Layi Alatise, PhD, CEng, FIET, SMIEEE, is currently a Professor and Royal Society Industry Fellow in Electrical Engineering at the University of Warwick. He received his BEng and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Newcastle University UK in 2005 and 2008. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Development Engineer at NXP Semiconductors. He was a co-recipient of the 2021 best paper award in the IEEE Transactions in Industrial Electronics and 2023 best paper award at CIRED. He has the authored or co-authored more than 150 journal/conference publications and supervised 11 PhDs in Power Electronic devices.