Komal S. Shetye is an Associate Research Engineer – Faculty, at the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), based at Texas A&M University. She was working as Senior Research Engineer in the Information Trust Institute, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from October 2011 till January 2017. She holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Enegineering from the University of Mumbai (2009) and earned an MSEE in Power Systems (2011) from UIUC. She has worked on several projects with utilities such as BPA, AEP, ATC, ComEd, Entergy, TVA, etc. Her work has dealt with topics such as power system dynamics and stability, model validation, synchrophasors, synthetic networks, and assessing the impact of geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) on the power grid. She has actively participated in the NERC GMD Task Force meetings since 2012. She has been invited to present her work at panels, conferences, and provide tutorials at IEEE PES General Meetings, NASPI, American Geophysical Union, and IIT Bombay to name a few. She has held prior industry internships in India at Crompton Greaves (Transformer Design), Schneider Electric (Switchgear), and Honeywell Automation India Ltd. (Building EMS).