Omar Abdel-Rahim received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering in 2009 and 2012, respectively, from the Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, Egypt and received his Ph.D. from Utsunomiya University, Japan in 2017. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Tallinn University of Technology, Power Electronics Group. From 2018-2019, he was with the Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Lab (PEARL), ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. From 2017-2019, he was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, and Vice-President of the Quality Assurance Unit, Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University. From 2018-2019, he was the director of the Aswan Power Electronic Application Research Center (APEARC). In 2012, he joined Texas A&M University at Qatar as a research associate. He has authored or coauthored over 49 papers in leading international conferences and journals, mainly on the topics of grid-connected inverters and multiphase matrix converters. Mr. Abdel-Rahim serves extensively as a reviewer for various IEEE/IET transactions and journals on power, electronics, circuits, and control engineering, and several conferences. His current research interests include multiphase machine drives, predictive control, renewable energy, and smart grid and DC-AC converters.