2020
July
In collaboration with colleagues at the North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), the following journal article, “Monthly Electricity Consumption Forecasting Based on Two-Stage Forecasting Step Reduction Strategy and Auto-Encoder Neural Network,” got accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
The following journal article, “An FBWM-TOPSIS Approach to Identify Critical Feeders for Reliability Centered Maintenance in Power Distribution Systems,” got accepted for publication in the IEEE Systems Journal.
The following journal article, “An Enhanced Sub-Cycle Statistical Algorithm for Inrush and Fault Currents Classification in Differential Protection Schemes,” got accepted for publication in the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (IJEPES).
The following journal article, “Optimal Power Flow Models with Probabilistic Guarantees: A Boolean Approach,” got accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Accepted for Publication.
June
The following paper, “Convolutional Auto-Encoder Based Sky Image Prediction Model for Minutely Solar PV Power Forecasting,” got accepted and will be presented at the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Annual Meeting, Oct. 2020, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The following paper, “Joint Operation Optimization of the Interdependent Water and Electricity Networks,” got accepted and will be presented at the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Annual Meeting, Oct. 2020, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Congratulations to Mohannad and Mostafa.
The following paper, “Fast-Accurate Dual Axis Solar Tracker Controlled by P&O Technique with Neural Network Optimization,” got accepted and presented at the 20th International IEEE Conference on Electrical and Environmental Engineering (EEEIC), June 2020, Madrid, Spain.
On June 25th, GW SmartGrid Lab doctoral student, Mostafa Nazemi, presented his research on “The Role of Energy Supply Mobility on Resilience of Solar-Integrated Electric Distribution Grids” in the American Solar Energy Society (ASES)’s National Solar Conference, SOLAR 20/20, in Washington D.C.
May
The following journal article, “Seismic-Resilient Electric Power Distribution Systems: Harnessing the Mobility of Power Sources,” got accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Congratulations to Mostafa.
On May 11th, GW SmartGrid Lab doctoral student, Bo Wang, successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation on “Advanced Control and Energy Management Schemes for Power Grids with High Proliferation of Renewables and Electric Vehicles”. Congratulations to Dr. Wang.
The GW SmartGrid Lab Doctoral Student, Mohannad Alhazmi, received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of the Year at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. Congratulations to Mohannad.
The following journal article, “Chance-Constrained Energy Management System for Power Grids with High Proliferation of Renewables and Electric Vehicles,” got accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Congratulations to Bo.
The following journal article, “Comprehensive Analytics for Reliability Evaluation of Conventional Isolated Multi-Switch PWM DC-DC Converters,” got accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
The following journal article, “Electric Power Grid Resilience to Cyber Adversaries: State of the Art,” got accepted and published in IEEE Access. Congratulations to Tien, Shiyuan, Mohannad, and Mostafa.
April
The following journal article, “Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of A High Step-Up Soft Switching Push-Pull DC-DC Converter,” got accepted and accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Reliability.
GW SmartGrid Lab recently graduated member, Dr. Bo Wang, has been offered a summer internship position at Amazon Web Services. Good Luck, Dr. Wang.
The following paper, “Swift Disaster Recovery in Resilient Power Grids: Integration of DERs with Mobile Power Sources,” got accepted and will be presented at the International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power System (PMAPS), August 2020, Liege, Belgium. Congratulations to Mostafa.
The following journal article, “Energy Storage Planning for Enhanced Resilience of Power Distribution Networks against Earthquakes,” got accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. Congratulations to Mostafa.
On April 24th, GW SmartGrid Lab M.Sc. student, Dingwei Wang, successfully defended his M.Sc. Thesis on “Electric Power Grid Resilience against Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Disturbances”. Congratulations to Dingwei.
March
The following journal article, “Enhancing Power Grid Resilience through An IEC61850-based EV-Assisted Load Restoration,” got accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
The following journal article, “Dynamic Uncertainty Set Characterization for Bulk Power Grid Flexibility Assessment,” got accepted and published in IEEE Systems Journal.
The following journal article, “Smart Households’ Aggregated Capacity Forecasting for Load Aggregators under Incentive-based Demand Response Programs,” got accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
On March 18, Dr. Payman Dehghanian gave an invited seminar (via WebEx) to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University. Dr. Dehghanian presented the SmartGrid Lab's research findings through a presentation titled “What It Takes to Realize a Resilient National Power Grid.”
