Oscar Carranza Castillo received his B.S. (1996) and M.Sc (1999) from the Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico and a Ph.D (2012) in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 2012. Since 1999, he has been a professor with the Escuela Superior de Computo, Instituto Politecnico Nacional. Since 2014, he has collaborated in the Postgraduate Program in Electrical Engineering of the Section of Postgraduate Studies and Research of the ESIME-Zacatenco of the Instituto Politecnico Nacional in Mexico City. His main research fields are in the modeling and control of power converters, power processing of renewable energy sources, and grid-connected converters for distributed power.