Alaa Selim, Soroush Vahedi, Haoyi Wang, Yingyi Tang, Jinxian Zhang, Tong Su and Xingyu Zhao were selected for the competitive 2025 DOE ARPA-E Summit – Student Program.
January
Our IEEE Task Force paper “Cyber-Physical Interdependence for Power System Operation and Control” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Alaa Selim won the 2025 IEEE PES Grid Edge Conference PhD Competition Best Research Award with $5000 cash prize.
Dr. Zhao received the Excellent Young Subject Editor Award from CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems.
Dr. Zhao received the Best Associate Editor Award from the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems!
Dr. Zhao received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for the project “CAREER: A New Robust Power System Dynamic Estimation Paradigm with High Penetration of Black-box Inverter-based Resources: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications“!
Our collaborative work with Dominion Energy “Data Enhanced Robust Distribution System State Estimation for Realistic System with Line Parameter Corrections” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems! Great job done by Yitong!
Dr. Zhao is appointed to the IEEE PES PSE Long Range Planning Subcommittee on Emerging Technologies.
Dr. Zhao is appointed Associate Editor of Applied Energy.
Our TF paper “State Estimation for Integrated Energy Systems: Motivations, Advances, and Future Work” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Dr. Zhao has been elevated to the prestigious Fellow of IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology)! Fellowship is the prestigious IET membership level awarded only to individuals who have demonstrated recent significant achievement(s) sustained at high levels for a period of at least five years in engineering, technology, or related disciplines relevant to the IET (usually within the last 10 years).
November
Congrats to Yansong’s successful PhD defense! Dr. Yansong Pei will move to Michigan State University for one year as a postdoc. This is the third PhD graduate from CREATE lab!
Dr. Zhao’s Google Scholar citationsreached 10,000, a big milestone! Appreciations go to all my students, mentors, collaborators, and colleagues!
Tong Su’s paper “Grid-enhancing technologies for clean energy systems, “Nature Reviews Clean Technology” was accepted to Nature Reviews Clean Technology! It will show up in the journal’s inaugural volume!
Dr. Zhao is listed as one of the 2024 World’s Top 2% Scientists released by Stanford University in both Single-Year and Career tracks with a rank of 16056 (28158 last year) released by Stanford University. My subfield rank in Energy is in the top 0.1%.
August
Congrats to Bendong’s successful PhD defense! Dr. Bendong Tan will stay with us for one year as the postdoc. This is the second PhD graduate from CREATE lab!
Dr. Zhao is selected for the 2024 Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Soroush Vahedi and Alaa Selim, have been selected for the Eversource Clean Energy & Sustainability Innovation Program Fellowship.
Our TF paper “Distribution System Behind-the-Meter DERs: Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Control” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems! This is a great teamwork!
Recognized by IEEE PES in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month’s 2024 theme of “Advancing Leaders Through Innovation.”
Chaired the IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter to win the 2023 IEEE PES High Performing Chapter Award!
Our paper “A Lagrange-multiplier-based Reliability Assessment for Power Systems Considering Topology and Injection Uncertainties,” IEEE Trans. Power Systems, 2024, is now one of the Hot Paper according to Web of Science since May 2024-in the top 0.1% of papers in the field within the past two years.
Our paper “A Physics-Guided Graph Convolution Neural Network for Optimal Power Flow,” IEEE Trans. Power Systems, 2024, is now one of the Hot Paper according to Web of Science since May 2024-in the top 0.1% of papers in the field within the past two years.
Our paper “Reinforcement Learning and its Applications in Modern Power and Energy Systems: A Review,” Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 2020, is now one of the most Highly Cited Paper according to Web of Science since May 2024-in the top 1% of papers in the field.
Congratulations to Bendong Tan, Yansong Pei, Alaa Selim, and Tong Su for receiving the Summer Predoctoral Fellowship!
Ankur‘s paper “Development of Cyber-Physical Security Simulation Testbed in RTDS using Modbus Communication” received the Best Paper Award from IEEE PES General Meeting 2024! Great collaborations with EVersource Energy!
Ketian‘s paper “Power System Overloading Risk Assessment Considering Topology and Renewable Uncertainties” received the Best Paper Award from IEEE PES General Meeting 2024! Great collaborations with ISO New England!
