Khaled H. Ahmed received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Alexandria University, Egypt in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in power electronics applications from the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Strathclyde, UK, 2008. He has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at Alexandria University, Egypt in 2008. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, UK from 2009 to 2011. Currently Dr. Ahmed is a Lecturer in Power Electronics at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He is a senior member of the IEEE industrial electronics society. He has published over 53 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences. Dr. Ahmed is an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology and Electric Power Components and Systems Journal. He is also a reviewer for the several IEEE Transactions, and conferences. Recently, Dr. Ahmed was a part of a 2-lecturer team who designed and delivered a continuing professional development (CPD) course on HVDC for the Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) HVDC technology engineering team, UK. His research interests are digital control of power electronic systems, power quality, micro-grids, distributed generation, active power filters, PWM modulation techniques, current source converters, DC/DC converters, off shore wind energy and HVDC systems.

Leopoldo G. Franquelo (M’84–SM’96–F’05) was born in Málaga, Spain. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain in 1977 and 1980 respectively. In 1978 he joined the Universidad de Sevilla as Research Assistant, being Associated Professor in 1982 and Professor since 1986. Since 1998 till 2005 has been Director of the Electronics Engineering Department. Currently is Responsible for the PhD Courses in the Department. His technical interests have started in 1978 with Microprocessor Industrial Electronics Applications, evolving to Electronics Power Applications and in the 90's to Application Specific ICs design for the control of Power Converters. His current research interest lies on modulation techniques for multilevel inverters and its application to power electronic systems for renewable energy systems. He is leading a large research and teaching team in Spain. In the last five years his group activity can be summarized as: 40 Publications in International Journals, 165 in International Conferences, several book chapters, 10 Patents, advisor for 10 PhD dissertations and 96 R&D projects. His research team has been awarded with the “Excellence Status” by the Regional Government. He is IEEE member since 1984, Senior Member since 1996 and Fellow since 2005. He has been Vice-president of the Industrial Electronics Society Spanish Chapter (2002-2003), Member at large of the Industrial Electronics Society AdCom (2002-2003), Vice-President for Conferences (2004 - 2007),  President Elect of the IES (2008 – 2009), President of the IES (2009 – 2011) and Past-President of the IES since 2012. Currently is a Distinguished Lecturer since 2006, Associated Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics since 2007. He was a co-recipient of the 2008 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine.

Jose I. Leon (S'04, M'07) was born in Cádiz, Spain, in 1976. He received the B.S. and M.S. and PhD degrees in telecommunications engineering from the University of Seville (US), Seville, Spain, in 1999, 2001 and 2006 respectively. In 2002, he joined the Power Electronics Group, US, working in R&D projects. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, US. His research interests include electronic power systems, modeling, modulation and control of power electronics converters and industrial drives. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 refereed journal and conference papers and one book chapter. He was a co-recipient of the 2008 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine.

Mohamed Saied was born in Kafr-Al-Sheikh, Egypt, on Jan, 1973. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in July, 1995. By July 2000, he got his M.Sc. degree in the automatic control area. He received the Ph.D. degree from the same department in July, 2007. His PhD specialty is the direct torque control of induction machines using multilevel inverters. By April, 2010, Dr. Mohamed finished the PostDoc training matrix for PhD holders from the Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Alexandria University, Egypt. Dr. Saied is an IEEE member, and published 13 scientific papers in different international conferences and journals. His research fields of interest include; multi-level inverters, AC-drives, direct torque control, HVDC transmission, power quality, and deadbeat control.

In addition to his academic background, Dr. Mohamed is working for Abu-Qir Fertilizers & Chemical Industries Co., Alexandria Egypt. He is now the general manager of the Electrical Engineering Dept. He has 17 years of industrial experience, that he is a consultant for several factories science 1995. He is studying now for the professional certificate of Business Administration, in the Arab Academy for Science and Technology.