Ben Ollis has been an R&D Staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 2013. Ollis, an IEEE senior member, holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in electrical engineering, both from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He previously worked as a planning engineer at Duke Energy and as a power-system operator with Clinton Utilities Board. He currently leads research projects focused on small- and large-scale microgrids, networked microgrids, grid resiliency, device interoperability, and novel energy-generation technologies.