Jean-Yves Gauthier received the Ph.D. degree in applied informatics and automation from the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, in 2007. His Ph.D. research fields were about the modeling and the control of magnetic shape memory alloy-based actuators. In 2008, he became an Associate Professor with the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Villeurbanne, France, working on semiactive vibration control using piezoelectric devices. Since 2012, he has been with Ampére Laboratory, INSA Lyon. His current research interests include the control of power electronic devices and electrical motor drives.