Emerson Giovani Carati received a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria—RS, Brazil, in 1996, 1999, and 2003, respectively. Since 2003, he has been a professor at the Federal University of Technology—Paraná, Pato Branco—PR. He is currently a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, and his research topics are related to digital control and digital signal processing with applications in electrical machines' drives, distributed power generation, and static converter systems.