Diego Cerrai is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Manager of Eversource Energy Center at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. He also leads the UConn Outage Prediction Modeling Team. His primary research focuses on the prediction of weather-related power outages in transmission and distribution networks using machine learning and statistical models. He is also studying the dynamical processes involved in the formation of extreme hydrometeorological events in the Mediterranean region.