Dr. Szamel Laszlo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electric Power Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in 1988 and 2005, respectively. Until 1997, he was with the Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Hungarian Electrotechnical Association. His research interests include electrical drive control, servo, and robot drives, digital systems, switched reluctance motor drives, and high-accuracy position and speed measurements of electrical drives.