Slobodan N. Vukosavic (M’93–SM’12) was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in 1962. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Serbia, in 1985, 1987, and 1989, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He was with the Nikola Tesla Institute, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Serbia, until 1988, when he joined the ESCD Laboratory of Emerson Electric, St. Louis, MO, USA. Since 1991, he has been a Consultant with Vickers Electric Company/MOOG Electric. He is currently a Professor at the University of Belgrade. His students won the 1st prize at the IEEE “FEC” contest in 2005. His research interests include digital control, power conversion in renewable energy sources and power quality. He has published more than 70 papers, 3 textbooks, and 7 monographs and has completed more than 40 large R/D and industrial projects.

Nikola Z. Popov was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Since 2010, he has been with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he is currently a Research and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Power Engineering and Power Drives. His main areas of research include electrical machines parameter estimation, design and control of power converters, and variable-speed drives.