Soroush‘s paper “Resilience Assessment for Distribution Systems during Hurricanes: A Learning-Based Framework” received the Best Paper Award from IEEE PES General Meeting 2024! Great collaborations with LBNL and ORNL!
Dr. Zhao was appointed Technical Committee Program Chair (TCPC) of IEEE PES Renewable Systems Integration Coordinating Committee.
Dr. Zhao has been listed as Ranking of Top Scientists by Research.com
“Aggregating Buildings as Virtual Power Plant-Architectural Design, Supporting Technologies, and Case Studies,” is among the top 10 most-cited papers published in IET Energy Systems Integration.
Bendong received the Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship!
Dr. Zhao is promoted to be the Castleman Term Professor in Engineering Innovation!
Feburary
Alaa is the Department Winner of the 10th Annual UConn College of Engineering Poster Competition!
Haoyi’s first journal paper “Online Model-Free DER Dispatch via Adaptive Voltage Sensitivity Estimation and Chance Constrained Programming” was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems!
Alaa Selim won the 2024 IEEE-ECE Poster Competition Second Place Award and Soroush Vahedi got the Third Place Award. Great job!
Bendong received the Excellent Reviewer Award from the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.
Alaa received the NSF travel grant award for the Texas Power and Energy Conference 2024. 01/2024 Welcome Dr. Gang Cheng to join our group as a postdoc!
Ankur has been promoted to Assistant Research Professor. Congratulations!
Alaa Selim received the 2023 IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter Outstanding Chapter Volunteer Award.
Bendong Tan received the 2023 IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter Outstanding Young Engineer Award!
Our group received multiple recognitions from the flagship journal IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, including the 2023 Outstanding Paper Award for Yitong Liu’s paper, Outstanding Reviewer Awards for Bendong Tan and Tong Su as well as the Outstanding Associate Editor Award for Dr. Junbo Zhao. Great teamwork!
We have a new interesting review paper “Challenges and Pathways of Low-carbon Oriented Energy Transition and Power System Planning Strategy: A Review” accepted to IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
November
Our project on distribution system visibility and control with Clarkson University has been selected by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for funding. Congrats to the team!
Alaa and Soroush won Second Place in the IEEE PES Ideathon 2023 competition. Congratulations!
Ketian has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. It is officially Dr. Ketian Ye! Big congrats and best wishes for your next journey at NREL. This is also the first PhD graduate from our group!
Soroush and Alaa were selected for the John Lof Leadership Academy Scholar 2023-2025!
Jinxian received the Student Poster Award-Second Place for the work “A Graph Convolutional Network for Active Distribution System Considering Measurement Spatial and Temporal Correlations” at the 55th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 2023.
Paper “B. Tan, J. B. Zhao, M. Netto, V. Krishnan, V. Terzija, Y. Zhang, “Power System Inertia Estimation: Review of Methods and the Impacts of Converter-Interfaced Generations,” International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 134, no. 107362, 2022″ received the 2023 Best Paper Award from International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems-only 5 papers are selected out of the 1500 publications in the past 2 years.
Paper “T. Wang, W. Liu, J. B. Zhao, X. Guo, V. Terzija, “A rough set-based bio-inspired fault diagnosis method for electrical substations,” International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 119, no. 105961, 2020.” received the 2022 Best Paper Award from International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems-only 5 papers are selected out of the 1500 publications in the past 2 years.
Dr. Zhao is listed as one of the 2023 World’s Top 2% Scientists released by Stanford University in both Single-Year and Career tracks with a rank of 28158 (35398 last year) released by Stanford University. My subfield rank in Energy is in the top 0.1%. More details can be found here.
PhD student Alaa Selim won the Future Climate Venture Studio Fellowship (Fall 2023)!
Tong Su’s paper “Probabilistic Physics-Informed Graph Convolutional Network for Active Distribution System Voltage Prediction” is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Jinxian’s first accepted journal paper “Deep Multi-fidelity Bayesian Data Fusion for Probabilistic Distribution System Voltage Estimation with High Penetration of PVs” in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems!
Yingqi’s paper “Robust learning-assisted data-driven congestion management via sparse sensitivity estimation,” received the Best Paper Award from 2023 IEEE IAS Industrial and Commercial Power System Asia Conference.