The GW SmartGrid Lab doctoral student, Shiyuan Wang, was awarded the 2020 IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Prevention through Design Student Engineering Initiative. He presented his poster, “On the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Electrical Safety,” during the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Electric Safety Workshop, which was held March 2-5 in Reno, NV.
The following journal article, “Power Grid Online Surveillance through PMU-Embedded Convolutional Neural Networks,” got accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Congratulations to Shiyuan.
The following journal article, “A Machine Learning Approach to Detection of Geomagnetically-Induced Currents in Power Grids,” got accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Congratulations to Shiyuan and Bo.
The following journal article, “Enhanced Sensitivity-based Decentralized Framework for Real-Time Transient Stability Assessment in Bulk Power Grids with Renewable Energy Resources,” got accepted and got published in IET Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Systems.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian attended and served as the student program chair at the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Electric Safety Workshop, held on March 2-5 in Reno, NV.
February
On February 7th, GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, was serving as a Panel Chair in the Sloan Foundation Project Workshop “Examining Community Solar Programs to Understand the Role of Policies on Accessibility and Investment”.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, was selected to serve as an Organizing Committee Member and Local Arrangements Co-Chair for the INFORMS Annual Meeting Conference. The event will be held on November 8-11, 2020 in National Harbor, Maryland, USA.
Several graduate students at the GW SmartGrid Lab actively participated and served as the organizing volunteers at the 11th IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-North America (ISGT-NA), which was held on 17-20 Feb. 2020, in Washington DC.
Two graduate students at GW SmartGrid Lab, Bhavesh Shinde (recent MS student graduate) and Shiyuan Wang (current Ph.D. student), participated in the 4th IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) and orally presented an accepted research paper entitled “Real-Time Detection of Critical Generators in Power Systems: A Deep Learning HCP Approach”. The event was held in Feb. 2020 at College Station, Texas, USA. Congratulations to Bhavesh and Shiyuan.
January
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, was invited for a two-week visit to the North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) both campuses in Beijing and Baoding, China, and attended meetings with several electric industry members and collaborators. At the Baoding campus of the NCEPU, he gave an invited talk, on January 6, 2020, entitled "Pathways to Enhanced Resilience: Integrated Solutions for Online Situational Awareness in Power Grids".
The following paper, “Sparse Representation-based Classification of Geomagnetically Induced Currents,” got accepted and will be presented at the Clemson University Power Systems Conference, March 2020, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.
The following journal article, “Smart Households’ Aggregated Capacity Forecasting for Load Aggregators under Incentive-based Demand Response Programs”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
2019
December
Among the 6 awardees worldwide, the Ph.D. student in the Smart Grid Lab, Shiyuan Wang, is selected to receive the 2020 IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Myron Zucker Award on Electrical Safety through Design Student Initiative. His submission was titled “On the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Electrical Safety”. Shiyuan will be presenting his proposal at the 2020 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop, March 2- March 6, 2020, in Reno, Nevada, USA. Being accepted as a recipient is an honor and will provide him with an opportunity to uniquely participate in the workings that shape the future of our electrical safety culture. More information can be found here. Congratulations to Shiyuan.
GW SmartGrid Lab members attended the end-of-the-semester gathering, celebrated the Lab's success in 2019, and welcomed the new year holidays.
GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. Student, Mostafa Nazemi's submission to the 2020 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)'s Annual Conference and Exposition got accepted for oral presentation. Mostafa will present his research on "Harnessing Wind Energy for Power System Resilience" in the event which will be held on May 30 - June 2, 2020, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The following paper, “Real-Time Detection of Critical Generators in Power Systems: A Deep Learning HCP Approach,” got accepted and will be presented at the 4th IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), February 2020, College Station, Texas, USA. Congratulations to Bhavesh and Shiyuan.
The following journal article, “Power Grid Online Surveillance through PMU-Embedded Convolutional Neural Networks”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Congratulations to Shiyuan.
GW Department of Electrical Engineering and Smart Grid Laboratory jointly invited Dr. Kristen Booth of The Ohio State University to give a talk. Dr. Booth presented a seminar on December 10th, 2019 and shared her thoughts on “Optimization and Codesign of Power Electronics Converters”.
GW Department of Electrical Engineering and Smart Grid Laboratory jointly invited Dr. Seyede Fatemeh Ghreishi of University of Maryland to give a talk. Dr. Ghreishi presented a seminar on December 6th, 2019 and shared her thoughts on “Scalable and Reliable Learning: A Bayesian Perspective”.
