**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Gilsoo Jang** (Professor) received his BE from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Korea, in 1991, where he also received his MS degree in 1994. He received his Ph.D. from Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, USA, in 1997. He was a visiting scientist at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, USA, from 1997 to 1998, a senior researcher at Power Systems Lab, Korea Electric Power Research Institute, Korea, from 1998 to 2000, and a visiting professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, USA, from 2006 to 2007.

Dr. Jang has been a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University since 2000. He was the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering from 2011 to 2013, and the Dean of the School of Electrical Engineering from 2015 to 2017. Since 2017, he has been the director of the Grid Connected Power Electronics Research Center in Korea, with the support of the National Research Foundation of Korea.

He has participated in academic societies as a journal editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, where he was a technical reviewer for international journals and conferences, a conference organizer, and so on. He is a member of CIGRE, and a senior member of IEEE and KIEE.
