Vinko Lešić (S’09–M’15–SM’17) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZGFER), Zagreb, Croatia, in 2014. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, UNIZG-FER. He has co-authored more than 30 journal and conference papers and holds a patent. He is an active volunteer of IEEE Region 8. His focus is on control theory and its application to renewable energy systems and smart city technologies and, more particularly, in model predictive control for buildings and transport energy efficiency and microgrid operation.