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José Luis Rueda-Torres received the Electrical Engineer Diploma from Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, cum laude honors, in August 2004. In November 2009, he received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the National University of San Juan, obtaining the highest mark 'Sobresaliente' (Outstanding). He is currently working as an Assistant Professor for Intelligent Electrical Power Grids at the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy, Technical University Delft, Netherlands. He is vice-chair of the Working Group on Modern Heuristic Optimization (WGMHO) under the IEEE PES Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics Committee. Dr. Rueda-Torres is a member of CIGRE and a senior member of the IEEE. His current research interests include power system planning, power system stability and control, and probabilistic and artificial intelligence methods.

Francisco González-Longatt received an Electrical Engineering degree from Instituto Universitario Politécnico de la Fuerza Armada Nacional (1994), Master of Business Administration from Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua (1999), a Ph.D. in Electrical Power Engineering from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (2008), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Professional Practice from Coventry University (2013). He is a Lecturer in Electrical Power Systems in the School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering at Loughborough University, UK, and the Vice-President of the Venezuelan Wind Energy Association. Dr González-Longatt is a member of CIGRE and a senior member of the IEEE. His current research interests include innovative (operation/control) schemes to optimize the performance of future energy systems.