Victor Augusto Duraes de Faria is a Senior Data Scientist at Duke Energy, where he designs, implements, and validates optimization models that guide fuel and power portfolio strategy and day to day production cost operations across a fifty gigawatt regulated fleet. His work centers on stochastic programming, robust optimization, and mixed integer formulations for capacity expansion, unit commitment, and network constrained dispatch. He builds scenario generation and Monte Carlo frameworks with a focus on uncertainty quantification, decomposition methods, and explainable decision support. Victor holds a PhD in Operations Research from North Carolina State University, an MS in Electrical Engineering, and a BS in Electrical Engineering, and he maintains an active research affiliation with NC State as a research member in the Operations Research department. Previously at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, he advanced the ReEDS capacity expansion model and developed uncertainty and reporting tools used in utility and policy studies.