Raphael Sampaio graduated in Computer Engineering at PUC-Rio in 2015. During his undergraduate studies, he took classes through the academic exchange program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. In 2018, he received an MSc degree in Informatics with an emphasis on Optimization and Machine Learning, also at PUC-Rio. He joined PSR in 2016 and currently works on the software development of optimization models for hydrothermal dispatch under uncertainty with transmission constraints (SDDP).