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.