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Dr. Gerasimos Rigatos is currently a Research Director (Researcher Grade A') at the Industrial Systems Institute, Greece. He obtained his Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2000, and was subsequently a post-doctoral researcher at IRISA-INRIA, Rennes, France. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member and CEng of IET. Dr. Rigatos has led several research cooperation agreements and projects with accredited results in the areas of nonlinear control, nonlinear filtering, and control of distributed parameter systems, and his results appear in 12 research monographs and in several journal articles. He is first author of 150 journal articles, receiving over 3,400 citations (Scopus), and is an Editor of the Journal of Information Sciences, the Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, the SAE Journal of Electrified Vehicles, and the Journal of Power Electronics and Drives. He has held visiting professor positions at several universities in Europe. Dr. Masoud Abbaszadeh is currently a Principal Research Engineer at the GE Vernova Research Center, NY, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 2008. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Research Engineer with Maplesoft, in Ontario, Canada, and from 2011 to 2013, he was a Senior Research Engineer at United Technologies Research Center, CT, USA, working on advanced control systems, and complex systems modelling and simulation. His research interests include estimation and detection theory, robust and nonlinear control, and machine learning with applications in cyber-physical security and resilience and autonomous systems. Dr. Abbaszadeh has authored over 170 peer-reviewed papers and 9 book chapters, holds 42 issued US patents, and has published four books. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and a member of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board. Dr. Pierluigi Siano is a Professor and Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management and Innovation Systems, at the University of Salerno, Italy. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Salerno in 2006. Since 2021 he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research activities are centred on demand response, energy management, integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, electricity markets, and planning and management of power systems. Prof. Siano has co-authored more than 680 articles, with 15,240 citations (Scopus), and was a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering in 2019, 2020, and 2021. He is Editor for the Power and Energy Society Section of IEEE Access and several other IEEE publications, and was previously Chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids. Dr. Patrice Wira received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Université de Haute Alsace, France, in 2002. He is a Professor at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique, Mathématiques, Automatique et Signal, Université de Haute Alsace. He specializes in artificial neural networks and adaptive control systems and their applications to power electronics. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as an associate editor for the Energy section of the Heliyon journal (Cell Press). His research interests include control and machine learning for electric power systems and power electronics.