PhD student Haoyi Wang and undergraduate student Paul Zambrzyckigot the 2023 Eversource Clean Energy & Sustainability Innovation Program Fellowship and each will receive $2500 for developing an innovative behind-the-meter PV forecasting technique. Great teamwork!
We have a new IEEE Task Force on Dynamic Parameter Visibility: Identifiability, Algorithms and Uncertainty Quantification and look for your participation!
Ketian got the pre-doctoral fellowship!
Tong Su’s conference paper received the Best Paper Award from IEEE PES General Meeting 2023. Great job!
Bendong’s paper “Debiased Uncertainty Quantification Approach for Probabilistic Transient Stability Assessment” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
April
Tong Su’s first paper “Deep Sigma Point Processes-Assisted Chance-Constrained Power System Transient Stability Preventive Control” after joining UConn has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Great job!
Yansong and Bendong received the GE Fellowship for Excellence 2023-2024!
March
Yitong received the Next Gen Scholar GE Fellowship! Great achievement!
Thanks to the generous gift donation from NEC Labs America!
Dr. Zhao received the 2023 AAUP Research Excellence Award-Early Career!
Dr. Zhao’s collaborative paper “Data-driven Optimal Power Flow: A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Approach” received the 2022 Best Paper recognitionfrom IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Only 5 papers out of the past about 1500 publications were selected for this recognition.
Dr. Zhao’s paper “Roles of Dynamic State Estimation in Power System Modeling, Monitoring and Operation” received the 2022Best Paper recognition from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Only 5 papers out of the past about 1500 publications were selected for this recognition.
Dr. Zhao received the IEEE PES Connecticut chapter 2022 Outstanding Engineer Award with the citation: For outstanding contributions to the research and development of advanced grid modernization technologies for renewable energy integration and electric reliability and resilience.
2022
December
Yansong’s first paper “Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Distribution System Voltage Control With Topology Changes” is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Two papers “Transferable Deep Kernel Emulator for Probabilistic Load Margin Assessment With Topology Changes, Uncertain Renewable Generations and Loads” and “Data-driven Time-varying Inertia Estimation of Inverter-based Resources” from Bendong have been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems!
“Probabilistic Power System Risk Assessment with Uncertain Renewable Generations and Loads” with ISO New England.
Dr. Zhao received the 2022 Excellent Editor Award from IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
Jinxian’s paper “Multi-fidelity Gaussian Process for Distribution System Voltage Probabilistic Estimation with PVs,” received the Best Paper Award from the 6th IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration!
Yingqi’s two-part series papers have been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Great job!
Dr. Zhao started a new position as the Research Scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory under the UConn-NREL partnership.
Bendong’s paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Bendong received the Best Paper Award from IEEE PES ISGT 2022. Big congrats!
Dr. Zhao is listed as one of the 2022 World’s Top 2% Scientists released by Stanford University in both Single-Year and Career tracks with a rank of 35398 (50056 last year) released by Stanford University. My subfield rank in Energy is 695, i.e., the top 0.2%among 321,394.
Thanks to the generous gift donation from NEC Labs America!
September
Welcome two visiting PhD students Zhe Zhang and Lingyu Chen from Wuhan University.
Dr. Zhao received the UConn research excellent program support!
Dr. Zhao received the Special Achievement Award from the UConn Provost office.
August
Welcome four new PhD students to CISGRL: Tong Su, Haoyi Wang, Soroush Vahedi, and Srinath Nangavaram Santhanam!
July
Dr. Zhao received the UConn Research Excellence Program funding support.
Alaa received the Conference Participation Award from The Graduate School with $750 Prize. Great job!
Ketian’s paper “Stochastic Power System Dynamic Simulation and Stability Assessment Considering Dynamics from Correlated Loads and PVs” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
June
Ketian’s two papers “Physics-Informed Sparse Gaussian Process for Probabilistic Stability Analysis of Large-Scale Power System with Dynamic PVs and Loads” and “Data-Driven Probabilistic Voltage Risk Assessment of MiniWECC System with Uncertain PVs and Wind Generations using Realistic Data” were accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Great job!
Dr. Zhao has been appointed as a member of the IEEE PES Society-Level Awards Committee representing RSICC.
Dr. Zhao gave an invited webinar to Malardalen University on “Physics-Informed Learning for Power System Optimization and Control.”
