**About the Editors**

**Dmitri Vinnikov** received his Dipl.Eng., M.Sc., and Dr.Sc.techn. degrees in electrical engineering from Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, in 1999, 2001, and 2005, respectively. He is currently the Head of the Power Electronics Group, Department of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Riga Technical University (Latvia). He is the CTO and co-founder of Ubik Solutions LLC – an Estonian start-up company dedicated to innovative and smart power electronics for renewable energy systems. He has authored more than 200 published papers on power converter design and development and is the holder of numerous patents and utility models in this field. His research interests include the applied design of power electronic converters and control systems, renewable energy conversion systems, impedance-source power converters, and implementation of wide bandgap power semiconductors. Dr. Vinnikov has directed over 25 National and International R&D projects, he is one of the founders and leading researchers of ZEBE – Estonian Centre of Excellence for zero energy and resource-efficient smart buildings and districts. He has authored or co-authored two books, five monographs, and one book chapter. D. Vinnikov is a Chair of the IES/PELS Joint Societies Chapter of the IEEE Estonia Section. He leads the Inverters/Rectifiers subcommittee of the Power Electronics Technical Committee (PETC) of the IEEE-IES and is a member of the Student and Young Professionals Activity Committee of the IEEE-IES. Dr. Vinnikov received the Best Young Scientist and Scientist of the Year awards of Tallinn University of Technology in 2010 and 2017, correspondingly. In 2014, he received the Estonian National Research Award in Technical Sciences for his contribution to innovative power electronic systems for renewable energy applications. In 2016, he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from Chernihiv National University of Technology (Ukraine).

**Samir Kouro** received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valpara´ıso, Chile, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He currently is an academic at the Department of Electronic Engineering and serves as Director of Innovation and Technology Transfer of UTFSM. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. His research interests include power electronics, renewable energy conversion systems (photovoltaic and wind), and automotive applications. Dr. Kouro is a Principal Investigator of the Solar Energy Research Center (SERC-Chile), and Deputy Director of the Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (AC3E), both of which are R&D centers of excellence in Chile. He has directed 39 R&D projects, co-authored one book, 10 book chapters, 4 patents, and over 200 refereed journal and conference papers. He currently serves as the President of the IEEE PELS Chapter Chile and is a Board Member of the Solar Energy and Energy Innovation Committee of the Chilean Government. Dr. Kouro was included in the Clarivate Analytics 2018 Highly Cited Researcher List, and received the 2018 IEEE-AIE Outstanding Engineer Award, the 2016 IEEE Industrial Electronics Bimal K. Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, the 2015 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society J. David Irwin Early Career Award, and the 2012 IEEE Power Electronics Society Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award. He has also received 4 best paper awards in IEEE journals in the years 2019, 2016, 2012, and 2008.

**Yongheng Yang** received his B.Eng. degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, in 2009, and his Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2014. He was a postgraduate student at Southeast University, China, from 2009 to 2011. In 2013, he spent three months as a Visiting Scholar at Texas A&M University, USA. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, where he is also the Vice Program Leader for the research program on photovoltaic systems. Dr. Yang is the Chair of the IEEE Denmark Section. He is now an Associate Editor for several prestigious IEEE Transactions/Journals. He is a Deputy Editor of the IET Renewable Power Generation for Solar Photovoltaic Systems. He was the recipient of the 2018 IET Renewable Power Generation Premium Award and was an Outstanding Reviewer for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS in 2018. His current research includes grid-integration of photovoltaic systems and multi-energy vectors with an emphasis on the power converter design, control, and reliability.
