three US patents and is co-author of eight IEEE prize papers.