PhD Candidate

I am a PhD student in Industrial Engineering, interested mainly in the operation of wholesale electricity markets. My current research focuses on improving and expanding the coordination of market clearing processes among interconnected transmission systems using distributed optimization techniques. I earned my bachelor's degree in electromechanical engineering from the Technological University of Panama (Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá), and have two master's degrees in ECE from the University of Arizona and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have worked as a power systems engineer for a distribution company and as a transmission system operator. I have also worked extensively as a consultant for entities participating in financial transmission rights markets and electricity markets in general.