Prof. Dmitri Vinnikov (IEEE Fellow) received the 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 was the CTO and co-founder of Ubik Solutions LLC - Estonian start-up company dedicated to innovative & smart power electronics for renewable energy systems. He has authored or coauthored four books, five monographs and three book chapters as well as more than 400 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 applied design of power electronic systems, implementation of wide-bandgap semiconductors, renewable energy conversion systems, energy-efficient buildings, reliability and fault-tolerance of power electronic converters. D. Vinnikov is a full member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and a Chair of the IEEE Estonia Section.Dr. Vinnikov has directed over 30 National and International R&D projects, he was one of the founding members and leading researchers of ZEBE – Estonian Centre of Excellence for zero energy and resource efficient smart buildings and districts. He has been Guest Editor in Chief of Special Sections in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Transactions on Industrial Electronics and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, and for the last decade has served as the Associate Editor of the Transactions on Power Electronics, Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Open Journal of the Industrial Electronic Society. Dr. Vinnikov is leading the Inverters/Rectifiers subcommittee of the Power Electronics Technical Committee (PETC) of the IEEE-IES and is a Chair of the Student and Young Professionals Activity Committee of the IEEE-IES.