Group Members
Mariana Resener
P.Eng., Ph.D., SMIEEE, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering
Dr. Mariana Resener is an Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainable Energy Engineering at Simon Fraser University. She has been an IEEE member since 2007 and a Senior Member since 2020. Before joining SFU, Dr. Resener worked for 8+ years as an Electrical Engineer at a power distribution utility; in this role, she prepared expansion planning studies for medium and high-voltage networks and analyzed distributed generation interconnections (power flow, stability, power quality and protection), among other activities. Dr. Resener was also an Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. At UFRGS, she worked on several R&D projects related to fault location and operation planning of power distribution systems, funded by power distribution utilities.
Tulio Coura
PhD Student
Research areas: smart grids, active distribution networks, energy storage, and power system optimization.
Gustavo L. Aschidamini
PhD Candidate
Research area: operation and expansion of distribution networks under increasing electrification, optimization, and reinforcement learning.
Masaki Fukae
MASc Student
Research areas: AMI, machine learning, outage detection, and fault localization.
Branthur Federucci
MASc Student
Research areas: high impedance fault detection, machine learning, power systems.
Marc Tchona
MASc Student
Research areas: power distribution systems, reliability and resilience, optimization, and data-driven methods.
Guilherme Castiglio
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research areas: AMI, data analytics, power system modelling, analysis, and optimization.
Enielma Cunha
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research areas: power system resiliency, optimization applied to power systems, and hosting capacity of distributed generation and electric vehicles.
Elis Trindade
Visiting Researcher
Research areas: fault detection, classification, and location in active power distribution systems, machine learning, power system protection.
Andrew Matz
Research Assistant
Research areas: real-time simulation, protection systems, power system analysis.
Sofia Dibai
Research Assistant
Research areas: sustainable energy, electrical engineering, and the development of reliable and resilient power systems.
Alumni:
- Yasmin Dibai, MASc in Sustainable Energy Engineering, Simon Fraser University, 2026
- Pedro Arrelaro Ribeiro, Visiting Researcher, University of Campinas (Unicamp), 2026, jointly supervised with Prof. Fernanda Trindade
- Leonardo Ramires Vargas, MASc in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), 2026, jointly supervised with Prof. Gustavo Marchesan
- Eduardo Santos Finck, MASc in Sustainable Energy Engineering, Simon Fraser University, 2025
- Simran Pandher, Research Assistant (volunteer), Simon Fraser University, 2025
- Gabriela Zorzela, MASc in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), 2025, jointly supervised with Prof. Gustavo Marchesan
- Erin Flood, Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University, 2025
- Mina Pavlovic, Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University, 2024
- Gederson Alvaro da Cruz, PhD in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), 2024, , jointly supervised with Prof. Sérgio Haffner
- Matheus Holzbach, Visiting Researcher, São Paulo State University (UNESP), 2023-2024, jointly supervised by Prof. John Fredy Baquero
- Gabriela Padilha Rizzetti, MASc in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), 2023, jointly supervised with Prof. Flavio Lemos
- Álvaro Bampi, MASc in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), 2023