Congratulations to Thuan Pham for successfully passing his PhD dissertation defense. Thuan is our group's 5th PhD graduate, and he is also the very 1st PhD student from the industry! Great work was done during his PhD studies!
Congratulations to Elias Raffoul for successfully passing his MS thesis defense. Elias is our group's 2nd thesis-based MS graduate. Great work was done during his 1.5-year MS research studies!
Our team of 5 people visited CNP for a collaborative project investigating the impact of growing EVs on the CNP grid.
Congratulations to Jesus Silva-Rodriguez and Elias Raffoul for their paper accepted and presented at the 56th NAPS.
Congratulations to Cunzhi for his paper 'Hierarchical Deep Learning Model for Degradation Prediction per Look-Ahead Scheduled Battery Usage Profile' accepted by TSG.
Congratulations to Jin Lu for successfully completing his PhD degree program. Jin is our group's 4th PhD graduate. Great work was done during his 4-year PhD studies!
A team from our lab was selected as a semi-finalist team, receiving an award of $2,000, to move to the final pitch presentations in September. Congratulations to Ann Mary Toms, Hassan Zahid Butt, and Jin Lu.
Three of us attended the IEEE PES General Meeting in Seattle from July 21 - 25.
Our lab is selected as a Phase-I Data Track winner for the DOE Office of Electricity (OE)'s Digitizing Utilities Prize (Round 2) competition program. Phase-I cash/prize award amount: $75,000.
Congratulations to Xingpeng Li for being selected to participate in USFOE Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering.
Congratulations to Jin Lu for his paper 'Transmission Expansion Planning for Renewable-Energy-Dominated Power Grids Considering Climate Impact' accepted by MPCE.
Congratulations to Xingpeng Li for being promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, effective September 1, 2024.
Our paper on decentralized water-energy system, first author: Jesus Silva-Rodriguez, was presented at PSCC in Paris, France.
Congratulations to Xingpeng Li for receiving the Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award from UH College of Engineering.
Jin completed his internship as a Transmission Planning Associate at Apex Clean Energy from Summer 2023 to Spring 2024.
Ann Mary Toms, Jin Lu, and Jesus Silva-Rodriguez presented their hydrogen energy-related work at this Symposuim.
Congratulations to Xingpeng Li for being selected as a finalist for ARPA-E IGNIITE (single-PI early-career award) program. As the only finalist in the power system area, Dr. Li completed a pitch (oral presentation) and a poster to ARPA-E in Washington D.C.
Congratulations to Xingpeng Li for receiving the prestigious NSF CAREER Award, a major milestone and achievement for an Early-Career Faculty. Funding: $503,619, an award over five years.
Congratulations to Xingpeng Li for being selected as an Early-Career Research Follow in the Offshore Energy Safety track, the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Funding: $76,000.
Congratulations to the 4 UH team members for receiving certificates of Recognition of Excellence from NASA.
Congratulations to Jonathan Yang, Mingjian Tuo, and Jin Lu for their paper accepted by IEEE TPEC.
Congratulations to Cunzhi Zhao for successfully passing his PhD dissertation defense on November 7, 2023. Great work was done during his 4-year PhD studies! Cunzhi is our group's 3rd PhD graduate, 2nd faculty in academia, and 1st faculty in the US!
Congratulations to Ann Mary Toms, Rida Fatima, and Mingjian Tuo for their papers accepted and presented at the 55th NAPS.
Dr. Xingpeng Li had an Interview with ABC13 today, discussing the impact of upcoming solar eclipse on the Texas grid.
Congratulations to Arun Venkatesh Ramesh for his paper 'Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning-Assisted Reduced Security-Constrained Unit Commitment' accepted by TPWRS.
Four of us attended the IEEE PES General Meeting in Orlando from July 16 - 20.
Congratulations to Mingjian Tuo for successfully having defended his PhD dissertation defense on June 19, 2023. Mingjian is our group's second PhD graduate. Great work has been done during his 4-year PhD studies!
Congratulations to Dr. Xingpeng Li for being selected as a Georgia Tech Energy Faculty Fellow. Li will visit Georgia Tech in Atlanta for the summer.
Cunzhi completed his Spring internship as an undergraduate-level class Instructor at McNeese State University.
Congratulations to Xingpeng Li for completing his fifth degree (third master's degree) in May 2023. This is a Master's Degree in Computer Science (Machine Learning track) from Georgia Tech.
Congratulations to Mingjian Tuo for his paper 'Learning-based Grid Inertia Estimation' accepted by TIA.
Congratulations to Arun Venkatesh Ramesh for his paper 'Feasibility Layer Aided Machine Learning Approach for Day-Ahead Operations' accepted by TPWRS.
Congratulations to Xingpeng Li for being selected as an Emerging Leader of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC).
Research project selected by Subsea Systems Institute (SSI) of Texas with approval from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), funding: $155,000. It is federal funding from the Department of the Treasury through the State of Texas.
Congratulations to Jin Lu for his paper accepted by PESGM.
Congratulations to Dr. Xingpeng Li for being selected as the CORE Fellow.
A total funding of $123,000 from Shell. Research projects are to analyze grid impacts of EV charging stations and develop operational schemes for DER-based virtual power plants.
Congratulations to Cunzhi Zhao for his paper 'Microgrid EMS considering DNN-based Battery Degradation' accepted by TPWRS.
Congratulations to Cunzhi Zhao and Ali Siddique for their papers accepted by IEEE TPEC.
Congratulations to Arun Venkatesh Ramesh for successfully having defended his PhD dissertation defense on December 1, 2022. Arun is our group's very first PhD graduate. Great work has been done during his 4-year PhD studies!
Research project supported by NASA & CNP through EPRI with a fund of $96,000.
Congratulations to Arun Venkatesh Ramesh, Mingjian Tuo, Cunzhi Zhao, Jin Lu, Thuan Pham, and Jesus Silva-Rodriguez for their papers accepted and presented by 54th NAPS.
Congratulations to Vasudharini Sridharan and Mingjian Tuo for their paper 'Electricity Price Prediction' accepted by Energies.
Congratulations to Mingjian Tuo for his paper 'SCUC considering RoCoF contraints' accepted by TPWRS.
Mingjian completed his summer internship with National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL); due to project needs and his outstanding performance, Mingjian continues his internship with NREL in Fall 2022.
Arun completed his summer internship with National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in this summer. He previously interned with Electric Power Research institute (EPRI) in Summer 2021.
Openings for two fully funded PhD positions in our group for Spring 2023: #PowerSystems #Microgrids #Optimization #MachineLearning #GraphLearning #GNN.
Research project funded by Sloan Foundation through HARC is renewed for Year-2 with an additional fund of $102,317.
Congratulations to Mingjian Tuo for his paper accepted by IEEE IAS Annual Meeting.
Ali Siddique successfully defended his master's thesis. Congratulations!
Research proposal selected by the Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR) program with a total fund of $38,308.
Congratulations to Dr. Xingpeng Li for his elevation to the grade of IEEE Senior member.
Congratulations to Thuan Pham for his paper accepted by IEEE Green Technology conference.
Mingjian Tuo, Jin Lu, and Jesus Silva-Rodriguez presented our recent work on Optimal Allocation of Virtual Inertia, Optimal Skeleton Network Reconfiguration, and Micro Water-Energy Nexus respectively.
Congratulations to Praveen and Cunzhi for their paper accepted by ISGT 2022.
Congratulations to Mingjian Tuo, Jin Lu, and Jesus Silva-Rodriguez for their papers accepted by 53nd NAPS.