**About the Editor**

#### **Nicu Bizon**

Nicu Bizon (senior member, IEEE) was born in Albesti de Muscel, Arges county, Romania, in 1961. He received his 5-year B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University "Polytechnic" of Bucharest, Romania, in 1986 and his Ph.D. degree in automatic systems and control from the same university in 1996. From 1996 to 1989, he was involved in hardware design with Dacia Renault SA, Romania. Since 2000, he has served as a professor with the University of Pitesti, Romania, and has received two awards from the Romanian Academy, in 2013 and 2016. He is the editor and author of 5 books published in Springer and the author of 206 scientific papers (including 7 and 84 papers in IEEE transactions and conferences, respectively) published in Scopus, which have been cited 1678 times, corresponding to an h-index = 29. His current research interests include power electronic converters, fuel cell and electric vehicles, renewable energy, energy storage system, microgrids, and control and optimization.
