Afarulrazi Abu Bakar was born in Johor, Malaysia on May 18, 1980. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Malaysia, in 2004 and M.Eng and Ph.D, degrees from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), in 2019 and 2007, respectively. He has been working as a lecturer at the Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UTHM, since 2007. His current research interests include renewable energy application, DC/DC converters, multiple-input converters, multiphase converters, resonant converters, and advanced controller design.