Professional and Outreach Activities

Professional Service

Technical Program Committee Member

IEEE SmartGridComm 2020 and 2019
MSCPES, CPSWeek, 2012-2020
Power System Computation Conference (PSCC), Poland 2014
International Conference and Utility Exhibition on Green Energy (ICUE), Thailand, 2014
IEEE SmartGridComm 2013, Vancouver, BC, Canada
International Symposium on Control, Automation, Industrial Informatics and Smart Grid (ICAIS), 2013, Mysore, India
International Conference on Modern Power and Energy System (ICMPES), 2013, India
International Conference on Diagnostics, 2013, Czech Republic
Power and Energy Engineering Conference, January 1-2, Sanya, Hainan, China
IEEE SmartGridComm 2012, Taiwan
IEEE South East Conference, 2006, Memphis, TN, USA

Editorial Board Member

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications
Elsevier Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems: SUSCOM
Past Editor, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution
Past Editor, International Journal on Power System Optimization, Serials Publications
Past Editor, International Journal of Energy and Environment, International Energy and Environment Foundation (IEEF)
Past Editor, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

Guest Editor for Special Issues

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, “Cloud Computing in Smart Grid Operation and Management”, 2018
IET Smart Grid, “Cyber Physical Systems for Power Distribution Systems”, 2018
IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, “Emerging Trends in System Integrity Protection Schemes (SIPS) for Improving the Performance of Smart Grid”, 2019
IEEE Transaction on Industry Applications, “Security, Reliability, Privacy, and Quality in Industrial Automation and Control”, 2019
IET Smart Grid, “Machine Learning in Power Systems”, 2019
IET Smart Grid, “Definition, Quantification, Analysis and Enhancement of Grid Resilience”, 2019
IET GTD special issue on “Next Generation of Synchrophasor-based Power System Monitoring, Operation and Control”, 2020
IEEE TII special issue on, “Deep learning and data analytics to support the smart grid operation with renewable energy”, 2020

Reviewer

Journal and Conferences

IEEE Transactions on Power System
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
IEEE Transactions on Education
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Power Engineering Society Letters
IEE Proc. on Generation, Transmission & Distribution
European Transactions on Electric Power
International Journal of Engineering Education

Book

John Wiley and Sons, Book proposals
IEEE Press
Cambridge Press

Research Proposal Reviewer

Department of Energy, USA
Science Foundation, Croatia
National Science Foundation, USA
National Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada
Canada Foundation for Innovation, Canada
National Research Fund, Qatar
Bonneville Power Administration, USA
The Implementation Group, Inc, USA
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Oak Ridge Associated Universities, USA and Kazakhstan

