**About the Editors**

#### **Seppo Sierla**

Seppo Sierla received his Ph.D. degree in information technology in automation from Helsinki University of Technology in 2007 and his title of docent in the field of "Software Design for Industrial Automation" from Aalto University in 2013. As a docent, he has been a principal investigator or key expert in numerous project related to the application of machine learning, simulation and digital twin technologies in the energy, manufacturing and process industry sectors. Currently, he is a university lecturer with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University, Finland. He is the treasurer of the IEEE Finland Section and the conference treasurer, keynote co-chair or exhibitions co-chair of IEEE conferences organized at the department: INDIN2019, MLSP2020, ISGT2021 Europe, ISIT2022 and ISIE2023. He has served as a guest editor for several special issues in the journals *Energies*, *Applied Sciences* and *Frontiers in Energy Research*.

#### **Mahdi Pourakbari-Kasmaei**

Mahdi Pourakbari-Kasmaei received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, power systems from the Sao˜ Paulo State University (UNESP), Ilha Solteira, Brazil, in 2015. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UNESP and a visiting researcher at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was a project executive or principal investigator of several practical and academic projects and a consultant in an electric power distribution company. Currently, he is an assistant pProfessor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University, Finland. He is the chairman of the IEEE PES Finland IE13/PE31/34/PEL35 Joint Chapter, the general chair of the IEEE PES ISGT-Europe 2021 Conference and an associate editor of several journals such as *IEEE Access*; *Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems*; etc. His research interests include power systems planning, operations, economics, environmental issues, and power system protection and transients.
