George R. S. Lira (M'09) received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil, in 2005, 2008, and 2012, respectively. Since 2010, he has been a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Federal University of Campina Grande. His research interests are high-voltage engineering, power equipment, electromagnetic transients, optimization methods, computational intelligence, pattern recognition, asset management, and time series forecasting models. Since 2009, he has been a member of IEEE.