May
Dr. Zhao has been appointed as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering under the Emerging Network area, especially for cyber-physical systems and energy networks. We look forward to your contributions.
Dr. Zhao has been featured onUConn Today for my 2022 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award.
Dr. Zhao received the prestigious 2022 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award with the citation“For developments in robust dynamic state and parameter estimation, physics-informed learning and uncertainty quantification, and cybersecurity for power systems”.
Yansong’ paper “Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Realistic Distribution System Voltage Control using PV Inverters” received the Best Paper Award from IEEE PES General Meeting 2022. Great job!
Bendong’s paper “Explainable Bayesian Neural Network for Probabilistic Transient Stability Analysis Considering Wind Energy” received the Best Paper Award from IEEE PES General Meeting 2022. Great job!
Bendong’s paper “Distributed Frequency Divider for Power System Bus Frequency Online Estimation Considering Virtual Inertia from DFIGs,” has been accepted to IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems!
2021
December
Yansong‘s paper “Data-Driven Distribution System Coordinated PV Inverter Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning” received the Best Paper Award from the 2021 IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference.
Dr. Zhao is listed as the 2021 World’s Top 2% Scientists released by Stanford University in both Single-Year and Career tracks with a rank of 50056 (65042 last year) released by Stanford University. My subfield rank in Energy is in the top 0.4%among 229,150.
September
Our paper “Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Physical-Model-Free Two-Timescale Voltage Control Method for Active Distribution Systems” has been accepted by IEEE Trans. Smart Grid.
August
Our paper “Reinforcement Learning and its Applications in Modern Power and Energy Systems: A Review” has been selected for the 2020 Best Journal Paper Award by the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (Impact Factor 3.265). Congrats to Di Cao!
Dr. Zhao received the 2020 Excellent Associate Editor Award from the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.
July
Ketian’s paper received the IEEE IAS I&CPS ASIA 2021-Best Student Paper Award! Congrats!
Bendong’s first journal paper on “Power System Inertia Estimation: Review of Methods and the Impacts of Converter-Interfaced Generations,” has been accepted by the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems.
“DeepMining for Distribution Grid Visibility with High Penetration of DERs” by Eversource Energy.
June
New Department of Energy project with my colleague Dr. Zhenhua Tian (PI).
Dr. Zhao is featured in MSU maroon memo about the 2020 IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award.
Dr. Zhao received the 2021IEEE PES Outstanding Volunteer Award for dedicated volunteer service to promote activities, increase visibility and number of members, and educate the next generation of power engineering students.
May
Ketian started his summer internship at National Renewable Energy Lab on Uncertainty Quantification and Probabilistic Net-Load Forecasting.
Ketian’s second paper “Global Sensitivity Analysis of Large Distribution System with PVs using Deep Gaussian Process” is accepted by IEEE Trans. Power Systems.
New accepted paper “Robust Deep Gaussian Process Probabilistic Electrical Load Forecasting Method Under Anomalous Conditions” on IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics.
New accepted paper “A Novel Non-Uniform Frame Structure Model for Power System Disturbance Propagation Analysis” on IEEE Trans. Power Systems.
IEEE TF paper “Dynamic State Estimation for Power System Control and Protection” has been accepted to IEEE Trans. Power Systems.
April
Bi Liu’s paper “Robust Nonlinear Controller for Wind Turbine Generator Drivetrain Torsional Oscillation under Large Disturbances” received the Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE PES General Meeting 2021, the flagship conference in the power and energy field. Great work, Bi!
PhD student Ketian Ye’s paper “Data-driven Global Sensitivity Analysis of Three-Phase Distribution System with PVs” received the Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE PES General Meeting 2021, the flagship conference in the power and energy field. Great work, Ketian!
Dr. Zhao received the Young Scientist Award at the 2021 International Conference on Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering sponsored by IEEE and IEEE PES.
Dr. Zhao has been listed as 2020 World’s Top 2% Scientists with a rank as 65042 released by Stanford University.
Two papers were accepted to IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics.
March
IEEE TF Paper “Power System Dynamic State Estimation: Motivations, Definitions, Methodologies and Future Work” has been listed as a Highly Cited Paper according to Web of Science. We have 4 highly cited papers in total.
