| Oct 30, 2024 | Dr. Cui gave a talk to the IEEE YP Phoenix Chapter titled "The Pursuit for a Generalized Simulation Framework for Power System Transients and Stability" |
| Oct 17, 2024 | NC State University will host the 2027 North American Power Symposium (NAPS). |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Paper "Impact of Reordering on the LU Factorization Performance of Bordered Block-Diagonal Sparse Matrix" accepted at NAPS 2024 |
| Apr 20, 2024 | Ahmad Ali received the Best in Group Award in the 2024 OSU College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Poster Symposium. Congratulations to Ahmad! |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Ahmad Ali has been awarded the Dr. Ramakumar Family Energy Scholarship. He secured the first place among all nominees. Congratulations to Ahmad! |
| Feb 10, 2024 | Our paper titled “Bus Admittance Matrix Revisited: Performance Challenges on Modern Computers” is published in the IEEE Open Journal of Power and Energy. IEEEXplore. Source code is available in software. |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Cui receives the NSF CAREER Award. |
| Oct 01, 2023 | Our paper titled “Power Sharing-Based Framework for Allocating Automatic Generation Control in Distributed Energy Resources” is accepted by the 2024 IEEE PES T&D conference. Congrats to Ahmad! |
| Aug 25, 2023 | CyberTraining project funded by National Science Foundation. |
| Aug 20, 2023 | SENSL welcomes Haya Monawwar to the Ph.D. program! Haya will work on high-performance computing for power systems. |
| Nov 15, 2022 | Our review paper titled Fusion of Microgrid Control with Model-free Reinforcement Learning: Review and Vision is published on IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. |
| Nov 09, 2022 | Our new research investigates how COVID-19 impacts the consumption of electricity in the US. Check out the paper here: Electricity consumption variation versus economic structure during COVID-19 on metropolitan statistical areas in the US on Nature Communications. |
| Aug 25, 2022 | Our proposal "High-Performance Transient Stability Simulation of Power Systems on Modern Parallel Computing Hardware" is funded by National Science Foundation. |
| Aug 11, 2022 | We publised a report for the NREL project on automatic generation control using distributed energy resources in cyber-physical power systems. The report is openly available here. |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Our inter-disciplinary review on power electronics-interfaced systems and cyber-physical systems is publised by Wiley. Check it out here https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wene.448. |
| May 30, 2022 | Our paper titled “Disturbance Propagation in Power Grids With High Converter Penetration “ is published in the Proceedings of the IEEE. See IEEEXplore. |
| Mar 05, 2022 | Our paper titled “Andes_gym: A Versatile Environment for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Power Systems” is accepted by the 2022 IEEE PES General Meeting and selected as Best Conference Paper. See preprint and source code. |
| Feb 04, 2022 | Our paper titled “Transmission-Distribution Dynamic Co-simulation of Electric Vehicles Providing Grid Frequency Response” is accepted by the 2022 IEEE PES General Meeting. See Prof. Tom Overbye’s website for PDF. |
| Jan 07, 2022 | SENSL welcomes Zaid Mahmood and Ahmad Ali as new PhD students! |
| Oct 03, 2021 | Our paper titled “Transmission-and-Distribution Dynamic Co-Simulation Framework for Distributed Energy Resource Frequency Response” is published in the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. The collaboration with NREL creates a Transmission-Distribution co-simulation platform. See arXiv or IEEEXplore. |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Our paper “Data-Driven Joint Voltage Stability Assessment Considering Load Uncertainty: A Variational Bayes Inference Integrated with Multi-CNNs” is published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. PDF available in IEEEXplore. |
| Sep 08, 2021 | Our paper “Encoding Frequency Constraints in Preventive Unit Commitment Using Deep Learning with Region-of-Interest Active Sampling” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Preprint available on arXiv. Early Access is at IEEExplore. |
| Apr 11, 2021 | Our letter “Effective Parallelism for Equation and Jacobian Evaluation in Large-Scale Power Flow Calculation” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Preprint available on arXiv. |
| Feb 12, 2021 | I will join Oklahoma State University as an assistant professor. |
| Feb 05, 2021 | Recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for 2020 by the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. |
| Nov 23, 2020 | I am elevated to an IEEE Senior Member. |
| Oct 01, 2020 | CURENT LTB won the 2020 R&D 100 Award. |
| Sep 01, 2020 | ANDES Version 1.1.0 released highlighting renewable generation models. |
| Aug 18, 2020 | Our paper “Hybrid Symbolic-Numeric Framework for Power System Modeling and Analysis” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. This work has been implemented in ANDES. See IEEExplore or arXiv. |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Our recent paper “Mass-Matrix Differential-Algebraic Equation Formulation for Transient Stability Simulation” is available on arXiv. |
| May 26, 2020 | ANDES Version 1.0.0 Released. |
| May 13, 2020 | Our recent paper “On the Modeling and Simulation of Anti-Windup Proportional Integral Controller” is available on arXiv. |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for 2019 by the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. See the full list of recognized reviewers. |
| Feb 29, 2020 | Our paper A Large-Scale Testbed as a Virtual Power Grid: For Closed-Loop Controls in Research and Testing(full-text) is published in IEEE PES Magazine. |
| Dec 10, 2019 | My paper Cyber-physical system testbed for power system monitoring and wide-area control verification is accepted by IET Energy Systems Integration. |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Defended my Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Large-Scale Simulation of Modern Electric Power Systems”. |
| Apr 26, 2018 | Received the “Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant” award at the 2018 EECS Gonzalez Family Awards Banquet. |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Attended the 2018 IEEE PES T&D Conference in Denver, CO. |
| Apr 03, 2018 | Paper Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems |
| Mar 01, 2018 | My first-author paper titled Bilevel Arbitrage Potential Evaluation for Grid-Scale Energy Storage Considering Wind Power and LMP Smoothing Effect published on IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. |
| May 10, 2016 | My first-author paper titled Day-ahead coordinated operation of utility-scale electricity and natural gas networks considering demand response based virtual power plants accepted by Applied Energy. |