Subject to: Mario Pereira

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Mario Veiga Pereira has BSc and MSc degrees in systems engineering and a DSc in Operations Research. He worked at Cepel, Brazil’s Energy Research Center, and EPRI – Electric Power Research Institute, in Palo Alto, before founding PSR, a provider of stochastic optimization tools and consulting in energy with clients in more than 70 countries. He developed the stochastic dual dynamic programming algorithm, SDDP, and other well-known methodologies used in planning and reliability evaluation. He was a main advisor of two Brazilian governments on the management of the country’s energy supply crisis and on the design of generation contracting auctions, which resulted in 80 thousand MW of new capacity, with US$ 550 billion in contracts. Mario is an IEEE Fellow and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, Brazilian Academy of Sciences and Brazilian Academy of Engineering. He was a professor at PUC-Rio and a visiting professor at the IIT, in Spain; co-authored 300 papers and four books on optimization and energy, and co-supervised thirty MSc and DSc thesis. Mario received a Finalist Franz Edelman Award for his work on stochastic hydrothermal scheduling, the National Scientific Merit Medal for his research contributions and the Presidential Rio Branco Medal for his work during the energy crisis.