Dr. Joao Soares

João Soares obtained his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UTAD University in 2017. He currently conducts research at GECAD – the Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development, in the School of Engineering of the Polytechnic of Porto and has been an invited visiting professor at Ecole Centrale de Lille – L2EP since 2019. He has contributed to more than 160 publications in power systems and computational intelligence. His works have been cited over 4400 times (H-index 38 in google scholar). He has participated in several national and international research-funded projects. Joao Soares is currently chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) ISATC Taskforce 3 and has been contributing to bridging the gap between computational intelligence and power system engineers, with numerous efforts, in particular with dedicated algorithm competitions in international venues since 2017. He is ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists in the 2021 List of outstanding researchers prepared by Elsevier BV, Stanford University, USA.