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Hantao Cui is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CURENT, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the Chief Technologist of the Large-Scale Testbed (LTB), which won the 2020 R&D 100 Awards, and the author of the power system modeling and analysis tool ANDES.

Hantao Cui received his Ph. D. degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2018, advised by Dr. Fangxing “Fran” Li. He was appointed as a full-time Research Associate with CURENT before Ph. D. graduation. He received his M. S. and B. S. from Southeast University, China, in 2013 and 2011, both in electrical engineering.

Hantao Cui has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy since 2019. He is an Outstanding Reviewer for 2019 by the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He is author of two Essential Science Indicators (ESI) highly cited papers. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Hantao Cui’s research include:

  • Symbolic and numerical analysis in power systems
  • Cyber-physical system modeling, real-time simulation, and closed-loop control
  • Cybersecurity in transmission, distribution and microgrids
  • Microgrid and smart distribution control, distributed energy resources
  • Hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and real-time operating systems
  • Smart grid scheduling and operation under uncertainty

Hantao Cui publishes research papers as well as open-source software for research. Use the icons at the bottom of this page to checkout the most recent papers and tools.