Graduate Students:
Rui Ma, PhD Student
Rui Ma received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2014 and the M.S. degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH in 2016. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. His research interests include Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) in smart grids, power system reliability and security.
Cheng Lyu, PhD Student
Cheng Lyu obtained his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai University of Electrical Power, Shanghai, China in 2017, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, New York, USA in 2020. As a Ph.D. student at Syracuse University, his research project explores application of Machine Learning to Power System and Renewable Energy Forecasting.
Che-Kai Chang, Masters Student
Che-Kai Chang received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, in 2018. He is currently working on his Masters degree at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. His research interests are in, power system dynamics, in particular, data-driven estimation of the power grid inertia with increased levels of renewable generation resources.
Undergraduate Students:
Past Students:
Sagnik Basumallik, PhD 2021 — now at University of Colorado
Sagnik Basumallik received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University in 2021. His main research interests in power system include Controlled Islanding, Contingency Analysis, RAS/SPS, Voltage Security Assessment, Transient and Small Signal Stability analysis. His current research focuses on cyber-security impact analysis of power networks. He has served as a TA and mentored graduate and undergraduate students in Electrical Engineering Fundamentals, Intro to Probability and Intro to Data Science. He also served as a University Senator and was a part of the Finance Committee of the Graduate Student Organization. Website: https://www.colorado.edu/ecee/sagnik-basumallik
Wolf Peter Jean Philippe, PhD 2020– now at OPAL-RT
Wolf Peter Jean Philippe received the Bachelor degree in electromechanical engineering from Faculty of Sciences of the State University of Haiti (FDS-UEH) in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University, New York, USA, in 2015. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University in 2020. His main research areas include demand response, modelling of wind power variation, power system operation and control under high wind power penetration.
Guangyuan Shi, MSEE — now at State Grid Economic and Technological Research Institute, Beijing, china
Guangyuan Shi now is working at State Grid Economic and Technological Research Institute in Beijing, China. He earned his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering & Automation from North China Electric Power University in 2015, and M.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University in 2017. During graduate studies, he worked on probabilistic power flow calculation and renewable energy forecasting. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from Syracuse University. His current research interests are Distribution Network planning and designing, renewable energy consumption, and power grid reliability analysis.
Ansumana Bangura, Undergraduate student, Mechanical Engineering Major now at Cornell University
Ansumana Bangura is a senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University. His research interests revolve around using renewable and sustainable energy to power cities. During his summer of research in the lab, he investigated ways of integrating demand response into unit commitment models used for optimizing electricity production.
Yi Zhou, Electrical Engineering Major, now at UCLA
Yi Zhou was an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering at Syracuse University. He joined the lab as a rising junior in May 2018 when he earned his minor in statistics. His research work has contributed to power system planning with high penetration of renewable energy resources and community solar energy. He is currently pursuing his Masters degree at UCLA.