FILIPE AZEVEDO, Ph.D.
University Professor and Researcher
BIO
ALMOST EVERYTHING ABOUT ME
Filipe Azevedo was born in a small town in the North of Portugal called Vila do Conde. He received the diploma in 1999, the M. Sc. in 2003, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Porto University, Portugal, and the Ph.D. degree in 2008 on Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal.
Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Power Systems at the ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto and a researcher at INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, both in Porto, Portugal.
His main research interests are Economics applied to Energy Markets, Decision-Support System techniques applied to Economics Engineering problems, Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) applications, Smart Grids, and Renewable Energy production integration on power systems. Filipe Azevedo has also interests in National Security related problems, encryption and cryptography.
EDUCATION
Ph.D DEGREE IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
20/09/2003 - 14/01/2008
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Title of qualification awarded: Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Name and type of organization providing education and training: University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Apartado 1013, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
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Level in national or international classification: University level - PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, approved unanimously with DISTINCTION AND PRAISE (highest rating)
M.Sc DEGREE IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
20/09/2001 - 09/07/2003
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Title of qualification awarded: M.Sc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the scientific area of Power Systems
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Name and type of organization providing education and training: University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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Level in national or international classification: University level - Master Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, approved unanimously with the classification of VERY GOOD (highest rating)
POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
19/09/2000 - 31/07/2001
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Title of qualification awarded: Postgraduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the scientific area of Power Systems
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Name and type of organization providing education and training: University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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Level in national or international classification: University level - Postgraduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering
DIPLOMA IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
19/09/1994 - 31/07/1999
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Title of qualification awarded: Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Name and type of organization providing education and training: University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
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Level in national or international classification: University level - Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering
CAREER
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POWER SYSTEMS
Since 19/09/2011
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Occupation or position held: Assistant Professor of Power Systems at the ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
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Main activities and responsibilities: Assistant Professor of Power Systems at the ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto and Researcher at INESC TEC - INESC Technology and Science (formerly INESC Porto)
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Name and address of employer: ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
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Type of business or sector: Higher Education and Research
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POWER SYSTEMS
14/05/2010 - 19/09/2011
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Occupation or position held: Assistant Professor of Power Systems at the ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
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Main activities and responsibilities: Assistant Professor of Power Systems at the ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto and Researcher at the Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research Group (GECAD) and Power Systems Investigation Center (CISE) unit
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Name and address of employer: ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
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Type of business or sector: Higher Education and Research
LECTURER OF POWER SYSTEMS
13/03/2000 - 13/05/2010
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Occupation or position held: Lecturer of Power Systems at the ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
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Main activities and responsibilities: Lecturer of Power Systems at the ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto and Researcher at the Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research Group (GECAD) and at Power Systems Investigation Center (CISE) unit.
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Name and address of employer: ISEP/IPP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
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Type of business or sector: Higher Education and Research
POWER ENERGY TECHNICAL SALES MANAGER
11/10/1999 - 12/03/2000
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Occupation or position held: Power Energy Technical Sales Manager
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Main activities and responsibilities: Power energy technical sales manager for a specific Portuguese mainland area (North of Portugal)
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Name and address of employer: EFACEC Energia Máquinas e Equipamentos Eléctricos, S.A., Arroteia - Leça do Balio, Apartado 1018, 4465-027 S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal
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Type of business or sector: Power Energy
POWER ENERGY TECHNICAL SALES
15/08/1999 - 10/10/1999
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Occupation or position held: Power Energy Technical Sales
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Main activities and responsibilities: Consulting Activity - Support company customers, or potential customers, finding the best solution for the projects that they are involved. Commercial Activity - Make a proposal that best fits the needs of the client based on the equipment manufactured by the company.
