Diego Jose da Silva. Born in Brazil, in 1989. (Student Member, IEEE) received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Nove de Julho University, São Paulo, Brazil, in 2013, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil, in 2020, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Energy at UFABC and also a Visitor Research at the Aalto University, Finland.  From 2020 to 2022, he was a substitute professor at the Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP), Brazil. His research interests include optimization, planning, and operation of electrical power systems, applications of computational intelligence in power systems, and battery energy storage systems.