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Updated in 7/2018.
Associate Professor Department
of EECS, University of Tennessee - Knoxville Tel:
865-974-3982 (O) Email: kaisun(at)utk.edu Address: Min H. Kao Building, #612, 1520 Middle
Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-2250 (CV, GoogleScholar,
ResearchGate) PhD openings are available for Spring &
Fall 2019. Latest News 8/2018: Wenyun Ju passed the PhD
dissertation defense. Congrats to Dr. Ju. 11/2017: Bin Wang, Weihong Huang and Nan
Duan passed their PhD dissertation defenses. Congrats to Dr. Wang, Dr. Huang
and Dr. Duan. Resources Test Cases Library on
Forced/Sustained Power System Oscillations IEEE PES Task Force on Oscillation
Source Location Teaching ECE 325 (Electric
Energy System Components): Fall 16, Fall 15, Fall 18 ECE 421
(Electric Energy Systems): Fall 17, Fall 14, Fall 13 ECE
422 (Power System Operations & Planning): Spring 15, Spring 14 ECE
521 (Power Systems Analysis I): Fall 13 ECE 522 (Power Systems Analysis
II): Spring 18, Spring 17, Spring 14, Spring 13 ECE 620
(Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electrical Energy Transmission Networks): Fall
17, Fall 16 Research Highlights
Publications Patents 1.
Chengxi
Liu, Kai Sun, Bin Wang, Xin Xu, Voltage Stability Assessment, Control and Probabilistic
Power Flow Based on Multi-Dimensional Holomorphic Embedding Techniques,
US Patent Application, No. 62/697,907, July 2018. 2.
Nan
Duan, Kai Sun, Transient Stability Simulation and
Operation of Power Systems,
US Patent Application, No. 14/956,076, Dec 2015 (link) 3.
Kai Sun, Qiang Zhou, Application of Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) in Oscillation Monitoring for
Interconnected Power Systems, US Patent, No. 13/280,458, April 2013 (link) 4.
Kai Sun, Kyeon Hur, Pei Zhang, Application of Phasor Measurement Units
(PMU) for Controlled System Separation, US Patent No. 8/606,422, Dec,
2013 (Taiwan Patent No. I426677, Feb, 2014) (link) 5.
Qianchuan
Zhao, Kai Sun, Da-Zhong Zheng, Jin
Ma, Qiang Lu, Solution to Preventing
Power Systems from Collapse in Case of Catastrophe, Chinese Patent No.
03122884, May, 2003 (link) Books
and Chapters 1. Kai Sun, Yunhe
Hou, Wei Sun, Junjian Qi, Power System
Control under Cascading Failures: Understanding, Mitigation and System
Restoration, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-119-28202-0. 2.
Kai Sun, ¡°Measurement-based Voltage Stability
Assessment Techniques,¡± Standard
Handbook for Electrical Engineers (17th edition), McGraw-Hill,
2018. ISBN: 978-1-259-64258-6. 3. Kai Sun, Fengkai Hu, ¡°Measurement-based Voltage Stability
Monitoring for Load Areas,¡± Application
of Smart Grid Technologies: case studies in saving electricity in different
parts of the world, Elsevier, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-128-03128-5. 4.
Kai Sun, ¡°WAMS Based Controlled System Separation to
Mitigate Cascading Failures in Smart Grid,¡± Smart Grid Control: Opportunities and Research Challenges,
Springer, 2018. ISBN: 978-3-319-98310-3.
Accepted 1. Rui Yao, Kai
Sun, Di Shi, Xiaohu Zhang, ¡°Voltage Stability Analysis of Power Systems
with Induction Motors Based on Holomorphic Embedding,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, in press (PDF). 2.
Chengxi Liu, Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Fast Power System Dynamic
Simulation Using Continued Fractions,¡± IEEE
Access, in press (IEEExplore;
PDF). 3.
Bin Wang, Nan Duan, Kai Sun, ¡°A Time-Power Series Based
Semi-Analytical Approach for Power System Simulation,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, in press (IEEExplore; PDF). 4.
Weihong Huang, Kai Sun, ¡°Optimization of SVC
settings to improve post-fault voltage recovery and angular stability,¡± Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, accepted. 5.
Rui Yao, Kai Sun, ¡°Towards Simulation and Risk Assessment of
Weather-Related Outages,¡± IEEE
Transactions on Smart Grid, in press (IEEExplore; PDF). 6.
Yongli Zhu, Chengxi Liu, Kai Sun, Di Shi, Zhiwei Wang,
¡°Optimization of Battery Energy Storage to Improve Power System Oscillation
Damping,¡± IEEE Transactions on
Sustainable Energy, in press (IEEExplore; PDF). 7.
