RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Power System Protection
- New Protection Paradigm for Smartgrid
- New data-driven and physics-based models for protection of smart grid
- Fault detection, protection and fault location in microgrids
- Improved methods for Digital Relaying
- Power System Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
- Create Validated Time Domain Models of Power System Components and subsystems
GUEST LECTURES:
- Guest lecture on “Protection Issues in Power Distribution and Transmission Systems” at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India, on August 18, 2004.
- Invited Panel presentation – “Short Circuit Analysis of Type II Induction Generator and Wind Farm” at IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, April 2012, Orlando, FL.
- Guest lecture – “Real Time Applications of Mathematical Morphology in Power System Protection” at Arizona State University, on November 16, 2012.
- A 4-hour co-presented tutorial on Fault Contribution from Wind Plants at IEEE PES General meeting 2015, July 26, 2015.
- Keynote Address – “Power System Protection in the Era of Smart Grid” – at IEEE Power, Communication, and Information Technology (PCITC-2015) conference in Bhubaneswar, India on October 15, 2015.
- Seminar on “Dynamic Visualization of Power Systems – Models, Promises, and Challenges” at University of New Mexico, on October 21, 2016.
- Plenary Talk – “Power System Protection in the Era of Smart Grid” – at International Conference on Research and Innovation in Science, Engineering, and Technology (ICRISET-2017), BVM Engineering College, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India, February 2017.
- Invited panel presentation – “Demonstrating the need of Interdisciplinary Background for Advanced Protection Applications”, IEEE PES GM 2017, July, 2017, Chicago, IL.
- Keynote Address – “Power System Protection in the Era of Smart Grid” – at 7th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS-2017), College of Engineering, Pune, India, December 2017.
- Invited Panel presentation at the supersession on Low Inertia and Weak Grid – “Protection in the Weak Grid Future”, IEEE PES GM 2018, August 2018, Portland, OR.
- Invited Panel presentation “How can we detect faults in a 100% inverter-based system”, IEEE PES GM 2018, August 2018, Portland, OR.
- Invited Panel presentation “Power System Protection in the Era of Smart Grid” at “Grid of the Future Workshop” at Sandia National Laboratories, August 22, 2018.
- Invited Panel presentation “Protection in Presence of Inverter Based Resources” at “2019 PV Systems Symposium” at Sandia National Laboratories, May 15, 2019.
- Chair, Workshop on Use of Synchrophasors and Synchronized Sampling in Protection, The First IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics – SGSMA, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, May 20, 2019.
- Invited Panel Chair, “Modeling of converter-interfaced renewable sources for short circuit studies- IEEE PES GM 2019”, August 2019, Atlanta, GA.
- Invited Panel presentation “Protection challenges with increased penetration of inverter-based generation in the Southeastern Region of the US”, IEEE PES General Meeting, August 2019, Atlanta, GA.
- Invited Panel presentation “Protection of microgrids with high penetration of inverter based resources”, IEEE PES General Meeting, August 2020, Virtual.
- Invited Panel Presentation “IEEE PSRCC WG 24 – Modification of Commercial Fault Calculation Programs for Wind Turbine Generators”, Presented at Eastern Interconnection Reliability Assessment Group – ERAG Workshop, October 27, 2020.
- Keynote Presentation “Challenges to Power System Protection in Presence of Renewables”, Presented at National Power System Conference (NPSC) 2020, IIT Gandhinagar, India, December 18, 2020, Virtual.
- Main Committee Presentation “IEEE PSRCC WG 24 – Modification of Commercial Fault Calculation Programs for Wind Turbine Generators”, Presented at the main committee meeting of the IEEE PES Power System Relaying and Control Committee, January 14, 2021. Virtual.
- IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Presentation “Teaching the First Course on Power Engineering to the Undergraduate Students – Opportunities and Challenges”, Invited Lecture at IEEE Bombay Section PES/PAS Joint Chapter, May 11, 2021. Virtual.