On December 6th, GW SmartGrid Lab member and M.Sc. student, Bhavesh Shinde, successfully defended his M.Sc. Thesis on “Real-Time Stability Surveillance in Electric Power Systems: A Deep Learning Approach”.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, gave an invited talk, on December 5, 2019, at the "International Conference on Justice Development: Law, Business, and Technologies Preventing Crimes" which was held in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Dehghanian presented the SmartGrid Lab's research findings through a live presentation entitled "Can Smart Grid Technologies Prevent Crimes in Modern Societies?".
November
GW Department of Electrical Engineering and Smart Grid Laboratory, and GW Department of Decision Sciences jointly invited Dr. Elise Miller-Hooks of George Mason University to give a talk. Dr. Miller-Hooks presented a seminar on November 15th, 2019 and shared her thoughts on “Infrastructure Systems Resilience: Models and Algorithms”.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, was invited, on November 22, 2019, to give a seminar at the College of Engineering Professional Development Seminar Series at the University of Alaska at Anchorage. Dr. Dehghanian presented the SmartGrid Lab's research findings through a live presentation entitled "Enhancing Power Grid Resilience and Online Situational Awareness to Black-Sky Hazards".
The following journal article, “A Machine Learning Approach to Detection of Geomagnetically-Induced Currents in Power Grids”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Congratulations to Shiyuan and Bo.
The following journal article, “An Enhanced Sensitivity-based Decentralized Framework for Real-Time Transient Stability Assessment in Bulk Power Grids with Renewable Energy Resources”, got accepted and will be published in IET Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Systems.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian was appointed as the Society-Wide Webinar Program Chair of the IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Education Department.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian was NSF-travel-awarded to attended the NSF Workshop on Power Electronics-Enabled Operation of Power Systems. The event was held on October 31 - November 1st, 2019 in Chicago, IL.
October
GW SmartGrid Lab Members and Ph.D. Students, Jinshun Su, Mostafa Nazemi, and Mohannad Alhazmi actively participated in the GW School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)' Research Day which was held on October 25 in Washington DC.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian and several members of the lab were invited to attend the 2019 Smart Grid Customer Education Symposium, which was held on October 29, 2019, at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC. The SmartGrid Lab members who participated in this event were: Mohannad Alhazmi, Jinshun Su and Bhavesh Shinde.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, was invited, on October 15, 2019, to give a seminar at the Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research at George Mason University. Dr. Dehghanian presented the SmartGrid Lab's research findings through a presentation entitled "Powering through Extremes: Pathways to A Resilient National Power Grid".
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian attended the Department of Energy (DOE) Artificial Intelligence for Science Town Hall Meeting, which was held on October 22-23, 2019 in Washington, DC.
The following paper, “Toward Resilient Solar-Integrated Distribution Grids: Harnessing the Mobility of Power Sources,” got accepted and will be presented at the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Transmission and Distribution (T&D) Conference and Exposition, April 2020, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Congratulations to Zijiang and Mostafa.
The following journal article, “Chance-Constrained Energy Management System for Power Grids with High Proliferation of Renewables and Electric Vehicles”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Congratulations to Bo.
The following journal article, “Seismic-Resilient Bulk Power Grids: Hazard Characterization, Modeling, and Mitigation”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Congratulations to Mostafa.
GW SmartGrid Lab member, Dingwei Wang, attended the 51st North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Oct. 2019, Wichita, Kansas, USA, and presented the following paper “Power Grid Resilience to Electromagnetic (EMP) Disturbances: A Literature Review.”
GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. Student, Jinshun Su, attended the 51st North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Oct. 2019, Wichita, Kansas, USA, and presented the following paper “Distributed Wind Power Resources for Enhanced Power Grid Resilience.”
September
The following papers, “Adaptive Operation Strategies for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations,” “Day-ahead Forecast of Aggregated Loads for Smart Households under Incentive-based Demand Response Programs,” and “Power Grid Online Surveillance through PMU-Embedded Convolutional Neural Networks” were presented at the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Annual Meeting, Sep. 29- Oct. 4, 2019, Baltimore, MD, USA.
GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. Student, Mostafa Nazemi, attended the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Annual Meeting, which was held on Sep. 29- Oct. 4, 2019, in Baltimore, MD, and presented the following paper “Enhancing Seismic Resilience of Electric Power Distribution Systems with Mobile Power Sources”.
GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. Student, Shiyuan Wang, attended the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Annual Meeting, which was held on Sep. 29- Oct. 4, 2019, in Baltimore, MD, and presented the following paper “A Machine Learning Approach to Detection of Geomagnetically-Induced Currents in Power Grids”.
The graduate students at the GW SmartGrid Lab actively participated and served as the organizing volunteers at the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Annual Meeting, which was held on Sep. 29- Oct. 4, 2019, in Baltimore, MD, USA.
GW Department of Electrical Engineering, GW Smart Grid Laboratory, and GW Department of Decision Sciences jointly invited Dr. Steven A. Gabriel of University of Maryland (UMD) to give a talk. Dr. Gabriel presented a seminar on September 27th, 2019 and shared his thoughts on “One- and Two-Level Equilibrium Models in Energy”.
The following journal article, “Analysis and Reliability Evaluation of A High Step-Up Soft Switching Push-Pull DC-DC Converter”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Reliability.
The following journal article, “Comprehensive Analytics for Reliability Evaluation of Conventional Isolated Multi-Switch PWM DC-DC Converters”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
August
GW Department of Electrical Engineering and Smart Grid Laboratory invited Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty of North Carolina State University (NCSU) to give a talk. Dr. Chakrabortty presented a seminar on August 1st, 2019 and shared his thought on “Wide-Area Control of Power Systems using Structured Reinforcement Learning”.
The following journal article, “Electrical Safety Considerations in Large Electric Vehicle Charging Stations”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Congratulations to Bo.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, was selected as an Organizing Committee Member for the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Innovative Smart Grid Technologies North America (ISGT-NA) Conference. He will serve as the “Local Outreach” liaison for the ISGT-NA 2020 which will be held on February 17-20, 2020 in Washington, DC, USA.
The following journal article, “On Electrical Safety in Academic Laboratories”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
The following journal article, “Power Grid Optimal Topology Control Considering Correlations of System Uncertainties”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Congratulations to Mohannad, Shiyuan, and Bhavesh.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, was selected as the “2018-2019 Excellent Associate Editor Award” from the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. He received the award during the MPCE Editorial Board Annual Meeting which was held during the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting 2019, August 4-8 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian and GW SmartGrid Lab members and Ph.D. students, Bo Wang and Shiyuan Wang, attended the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting 2019, which was held August 4-8 in Atlanta, Georgia. There, he served as the secretary of the “Big Data Access” working group within the IEEE PES Subcommittee on Big Data & Analytics for Power Systems.
July
On July 31-August 1, 2019, the GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, attended The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Centers of Excellence Summit 2019 which was held in Arlington, VA, USA.
The following journal article, “Harnessing Ramp Capability of Spinning Reserve Services for Enhanced Power System Flexibility”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
The following journal article, “Advanced Control Solutions for Enhanced Resilience of Modern Power-Electronic-Interfaced Distribution Systems”, got accepted and will be published in the Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) Journal. Congratulations to Shiyuan, Mohannad, and Mostafa.
The following journal article, “Enhancing Power Grid Resilience through An IEC61850-based EV-Assisted Load Restoration”, got accepted and will be published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
June
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, and the Ph.D. Student, Mostafa Nazemi, attended the 13th IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) PowerTech Conference on 23-27 June 2019 which was held in Milan, Italy. Mostafa presented his paper “A Mixed-Integer Distributionally Robust Chance-Constrained Model for Optimal Topology Control in Power Grids with Uncertain Renewables”.
GW SmartGrid Laboratory won the main award in Typhoon Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)’s 10 for 10 Awards Program. As a part of the award, the lab was offered a HIL402 real-time emulator with a lifetime Typhoon HIL software license that will be used for teaching and research. The Typhoon Awards Program recognizes academic institutions and research groups that are the most prominent champions of Typhoon technologies. Typhoon HIL will reward institutions and research groups that promote Typhoon HIL solutions and process in academia, have the largest number of certified students for Typhoon HIL technology, and which produce and share their incredible work with the Typhoon academic community.
The GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. student, Shiyuan Wang, attended the “Smart Grid Edge Analytics Workshop,” which was held June 4-5, 2019 at Georgia Tech University. The workshop was organized by The Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Texas A&M University, Temple University, and the South Big Data Innovation Hub.
The GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. Student, Mohannad Alhazmi has been awarded the student program scholarship to attend the 2019 Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) Summer Symposium. The event was held on June 23-28, 2019 in Q Center, St. Charles, IL, USA.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, attended The 2019 D.C. Solar Congress on June 1st, 2019 which was held in Washington DC.
