Antonio Simões Costa received his Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. degrees respectively from Federal University of Pará and Federal University of Santa Catarina, both in Brazil, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1981. Since 1975 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering of Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are concerned with power system real-time modeling, and computer methods for power systems operation and control.

Antonio has published about 50 journal papers and 150 conference papers, and supervised over 65 M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses on topics related to the above areas. He has been a member of Advisory Committees of several international conferences, such as IEEE PowerTech, Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) and IREP Bulk Power System Symposium, as well as Brazilian national conferences, such as the Brazilian Conference on Automatic Control and the Brazilian Symposium on Electrical Systems. In addition to being an elected member of the Brazilian Society of Automatic Control's Board of Directors for several terms, he served as President of that society in the period 1994-1995. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Research and Education in Power (IREP).

Concerning journal editorship activities, he has been Associate Editor of the Electrical Power Systems Research journal (2016-2019), as well of the Control and Automation journal of the Brazilian Society of Automatic Control for several terms. He has also served in advisory and technical committees for the Brazilian research funding agencies National Research Council (CNPq) and Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education (CAPES). Concerning activities with the power industry, he has carried out consultancy work for the Brazilian National Electrical Operator, as well as to Generation, Transmission, and Distribution companies. For almost 40 years his research activities have been supported by the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), where he is currently classified as a Level I researcher. Since 2006 he is an IEEE Fellow, and has served two terms (2017-2018) with the IEEE Power and Energy Society Fellow Committee.