October 2022I am elated to report the acceptance of my recent work at the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution (GTD) open access (OA) journal of the Wiley publications! Before unpacking my paper with the (kind of long) title 鈥淪tochasticity Agnostic Solution to the AC Optimal Power Flow by Recursive Bound Tightening with Top-Down Heuristically Inducted Binary Decision Trees鈥 (link here), let me rejoice in the fact that the IET GTD is, according to Scholar Google, the highest ranking Q1 (in Control & Systems Eng., Electrical & Electronic Eng., Energy Eng. &鈥 Read More 禄
September 2022 Past student (Nick Alexander) presenting his project in one of my courses (2019). My first contribution to teaching was back in 2008 as an assistant to Prof. Korres and on the graduate-level subject on machine learning (ML) applications within power system control centers. The subject was more of a review on research ideas and publications exploring if and how ML could be useful in real-time operation of electrical grids, as also the planning of their infrastructure. As a junior PhD student under Prof. Hatziargyriou at that time I was just then dipping my toes in鈥 Read More 禄
Aug. 2022It gives me immense joy to announce that I have joined the core team of the Climate Change AI (CCAI) organization. I will be serving the role of Power & Energy Community Co-Lead, alongside the tireless, devoted and unimaginably energetic CCAI鈥檚 co-founder, Dr. Priya Donti,CCAI has identified climate change as the humankind鈥檚 most imminent existential threat, affecting primarily those who are underprivileged 鈥 communities of color, impoverished, without access to advanced technology and modern infrastructure. Within CCAI it is also understood that the climate change鈥 Read More 禄
August 2022I am sincerely grateful to the many wonderful colleagues at the UNIFI consortium for having me present my older work on methods to emulate inertia and perform frequency control with wind and photovoltaic generators. My seminar is scheduled on Monday Sep. 19th at 4 pm ET, as part of the Fall 2022 Seminar Series (more information here).The UNIFI project aims to conduct advanced research, design testing and develop standards on grid-forming inverters. Inverters are the power electronics devices that enable the efficient connection of many renewables to the electrical鈥 Read More 禄
June 2022I am kindly inviting you all to submit your works to the Special Issue on 鈥淣ovel Protection and Control Methodologies towards Electrical Grids with Net-Zero Carbon Emissions鈥 at the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems of the Elsevier publications. Here is the link to the call for papers. You may submit your novel contributions (full manuscripts) starting July 1st and by 30 Sep, 2022, on any of the following subjects: Online/real-time monitoring and situational awareness solutions (detection and location of system oscillation, fault level鈥 Read More 禄
May 2022I am sincerely excited to co-chair the Power & Energy Vertical Track at the 2022 IEEE World Forum on Internet-of-Things (WF IoT), in Yokohama, Japan, coming November. I have happily chaired the same track in the last installment of the WF and I look forward to putting together multiple sessions of researchers and experts on all things (鈥淚nternet of鈥 things鈥 鈥 see what I did there?) energy and power systems.My track co-chair S脙漏rgio Ivan Lopes, Technology and Management School of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (ESTG-IPVC), and I will be reaching out to鈥 Read More 禄
May 2022I am particularly happy and honored to join Daniel Dietmeyer from San Diego Gas & Electric in leading the Distribution Task Team (DisTT) at the North American Synchro Phasor Initiative (NASPI).NASPI was founded in 2003 as the Eastern Interconnection Phasor Project, it is funded by the US Dept. of Energy, and is supported by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). It is the largest collaboration of academics, industry practitioners and standardizing bodies for the development, use, understanding and promotion鈥 Read More 禄
March 2022I am thrilled to announce that the Editors in Chief of the IET Renewable Power Generation (RPG) journal, Prof. Infield and Prof. Tricoli, have invited me to serve as the inaugural Special Issues Editor for this publication. I assume this role immediately and further to those of the Regional Editor for North America and Associate Editor on the subject of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for the same Open Access (OA) journal. It is particularly indicative of the Institute鈥檚 priorities that this is only the second IET publication in the field of energy and electrical power鈥 Read More 禄
March 2022Extending some of my previous work, I developed a digital twin for overhead conductors that detects an approaching forest fire and de-energizes the affected lines in a timely manner and not preemptively. The work has just been accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (preprint here).In California (CA) and elsewhere, the risk of overhead conductors igniting forest fires or adding seats to on-going ones is very real and extensive. In CA, PG&E鈥檚 overhead conductor equipment was determined to be the reason for the 2018 Camp fire, leading to law suits that鈥 Read More 禄
February 2022I am grateful to the Technical Program chairs of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics (SGSMA 2022) for accepting our panel proposal titled 鈥淭owards a Zero Inertia Grid thanks to Synchrophasor Measurements鈥. I have been delighted to have Prof. Yilu Liu (University of Tennessee at Knoxville), Dr. Evangelos Farantatos (EPRI), Dr. Deepak Ramasubramanian (EPRI, on behalf of UNIFI), Dr. Qiteng Hong (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) and Dr. Krish Narendra (Electric Power Group) accept my invitations to join this鈥 Read More 禄
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