Paul Hines received the Ph.D.~in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and M.S. (2001) and B.S. (1997) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington and Seattle Pacific University, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, with a secondary appointment in the Dept.~of Computer Science, at the University of Vermont, and a member of the adjunct research faculty at the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center. Formerly he worked at the U.S.~National Energy Technology Laboratory, where he participated in smart grid research, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he studied interactions between nuclear plants and grid reliability, Alstom ESCA, where he worked on short-term load forecasting, and for Black and Veatch, where he was involved with substation design projects. He currently serves as the chair of the Green Mountain Section of the IEEE, as the vice-chair of the IEEE PES Working Group on Cascading Failure, and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER award winner and his research on blackouts has been featured in Science magazine and Scientific American.