Lecturer: Dr. Jianhui Wang

Section Manage, Argonne National Laboratory

Time： 10:00-11:30 am, June 30, 2016

Site： 3-102, West Main-building

Abstract：With the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events, how to improve power grid resilience is a critical issue that the electric power industry is facing. Power grid resilience improvement measures including infrastructure hardening, response, recovery and restoration span multiple timescales from years to seconds and are interdependent with other infrastructures such as transportation networks. This presentation will discuss a number of challenging issues associated with decision support tool development for improved power grid resilience ranging from grid hardening investment strategies, restoration plan optimization for both transmission and distribution grids to repair crew scheduling and mobile emergency generator dispatch.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Jianhui Wang is the Section Manager for Advanced Power Grid Modeling at Argonne National Laboratory. He is the Secretary of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Power System Operations Committee. He has authored/co-authored more than 150 journal and conference publications. He is an editor of Journal of Energy Engineering and Applied Energy. He received the IEEE Chicago Section 2012 Outstanding Young Engineer Award and is an Affiliate Professor at Auburn University and an Adjunct Professor at University of Notre Dame. He has also held visiting positions in Europe, Australia and Hong Kong including a VELUX Visiting Professorship at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Dr. Wang is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer. He is the recipient of the IEEE PES Power System Operation Committee Prize Paper Award in 2015.