May
On May 15-16, 2019, GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, attended The 2019 Expeditionary Power & Energy Summit which was held in Alexandria, VA, USA.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, and the Ph.D. student, Shiyuan Wang, attended The 1st IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics (SGSMA) on 20-23 May 2019 which was held on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA, and presented the following paper “A Novel Multi-Resolution Wavelet Transform for Online Power Grid Waveform Classification”.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian and the Ph.D. student Bo Wang have published a book chapter: P. Dehghanian, B. Wang, and M. Tasdighi. “New Protection Schemes in Smarter Power Grids with Higher Penetration of Renewable Energy Systems,” in Pathways to a Smarter Power System, Elsevier Academic Press, pp. 317-342, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-081-02592-5.
GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian attended IEEE/IAS 55th Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (I&CPS) Technical Conference on 5-8 May 2019 which was held in Calgary, Canada, and presented the following papers “Power Grid Optimal Topology Control Considering Correlations of System Uncertainties” and “Electrical Safety of Academic Laboratories”. He also served as the chair for the Power Systems Committee Main Session in the conference.
On May 2nd, the GW SmartGrid Lab member and M.Sc. student, Jinshun Su, successfully defended his M.Sc. Thesis on “On the Use of Wind Power and Pumped-Storage Hydro for Blackout Restoration and Resilience”. Jinshun will pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the SmartGrid Lab in the Fall 2019. Congratulations, Jinshun.
On May 2nd, the GW SmartGrid Lab member and M.Sc. student, Zijiang Yang, successfully defended his M.Sc. Thesis on “Flexible Energy Resources for Enhancing Power Distribution System Resilience”. Starting this summer, Zijiang will join the China Energy Engineering Group Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd (GEDI for short), in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, as an electrical engineer. Congratulations Zijiang and Good Luck.
The GW SmartGrid Lab members and Ph.D. Students, Shiyuan Wang and Bo Wang have been awarded the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Student Program Support to attend the IEEE PES General Meeting and participate in the Student Poster Competition. The event will be held on August 4-8, 2019 in Atlanta, GA, USA.
The following journal article, “Stochastic Robust Optimization for Smart Grid Considering Various Arbitrage Opportunities”, got accepted and will be published in the Electric Power Systems Research Journal.
Notified by the GW Office of Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships, the GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. student, Mohannad Alhazmi, was awarded a 6000$ Summer Pre-Dissertation Fellowship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University in the Academic Year 2019-2020. Congratulations, Mohannad.
The following journal article, “Advanced Control Solutions for Enhanced Resilience of Modern Power-Electronic-Interfaced Distribution Systems”, got accepted and will be published in the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.
Notified by the GW Office of Graduate Student Assistantships and Fellowships, the GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. student, Mostafa Nazemi, was awarded a 2000$ Summer Pre-Dissertation Fellowship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University in the Academic Year 2019-2020. Congratulations, Mostafa.
The following journal article, “Harnessing Ramp Capability of Spinning Reserve Services for Enhanced Power System Flexibility”, got accepted and will be published in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
April
On April 25, the GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. student, Mostafa Nazemi, was awarded the “Conference Travel Grant for Graduate Students” of $800 to attend the 13th IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) PowerTech Conference to be held in Milan, Italy. Congratulations, Mostafa.
On April 18, GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian gave an invited Lunch-and-Learn Series talk at the GW School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). His presentation was titled “Electricity Grid Resilience to Black-Sky Hazards: Research Directions in GW Smart Grid Laboratory”.
The GW SmartGrid Lab member and undergraduate student, Tien Nguyen, was awarded the 2019 School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Summer Undergraduate Program Fellowship. He will be doing research on “Algorithms for Threat Detection in Smart Grids". Congratulations, Tien.
The GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. student, Shiyuan Wang, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Travel Grant to attend the “Smart Grid Edge Analytics Workshop,” which will be held June 4-5 at Georgia Tech University. The workshop is organized by The Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Texas A&M University, Temple University, and the South Big Data Innovation Hub.
The GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. student, Mostafa Nazemi, participated in the GW Research Day and received the second best poster award in the competition. His poster was on "Energy Storage Allocation for Enhanced Seismic Resilience in Large-Scale Power Systems". Congratulations, Mostafa.
The following journal article, “Dynamic Uncertainty Set Characterization for Bulk Power Grid Flexibility Assessment”, got accepted and will be published in the IEEE Systems Journal.
