Marcelo Godoy Simões

Marcelo Godoy Simões is a professor in Flexible and Smart Power Systems at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Prior positions include 11 years at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), 21 years at the Colorado School of Mines (USA), visiting professrships at Georgia Tech, L'École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and Université de Technologie Belfort-Montbéliard in France, Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi (UAE), and Fulbright Scholar at Aalborg University. He developed several AI-based power electronics for renewable energy and smart-grid integration, with several advanced applications, such as wind energy conversion, and early automation-control-based models of fuel cells. His current research interests include smart grid-based inverters for renewable energy, power electronics and power systems, power quality, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence. He is a Fellow of the IEEE with the citation "for applications of artificial intelligence in control of power electronics systems."