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Name and address of employer: EFACEC Energia Máquinas e Equipamentos Eléctricos, S.A., Arroteia - Leça do Balio, Apartado 1018, 4465-027 S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal
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Type of business or sector: Power Energy
PUBLICATIONS
Ph.D THESIS
Filipe Azevedo, “Risk Management Of Competitive Electricity Markets: Price Forecast And Contracts Portfolio Optimization”, Ph.D Thesis (Email Me If You Want A Copy - Portuguese Version Only)
M.Sc THESIS
Filipe Azevedo, “Decision Support System For The Establishment Of Contracts In Electricity Markets”, M.Sc Thesis (Email Me If You Want A Copy - Portuguese Version Only)
PAPERS IN JOURNALS
María Ortiz, Olatz Ukar, Filipe Azevedo and Arantza Múgica, “Price Forecasting and Validation in the Spanish Electricity Market using Forecasts as Input Data”, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Volume 77, May 2016, pp. 123-127, 2016 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2015.11.004)
M. Ortiz, O. Ukar, F. Azevedo and A. Mugica, “Electricity Price Forecasting Methods Applied to Spanish Electricity Market”, International Journal for Knowledge, Science and. Technology (IJKST), Vol. 1, No. 5, April 2013
Filipe Azevedo, Zita A. Vale, P. B. Moura Oliveira and H. M. Khodr, “A Long-term Risk Management Tool for Electricity Markets Using Swarm Intelligence”, Elsevier - Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 80, pp. 380-389, April, 2010 (DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2009.10.002)
Filipe Azevedo, Zita A. Vale and P. B. Moura Oliveira, “A Decision-Support System Based on Particle Swarm Optimization for MultiPeriod Hedging in Electricity Markets”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 995-1003, August 2007 (DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2007.901463)
Filipe Azevedo and Zita A. Vale, “Optimal Short-term Contract Allocation Using Particle Swarm Optimizaton”, WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Vol. 2, N.º 5, Pages 552-558, May 2005 (ISSN: 17900832)
PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Vitor Hugo Ribeiro and Filipe Azevedo, “Radial Distribution Network Topology Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms Considering Uncertain Load and Distributed Generation”, ISAP 2015 - 18th Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems Conference and Debate, September 11-17, Porto - Portugal, 2015
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Maria Ortiz, Olatz Ukar, Filipe Azevedo and Ruben Barrio, “Study of Factors Affecting the Long-term Spanish Electricity Price Formation and Corresponding Validation Using Long-term Forecast Models”, ISAP2013 - Seventeenth International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems, Tokyo - Japan, July 1-4, 2013.
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Filipe Azevedo and J. Tenreiro Machado, “Analysis of Electricity Markets Using Multidimensional Scaling”, EEM 2012 - 9th International Conference on the European Electricity Market, pp.1-4, Florence - Italy, May 10-12, 2012 (DOI: 10.1109/EEM.2012.6254792)
Filipe Azevedo and Zita A. Vale, “A Long-term Swarm Intelligence Hedging Tool Applied to Electricity Markets”, SIAAS-09 - The 2nd Swarm Intelligence Algorithms and Applications Symposium, Edinburgh – Scotland, April 6-9, 2009 (Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-84859010598)
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Filipe Azevedo, H. M. Khodr and Zita A. Vale, “Transmission Cost Allocation Using Cooperative Game Theory: A Comparative Study”, EEM 09 - 6th International Conference on the European Energy Market, Leuven – Belgium, May 27-29, 2009 (DOI: 10.1109/EEM.2009.5207204)
Sérgio Ramos, H.M. Khodr, Filipe Azevedo and Zita Vale, "Power Systems Reliability Calculation based on Fuzzy Data Mining", IEEE 2009 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PES '09, Calgary, Alberta – Canada, July 26 – 30, 2009, (DOI: 10.1109/PES.2009.5275783)
Filipe Azevedo and Zita A. Vale, “A Short-term Risk Management Tool applied to OMEL Electricity Market Using Particle Swarm Optimization”, em Proceedings EEM 08 - 5th International Conference on the European Energy Market, Lisbon - Portugal, May 28-30, 2008, (DOI: 10.1109/EEM.2008.4579039)
Filipe Azevedo, Zita A. Vale and P. B. Moura Oliveira, “Long-term Price Range Forecast Applied to Risk Management Using Regression Models,” in Proceedings ISAP 2007 - 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Application to Power Systems, Kaohsiung - Taiwan, November 2-8, 2007 (DOI: 10.1109/ISAP.2007.4441656)
Filipe Azevedo and Zita A. Vale, “Forecasting Electricity Prices with Historical Statistical Information using Neural Networks and Clustering Techniques”, 2006 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, PSCE 2006; Atlanta - USA, October 29 to November 1, 2006 (DOI: 10.1109/PSCE.2006.296247)
