Ricardo Prates

Ricardo Menezes Prates was born in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil in 1984. He received the B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees from UNIVASF (Federal University of São Francisco's Valley), in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He also holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, with concentration area in Information and Energy Processing, from the Federal University of Bahia (2020). He joined Neoenergia Corporation, Salvador, Brasil, in 2012, and worked there for 3 years in analysis, design, and maintenance of Electric Power Distribution Networks. Since 2015, he has been with UNIVASF, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering. His main areas of research interest are industrial instrumentation, computational intelligence, computer vision and digital image processing.