Lei Zhang (Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, in 2012, the M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, in 2020. From 2015 to 2016, he was with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he was a Research Associate. From 2021 to 2022, he was a Research Assistant with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He is currently a Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include modular multilevel converters, energy storage systems, and hybrid ac–dc microgrid.