Filipe Azevedo, Zita A. Vale and P. B. Moura Oliveira, “A Clustering Neural Network Model Applied to Electricity Price Range Forecast”, Knowledge and Decision Technologies, Published by Instituto Politécnico do Porto, April, 2006 (ISBN: 972-8688-39-3)
Filipe Azevedo and Zita A. Vale, “Short-term Price Forecast From Risk Management Point of View”, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Application to Power Systems, ISAP'05, Vol. 2005, pp. 111-116, Washington DC - EUA, November 6-10, 2005 (DOI: 10.1109/ISAP.2005.1599249)
Filipe Azevedo and Zita A. Vale, “Production Support-Support System on Liberalized Market Environment”, em Atas do 7º Congreso Interamericano de Computación Aplicada a la Industria de Procesos – CAIP’2005, Vila Real - Portugal, September, 2005 (ISBN: 972-669-677-1)
Filipe Azevedo and Zita A. Vale, “Optimal Short-Term Contract Allocation Using Particle Swarm Optimization”, em Proceedings WSEAS International Conferences NN’05, FS’05, EC’05, ISBN: 960-8457-24-2, Lisbon - Portugal, June, 2005 (Scopus EID: 2-s2.0-21944453861)
Filipe Azevedo and Zita A. Vale, “Optimal Contracts Allocation Using Mean Variance Optimization Method”, em Proceedings ICKEDS – International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support, Porto-Portugal, July, 2004 (ISBN: 972-8688-24-5)
Filipe Azevedo, Zita A. Vale and António A. Vale, “Decision-Support Tool for the Establishment of Contracts in the Electricity Market”, Conference Proceedings 2003 IEEE Bolonha PowerTech, Bolonha-Itália, Vol. 1, 2003, Article number: 1304154, pp. 334-339, June 23-26, 2003 (DOI: 10.1109/PTC.2003.1304154)
Filipe Azevedo, Zita A. Vale and António A. Vale, “Hedging Using Futures and Options Contracts in the Electricty Market”, em Atas do ICRPQ’03 – International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality, Vigo - Spain, April, 2003 (ISBN: 84-607-6768-8)
INTERNATIONAL
PARTICIPATION ON INTERNATIONAL TUTORIALS
November, 2005 -Â October, 2006
Tutorial on Intelligent Optimization and Control for Power Systems, Washington D. C. - USA, November 2005
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“Evolutionary Algorithms with Particle Swarm Movements”, by Vladimiro Miranda
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“Optimization of Power Systems Based on Ant Colony System Algorithms”, by Kang Y. Lee and John G. Vlachogiannis
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“Differential Evolution, an Alternative Approach to Evolutionary Algorithm”, by Kit Po Wong and Zhaoyang Dong
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“Pareto Multi Objective Optimization”, by Patrick Ngatchou, Anahita Zarei and Mohamed El-Sharkawi
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“Direct Neural Dynamic Programming Method for Power System Stability Enhancement”, by Chao Lu, Jennie Si, Xiaorong Xie and Lei Yang
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“Adaptive Critic Designs for Power Systems Control and Optimization”, by Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy and Ron Harley
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“Next Generation for Electric Power Systems”, by James A. Momoh
Tutorial on Power System Planning in the ISO/RTO Paradigm, Atlanta - USA, October 2006
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Gary DeShazo – Director, Regional Transmission North (Califórnia ISO - CAISO)
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Dariush Shirmohammadi – Director, Regional Transmission South (Califórnia ISO - CAISO)
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Robert Sparks – Lead Regional Transmission Engineer (Califórnia ISO - CAISO)
IEEE Tutorial on Transmission Planning – Transmission Economic Assessment Methodology (TEAM), Atlanta - USA, October 2006
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Dariush Shirmohammadi – Director, Regional Transmission South (Califórnia ISO - CAISO)
IEEE Tutorial on Transmission Planning – Power System Planning in the ISO/RTO Paradigm Deliverability Assessment Methodology, Atlanta - USA, October de 2006
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Robert Sparks – Lead Regional Transmission Engineer (Califórnia ISO - CAISO)
NEWS & RESOURCES
INTERVIEW TO THE NATIONAL TV CHANNEL RTP1
September 2, 2008
After the conclusion of the Ph.D and an international award in the conference EEM08 – 5th International Conference on the European Electricity Market, Lisbon – Portugal, May 2008, his work was widely reported by the media. In this video it is possible to see the interview he gave to the national portuguese TV channel RTP 1.
MAP
You can find me in my office whose location can be found on the map below.