Ricardo Bessa
Coordinator for Center for Power and Energy Systems
INESC TEC; AI4REALNET project
INESC TEC; AI4REALNET project
Ricardo Bessa, IEEE Senior Member, earned his 5-years in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2006), M.Sc. in Data Analysis (2008), and Ph.D. in Sustainable Energy Systems (2013) from the University of Porto. He coordinates the Center for Power and Energy Systems at INESC TEC and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. His research spans energy forecasting, computational intelligence, and smart grids. He led projects like AI4REALNET and contributed to FP6 ANEMOS.plus, H2020 Smart4RES, H2020 InteGrid, HE ENERSHARE, HE AI-EFFECT. Received the ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group) Excellence Award (2022).