Janaina Gomes da Costa
CEMIG Geração e Transmissão / Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Janaina Gomes da Costa received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2000 and her M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. She has been a professor in the undergraduate Electrical Engineering program at Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais since 2005 and has also been a professor in the graduate program at IEC PUC Minas since 2020.
She has worked as a Senior Power System Projects Engineer at CEMIG Geração e Transmissão since 2007, where she is responsible for the technical coordination of the engineering team for transmission system expansion equipment, focusing on the specification, design, and technical analysis of power transformers and associated equipment.
She is also actively involved in standardization and technical cooperation activities, serving as Coordinator of the ABNT Study Commission CE 14:01, responsible for the ABNT NBR 5356 – Power Transformers standard since 2024, and as Secretary of the A2 Study Committee – Power Transformers and Reactors of CIGRE Brasil.
Dr. Edemar de Oliveira Prado
VEDECOM Institute - France
Dr. Prado holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, two Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (one completed, one in the final stage), and a postdoctoral research project on wireless power transfer (WPT) for electric vehicles, with research and industrial experience covering power converters, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), renewable energy integration, converter optimization, thermal design, modulation techniques, and WPT systems for electric vehicles. He currently works as an R&D Engineer at the VEDECOM Institute, in France.
Prof. Claudio Rosito Jung
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS - Brazil
Prof. Jung received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1991, 1995, and 2002, respectively. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Informatics, UFRGS. From July 2015 to July 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked with Prof. Norman Badler.
His research interests include image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition, with a particular focus on image segmentation and filtering, multiscale methods, vision-based driver assistance systems, object tracking, video event detection, multiview stereo matching, view interpolation, multimodal voice activity detection, and sound source localization.
Prof. Allan Fagner Cupertino
Federal University of Juiz de Fora - UFJF - Brazil
Dr. Cupertino received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Brazil, in 2013, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. He was a Guest Ph.D. Researcher with Aalborg University, Denmark, from 2018 to 2019, and a Postdoctoral Researcher with UFMG from 2025 to 2026. Since 2023, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Energy, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil. His research interests include renewable energy conversion systems, battery energy storage systems, multilevel converters, and power electronics reliability. Dr. Cupertino received the President Bernardes Silver Medal in 2013, the SOBRAEP Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2020, and the IEEE IAS CMD Ph.D. Thesis Contest Award in 2021. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Vice President of the Brazilian Power Electronics Society (SOBRAEP), and Editor-in-Chief of Eletrônica de Potência (Open Journal of Power Electronics).
Telles Brunelli Lazzarin
Federal University of Santa Catarina - UFSC - Brazil
Cryogenic Power Electronics: From Component Characterization to High-Power Applications
Telles Brunelli Lazzarin received the B.Sc. (2004), M.Sc. (2006), and Ph.D. (2010) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, working in the field of Power Electronics. He also has industry experience, having worked as a development engineer at WEG Automação.
Since 2013, he has been a professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UFSC, where he is currently Associate Professor II, carrying out teaching, research, and supervision activities at the Power Electronics Institute (INEP). He is a CNPq research productivity fellow and coordinates the National Institute of Science and Technology in Power Electronics (INCT-EPTech). He has international experience as a visiting researcher at Northeastern University, in the United States, and at CentraleSupélec, in France.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics (OJ-PEL). From 2023 to 2025, he was President of the Brazilian Power Electronics Society (SOBRAEP) and, from 2021 to 2023, Editor of the journal Eletrônica de Potência. His main research interests include switched-capacitor and hybrid converters, high-gain DC-DC converters, single-phase rectifiers, inverter paralleling, wind energy conversion systems, wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors, and power electronics applications in cryogenic environments.
