Atsuo Kawamura (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1976, 1978, and 1981, respectively. After the five-year-stay at the University of Missouri-Columbia as a faculty member, he joined Yokohama National UniversityYNU) in 1986, and in 1996 he became a professor. He served as a dean of College of Engineering Science and Graduate School of Engineering from 2013 to 2015. He has become Professor Emeritus in 2019, and was a professor of endowed chair (Power Electronics) at YNU till 2024, and now belongs to Institue of Multidiciplinary Science of YNU. He has served to completion of 38 Ph.D and 147 Master’s and 179 Bacheler’s students. He holds 7 patents and has published more than 140 journal papers and 320 international and 580 domestic conference papers, and 9 books. (h-index(Google) is 47.)
His research interests include power electronics, digital control, electric vehicles, robotics, train traction control, etc. He received several awards including several Transactions Prize Paper Awards from IEEE and IEEJ and 2025 IEEE W.E. Newell Power Electronics Award.
Dr. Kawamura is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan(IEE of Japan).

Masayuki Morimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1952. He received his BSc, MSc and PhD degree all in electrical engineering from Keio University, Japan in 1975, 1977 and 1990 respectively. He worked at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. from 1977 to 2005. From 2005 to 2018, he was a Professor at the Department of electrical and electronics engineering, Tokai University. His research interests are in the areas of power electronics and its applications, electric machines and drives, and vehicle application. He is a Fellow of IEEJ, member of IEEE and several academic societies. He is the single author of 10 technical books in Japanese and the coauthor/editor of more than 10 technical books in Japanese.

Farzin Asadi received his BSc in Electronics Engineering, MSc in Control Engineering, and PhD in Mechatronics Engineering. Currently, he is with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Asadi has published more than 40 papers in ISI/Scopus indexed journals. He wrote 25 books as well. His research interests include switching converters, control theory, robust control of power electronics converters, and robotics.

Dr. Paprapee Buason received his B.S. and M.S. de- grees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Electri- cal Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM, USA. Dr. Buason’s research interests lie in power sys- tems, focusing on developing algorithms and solving advanced optimization problems to enhance the reliability and resiliency of power grids.