Session Chair and Other Professional Service

IEEE PES Graduate Scholarship Review Committee, 2020
Post-COVID lab reopening preparation committee, EECS, VCEA, 2020
Session co-chair, “Utilizing distribution system assets and DER for transmission system voltage stability”, IEEE PES General Meeting, August, 2020
Session co-chair, “Data-Quality Aware Synchrophasor Applications”, IEEE PES General Meeting, August, 2020
Session chair, “Power System Dynamic Performance 2”, IEEE PES General Meeting, August, 2020
Session co-chair, “Research and Education in Distribution Management System with DERs for Resilient Grid”, IEEE PES General Meeting, August, 2020
Session chair, IEEE International conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, “Management and Control in Smart Grid”, Kerala, India, January 2020
Session chair, IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS), “DER Management”, Wichita, KS, October 2019
Session chair, IEEE IAS Annual Meeting, “ Management and Control in the Smart Grid”, Baltimore, MD, October 2019
Session co-chair, “Integrating Resiliency into Operational Practice”, IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, GA 2019
Session co-chair, “Microgrid Tools: Design, Optimization, Business Case and Resiliency”, IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, GA 2019
Session co-chair, “Challenges and solutions for Synchrophasor Data Quality in Power System Operation” , IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, GA 2019
Session chair, IEEE T&D Latin America, Lima Peru, September 2018
Session chair, North American Power Symposium, Fargo, North Dakota, September 2018
Session chair, IEEE IAS Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, September 2018
Session co-chair, “Measuring and Enabling Resiliency using Microgrid”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Portland, OR, August 2018
Session co-chair, “Challenges and Solutions in Implementing Synchrophasor Applications at the Control Center”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Portland, OR, August 2018
Session co-chair, “Computational Infrastructure for Distributed Control in the Power Grid”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Portland, OR, August 2018
Session co-chair, “Cyber Physical Power System Simulation: Technology and Practice”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Portland, OR, August 2018
Review Committee Member, WSU Academic Showcase, 2018
Session co-chair, “Security Analysis and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Chicago, IL, July, 2017
Session co-chair, “Lessons Learned from Implementing Portable and Reconfigurable Microgrids for Resilient Operation” IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Chicago, IL, July, 2017.
Session Co-Chair, “Measuring and Enabling Resiliency using Microgrid”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Boston, MA, July, 2016
Session Chair, “Integrating Synchrophasor Research into Education”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Boston, MA, July, 2016
Session Chair, International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), Mumbai, India, December, 2015
Session Co-Chair, “Power System Control I”, IEEE Industrial Application Society, Addison, TX, October, 2015
Session Co-Chair, “Power System Stability II”, North American Power Symposium, Charlotte, NC, October, 2015
Session Co-Chair, “Cyber-Physical Educational Modules”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Denver, CO, July, 2015
Session Co-Chair, “Microgrid as a Resource for Resiliency”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Denver, CO, July, 2015
Session Co-Chair, “Lessons-Learned from Microgrid Implementation”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Denver, CO, July, 2015
Session Co-Chair, “Microgrid Operation in Contingencies and Recovery”, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Washington DC, July, 2014
Session Chair, “Intelligent Controls for Microgrids”, Power System Conference, Clemson, SC, March 2014
Session Chair, ‘Microgrid’, North American Power Symposium, Manhattan, KS, September, 2013
Session Chair, ‘Hands-on Activities for Pre-Engineering Outreach’, IEEE PES General Meeting, Vancouver, BC, July 2013
Session Chair, ‘Synchrophasors and Smart Meters’, North American Power Symposium, Urbana, IL, September, 2012
Session Co-Chair, ‘Military Microgrid’, IEEE PES General Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2012
Member, IEEE PES Scholarship review committee, 2011-2016
Session Chair, ‘Protection II’, North American Power Symposium, Boston, MN, August 5-6, 2011
Session Chair, ‘Educational Research Methods Potpourri II’, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 26-29, 2011
Session Chair, ‘Resources for K-12 Outreach’, IEEE PES General Meeting, Detroit, MI, July 24- 28, 2011
Session Chair, ‘Power Electronics in Power System II’, North American Power Symposium, Arlington, TX, September 26-28, 2010
Member, DG integration Committee, ASME, 2010-11
Member, PDC-PMU communication committee, NASPI, 2010-11
Student Paper/ presentation Judge, North American Power Symposium, Arlington, TX, September 26-28, 2010
Session Chair, ‘Dynamic Performance of HVDC and FACTS’, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, July 25-29, 2010
Student Poster Judge, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, July 25-29, 2010
Session Chair, ‘Modeling student data’, American Society of Engineering Education, June 20-23, 2010, Louisville, Kentucky
Student Poster Judge, IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, T&D, April, 2010
Student Program Chair and member of Organizing Committee, North American Power Symposium, NAPS, October 2009, Mississippi State, MS
Judge, Conrad Spirit of Innovations Award, 2009
Session Chair, ‘System Identification and Model Predictive Control’, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Calgary, July 26-30, 2009
Judge, Mississippi Science Fair, Mississippi State University, March 26th, 2009
Judge, Student Poster Contest, IEEE PES General Meeting, Calgary, July 26-30, 2009
Session Co-Chair, ‘Power System Dynamic Performance I’, Power System Conference and Exposition (PSCE), Seattle, WA, March 15-18th, 2009
Session Chair, ‘Power System Dynamic Performance II’, Power System Conference and Exposition (PSCE), Seattle, WA, March 15-18th, 2009
Session Chair, ‘Voltage Stability and Contingency Analysis’, North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Calgary, Canada, September 28th to 30th, 2008
Judge, Student paper competition, North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Calgary, Canada, September 28th to 30th, 2008
Secretary, NAPS steering committee, 2008
Chair, student support program, IEEE PES T&D conference, April 20-24, 2008, Chicago, IL
Session Chair, ‘Control of Power System Components’, NAPS, 2007, September 30th –October 2nd, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
Judge, Student paper competition, NAPS 2007, Sep. 30-Oct. 2nd, Las Cruces, NM, USA
Judge, Student poster competition, PES 2007, June 24-28, Tampa, FL, USA
Judge, Student presentation, ESCAPE, March 2-3, MSU, Mississippi State, MS, USA
Judge, Student paper competition, PSCE 2006, Oct. 29-Nov. 1, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Session chair, ‘Distributed Generation and Renewable Energy I’, NAPS 2006, Sep. 17-19, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Judge, Student paper competition, NAPS 2006, Sep. 17-19, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Judge, Student poster competition, IEEE PES General Meeting, Montreal, Canada, June 2006
Judge, Student poster competition, IEEE Transmission & Distribution Conference, Dallas, Texas, May 2006
Judge, Student poster competition, ISAP, Washington DC, November 2005
Judge, Mississippi Region V Elementary and Secondary Science and Engineering Fair, February 28-March 1, 2007, Mississippi State, MSU
Judge, Mississippi Region V Elementary and Secondary Science and Engineering Fair, MSU (03/06)
Judge, Ethics competition, SECON, Memphis, (04/06)
Chaired electrical engineering, computer and embedded system engineering and general engineering track at IEEE South East Conference, Memphis, March 30th-April 2nd, 2006
Judge, Mississippi State Science and Engineering Fair, MSU (04/06)