Ketian’s first paper “A Data-Driven Global Sensitivity Analysis Framework for Three-Phase Distribution System with PVs” has been accepted by IEEE Trans. Power Systems. Great job!
New project “Data-Driven Decision Making under Uncertainties with High Share of Variable Distributed Energy Resources” is funded by the US Department of Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under the AGM program.
New Project “Modeling and Analytics for WI Near Term Resilience and Reliability,” has been funded by the US Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Lab under the GLMC program.
Dr. Zhao received the Research Excellence Award from the ECE department at MSU.
Feburary
Dr. Zhao joined IEEE PES Renewable Systems Integration Coordinating Committee as the webmaster. Looking forward to your contributions.
Paper “Surrogate Model Enabled Deep Reinforcement Learning for Hybrid Energy Community Operation” is accepted to Applied Energy. Congrats to Xiaodi.
Paper “A Novel Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Multi-band PSS for Multi-Mode Oscillation Control” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Congrats on the great work by Guozhou!
We have 6 papers accepted to IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2021. Congrats to my students and collaborators.
We have a new IEEE Task Force on State Estimation for Integrated Energy Systems under IEEE PES Energy Internet Coordinating Committee (EICC). If you are interested in this TF, please do not hesitate to contact me.
You’re welcome to contribute technical articles and newsletters to the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems.
Paper “Data-Driven Resilient Automatic Generation Control Against False Data Injection Attacks” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. Congrats to Chunyu.
January
Paper “Hybrid Deep Learning for Dynamic Total Transfer Capability Control” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Paper “Attention Enabled Multi-agent DRL for Decentralized Volt-VAR Control of Active Distribution System Using PV Inverters and SVCs,” is accepted to IEEE Trans. Sustainable Energy.
Paper “Data-Driven Subsynchronous Oscillation Identification Using Field Synchrophasor Measurements,” is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. We have used a large amount of field PMU data for this effort and believe it provides a lot of industry insights.
Paper “Nonlinear Virtual Inertia Control of WTGs for Enhancing Primary Frequency Response and Suppressing Drivetrain Torsional Oscillations,” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
2020
December
Paper “Robust Nonlinear Controller to Damp Drivetrain Torsional Oscillation of Wind Turbine Generators,” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.
Dr. Zhao received the Top 3 Associate Editor Award from IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Four IEEE Transactions papers were accepted for publication. Congrats to my collaborators.
Dr. Zhao is appointed as the Chair of the Education Committee at IEEE Mississippi Chapter.
New IEEE TF “Risk Mitigation for Bulk Power System Operation” organized by Dr. Hong Chen, Dr. Masood Parvania, and Dr. Junbo Zhao has been approved by IEEE PES Power System Operation, Planning, and Economics Committee. Please contact me if you are interested in joining us.
Dr. Zhao’s Presentation “AI for Cyber-Physical Power System Operation and Control with DERs,” to IEEE Worcester and Springfield Chapters.
November
New project “Reorg: Resilience and Stability Oriented Cellular Grid Formation and Optimization for Communities with Solar PVs and Mobile Energy Storages” has been recommended for funding by the Department of Energy. Congrats to the team!
October
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and TF on Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation will co-organize a webinar on “Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation for Power System Monitoring, Modeling, Operation, Control and Protection“ on 11:00 AM-1:30 PM ET, November 6, 2020.
Ketian Ye has obtained the travel grant from the College of Engineering for attending NAPS 2021. Congrats!
September
Our TF paper “Roles of Dynamic State Estimation in Power System Modeling, Monitoring, and Operation” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. This is another milestone of the TF on Power System Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation.
Dr. Zhao is appointed as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Modern Power System and Clean Energy. Welcome to your submissions.
August
Our paper “An Analytical Method for Disturbance Propagation Investigation based on the Electromechanical Wave Approach” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Our paper “Real-time LCC-HVDC Maximum Emergency Power Capacity Estimation Based on Local PMUs” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Congrats, Long!
July
Our paper “A Planning-oriented Resilience Assessment Framework for Transmission Systems under Typhoon Disasters” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
June
Our paper “Robust Adaptive Decentralized Dynamic State Estimation with Unknown Control Inputs using Field PMU Measurements” won the Best Paper Award for the flagship IEEE Power and Engineering Society General Meeting, 2020.
