Dr. Antonio Sanfilippo is Chief Scientist at Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute (QEERI), where he leads the Energy Management Program. He has been awarded several grants from Qatar National Research Fund and presented with the 2020 Qatar Innovation Leadership Award by the World Innovation Congress. Under his leadership, the QEERI Energy Management team has established capabilities that have become key reference points for local and international stakeholders, including a network of solar monitoring stations and a microgrid testbed. Prior to QEERI, Dr. Sanfilippo was Chief Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, US), where he received the 2008 Laboratory Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. At PNNL, he led research projects for the Dept. of Homeland Security, National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Energy, National Science Foundation, and a laboratory initiative on predictive analytics. Dr. Sanfilippo has also held positions as Research Director in the private sector, Senior Consultant at the European Commission, Research Supervisor and Group Manager at SHARP Laboratories of Europe, and Research Associate at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge in the UK. Dr. Sanfilippo holds master’s degrees from Columbia University (US), and a PhD from the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (UK).