- Guest presentation “Use of AI in Protection – Some Thoughts”, IEEE PES Power System Relaying and Control Committee, meeting of Working Group C43 – “Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Power System Protection and Control”, May 5, 2021.
- IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Presentation “Microgrid Protection in Presence of Renewables”, Invited Lecture at IEEE PES Turkey Chapter, May 28, 2021. Virtual.
- Invited Panel presentation “Operation and Protection of Microgrids with High Penetration of IBRs”, PES & PELS 2021 6th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2021), November 2021, Virtual.
- IEEE PES Webinar: “Optimal Reconfiguration and Resilient Control Framework for Real-Time Photovoltaic Dispatch to Manage Critical Infrastructure” – co-presenter, May 4, 2022.
- Invited Presentation for TCE Lecture Series on Power Systems: “Challenges to Power System Protection in Presence of Renewables”, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, June 2, 2022.
- Invited Panel presentation “Considerations of AI in Protection”, IEEE PES General Meeting, August 2022, Denver, CO.
- Invited Presentation at Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore, India: “Challenges to Power System Protection in Presence of Renewables”, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, December 23, 2022.
- Main speaker at the Workshop on Protection and Stability of Renewable Dominated Power Grids, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, January 2-4, 2023.
- IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Presentation, IEEE PES/IAS Chapter, Kansas City section: “Microgrid Protection”, April 4, 2023.
GRANTS:
New Mexico State University:
- California Energy Commission (CEC), Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) – Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG): “Fault Location in Power Distribution System with Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources”, PI. November 1, 2008 – October 31, 2009.
- US Department of Energy: “Investigating Short Circuit Models for Wind Turbine Generators”, PI. October 2009–December 2012.
- Pacific Gas and Electric: “Network Primary Model Development”, PI. November 17, 2009 – July 31, 2014.
- Department of Energy: “Customer Driven Microgrid”, Investigator. Co-PI. November 2009 – December 2011.
- Sandia National Laboratories: “Microgrid Protection”, PI. May 2, 2011 – June 30, 2012.
- Interdesciplinary Research Grant, VPR’s office NMSU: “ Classification of Disturbance Data Generated by Phasor Measurement Units for Better Control and Protection of Power Grid”, as PI. January 2013 – May 2014.
- National Science Foundation: “CREST Center for Research – iCREDITS: interdisciplinary Center of Research Excellence in Design of Intelligent Technologies for Smartgrids”, as Co-PI. February 2014 – January 2019.
- El Paso Electric: “Transient Studies for El Paso Electric Company”, Co-PI. August 1, 2013 – July 31, 2014.
- Sandia National Laboratories: “Foundations for Protecting Renewable-Rich Distribution Systems ”, as PI. October 1, 2015 – September 30, 2016.
- National Science Foundation:CPS: Breakthrough: Collaborative Research: WARP: Wide Area assisted Resilient Protection, as PI at NMSU, Lead NSDU. September 15, 2015 – September 14, 2018.
- Sandia National Laboratories: “Protection of Grid-Connected and Islanded Renewable-Rich Distribution Systems”, as PI. January 2017 – December 31, 2018.
Clemson University:
- Part of the NSF CPS Grant (#10 above) Transferred – October 2018 – September, 2019.
- US Department of Energy: “Resilient Alaskan Distribution system Improvements using Automation, Network analysis, Control, and Energy storage (RADIANCE)”, as PI. Lead: Idaho National Lab. September 2018 – June, 2020.
- US Department of Energy: “SC-SECURED: a Southern Consortium for Storage-Enabled, Cyber-secure, Urban Resilient Electrical Distribution”, as PI. Lead: Sandia National Lab. Contract March 2019 – August, 2020.
- US Department of Energy: “Optimal Reconfiguration and Resilient Control Framework for Real-Time Photovoltaic Dispatch to Manage Critical Infrastructure (ReDis-PV)”, as PI. Lead UNC Charlotte. November 2019 – April, 2023.
