ESIC Fall 2025 Seminar Series

Fall 2025Seminar TitleSpeaker
August 27
Welcome/IntroductionsESIC
September 3
ESIC

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Grid Enhancing Technologies in
Transmission Operations and Planning:
Opportunities & Challenges


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Swaroop Guggilam
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
September 10
ESIC

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Correlating Lightning Data with Traveling
Waves on Power Lines Aids Patrol Crews
in Locating Faults
Venkat Mynam
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
September 17
PSERC

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Cybersecurity and Resiliency for DERs and Microgrids

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Manimaran Govindarasu
Iowa State University

Murti Salapaka
University of Minnesota
September 24
AGI

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App Deconfliction: Orchestrating Distributed, Multi-Objective, Multi-Entity Operations for Power SystemsMonish Mukherjee
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
October 1
ESIC

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Energy Storage in Electricity Markets: Equilibrium Models and Learning-Enabled ParticipationBolun Xu
Columbia University
October 8
PSERC

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Measurement-based Estimation and Control of Power Distribution Systems: Theory and Experimental Validation

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Rahul Gupta
Washington State University
October 16***
ESIC

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When the Grid was "The Grid": A Short History of Building Our Electric Power Networks

Julie Cohn
University of Houston
October 22
ESIC

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Distribution System Blackstart and Restoration Using DERs and Dynamically Formed MicrogridsSalish Maharjan
Iowa State University
October 29
AGI


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Where Mathematics Meets the Grid: Modeling the Power Systems of TomorrowJinho Kim
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
November 5
ESIC

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Resource Adequacy with High Penetration of RenewablesAnjan Bose
Energy Systems Innovation Center, WSU
November 12
AGI
Advancing Power System Analytics and
Management with LLM-Powered Solutions

Yousu Chen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
November 19
PSERC
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Generative AI for Data Challenges in Electric Power EngineeringYi Hu
Michigan Technological University
November 26
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December 3
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine">

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The Future of the Electricity Control CenterJeff Dagle, et al.,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)