Alinson Santos Xavier is a Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory’s Energy Systems and Infrastructure Analysis division. His research currently focuses on solving challenging computational problems that arise daily in the production and transmission of electric power, through a combination of Mathematical Optimization, High-Performance Computing and Machine Learning.

Dr. Xavier holds a PhD. in Mathematics (Combinatorics & Optimization) from University of Waterloo, Canada, and a MSc. in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil.