Mattia Rossi

Petros Karamanakos

Petros Karamanakos is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. Dr. Karamanakos received the Diploma and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 2007, and 2013, respectively. Prior to joining Tampere University, he was with the ABB Corporate Research Center, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland, and the Chair of Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. His main research interests lie at the intersection of optimal control and modulation, mathematical programming and power electronics, including model predictive control for utility-scale power converters and ac variable speed drives.

Arto Sankala

Arto Sankala is a Lead Control Engineer at Danfoss Drives, Tampere, Finland. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland. His doctoral research covered the control of Medium Voltage Drives in cooperation with Vacon (now Danfoss). During 2009, he was an Assistant Scientist with the Department of Electrical Engineering, LUT. His current research interests include control concepts for electrical drives, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and switching-mode audio amplifiers.