March
On March 21, the GW SmartGrid Lab Director, Dr. Payman Dehghanian, and Ph.D. student, Shiyuan Wang, were invited to attend and present at the Municipal Electric Power Association of Virginia's Board Meeting in Charlottesville, VA. Shiyuan presented “Event Detection and Classification in Power Grids Using Machine Learning and Synchrophasor Technology.”
On March 22, Dr. Payman Dehghanian gave an invited talk at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. His presentation was titled “Electricity Grid Resilience to Black-Sky Extremes: Hazard Characterization, Modeling, and Mitigations.”
At the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Electric Safety Workshop, the GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. student, Bo Wang, presented his paper, “Electrical Safety Considerations in Large-Scale Electric Vehicle Charging Stations," and was awarded the 2019 IEEE-IAS Myron Zucker Award on Electrical Safety through Design Student Initiative. Congratulations, Bo.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian attended and served as the student program chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Electric Safety Workshop, held March 4-8 in Jacksonville, FL.
The following journal article, “PMU Multilevel End-to-End Testing to Assess Synchrophasor Measurements during Faults”, got accepted and is published in the IEEE Power and Energy Technology Systems Journal.
February
Dr. Payman Dehghanian arranged a training session for ECE graduate students delivered by the Typhoon Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) company. The session introduced the students to power systems analysis and simulations, how they are realized in experimental practices, and how power grid control actions are perceived and implemented by a piece of hardware (equipment). During the presentation, students learned the chain process from simulations and analytical decision making to control and implementation in the field.
The students at the GW SmartGrid Lab actively participated and served as the organizing volunteers at the 10th IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-North America (ISGT-NA), which was held on 18-21 Feb. 2019, in Washington DC.
The GW SmartGrid Lab members, Shiyuan Wang, Mohannad Alhazmi, and Jinshun Su attended the 10th IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-North America (ISGT-NA), which was held on 18-21 Feb. 2019, in Washington DC and presented the following paper “Resilience-Assured Protective Control of DC/AC Inverters under Unbalanced and Fault Scenarios”.
The following paper, “A Data-Driven Algorithm for Online Power Grid Topology Change Identification with PMUs,” got accepted and will be presented at the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, 4-8 August 2019, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Congratulations to Shiyuan.
Shiyuan Wang, Ph.D. Student and SmartGrid Laboratory member, received a travel grant to attend the 1st IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics (SGSMA) which will be held on 20-23 May 2019 in College Station, Texas, USA. He will be presenting his accepted paper entitled "A Novel Multi-Resolution Wavelet Transform for Online Power Grid Waveform Classification". Congratulations to Shiyuan.
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Dr. Payman Dehghanian was invited as a speaker for the GW Sustainability Lunch Series to discuss "Power Grid Resilience to Extreme Weather Conditions: Unlocking the Full Potential of Grid-Scale PV Generation and Battery Storage". The meeting was held on February 6, 2019, in the campus George Washington University.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian was invited as a panelist at a professor panel hosted by the GW Iranian Student Association (IRSA) on "Transitioning into Academia: Carving out a space for Iranian academics". The event was held on February 1st, 2019, at the GW Business School.
January
The editorial board committee of the Journal of Modern Power and Clean Energy has awarded the ECE and GW SmartGrid Lab's doctoral student Mostafa Nazemi the 2018 “Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing” for his contributions to the journal last year. Congratulations, Mostafa.
The following paper, “Power Grid Optimal Topology Control Considering Correlations of System Uncertainties,” got accepted and will be presented at the 55th IEEE IAS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (I&CPS) Technical Conference, 6-9 May 2019, Calgary, Canada. Congratulations to Mohannad, Shiyuan, and Bhavesh.
Collaborating with colleagues and committee members in IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS), the following paper, “Electrical Safety of Academic Laboratories,” got accepted and will be presented at the 55th IEEE IAS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (I&CPS) Technical Conference, 6-9 May 2019, Calgary, Canada.
Among the 6 awardees worldwide, the Ph.D. student in the Smart Grid Lab, Bo Wang, is selected to receive the 2019 IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Myron Zucker Award on Electrical Safety through Design Student Initiative. His submission was titled "Electrical Safety Considerations in Large-Scale Electrical Vehicle Charging Stations". Bo will be presenting his proposal at the 2019 IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop, March 4- March 8, 2019, in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Being accepted as a recipient is an honor and will provide you with an opportunity to uniquely participate in the workings that shape the future of our electrical safety culture. More information can be found here. Congratulations to Bo.
2018
December
The following paper, “A Novel Multi-Resolution Wavelet Transform for Online Power Grid Waveform Classification,” got accepted and will be presented at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics (SGSMA), 20-23 May 2019, College Station, Texas, USA. Congratulations to Shiyuan.
The M.Sc. student in the GW SmartGrid Lab, Bhavesh Shinde, is awarded the $5,000 American Public Power Association (APPA)'s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Development (DEED) Research Grant Scholarship. He will be working on the project "Advanced Artificial Intelligence for Online Power System Stability Surveillance" with "City of Manassas Department of Electric Utilities". Congratulations, Bhavesh.
The Ph.D. student in the GW SmartGrid Lab, Shiyuan Wang, is awarded the $5,000 American Public Power Association (APPA)'s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Development (DEED) Research Grant Scholarship. He will be working on the project "Event Detection and Classification in Power Grids Using Machine Learning and Synchrophasor Technology" with "Municipal Electric Power Association of Virginia". Congratulations, Shiyuan.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian was invited as the lunch speaker at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head Association (ECEDHA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Heads Meeting that was held in December 1st, 2018 in Washington DC. His presentation entitled "Towards Reliable and Resilient Electric Power Grids".
November
The following paper, “Resilience-Assured Protective Control of DC/AC Inverters under Unbalanced and Fault Scenarios,” got accepted and will be presented at the 10th IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-North America (ISGT-NA), 18-21 February 2019, Washington DC, USA. Congratulations to Shiyuan, and all co-authors.
GW SmartGrid Lab research has been highlighted in the Fall 2018 Research Highlights of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University: “Safeguarding the Nation’s Electric Power Grid.”
Dr. Payman Dehghanian served as the chair for a panel session titled “Uncertainty-Driven Power Systems Planning and Operation Supporting Resilience” at the INFORMS 2018 Annual Meeting. The meeting was held November 4-7, in Phoenix, AZ. The panelists represented academia (University of Manchester, Texas A&M University, University of Pittsburgh), industry (GE Energy Consulting), and national labs (Los Almos National Lab), and they discussed challenges to power grid resilience against natural disasters and cyber attacks.
October
The following journal article, “Real-Time Life-Cycle Assessment of High Voltage Circuit Breakers for Maintenance using Online Condition Monitoring Data”, got accepted and will be published in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
The SmartGrid Lab is among the winners of the 2018 Duke Energy Innovation Fund by GW Sustainability Collaborative. Read the news highlighted in GWToday.
The GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. student, Shiyuan Wang, attended the 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) held in Washington DC, USA, and presented the following paper “A Synchrophasor-based Decision Tree Approach for Identification of Most Coherent Generating Units”.
The following paper, “Reduction of Output Power Pulsations for Electric Vehicles by Changing Distances Between Transmitter Coils”, a collaborative effort between the GW SmartGrid Lab and the Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, was presented at the 7th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICREA) in Paris, France.
September
The GW SmartGrid Lab member and Ph.D. student, Bo Wang, attended the 50th North American Power Symposium (NAPS), held in Fargo, North Dakota, USA and presented the following paper “Electric Vehicles Contributions to Voltage Improvement and Loss Reduction in Microgrids”.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian was appointed as the faculty advisor for the GWU IEEE Branch at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The following paper, “Fully-Distributed Gossip Control for Voltage Regulation of Inverter-based DRs in P2P Microgrids”, a collaborative effort between the GW SmartGrid Lab and the North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) SENIOR Lab, was presented at the IEEE IAS Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA.
August
Dr. Payman Dehghanian attended the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting 2018, which was held August 5-9 in Portland, OR. There, he served as the secretary of the “Big Data Access” working group within the IEEE PES Subcommittee on Big Data & Analytics for Power Systems.
The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) selected ECE doctoral student and GW SmartGrid Lab member Mohannad Alhazmi to attend and participate in the 3rd IEEE PES World Student Congress, taking place August 24-28 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mohannad, who currently serves as the secretary and financial chair for the IEEE PES-IAS Joint Student Chapter at GW, is representing GW and the GW IEEE Student Chapter. He is among a small number of US representatives whom the IEEE PES supported to attend the event. Dr. Payman Dehghanian nominated him for the award.
July
GW SmartGrid Lab members and Ph.D. students, Bo Wang and Mohannad Alhazmi, the student leaders of the GW IEEE Power Systems Engineering Student Chapter, have been awarded a travel grant from the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) to attend the IEEE IAS Annual Meeting 2018. The meeting will be held September 23-27, in Portland, OR, and is the major annual event of the IEEE IAS. Bo and Mohannad will represent the GW IEEE Student Chapter at the meeting.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian was invited under a “Foreign Expert Initiative” to visit the North China Electric Power University, in Beijing and Baoding, where he gave three seminars between June 28 and July 5: (1) “The Resilience of Electric Power Systems to High-Impact Low-Frequency Hazards”; (2) “Ongoing Research at GW Smart Grid Lab: Pathways to Electric Systems Resilience”; and (3) “Overview of the GW SEAS Graduate Programs and Admissions.”
Dr. Payman Dehghanian served as a representative for the GW School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at the “Project Catalyst: How to Engineer Engineering Education” workshop held July 10-13 at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, PA.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian attended the 2018 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), held June 25-27 in Boise, Idaho, USA.
June
Dr. Payman Dehghanian served as the session chair for a special panel session on “Resilience of Electrical Power and Energy Networks” at the Joint 2nd IEEE Industrial and Commercial Systems (I&CPS) Europe and 18th IEEE Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), held June 12-15 in Palermo, Italy;
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has established the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) - Industry Applications Society (IAS) Joint Student Branch within the department. The student branch will create numerous opportunities for student members through the IEEE PES and IAS Societies. ECE graduate students Bo Wang, Shiyuan Wang, and Mohannad Alhazmi will lead the branch, and Dr. Payman Dehghanian will serve as the faculty advisor. IEEE IAS officials visited the group on June 17 as part of an inauguration meeting.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian has been elected to serve as an associate editor for the IEEE Industry Applications Society.
May
GW SmartGrid Lab member and M.Sc. student, Ali Aygun, defended his M.Sc. thesis and graduated from The George Washington University. His thesis was on “Demand Side Management in Power Distribution Systems: Algorithmic Development for Peak Demand Shaving”.
GW SmartGrid Lab published a new journal article on “New Reward and Penalty Scheme for Electric Distribution Utilities Employing Load-Based Reliability Indices”.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian’s research, “Keeping the Lights On”, was highlighted on the Spring 2018 issue of the Synergy Magazine by the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at the George Washington University.
April
Dr. Payman Dehghanian attended the National Science Foundation-sponsored Workshop on Reinventing Electric Power Curriculum with Sustainability Focus. The workshop was held April 5-6 at the National Academies of Science Building. More than 100 participants from industry and faculty, including department heads and engineering deans, attended.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian was invited to participate in the 2018 NAE-AAES Convocation of Professional Engineering Societies, which was a closed meeting of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), held April 23 at the National Academy of Sciences Building. The two sessions were: “SESSION 1: Cybersecurity: Challenges for the Engineering Profession and Society,” and “SESSION 2: Resilience of the Electric Power Transmission and Distribution System.”
March
Dr. Payman Dehghanian was interviewed and spotlighted in the March-April 2018 issue of the IEEE Industry Applications Magazine.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian attended and was the student program chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Electric Safety Workshop, held March 19-23 in Fort Worth, TX. During the workshop, he was appointed the vice chair for IEEE IAS Early Career Subcommittee of the Electric Safety Committee.
February
The Department of Electrical Engineering invited Dr. Thomas J. Overbye, IEEE Fellow and the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member, as a Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Overbye presented a seminar on February 28th and shared his thought on “Enhancing the Resilience of Large-Scale Electric Grids”.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian participated in the National Science Foundation Workshop “Real-Time Learning and Decision Making in Dynamical Systems,” held February 12-13 in Alexandria, VA. The goal of the workshop was to have a group of leading experts who have complementary backgrounds (in the area of control, signal processing, machine learning, communication, power and energy, autonomous systems, etc.) shape the research paradigm that arises from many real-time, data-driven dynamical systems.
Payman Dehghanian has recently been appointed as the associate editor for the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, a peer-reviewed, open-access, and bimonthly journal sponsored by NARI (Nanjing Automation Research Institute)
Dr. Payman Dehghanian has been appointed as the IEEE Region 2 (Eastern United States) Representative for IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Young Professionals Committee.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian has been appointed as a Scientific Committee Member of the International Engineering and Natural Sciences Conference, to be held November 14-17 in Diyarbakir, Turkey.
Dr. Payman Dehghanian and Mohannad Alhazmi represented the GW SmartGrid Laboratory and attended the IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, held February 19-22 in Washington D.C.
