Mohammad Javad Bordbari is a Ph.D. student in building engineering at Concordia University with a focus on the resilience and reliability of energy systems. With two years of experience as a Power Systems Engineer at FMA company, he developed software and algorithms for numerical relays. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Shiraz University Technology and Shiraz University, respectively.

Dr. Fuzhan Nasiri is an associate professor at the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) at Concordia University. He is also affiliated with Institut Nordique du Québec (INQ). Before joining Concordia, he worked at University College London (UCL) as a faculty member (2011–2014), at Yale University as a research scientist (2009–2011), and at GERAD research group as a postdoctoral fellow (2007-2009). He holds a PhD in Environmental Systems Engineering from the University of Regina, and an MSc and BSc in Industrial Systems Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology.