Biography

Denis Vinicius Coury was born in Brazil in 1960. He received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil in 1983, an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from EESC—University of São Paulo, Brazil in 1986, and a Ph.D. degree from Bath University, Bath, U.K. in 1992.
He worked for the Technological Research Institute (IPT), São Paulo, Brazil from 1985 to 1986. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil in 1986, where he is presently a Full Professor in the Power Systems Group. He spent his Sabbatical at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, during 1999–2000. His areas of research interest are power system protection, expert systems, smart grids and artificial neural networks.