Biography
Fabrício Gonzalez Nogueira is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil. He is the director of the Electrical Engineering Graduation Program (2020-2023) and leads the Laboratory of Automation, Control, and Robotics. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2007) and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2008 and 2012, respectively) from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil. He developed several Research and Development (R&D) projects involving modeling, stability, and control of power systems, supported by Brazilian electricity generation companies, such as Eletrobras Eletronorte, a major Brazilian electric utility company. During these projects, he coordinated field tests carried out in power plants of the Brazilian Interconnected System, among them the Tucurui Hydroelectric Power Station, the 5th largest hydroelectric plant in the world. His main research topics include adaptive and robust control, robust stability, P-LMIs, LPV identification and control, embedded systems, and robotics. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Brazilian Society of Automatics SBA. In addition, he was the chairman of the major south-American academic events in automatic control, the Brazilian Conference on Automatics (CBA 2022), and the Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation (SBAI) in 2013.