Conference/ Workshop/ Tutorial Organization

Workshop Co-chair, WS-2: Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics in Power Transmission Systems, IEEE SmartGridComm 2020, AZ, USA
Organizing Committee Member, NSF Sponsored, “Forging Connections between Machine Learning, Data Science, & Power Systems Research, NSF, Alexandria, VA, March, 2020.
Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy System, CPSWeek, Sydney, Australia, April, 2020
Symposium Co-chair, Communications and Networking, IEEE SmartGridComm 2019, China
Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy System, CPSWeek, Montreal, Canada, April, 2019
NSF sponsored “Data analytics workshop for the power grid resiliency” in Portland, OR, 2018
Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy System, CPSWeek, Portugal, March, 2018
Data Analytics Workshop in Smart Grid, Sponsored by Siemens, Pullman, WA, August, 2017
Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy System, CPSWeek, Pittsburgh, PA, March 21st, 2017
IEEE Workshop on Synchrophasors Applications, Singapore, Philippines and India, July 2017
North American Power Symposium, technically sponsored by IEEE, Washington State University, September, 2014 (attendees: 229)
Tutorial on Phasor Measurement Unit, WSU Relay School, March, 2013 and 2014
Workshop on Testing and Validation of synchrophasor devices and applications, Pullman, WSU, March, 2012 (around 80 attendees)
LabView workshop and hands-on experience, Mississippi State University, January, 2006

Professional Affiliations

IEEE (Student Member, 2000-2005, Member, 2005-2009, Senior Member, 2009-present)
IEEE Power Engineering Society (2002-present)
Bulk Power System Operation Subcommittee (BPSO), PSOPE (Vice-Chair, 2020-present, Secretary: 2018-2019)
IEEE Task Force on Synchrophasor Applications in Control Center (Chair, 2017- present)
Operational Tools for Enabling Resiliency, PSOPE, (vice-Chair, 2017-present)
Power and Energy Education Committee (PEEC)(Chair: 2020-present, vice-chair: 2018- 2019, Secretary: 2016-2017)
Power Engineering Career Promotion Subcommittee (Member: 2007-present, Vice Chair: 2009, Chair: 2011, Past-Chair-2013)
Awards Committee (Secretary – 2014-2015, vice-chair-2016, chair-2017-present)
Power System Dynamic Performance (PSDP)
IEEE Voltage Stability Working Group (Secretary: 2015-2016, Vice-chair: 2017- 2018, Chair: 2019-)
Energy Development & Power Generation Committee (2009-present)
Energy Development Subcommittee (2009-present)
Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Subcommittee (Member, 2009-present, Webmaster-2010, Awards Liaison: 2011-)
Microgrid Implementation Working Group (Co-Chair, 2012-)
Analytic Methods for Power Systems (AMPS) Committee, CAMS
Computational Challenges and Solutions for Implementing Distributed Optimization in the Power Systems (Co-Chair: 2019-)
IEEE Industrial Application Society (2012-present)
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2014-present)
ASEE (2005-2012)
Sigma Xi Honor Society (2004-2011)
Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society (2004-2011)
IEEE ICAP Synchrophasor Conformance Subcommittee (Past Vice-Chair, 2013)
North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI) (2006-Present)
Phasor benefits and metrics working group
PMU for control Application (Chair: 2018-)
Joint Synchronized Information Subcommittee, Western Electricity Coordinating Council (2012- Present)
Synchronized Measurement System, NERC, (2019-present)
CIGRE: Conseil International des Grands Réseaux Electriques
Member, C2.25, Operational Resilience
Member, C4C2.58, Voltage Stability Assessment in Transmission System
Member, C4.47, Power System Resilience
Member, D2.52, Artificial Intelligence Application and Technology in Power Industry