Chengxi Liu, Kai Sun, Bin Wang, Wenyun Ju, ¡°Probabilistic Power Flow Analysis
Using Multi-Dimensional Holomorphic Embedding and Generalized Cumulants,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, in
press (IEEExplore;
PDF). 8.
Lei Ding, Yichen Guo, Peter Wall,
Kai Sun, Vladimir Terzija,
¡°Identifying the Timing of Controlled Islanding Using a Controlling UEP based
Method,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power
Systems, in press (IEEExplore). 9.
Denis Osipov, Kai Sun, ¡°Adaptive Nonlinear Model
Reduction for Fast Power System Simulation,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, in press (IEEExplore; PDF). 10.
Guoqiang Zu Jun Xiao, Kai Sun, ¡°Mathematical Base and
Deduction of Security Region for Distribution Systems with DER,¡± IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, in
press (IEEExplore) 2018 11.
Wenyun Ju, Kai Sun, Rui Yao, ¡°Simulation of Cascading Outages Using a Power
Flow Model Considering Frequency,¡± IEEE
Access, vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 37784-37795, December 2018 (IEEExplore). 12. Rui Yao, Kai Sun, Feng Liu, Shengwei Mei, ¡°Efficient Simulation of
Temperature Evolution of Overhead Transmission Lines Based on Analytical
Solution and NWP,¡± IEEE Transactions on
Power Delivery, vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 1576-1588, August 2018 (PDF; IEEExplore). 13. Rui Yao, Kai Sun, Feng Liu, Shengwei Mei, ¡°Management of Cascading Outage Risk
Based on Risk Gradient and Markovian Tree Search,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, No. 4, pp 4050-4060,
July 2018 (PDF; IEEExplore). 14. Chengxi Liu, Bin Wang, Fengkai
Hu, Kai Sun, Claus Leth Bak,
¡°Online Voltage Stability Assessment for Load Areas Based on the Holomorphic
Embedding Method,¡± IEEE Transactions on
Power Systems, vol. 33, No. 4, pp 3720-3734, July 2018 (PDF; IEEExplore). 15. Daham Min, Seog-joo Kim,
Sangsoo Seo, Young-Hwan Moon, Kai Sun,
Joe H. Chow, Kyeon Hur, ¡°Computing Safety Margins of a Generation Rejection
Scheme: A Framework for Online Implementation,¡± IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 2337-2346,
May 2018 (IEEExplore). 16.
Miao Fan, Kai
Sun, Derek Lane, Wei Gu, Zhengshuo Li, Fang Zhang, ¡°A Novel Generation
Rescheduling Algorithm to Improve Power System Reliability with High
Renewable Energy Penetration,¡± IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 3349-3357, May 2018 (PDF; IEEExplore). 17. Junjian Qi, Jianhui Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Efficient Estimation of
Component Interactions for Cascading Failure Analysis by EM Algorithm,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 3153-3161, May 2018. (IEEExplore). 18.
Chongqing Kang, Zhe Chen, Ming Zhang, Oriol
Gomis-Bellmunt, Mike Barnes, Jie Yan, Weihao Hu, Kai Sun, ¡°Guest Editorial for the Special Section on Enabling
Very High Penetration Renewable Energy Integration Into Future Power
Systems,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power
Systems, vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 3223-3226, May 2018 (IEEExplore) 19. Guoqiang
Zu, Jun Xiao, Kai Sun,
¡°Distribution Network Reconfiguration Comprehensively Considering N-1
Security and Network Loss,¡± IET
Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 12, No. 8, pp.
1721-1728, April 2018 (IEEExplore). 20. Tao Ding, Kai Sun, Can Huang, Zhaohong Bie, Fangxing Li, ¡°Mixed Integer
Linear Programming-based Splitting Strategies for Power System Islanding
Operation Considering Network Connectivity,¡± IEEE
Systems Journal,
vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 350-359, March 2018 (IEEExplore) 21. Bin
Wang, Kai Sun, Wei Kang, ¡°Nonlinear
Modal Decoupling of Multi-Oscillator Systems with Applications to Power
Systems,¡± IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp.
