Professor Kashem Muttaqi is the Director of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Energy Technologies for Future Grids (ARC Future Grids ITTC), which is sponsored by the Australian Government, and several industries and Universities in Australia. He is also the Director of the Australian Power and Energy Research Institute (APERI) at the University of Wollongong (UOW), New South Wales, Australia. He is a Distinguished Professor and Discipline Leader – Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong. 

Professor Muttaqi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1993, the M.Eng.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Multimedia University (MMU), Selangor, Malaysia in 2001. Professor Muttaqi has 28 years of academic experience and has authored or co-authored more than 575 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised more than 30 higher-degree research students to completion and is currently supervising 15 higher-degree research students. 

Professor Muttaqi is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. He is an Executive Member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Board. He is also the Past Chair of the Industrial Automation and Control Committee (IACC) for the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). He has been an Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Trans on Industry Applications, IEEE Trans on Sustainable Energy, and IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution. He is the General Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (IEEE ETFG 2025) to be held on 7–11 December 2025 at Wollongong, Australia. He was the General Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (IEEE ETFG 2023) held on 3–6 December 2023 at Wollongong, Australia. He is a Member of the EEE Industry Applications Society, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and IEEE Power Electronics Society.