Personal Presentation

Ricardo Bessa (IEEE Fellow) was born in 1983 in Viseu, Portugal. He received the Licenciado (five-year) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 2006. In 2008, he obtained an M.Sc. degree in Data Analysis and Decision Support Systems from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP). He completed his Ph.D. in 2013 within the Doctoral Program in Sustainable Energy Systems (MIT Portugal) at FEUP. He is currently the Coordinator of the Center for Power and Energy Systems at INESC TEC. His research and innovation activities focus on artificial intelligence and data-driven methods for power system operation, renewable energy integration, and smart grids.

Ricardo Bessa has been actively involved in numerous international research and innovation projects, including the European projects FP6 ANEMOS.plus, FP7 SuSTAINABLE, FP7 evolvDSO, H2020 UPGRID, H2020 InteGrid, H2020 Smart4RES, H2020 InterConnect, Horizon Europe ENERSHARE, ENFIELD, and AI4REALNET (Coordinator). He has also led international collaborations with Argonne National Laboratory under the U.S. Department of Energy. At the national level, he has contributed to the development of operational renewable energy forecasting systems and has provided consultancy services in energy analytics and smart grids.

He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, International Journal of Forecasting, and IEEE Data Descriptions. In 2022, he received the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) Excellence Award. Ricardo Bessa is the co-author of more than 80 journal papers and over 140 conference publications.