9201-9217, 2018 (PDF; IEEExplore). 22. Amir Golshani, Wei Sun, Kai Sun, ¡°An advanced power system
partitioning method for fast and reliable restoration: towards a self-healing
power grid,¡± IET Generation, Transmission
& Distribution,
vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 42-52, 2018 (IEEExplore). 23. Junjian Qi, Kai Sun, Jianhui Wang, Hui Liu,
¡°Dynamic State Estimation for Multi-Machine Power System by Unscented Kalman
Filter with Enhanced Numerical Stability,¡± IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 1184-1196,
March 2018 (PDF; IEEExplore) 24. Yongli Zhu, Chengxi Liu, Bin
Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Damping Control
for a Target Oscillation Mode Using Battery Energy Storage,¡± Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean
Energy, February 2018 (SpringerLink). 25. Bin Wang, Chengxi Liu, Kai Sun, ¡°Multi-Stage Holomorphic
Embedding Method for Calculating the Power-Voltage Curve,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1127-1129, January 2018 (PDF; IEEExplore) 2017 26. Chengxi Liu, Bin Wang, Xin Xu,
Kai Sun, Di Shi, Claus Leth Bak,
¡°A Multi-Dimensional Holomorphic Embedding Method to Solve AC Power Flows,¡± IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 25270-25285,
2017 (PDF; IEEExplore) 27. Weihong Huang, Kai Sun, Junjian Qi, Jiaxin Ning,
¡°Optimal Allocation of Dynamic Var Sources Using the Voronoi Diagram Method
Integrating Linear Programing,¡± IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 4644 ¨C 4655, Nov. 2017
(PDF; IEEExplore). 28. Rui Yao, Shaowei Huang, Kai Sun, Feng Liu, Xuemin Zhang,
Shengwei Mei, Wei Wei, Lijie Ding, ¡°Risk Assessment of Multi-timescale
Cascading Outages based on Markovian Tree Search,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 2887 -
2900, July 2017 (PDF; IEEExplore) 29. Wenyun Ju, Kai Sun, Junjian Qi, ¡°Multi-Layer
Interaction Graph for Analysis and Mitigation of Cascading Outages,¡± IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected
Topics in Circuits and Systems,
vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 239-249, June 2017 (PDF; IEEExplore). 30. Tao Ding, Kai Sun, Qingrun Yang, Abdul Wahab Khan, Zhaohong Bie, ¡°Mixed
Integer Second Order Cone Relaxation with Dynamic Simulation for Proper Power
System Islanding Operations,¡± IEEE
Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 7,
No. 2, pp.295-306, June 2017 (IEEExplore). 31. Hongbin Sun, Qinglai Guo,
Marija D. Ilić, Qiuwei Wu, Kai Sun,
Pengwei Du, ¡°Guest Editorial for the Special Issue: Smart Grid Voltage
Control,¡± IET Generation,
Transmission & Distribution, vol. 11, No. 15, pp. 3655-3656, 2017 32. Weihong Huang, Kai Sun, Junjian Qi, Jiaxin Ning, ¡°Optimization
of Dynamic Reactive Power Sources Using Mesh Adaptive Direct Search,¡± IET
Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 11, No. 15, pp. 3675-3682, 2017 (PDF; IEEExplore) 33. Fengkai Hu, Kai Sun, Di Shi, Zhiwei Wang,
¡°Measurement-based Voltage Stability Assessment for Load Areas Addressing n-1
Contingencies,¡± IET Generation,
Transmission & Distribution, vol. 11, No. 15, pp. 3731-3738, 2017 (PDF; IEEExplore). 34. Junjian Qi, Wenyun Ju, Kai Sun, ¡°Estimating the Propagation
of Interdependent Cascading Outages with Multi-Type Branching Processes,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 1212-1223, March 2017 (PDF; IEEExplore) 35. Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Location Methods of Oscillation Sources in Power
Systems: A Survey,¡± Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clear
Energy, vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 151-159, 2017 (PDF;
SpringerLink) 36. Bin Wang, Xiaowen Su, Kai Sun, ¡°Properties of the
Frequency-Amplitude Curve,¡± IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 826-827, January 2017
(PDF; IEEExplore)
37. Nan Duan, Kai Sun, ¡°Power System Simulation Using the Multistage Adomian
Decomposition Method,¡± IEEE Transactions
on Power Systems,¡± vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 430-441, January 2017 (PDF; IEEExplore) 38. Junjian Qi, Weihong Huang, Kai Sun, Wei Kang, ¡°Optimal Placement
of Dynamic Var Sources by Using Empirical Controllability Covariance,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.
32, no. 1, pp. 240-249, January 2017 (PDF; IEEExplore) 39. Huimin Gao, Xiaogao Xie,
Jianmin Zhang, Chenxi Wu, Kai Sun,
¡°Second-order oscillation mode study of hydropower system based on linear
elastic model and modal series method,¡± International
Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, vol. 27, No. 1, January 2017
(DOI: 10.1002/etep.2233). (link) 2016 40. Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Formulation and Characterization of Power System Electromechanical
Oscillations,¡± IEEE Transactions on
Power Systems, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 5082-5093, November 2016 (PDF;
IEEExplore) 41. Feifei Bai, Yong Liu, Yilu
Liu, Kai Sun, Navin Bhatt, Alberto
Del Rosso, Evangelos Farantatos and Xiaoru Wang, ¡°A measurement-based
approach for power system instability early warning,¡± Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, 2016, DOI: 10.1186/s41601-016-0014-0
(link). 42. Kai Sun, Junjian Qi, Wei Kang, ¡°Power System Observability and Dynamic
State Estimation for Stability Monitoring Using Synchrophasor Measurements,¡± Control Engineering Practice, vol. 53,
pp. 160-172, August 2016 (PDF; link) 43. Fengkai Hu, Kai Sun, Alberto Del Rosso, Evangelos
Farantatos, Navin Bhatt, ¡°Measurement-Based Real-Time Voltage Stability Monitoring for Load Areas,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 2787-2798, July 2016 (PDF;
IEEExplore) 44. Rui Yao, Shaowei Huang, Kai Sun, Feng Liu, Xuemin Zhang,
Shengwei Mei, ¡°A
Multi-timescale Quasi-Dynamic Model for Simulation of Cascading Outages,¡± IEEE Transactions
on Power Systems, vol. 31, No. 4, pp.