Welcome your submissions to “12th Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC 2020)“
Paper “Data-driven Optimal Power Flow: A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Approach” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
May
Paper “A Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Voltage Regulation using Coordinated PV Inverters” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Paper “A Novel Hybrid Short-Term Load Forecasting Method of Smart Grid Using MLR and LSTM Neural Network” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
March
Dr. Zhao received the Best Reviewer Recognition from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Paper “Application of Detectability Analysis for Power System Dynamic State Estimation” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
New project “Load Sculptor” with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been funded by DOE.
New project “Cascading failure discovery with electromechanical wave” with Argonne National Laboratory has been funded by DOE.
Feburary
Two papers for the International Journal of Electric Power and Energy Systems have been accepted.
New project “Grid Data Integration Development and Demonstration” has been funded by DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
January
Dr. Zhao has been appointed as the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Our paper “Coherency Identification for Wind-Integrated Power System using Virtual Synchronous Motion Equation” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Dr. Zhao has been appointed as the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Power and Engineering Letters.
2019
December
New IEEE TF on Cyber-Physical Interdependence for Power System Operation and Control has been approved. Dr. Zhao is the chair. If you are interested in making contributions, please send me an email.
Dr. Zhao received the Best Reviewer Award from IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
November
Dr. Zhao has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member.
New IEEE TF on Evaluation of Distribution System State Estimation Performance has been approved. Jens and I will serve as the chairs. If you are interested in making contributions, please send me an email.
Our paper “Correlation-Aided Robust Decentralized Dynamic State Estimation of Power Systems with Unknown Control Inputs” has been accepted by IEEE Trans. Power System.
New projects-Two DOE AGM proposals have been recommended for funding. Congrats to the team!
October
Our paper “A Computational Attractive Interval Power Flow Approach with Correlated Uncertain Power Injections” has been accepted by IEEE Trans. Power System. Congrats, Liu!
Our paper “Distribution-level Robust Energy Management of Power Systems Considering Bidirectional Interactions with Gas Systems” has been accepted by IEEE Trans. Smart Grid.
We have three papers listed as Highly Cited Paper according to Web of Science.
Our paper “Robust Ensemble Kalman Filter for Medium Voltage Distribution System State Estimation” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
Our paper “A Dynamic Wavelet-based Robust Wind Power Smoothing Approach Using Hybrid Energy Storage System” has been accepted to the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems.
September
Welcome Ketian Ye to join our team as a PhD student.
August
New project for DOE/PNNL has been funded. Congrats to the team!
July
Our paper “Robust Unscented Kalman Filter for Power System Dynamic State Estimation with Unknown Noise Statistics” has been listed as the Highly Cited Paper according to Web of Science.
June
Our paper “Unscented Kalman Filter-based Unbiased Minimum-Variance Estimation for Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Inputs” has been accepted by IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
New project-NSF proposal has been recommended for funding. Congrats to the team!
May
Our two papers “A Robust Iterated Extended Kalman Filter for Power System Dynamic State Estimation” and “Fault Diagnosis of Electric Power Systems Based on Fuzzy Reasoning Spiking Neural P Systems” have been listed as the Highly Cited Paper according to the Web of Science.
April
Our paper “Constrained Robust Unscented Kalman Filter for Generalized Dynamic State Estimation” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
March
Our paper “A Theoretical Framework of Robust H-infinity Unscented Kalman Filter and Its Application to Power System Dynamic State Estimation” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
Feburary
Our paper “Probabilistic Power Flow Calculation and Variance Analysis based on Hierarchical Adaptive Polynomial Chaos-ANOVA Method” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
January
Our IEEE TF paper “Power System Dynamic State Estimation: Motivations, Definitions, Methodologies and Future Work” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. This paper may serve as a milestone for power system state estimation.
Received the Best Reviewer Award from IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
2018
November
Our paper “Robust Parameter Estimation of the French Power System Using Field Data” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
September
Our paper “A Decentralized H-infinity Unscented Kalman Filter for Dynamic State Estimation Against Uncertainties” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
August
Our proposal submitted to LLNL has been approved for funding!
Our paper “Online TTC Estimation using Nonparametric Analytics Considering Wind Power Integration” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
June
Our paper “Statistical and Numerical Robust State Estimator for Heavily Loaded Power Systems” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
May
I have been appointed as the Associate Editor of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution.
