Short Bio:
Alexandre Street holds an M.Sc. and a D.Sc. (PhD) in electrical engineering (emphasis in operations research) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 2003 to 2007, he participated in several consulting projects related to strategic bidding in the Brazilian energy auctions and market regulation at the Power System Research Consulting (PSR), Rio de Janeiro. From August 2006 to March 2007, he was a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
At the beginning of 2008, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at PUC-Rio, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He teaches energy economics for graduate students and optimization and statistics for both graduate and undergraduate students. He founded the Laboratory of Applied Mathematical Programming and Statistics (LAMPS) at PUC-Rio; the Renewable Storage and Flexibility Research Group for Power Systems Sustainability; and Lamps Co, an energy-tech startup incubated at PUC-Rio.
His main goal as a professor and researcher is to promote a vibrant environment where teaching, research, and development converge toward innovation, enhancing students’ experiences and actively involving them in solving problems relevant to society.
Since November 2025, Alexandre Street has been affiliated with the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) at Stanford University, where he contributes to research on power system economics and market design. In 2026, he serves as a Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University, appointed in the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), School of Humanities and Sciences, where part of his duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Economics on Latin American energy markets and on optimization models with applications to power systems and electricity markets.
Alexandre Street is a senior member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society and a CNPq and FAPERJ research fellow. Since 2004, he has been playing a relevant role in the ongoing restructuring of the Brazilian power system, with significant contributions to market design and sectoral governance and reforms. He has been serving as a member of the Brazilian power system planner advisory board and as an associate editor for relevant scientific journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy, and Regulation. He is the recipient of prestigious paper awards from leading professional societies, including IEEE and INFORMS.
His research interests include 1) power systems economics, finance, and market design, 2) robust and stochastic optimization models for power systems operation and planning, 3) time-series modeling and data-science applications in renewable energy and market studies, 4) decomposition methods for large-scale optimization problems, and 5) innovative AI applications in decision-making under uncertainty.
e-mail: street@ele.puc-rio.br
About LAMPS PUC-Rio:
The Laboratory of Applied Mathematical Programming and Statistics (LAMPS) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) is a research laboratory that leverages optimization and statistics to create new knowledge, test hypotheses and develop new tools for the industry and society, in particular for energy and financial sectors. LAMPS includes professors, researchers, and students associated with the Electrical and Industrial Engineering Departments of PUC-Rio.
Address: Pontifical Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Cardeal Leme Building, room L435, Gávea, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil.
Phone: +55 21 3527-1222
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Prof. Alexandre Street 