Syafii received a B.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of North Sumatera in 1997, and M.T. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, in 2002, and a Ph.D. degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2011. He is currently a full time professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Universitas Andalas, Indonesia. His research interests are renewable distributed energy resources, smart grid, and power system computation. He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer (IEEE).