- US Department of Energy: “Adaptive Protection and Control for High Penetration PV and Grid Resilience”, as PI. Lead Sandia National Lab. March 2020 – September, 2023.
- Idaho National Laboratories, “Alternative Grid Operations (AGO) Project”, as PI. August 2021 – December, 2022.
- Sandia National Laboratories: “Standardized Comprehensive Short Circuit Models for Wind Energy Generation”, as PI. April 2022 – March, 2025.
Students Graduated:
PhD:
NMSU:
- Suresh Gautam: “Real Time Applications of Mathematical Morphology in Power System Protection” – Graduated – Fall 2012. Employed with GE Energy.
- Om Prasad Dahal: “Comprehensive Identification of Disturbance Events Recorded by Phasor Measurement Units” – Graduated – Spring 2014. Employed with Burns and McDonald.
- Malati Chaudhary: “Investigating short circuit models for Wind Turbine Generators” – Graduated – Fall 2013. Employed with Public Service Company of New Mexico.
Clemson:
- Phani Harsha Gadde: “Protection of Microgrids : A scalable and topology agnostic scheme with self healing dynamic reconfiguration”, August 2022.
Masters:
NMSU:
- Kesavan Gokulakrishnan: Solution of Startup Problem in Bulk Handling Conveyer Systems- Graduated – Summer 2009. Employed with Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold Inc.
- Buyanni Prashanth Reddy: Short-circuit model for Fuel Cells – Graduated – Spring 2010.
- Sravan Kumar Buggaveeti: Improved Overcurrent Protection of Capacitor Banks using Mathematical Morphology – Graduated – Fall 2010. Employed with Siemens.
- Vrempala Sri Naga Aditya: Analysis and Simulation of Doubly Fed Asynchronous Generator – Graduated – Fall 2010.
- Henry Guan: Case Study: High Voltage at the High Lonesome Mesa Wind Farm- Graduated – Spring 2011. Employed with Sanida National Laboratory.
- Om Prasad Dahal: Modeling and Investigation of Various Options to Avoid the False Tripping Of Primary Distribution Feeder– Graduated – Spring 2013. Employed with Northern Indiana Public Service Company – NIPSCO.
- Sean Clifton: Elimination of Distribution Feeder Nuisance Tripping Via Point-On-Wave, Asynchronous Switching – Graduated – Fall 2013. Employed with Exponential Engineering.
- Shiva Prasad Pokharel: Modeling and Simulation of Three Phase Inverter to Investigate Fault Detection in Distribution Systems – Graduated – Spring 2014. Employed with Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold Inc.
- Chris Zubia: Short Circuit Modeling and Protection Implementation for A Type 3 Wind Turbine Generator Facility using ASPEN OneLiner – Graduated – Spring 2014. Employed with El Paso Electric Company.
- Phani Harsha Gadde: PMU Data Compression in Wide Area Monitoring Systems– Graduated – Fall 2015.
- Michael Brown: “Quantification and Filtering of Noise in Data Transmitted by Phasor Measurement Units” Graduated – Spring 2016.
- Tarek Mamlook: “Evaluation of Estimation Algorithms for P& M Class Phasor measurement Units” Graduated – Fall 2016.
- Jordan Johnson: “100% Stator Coverage Using Subharmonic Injection”, Graduated – Fall 2020.
Clemson-
- Austin Greenwood (EPRI),
- Trupal Patel (continued for PhD),
- Ahmad, Nasir Nadeeb (Fullbright Scholar from Afghanistan),
- Prabin Adhikari – May 2012 (continued for PhD).
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Milan Kumar Biswal: (August 1, 2014 – July 30, 2016)
Ravikumar Gelli – (January 2017 – January 2018)
Nataraj Pragallapati– (Started June 2017 – co-funded, NMSU)
Sijo Augustine (Started February 2018 – NMSU)
Hany Habib (2019-2021)
Mohamed Abuagreb (2021-2023)