Victor Hugo Quintana

Victor Hugo Quintana (born November 25, 1936) is a retired distinguished professor emeritus from the University of Waterloo.

Career

Victor Hugo Quintana graduated from the Federico Santa María Technical University in 1959 with Dipl. Ing. degree. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in 1965 with a M.Sc. degree where he developed the Y-Transform.[1] He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1970 with a Ph.D. degree focused on numerical methods for solving optimal control problems.[2]

He was on faculty with the University of Waterloo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, from 1973 until 2002 and was part of the Power and Energy Systems Group.[3]

His research interests focused on numerical optimization techniques, state estimation, control theory, power transmission lines, economics markets, and de-regulated power systems. He has published over 100 scientific journal papers and has over 3,200 citations.[4] He has given invited lectures and short courses in Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Spain, and the United States of America.  

Honors

Victor Hugo Quintana, Ph.D., was elected by the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) as a Fellow on January 1, 2001,[5] for his research contributions to power system optimization techniques and power engineering education. He was recognized as a “distinguished professor emeritus” by the University of Waterloo on June 17, 2011.[6]

Personal life

Victor Hugo Quintana was in Temuco, Chile, and raised in Pucon, Chile, located in the Province of Cautín, Araucanía Region.

He married Mone Quintana in Santiago, Chile, in 1960. They had two sons, Victor Hugo Quintana, who graduated with a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and Yuri Quintana, who also graduated with a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Systems Design Engineering, both from the University of Waterloo. Yuri Quintana is a University of Waterloo Global Ambassador[7] and is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

See also

References
  1. Quintana-Zurita, Victor Hugo (1965). General theory and applications of y-transforms. OCLC 1153741501.
  2. Quintana Z (1971). Some numerical methods for solving optimal control problems (Thesis). Ottawa: National Library of Canada. OCLC 1007524903.
  3. "Victor H. Quintana". Power and Energy Systems Group. 2014-06-26. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  4. "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  5. IEEE (February 2001). "IEEE PES Fellows". IEEE Power Engineering Review. 21 (2): 3–7. doi:10.1109/MPER.2001.896816. ISSN 1558-1705.
  6. University of Waterloo Daily Bulletin (June 17, 2011). "UW Honorary degree recipients".
  7. "Championing alumni connections". Waterloo News. 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2022-04-20.


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