Our paper “Vulnerability of the Largest Normalized Residual Statistical Test to Leverage Points” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Feburary
Our paper “A Robust Generalized-Maximum Likelihood Unscented Kalman Filter for Power System Dynamic State Estimation” has been accepted by the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.
January
Our paper “A Robust State Estimation Framework Considering Measurement Correlations and Imperfect Synchronization” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
2017
December
Our paper “Robust Frequency Divider for Power System Online Monitoring and Control” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Our paper “Power System Robust Decentralized Dynamic State Estimation Based on Multiple Hypothesis Testing” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
October
Our paper “A Framework for Robust Hybrid State Estimation with Unknown Measurement Noise Statistics” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
Our paper “Assessing Gaussian Assumption of PMU Measurement Error Using Field Data” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.
Our paper “A Novel Cascading Faults Graph Based Transmission Network Vulnerability Assessment Method” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Our paper “Calibrating Parameters of Power System Stability Models using Advanced Ensemble Kalman Filter” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
September
Finished my three-month summer internship at the PNNL.
August
Our paper “A Robust Iterated Extended Kalman Filter for Power System Dynamic State Estimation” is the top 6 most popular paper in August 2017 of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
July
Our paper “A Robust Iterated Extended Kalman Filter for Power System Dynamic State Estimation” is one of the most popular papers in July 2017 of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
June
Our proposal entitled “Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation Based on Robust Unscented Kalman Filters for Power System Monitoring and Control” has been funded by NSF.
May
Gave a talk at PNNL about “Robust Power System Dynamic Paradigms Using Synchorphasor Measurements”.
Gave a talk at Dominion Virginia Power about “Robust Power System Dynamic State Estimation Using Synchorphasor Measurements”.
April
Tong Su’s first paper “Deep Sigma Point Processes-Assisted Chance-Constrained Power System Transient Stability Preventive Control” after joining UConn has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Great job!
Yansong and Bendong received the GE Fellowship for Excellence 2023-2024!
March
Our paper “Dynamic State Estimation with Model Uncertainties Using H-infinity Extended Kalman Filter” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Feburary
Our paper “Power System Real-Time Monitoring by Using PMU-Based Robust State Estimation Method” is one of the most popular papers in January 2017 of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
January
Our paper “Robust Dynamic State Estimator to Outliers and Cyber Attacks,” has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE PES General Meeting, July 16-20, Chicago, 2017.”
Our paper “Power System Real-Time Monitoring by Using PMU-Based Robust State Estimation Method” is one of the most popular papers in December 2016 of the IEEE Trans. Smart Grid.
2016
November
Our paper “Robust Time-Varying Load Modeling for Conservation Voltage Reduction Assessment” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Our paper “Enhanced Robustness of State Estimator to Bad Data Processing Through Multi-Innovation Analysis” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
Our paper “A Robust Iterated Extended Kalman Filter for Power System Dynamic State Estimation” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
October
Our paper “Robust Forecasting Aided Power System State Estimation Considering State Correlations” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
September
Our paper “A Robust Prony Method Against Synchrophasor Measurement Noise and Outliers” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
August
Our paper “Robust Detection of Cyber Attacks on State Estimators Using Phasor Measurements” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
May
Our paper “Robust Voltage Instability Predictor” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
January
Our patent “A composite power quality disturbances automatic identification method” ZL201310204610.9 has been granted.
Our paper “A Two-stage Robust Power System State Estimation Method with Unknown Measurement Noise” has been accepted to IEEE PES GM 2016.
Our paper “A robust extended Kalman filter for power system dynamic state estimation using PMU measurements” has been accepted by IEEE PES GM 2016. 12/2015 Our paper appeared in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, “Forecasting-Aided Imperfect False Data Injection Attacks Against Power System Nonlinear State Estimation”.
2015
December
Our paper appeared in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, “Forecasting-Aided Imperfect False Data Injection Attacks Against Power System Nonlinear State Estimation”.
Our paper has appeared in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, “Power System Real-Time Monitoring by Using PMU-Based Robust State Estimation Method”.
November
Our paper “Short-Term State Forecasting-Aided Method for Detection of Smart Grid General False Data Injection Attacks” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.