Dr. Ricardo Alvarez-Salas works as a Professor at the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí. He received a B.S. degree in electronics engineering from the University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and an M.S. degree in electronics engineering from the Scientific Research and Graduate Studies Center of Ensenada, Mexico, in 1996, and a D.E.A. and Ph.D. degrees in automatic control from the Grenoble Institute of Engineering, France, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. His research interests mainly include control and diagnostic techniques for electric machines, power converters, and electromechanical systems.