Dr. Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz is an assistant professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at the School of Business at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and an adjunct research professor in the CCEE department at North Carolina State University. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, major in Power Systems, both from Federal University at Itajubá, in Brazil, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He has a Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, in 2011. Prior to joining NCCU he worked as a professor, consultant and researcher in several projects. His research interests include operations research where his focus is on large-scale stochastic optimization, analytics and decision-making techniques with applications to planning and operation, economics and design of electrical and energy systems and climate-water-energy nexus.