Mohammed Alharbi received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2010 and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, USA in 2014. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. His research interests include applications of power electronics in power systems, system modeling and control of modular multilevel converters (MMC) based HVDC and MTDC systems.