Data based methods for power system modeling, stability analysis and control
• Linear and nonlinear methods for monitoring and control of power system oscillations • Modeling and stability analysis of inverter-based resources
• Analysis and mitigation of stability phenomena using synchrophasors
• Stability theory for constrained large scale nonlinear systems
• Analysis of instabilities caused by bifurcations
• Power system dynamic methods based on time-varying phasors
Bikal Pudasaini, Ph.D. “Synchrophasor-based forced oscillation analysis” • Dominion Energy, Richmond, VA.
Mohammadreza Maddipour Farrokhifard, Ph.D. “Synchrophasor based oscillation monitoring”• General Electric, Seattle, WA.
Chad Thomas, M.S. (Thesis) “Analysis of oscillations in power systems” • General Electric, Seattle, WA.
Yuan Zhi, Ph.D. “Analysis of forced oscillations in power systems” • Microsoft, Seattle, WA.
Talha Anwar, M.S. (Thesis) “Synchrophasor tools in power systems” • Civil service, Pakistan.
Mohammadreza Hatami, Ph.D. “Synchrophasor based control designs in power systems” • ETAP, Los Angeles, CA.
Mohammad Amelian, Ph.D. “Voltage control in power systems” • DNL Power, Austin, TX.
Ebrahim Rezaei, Ph.D. “Analysis of oscillations in power systems” • AEP, Columbus, OH.
Xun Zhang, Ph.D. “Synchrophasor based voltage stability assessment and Volt/VAR control” • Amazon, Seattle, WA
Yang Zheng, M.S. (Thesis) “Cross-referencing reconstruction of missing PMU data using collaborative filtering” • General Electric, Seattle, WA.
Tianying Wu, Ph.D. “Fast oscillation monitoring algorithms of large-scale power systems” • NREL, Denver, CO .
Seyed Arash Sarmadi, Ph.D. “Power system distributed oscillation monitoring using synchrophasor data” • National Grid, Boston, MA.
Lu Zhang, M.S. (Thesis) “Oscillation monitoring”• Austin Energy, Austin, TX.
Hamed Khalilinia, Ph.D. “Subsynchronous resonance monitoring” • Google X, San Francisco, CA.
Jiawei “Alex” Ning, Ph.D. “Power system distributed oscillation detection based on synchrophasor data” • Avangrid, Portland, OR.
Qiang “Frankie” Zhang, M.S. (Thesis) “Synchrophasor time-skew: Formulation, detection and correction” • New England Independent System Operator, Holyoke, MA.
Javier Guerrero Sedeno, Ph.D. “Hierarchical two-level voltage controller for large power systems” • Washington State University, Bremerton, WA.
Greg Zweigle, Ph.D. “Real-time optimal control of large-scale power systems with application to transient stability” • Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc., Pullman, WA.
Hong Chun, M.S. (Thesis) “Hierarchical two-level controller for large power systems (local substation level)” • now at Varentec, San Jose, CA.
Xing Liu, Ph.D. “Real-time voltage stability monitoring and control using synchrophasors”• now at Siemens Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
Guoping Liu, Ph.D. “Oscillation monitoring system based on wide area phasor measurements in power systems” • now at State Grid Corporation of China, Chongqing, China.
Ran Xu, M.S. (Thesis) December 2009 “Loss of field protection and its impact on power system stability”• now at California ISO, Folsom, CA.
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.
Dongchen Hu, M.S. (Thesis) “A wide-area control for mitigating angle instability in electric power systems” • now at Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA.
Jingdong Su, Ph.D. “A Heuristic slow voltage control scheme for large power systems” • now at ABB Inc., Houston, TX.
Jaime Quintero, Ph.D. “A real-time wide-area control for mitigating small-signal instability in electric power systems” • now at Universidad Autonoma De Occidente, Cali, Columbia.
Yuan Li, Ph.D. “Coordination of transmission path transfers in large electric power systems” • now at New England Independent System Operator, Holyoke, MA.
Rajesh Kavasseri, Ph.D. “New methodology for design of power system stabilizers” • now at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.
Juan Li, Ph.D. “Nonlinear analysis of limit cycles in power system models” • now at Midwest Independent System Operator, Indianapolis, IN.
Yonghong Chen, Ph.D. “Development of automatic slow voltage control for large power systems ” • now at NREL, Denver, CO.
Meng Shen, Ph.D. “A new framework for parameter estimation of power system dynamic models” • now at Southern California Edison Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
Weijun Ji, Ph.D. “Analysis of complicated oscillatory instability phenomena in general power system models” • now at City of Austin Electric Utility, TX.
Karl Schneider, M.S. (Thesis) “Application of power swing damping control on an SVC to improve transient stability of WSCC interconnected power system”
Frederic Howell, M.S. (Thesis) “Nonlinear analysis of power system oscillations” • now at Powertech Labs Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ravi Mantri, M.S. (Thesis), Co-Advisor: Prof.Ali Saberi “Control and analysis problems for linear systems with saturation” • now at 3COM Inc., CA.
Nasser Dehkordi, M.S. (Thesis) “Analysis of Hopf bifurcations and voltage oscillations in power system models” • now at Battelle, Pasco, WA.
Habib Wajid, Ph.D. student, “Power system oscillation monitoring” Saugat Ghimire, Ph.D. student, “Oscillation monitoring”
KC Menuka, Ph.D. student, “Oscillation Control”
Deepak Joshi, Ph.D. student, “Power system oscilations”
Salman Shiuab, Ph.D. student, “Oscillation monitoring”