The Eighth IASTED European Conference on
Power and Energy Systems
~EuroPES 2008~
June 23 – 25, 2008
Corfu, Greece
SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZER
Intelligent Systems to Protection Engineering and Distribution Automation
Biography of the Special Session Organizer
Professor Ivan Nunes da Silva was born in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, in 1967. He received both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, in 1995 and 1997, respectively.
Currently he is an Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
His research interests are within the fields of artificial neural networks, fuzzy inference systems, genetic algorithms, hybrid intelligent systems, power systems, nonlinear optimization, identification and control. He is currently the Technical Coordinator for the "Intelligent Systems" Session of the Brazilian Society for Automation, and associate editor of the Journal of Control & Automation (Brazil).
He has published more than 200 papers in congress proceedings and international journals














