in a number of posts, including that of a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE-SPS.
Manimaran Govindarasu currently holds the Mehl Professor of Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. His area of expertise includes CPS for the smart grid, cyber security, and real‐time systems and networks. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Ye Guo is an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University. He received his bachelor degree in 2008 and doctoral degree in 2013, both from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University between 2014 and 2018. His research interests include distributed optimization, game and market theory, state estimation, and their applications in power and energy systems. He has received the Best-of-the-Best paper award and another Best Paper Award at IEEE PES General Meeting, 2019, and another Best Paper Award at IEEE PES General Meeting 2020. He also received the Best Poster Award at PSERC IAB Meeting 2018.
Ibrahim Omar Habiballah is an Associate Professor of EE Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. In his area he taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in electrical, power systems, power transmission, and electrical machines. His research interests include power systems in general, power system state estimation, power system optimization, HV insulators, and energy conservation.
Araceli Hernández received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain, in 2000. Currently, she works at the Department of Control, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computing at UPM, where she is an Associate Professor. Her fields of interest include power system analysis and power quality estimation and measurement.
Hadis Karimipour received the PhD degree from the University of Alberta in 2016. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include large‐scale power system state estimation, cyber‐physical modeling, cybersecurity of the smart grids, and parallel and distributed computing.
Vassilis Kekatos is an Assistant Professor at the Bradley Department of ECE at Virginia Tech. He obtained his Diploma, MSc, and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2001, 2003, and 2007, respectively. He was a recipient of a Marie Curie Fellowship during 2009–2012 and a research associate with the ECE Department at the University of Minnesota, where he received the postdoctoral career development award (honorable mention). During 2014, he stayed with the University of Texas at Austin and the Ohio State University as a visiting researcher. His research focus is on optimization and learning for future energy systems. He is currently serving in the editorial board of the IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid.
Mert Korkali received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is currently a Research Staff Member at the Computational Engineering Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA. His current research interests lie at the broad interface of robust state estimation and fault location in power systems, extreme event modeling, cascading failures, uncertainty quantification, and probabilistic grid planning. He is the Co-chair of the IEEE Task Force on Standard Test Cases for Power System State Estimation. He is currently serving as an Editor of the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy and of the IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and an Associate Editor of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. Dr. Korkali is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Massimo La Scala is Professor of Electrical Energy Systems at Politecnico di Bari and IEEE Fellow. He has been Principal Investigator of numerous research projects in smart grids and smart cities and scientific consultant of the Ministry of the Economic Development in Italy and of AEEGSI the Italian Regulatory Authority of Electricity, Gas and Water. He is the director of the “Laboratory for the development of renewables and energy efficiency: Lab ZERO” at Politecnico di Bari.
Yu Liu was born in Hefei, China, in 1990. He received the BS and MS degrees in Electric Power Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2011 and 2013, respectively, and the MS degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2013 from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, where he is currently working toward the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering. His research interests include power system protection, parameter estimation, and circuit fault locating.
A.P. Sakis Meliopoulos was born in Katerini, Greece, in 1949. He received the ME and EE Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1972 and the MSEE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1974 and 1976, respectively. He is presently a Georgia Power Distinguished Professor. He has published three books, holds three patents, and has published more than 300 technical papers. Professor Meliopoulos received the IEEE Richard Kaufman Award in 2005, and in 2010, he received the George Montefiore Award from the Montefiore Institute, Belgium. He is the Chairman of the Georgia Tech Protective Relaying Conference and a member of Sigma Xi.
Hyde M. Merrill received the BA degree in Mathematics and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a registered professional engineer in New York and a Fellow of the IEEE.
He has worked for the American Electric Power Service Corp, the MIT Energy Lab, Power Technologies, Inc., the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Merrill Energy LLC. In 2015, he joined the University of Utah as Adjunct Professor. He teaches power systems and leads research on blackouts.
Lamine Mili is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. His research interests include power system analysis and control, power system dynamics and stability, and robust statistics as applied to engineering problems.
Michael Negnevitsky received his BE (Hons.) and PhD degrees from the Byelorussian University of Technology, Belarus, in 1978 and 1983, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor in Power Engineering and Computational Intelligence and Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Power Systems, University of Tasmania, Australia. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and Member of the National ITEE College Board. His research interests include power system security, renewable energy, and state estimation.
Marco Pau received the MS degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering and the PhD degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. Currently, he is research associate at the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems at the E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where he leads the team for Distribution Grid Monitoring and Automation. His research activities mainly concern the design of solutions for the monitoring and automation of distribution systems as well as techniques for the smart management of active distribution grids.
Paolo Attilio Pegoraro received the MS (summa cum laude) degree in Telecommunications engineering and the PhD degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2015 to 2018 he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, where he is currently Associate Professor. He has authored or coauthored over 110 scientific papers. His current research interests include the development of new measurement techniques for modern power networks, with attention to synchronized measurements and state estimation.
Dr. Pegoraro is a Senior Member of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, member of TC 39 (Measurements in Power Systems) and of IEC TC 38/WG 47. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
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