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Michigan Power and Energy Lab (MPEL) Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

Wildfire Risk Mitigation in Power Systems Operations: Optimizing Public Safety Power Shutoffs and Restoration Planning

Dr. Noah Rhodes , Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory

10:00am – 11:00am in 1005 EECS Building

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2025 Energy Symposium

8:00am – 6:00pm in Chesebrough Auditorium, Chrysler Center

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2025 Energy Symposium

8:00am – 5:00pm in EECS Atrium

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Past Seminars

Canceled, To Be Rescheduled

Johanna Vorwerk , Assistant Professor, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Considering the Spatiotemporal Vulnerability of Low-Carbon Power Grids using a Case Study for New York State

Lindsay Anderson, Professor, Department Chair, Biological and Environmental Engineering

Real-world experience balancing the grid with demand-side flexibility

Stephanie Crocker Ross, Data Scientist,
Energy Hub

Paul Hines, VP, Power Systems,
EnergyHub

Control Seminar | MPEL Seminar

Grid Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: Aggregate Flexibility Quantification and Market Participation

Bai Cui, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University

Optimal Energy Rationing for Prepaid Electricity Customers

Maitreyee Marathe, PhD student in Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

MPEL Seminar | Other Event

Clean Energy Mixer

Future Energy Challenge in Power Electronics Enabled Systems of Systems

Yue Cao, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University

Control Seminar | MPEL Seminar

Enabling a responsive grid with distributed load control and optimization

Mads Almassalkhi, L. Richard Fisher Professor of Electrical Engineering , The University of Vermont

Electric Powertrain: Energy Systems, Power Electronics and Drives for Hybrid, Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles

John G. Hayes, Professor, Automotive, Industrial and renewable energy systems, University College Cork

Control Seminar | MPEL Seminar

Control design based on deep learning

Draguna Vrabie, Chief Data Scientist, PNNL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Optimally Scheduling Public Safety Power Shutoffs

Antoine Lesage-Landry, Assistant Professor, Polytechnique Montréal

Convex Optimization of Bioprocesses

Joshua Taylor, Associate Professor, Energy Systems, University of Toronto

Challenges and Opportunities in High-frequency Power Electronics for Emerging Applications

Jungwon Choi, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out

Johanna Mathieu, Assistant Professor, NOTE: Prof. Mathieu is one of many faculty participating in this Teach-Out

Mining Smart Meter Data for Improving Distribution Grid Observability

Zhaoyu Wang, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CANCELED: Earth Day Teach In: How the Power Grid Works: Challenges in Integrating More Renewable Energy & Solutions

Johanna Mathieu and Ian Hiskens from Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Michael Craig from the School for Environment and Sustainability

Real-time, Measurement-based Identification of Voltage Instability Onset

Constantine (Costas) Vournas, Professor (Retired), National Technical University of Athens

Modeling Frameworks to Enable New Opportunities in Grid Optimization and Control

Christopher DeMarco, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Dissertation Defense

Stability of Nonlinear Systems with Parameter Uncertainty

Michael Fisher, University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Control Seminar

Fast Online Reinforcement Learning Control using State-Space Dimensionality Reduction

Aranya Chakrabortty, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

Resilient Distributed Optimization and Control Algorithms for Multi-Agent Power Grids

Masoud Nazari, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

Functional Integration of Power Electronics and Electric Machines to Advance Energy Conversion

Arijit Banerjee, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Optimal Steady-State Control with Application to Secondary Frequency Control of Power Systems

John Simpson, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo

Energy Assurance with Renewable Generation

Joydeep Mitra, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Growing Electric Networks from the Bottom-Up: Circuits and Systems for Decentralized Power Conversion

Jason Poon, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley

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