Djalma M. Falcão obtained his B.Sc. in 1971 from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, the M.Sc. in 1973 from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK. Since 1974, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of COPPE, the Graduate School of Engineering of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he is currently a Full Professor. From 1991 to 1993 he was on sabbatical leave at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley. His general research interest is in the area of computer methods for power system simulation, optimization, and control, and the application of high performance computing and intelligent systems techniques to power system problems.