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Teaching

Current Graduate Students

Habib Wajid

Ph.D. Student

“Power system oscillation monitoring”

Saugat Ghimire

GRADUATE Ph.D. Student

“Oscillation monitoring”

KC Menuka

Ph.D. Student

“Oscillation Control”

Deepak Joshi

Ph.D. Student

“Power system oscillations”

Salman Shiuab

Ph.D. Student

“Oscillation Monitoring”

Graduate Students Supervised

  1. Bikal Pudasaini, Ph.D. August 2023
    “Synchrophasor-based forced oscillation analysis”
    • Dominion Energy, Richmond, VA.
  2. Mohammadreza Maddipour Farrokhifard, Ph.D. December 2020
    “Synchrophasor based oscillation monitoring”
    • General Electric, Seattle, WA.
  3. Chad Thomas, M.S. (Thesis) August 2020
    “Analysis of oscillations in power systems”
    • General Electric, Seattle, WA.
  4. Yuan Zhi, Ph.D. August 2020
    “Analysis of forced oscillations in power systems”
    • Microsoft, Seattle, WA.
  5. Talha Anwar, M.S. (Thesis) August 2020
    “Synchrophasor tools in power systems”
    • Civil service, Pakistan.
  6. Mohammadreza Hatami, Ph.D. May 2020
    “Synchrophasor-based control designs in power systems”
    • ETAP, Los Angeles, CA.
  7. Mohammad Amelian, Ph.D. August 2019
    “Voltage control in power systems”
    • DNL Power, Austin, TX.
  8. Ebrahim Rezaei, Ph.D. August 2018
    “Analysis of oscillations in power systems”
    • AEP, Columbus, OH.
  9. Xun Zhang, Ph.D. August 2017
    “Synchrophasor-based voltage stability assessment and Volt/VAR control”
    • Amazon, Seattle, WA.
  10. Yang Zheng, M.S. (Thesis) August 2017
    “Cross-referencing reconstruction of missing PMU data using collaborative filtering”
    • General Electric, Seattle, WA.
  11. Tianying Wu, Ph.D. August 2016
    “Fast oscillation monitoring algorithms of large-scale power systems”
    • NREL, Denver, CO.
  12. Seyed Arash Sarmadi, Ph.D. August 2015
    “Power system distributed oscillation monitoring using synchrophasor data”
    • National Grid, Boston, MA.
  13. Lu Zhang, M.S. (Thesis) August 2015
    “Oscillation monitoring”
    • Austin Energy, Austin, TX.
  14. Hamed Khalilinia, Ph.D. August 2015
    “Subsynchronous resonance monitoring”
    • Google X, San Francisco, CA.
  15. Jiawei “Alex” Ning, Ph.D. August 2014
    “Power system distributed oscillation detection based on synchrophasor data”
    • Avangrid, Portland, OR.
  16. Qiang “Frankie” Zhang, M.S. (Thesis) August 2014
    “Synchrophasor time-skew: Formulation, detection and correction”
    • New England Independent System Operator, Holyoke, MA.
  17. Javier Guerrero Sedeno, Ph.D. May 2014
    “Hierarchical two-level voltage controller for large power systems”
    • Washington State University, Bremerton, WA.
  18. Greg Zweigle, Ph.D. May 2013 “Real-time optimal control of large-scale power systems with application to transient stability
    • Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc., Pullman, WA.
  19. Hong Chun, M.S. (Thesis) May 2013
    “Hierarchical two-level controller for large power systems (local substation level)”
    • now at Varentec, San Jose, CA.
  20. Xing Liu, Ph.D. August 2012
    “Real-time voltage stability monitoring and control using synchrophasors”
    • now at Siemens Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
  21. Guoping Liu, Ph.D. August 2010
    “Oscillation monitoring system based on wide area phasor measurements in power systems”
    • now at State Grid Corporation of China, Chongqing, China.
  22. Ran Xu, M.S. (Thesis) December 2009
    “Loss of field protection and its impact on power system stability”
    • now at California ISO, Folsom, CA.
  23. Michael Sherwood, M.S. (Thesis) December 2007
    “Least action principle for real-time mitigation of angle instability in power systems”
    • now at Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco, CA.
  24. Dongchen Hu, M.S. (Thesis) December 2006
    “A wide-area control for mitigating angle instability in electric power systems”
    • now at Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA.
  25. Jingdong Su, Ph.D. May 2006
    “A Heuristic slow voltage control scheme for large power systems”
    • now at ABB Inc., Houston, TX.
  26. Jaime Quintero, Ph.D. May 2005
    “A real-time wide-area control for mitigating small-signal instability in electric power systems”
    • now at Universidad Autonoma De Occidente, Cali, Columbia.
  27. Yuan Li, Ph.D. August 2004
    “Coordination of transmission path transfers in large electric power systems”
    • now at New England Independent System Operator, Holyoke, MA.
  28. Rajesh Kavasseri, Ph.D. August 2002
    “New methodology for the design of power system stabilizers”
    • now at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.
  29. Juan Li, Ph.D. August 2001
    “Nonlinear analysis of limit cycles in power system models”
    • now at Midwest Independent System Operator, Indianapolis, IN
  30. Yonghong Chen, Ph.D. August 2001
    “Development of automatic slow voltage control for large power systems ”
    now at NREL, Denver, CO.
  31. Meng Shen, Ph.D. December 2000
    “A new framework for parameter estimation of power system dynamic models”
    • now at Southern California Edison Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
  32. Weijun Ji, Ph.D. May 1997
    “Analysis of complicated oscillatory instability phenomena in general power system models”
    • now at City of Austin Electric Utility, TX.
  33. Karl Schneider, M.S. (Thesis) May 1999
    “Application of power swing damping control on an SVC to improve transient
    stability of WSCC interconnected power system”
  34. Frederic Howell, M.S. (Thesis) December 1995
    “Nonlinear analysis of power system oscillations”
    • now at Powertech Labs Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
  35. Ravi Mantri, M.S. (Thesis), Co-Advisor: Prof.Ali Saberi May 1995
    “Control and analysis problems for linear systems with saturation”
    • now at 3COM Inc., CA.
  36. Nasser Dehkordi, M.S. (Thesis) August 1994
    “Analysis of Hopf bifurcations and voltage oscillations in power system models”
    • now at Battelle, Pasco, WA.