Danton D. Ferreira received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of São João del-Rei, Brazil, in 2005, the M.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, in 2007, and the D.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2010. From 2013 to 2014, he participated of a Postdoctoral stage with the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Professor with the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Brazil, and is with the Department of Automatic. He is ahead of the research group titled Artificial Intelligence and Automation (AIA). His research interests include power quality analysis, computational intelligence, pattern recogniton and digital signal processing.