Diego Issicaba (M'07) received the Ph.D. degree on Sustainable Energy Systems from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, in association with the MIT Portugal Doctoral Program, in 2013. His research activities were hosted by the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC Porto) where he worked on several projects financed by the EU Commission and Industry. During his doctoral studies, he was also hosted by the Department of Computational Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. His research interests include self-healing grids, smart grid operation and control, multi-agent technology, and power system reliability. He is also interested in applied mathematics, distribution system planning, and machine learning.