The Advisory Board of the Center was held its 18th meeting remotely on April 5, 2021. The agenda of the meeting included voting on the new Vice Chair of the Board, presenting updates from the Center and future plans, getting feedback from the Board on the activities of the Center, and brainstorming on potential industrial …
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Dr. Chanan Singh, Professor at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Regent Professor, Irma Runyon Chair Professor, and Member of National Academy of Engineering has earned the Distinguished Professor status at Texas A&M University (TAMU) that is the university’s highest faculty honor. He has joined the Smart Grid Center as Faculty Collaborator in 2012. …
Speakers: Dr. B. Don Russell, Mr. Carl Benner, Jeffrey Wischkaemper, and Karthick Manivannan (Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, TAMU) Abstract: Electric power distribution circuits are rigorously built to require little maintenance or inspection. Yet failures do occur leading to outages and unsafe conditions. It has long been known that periodic inspections offer only marginal improvements in …
The 2020-2021 TEES Young Faculty Fellow Awards was received by Katherine Davis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Texas A&M in 2017, Dr. Davis was a Software Engineer and Senior Consultant for PowerWorld Corporation. Dr. Davis was then with University of Illinois’s Information Trust Institute as a Research …
The TAMU College of Engineering has granted the 2020-2021 Dean of Engineering Excellence Award – Professor Level to Le Xie, Ph.D. professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, and Presidential Impact Fellow. He is also the Assistant Director of Energy Digitization at the Texas A&M Energy Institute. Dr. Xie received …
This webinar was presented by Dr. Thomas Overbye, Texas A&M University. Abstract: Except for a brief time around 1970, the North American Eastern and Western grids have operated asynchronously from each other, with power transfers only possible through a few back-to-back HVDC ties. However a recent study has shown that an AC interconnection may be …
The 53rd North American Power Symposium will be held at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, from November, 14—16, 2021. NAPS, a student-centric conference, has been bringing together students, faculty, and researchers in the power and energy systems area since its inception in 1969. The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum for …
The course is designed to provide state-of-the-art introduction of data science and machine learning that is tailored for power engineering applications. The electricity industry is transforming itself from a hierarchical, passive, and sparsely-sensed engineering system into a flat, active, and ubiquitously-sensed cyber-physical system. The emerging multi-scale data from synchrophasors, smart meters, weather, and electricity markets …
Professor Xi Zhang, his Ph.D. student Jingqing Wang, and his collaborator Professor H. Vincent Poor from Princeton University (Faculty Fellow for Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at TAMU) won the prestigious Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2020 held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 7 – 11, 2020. Their paper was titled: “Interference Modeling and …
The 17th meeting of the Advisory Board of the Center was held remotely on November 9, 2020. The agenda of the meeting included updates from the Center and future plans, feedback from the Board on the activities of the Center, and brainstorming on potential industrial interests for future research efforts. Participants were the following: Advisory …