“Empowering the next generation of power electronics through knowledge, engineering, and innovation.”
WHO WE ARE
Poek Labs, founded in Atlanta, Georgia, was established to transform how power electronics is taught, learned, and applied. The name Poek [from Po (Power), E (Electronics), and K (Kontrol)] captures what drives us: advancing power electronics control through innovation, precision, and education.As a center of knowledge and development, we integrate research, training, and engineering to connect theory with real-world application. Through our educational programs and personalized training, we help students, researchers, and professionals strengthen their understanding of digital control and embedded systems on power electronics applications.Poek Labs also provides specialized consulting services in digital control and power conversion, supporting companies and institutions in the design, modeling, and development of control algorithms for converters, inverters, and advanced energy systems.In addition, our high-end prototyping hardware and modular laboratory platforms bring control theory to life, enabling experimentation, visualization, and rapid iteration in safe, scalable environments.Education, consulting, and hardware aren't separate efforts at Poek Labs — they reinforce each other, each one making the others more useful to the people we serve.
Poek Labs was founded by Dr. Alberto Berzoy, an engineering professor who built the hands-on teaching tools he'd wanted for himself, then set out to make them available to learners everywhere.
What began as an academic initiative has evolved into a global platform providing prototyping systems, consulting services, and educational resources for learners and professionals everywhere.OUR STORY
We believe education is the most direct way to create real change. Power electronics and control are complex topics on their own, and they're usually taught separately. We believe that by learning both at the same time with hands-on, we are able to simplify their digestion and speed up how fast people grasp and master them.
That belief extends beyond the classroom, too. Green energy technologies are only as efficient as the power electronics control behind them, and improvements in efficiency mean significant energy savings. We believe a cleaner, more efficient energy future starts the same way everything else does at Poek Labs: with educating the people who will build it.
At Poek Labs, we add the practical, applied layer that complements strong theoretical training — turning concepts into tangible skills, from first self-study steps to research and product development.
That knowledge shouldn't depend on where you live or what a program costs. Our mission is to keep hands-on power electronics education within reach for anyone motivated to learn. And that commitment doesn't stop at the product: we back it with real technical support and long-term partnerships.MISION
We see Poek Labs becoming a global reference in power electronics education and innovation — shaping the next generation of engineers who turn ideas into real, working technology.
That reference grows in stages, the same way our products do. We start with simple, low-power building blocks that teach real control concepts without real risk, then grow into more advanced platforms capable of teaching more sophisticated controllers. From there, our platforms mature into tools serious enough for research, and eventually into the kind of platforms companies and startups build their own products on.
We want that same commitment to carry into the wider world: supporting the better utilization of energy and the growth of green energy technology, through the people we've helped educate.
Our long-term reference point is the caliber of established research-grade power electronics platforms — we want Poek Labs to reach that same depth and rigor, and stay accessible while we do it.
And as we grow into that role, we intend to stay true to how we started: breaking down cost barriers, and keeping power electronics knowledge within reach for anyone determined to build something real.VISION
POEK
MEET THE MIND BEHIND
Dr. Alberto Berzoy has built a long journey in power electronics control, gaining experience across both industry and academia as engineer, leader, student, and professor. This path has allowed him to develop a clear vision of how control in power electronics should be learned, designed, and applied.
He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He later obtained his Ph.D. from Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA, in 2018.
His professional career began as a Power Electronics and Control Engineer in the R&D department at sonnen GmbH, where he contributed to the development of next-generation inverters for residential energy storage systems. He later joined Span.IO in a similar role, leading the control team. Today, he is the founder of Poek Labs, where he pursues his passion for research, development, and teaching.
Engineering the future of power electronics
20+ Years of Experience
Power electronics control across industry and academia
Industry & Academia
Experience as engineer, leader, student, and professor
Founder of Poek Labs
Focused on research, development, and teaching
EXPERTISE
Power electronics converter design and control, electrical machine drives, diagnostics and condition monitoring, digital signal processing, model predictive control, and digital control systems.
Research interests include electric vehicles and renewable energy applications.
BEYOND ENGINEERING
Power electronics converter design and control, electrical machine drives, diagnostics and condition monitoring, digital signal processing, model predictive control, and digital control systems.
Research interests include electric vehicles and renewable energy applications.
Some of his future goals at Poek include developing practical solutions such as a backpack portable inverter and the electrification of cart wheels for sand to facilitate the transportation of goods on the beach in an affordable way.
FUTURE VISION
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
