SGSMA Committees | SGSMA 2026

Conference Chair

Hector Chavez

General Chair

Director, Center for Sustainable Energy Systems
University of Santiago, Chile

Jaime Peralta

Co-Chair

Vice President, Board of Directors
National Electric Coordinator (CEN), Chile

Technical Program Committee

Panayiotis (Panos) Moutis

TPC Chair

City College of New York, USA

Sara Sulis

TPC Chair

University of Cagliari, Italy

Tutorial & Panel Coordination Committee

Rafael Segundo

Lead Panel Coordination

ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland

Anamitra Pal

Lead Tutorial Coordination

Arizona State University, USA

Jaime Cepeda

Co-Lead Panel

CENACE, Ecuador

Anita Oommen

Co-Lead Tutorial

Electranet, Australia

Kaustav Chatterjee

Co-Lead Tutorial

PNNL, USA

SGSMA Association Board Members

Mladen Kezunovic

Chair

Texas A&M University, USA

Mario Paolone

Secretary

EPFL, Switzerland

Rannveig Loken

Statnett, Norway

Carlo Muscas

University of Cagliari, Italy

Hamed Mohsenian-Rad

UC Riverside, USA

Guglielmo Frigo

Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Switzerland

Nenad Uzelac

G&W Electric, USA

Regional Organizing Committee

Hector Kashel

IEEE Southern Cone Council President

University of Santiago de Chile, Chile

Alfredo Cardenas

CIGRE Ibero-American Regional Council, Technical Director

Chile

Daniel Dotta

State University of Campinas, Brazil

Glauco N. Taranto

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

Local Organizing Committee

Miguel A. Solis

IEEE Chile Centro President

Katherine Hoelck T.

CIGRE Chile President

Karina Barbosa

University of Santiago de Chile, Chile

Matias Diaz

University of Santiago de Chile, Chile

Claudia Rahman

University of Chile, Chile

Rodrigo Palma

University of Chile, Chile

Patricio Valdivia

University of Santiago de Chile, Chile

Ricardo Alvarez

Federico Santa Maria Technical University, Chile

Aldo Barrueto

Federico Santa Maria Technical University, Chile

Luis Gutierrez

Adolfo Ibanez University, Chile

Miguel Torres

University of the Andes, Chile

SGSMA Association Members

Name	Affiliation
Jaime Cepeda	Operador Nacional de Electricidad CENACE – Escuela Politecnica Nacional EPN, Quito, Ecuador
Joe H. Chow	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA
Evangelos Farantatos	EPRI, Palo Alto, California, USA
Antonio Gomez-Exposito	Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria, Sevilla, Spain
Liisa Harla	Fingrid, Helsinki, Finland
Kevin Jones	Dominion Energy, Richmond, USA
Mladen Kezunovic	Texas A&M University, USA
Payman Dehghanian	George Washington University, USA
Nenad Uzelac	G&W Electric, USA
Petr Korba	Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Rannveig Loken	Statnett, Norway
Yilu Liu	University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Anurag Srivastava	West Virginia University, USA
Chao Lu	Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Hamed Mohsenian-Rad	University of California, USA
Antonello Monti	RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Carlo Muscas	University of Cagliari, Italy
Lars Nordstrom	KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Mario Paolone	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Marjan Popov	TU Delft – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wanda Reder	Reder Associates, USA
Suresh Chandra Srivastava	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Glauco Taranto	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vladimir Terzija	Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
Kjetil Obstfelder Uhlen	Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Andrey Zhukov	System Operator of the United Power System, Moscow, Russian Federation