3189-3201, July 2016 (PDF; IEEExplore) 45. Feifei Bai, Lin Zhu, Yilu Liu,
Xiaoru Wang, Kai Sun, Yiwei Ma,
Mahendra Patel, Evangelos Farantatos, and Navin Bhatt, ¡°Design and
Implementation of a Measurement-based Adaptive Wide-Area Damping Controller
Considering Time Delays,¡± Electric
Power Systems Research, vol. 130, pp. 1-9, January 2016 (PDF) 2015 46. Feifei Bai, Yong Liu, Yilu
Liu, Kai Sun, Navin Bhatt, Alberto
Del Rosso, Evangelos Farantatos, Xiaoru Wang, ¡°Measurement-Based Correlation
Approach for Power System Dynamic Response Estimation,¡± IET
Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 9, No. 12, pp. 1474-1484, September
2015 (PDF; IEEExplore) 47. Yong Liu, Kai Sun, Yilu Liu, ¡°A Measurement-based Power System Model for
Dynamic Response Estimation and Instability Warning,¡± Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 124, pp. 1-9, 2015 (PDF) 48. Junjian Qi, Kai Sun, Wei Kang, ¡°Optimal PMU
Placement for Power System Dynamic State Estimation by Using Empirical
Observability Gramian,¡± IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, pp. 2041-2054, July 2015 (PDF; IEEExplore) 49. Junjian Qi, Kai Sun, Shengwei Mei, ¡°An
Interaction Model for Simulation and Mitigation of Cascading Failures,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 804-819, March 2015 (PDF; IEEExplore) 2014 and before 50. Chengxi Liu, Kai Sun, Zakir Hussain Rather, Zhe
Chen, Claus Leth Bak, Paul Thøgersen, Per Lund, ¡°A Systematic Approach for
Dynamic Security Assessment and the Corresponding Preventive Control Scheme
Based on Decision Trees,¡± IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 29, No. 2, pp 717-730, March 2014 (PDF; IEEExplore) 51. Kai Sun, Qiang Zhou, Yilu Liu, ¡°A Phase Locked Loop-based Approach to
Real-time Modal Analysis on Synchrophasor Measurements,¡± IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 260-269, Jan.
2014 (PDF; IEEExplore)
52. Kai Sun, Kyeon Hur, Pei Zhang, ¡°A New Unified Scheme for Controlled
Power System Separation Using Synchronized Phasor Measurements,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 1544-1554, Aug. 2011 (IEEExplore) 53. Chong Wang, Vijay Vittal, Kai Sun, ¡°OBDD-Based Sectionalizing
Strategies for Parallel Power System Restoration,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 26, No. 3, pp.
1426-1433, Aug. 2011 (IEEExplore) 54. Yunhe Hou, Chen-Ching Liu, Kai Sun, Pei Zhang, Shanshan Liu,
Dean Mizumura, ¡°Computation of Milestones for Decision Support during System
Restoration,¡± IEEE Transactions on
Power Systems, vol. 26 , No. 3, pp. 1399-1409, Aug. 2011 (IEEExplore) 55. Kai Sun, Stephen T. Lee, Pei Zhang, ¡°An Adaptive Power System
Equivalent for Real-time Estimation of Stability Margin using Phase-Plane
Trajectories,¡± IEEE Transactions on
Power Systems, vol. 26, pp. 915-923, May 2011. (IEEExplore) 56. Ruisheng Diao, Kai Sun, Vijay Vittal, Robert J.
O¡¯Keefe, Michael R. Richardson, Navin Bhatt, Dwayne Stradford, Sanjoy K.
Sarawgi, ¡°Decision Tree-Based Online Voltage Security Assessment Using PMU
Measurements,¡± IEEE Transactions on
Power Systems, vol. 24, pp.832-839, May 2009. (IEEExplore) 57. Kai Sun, Siddharth Likhate, Vijay Vittal, V. Sharma Kolluri, Sujit
Mandal, ¡°An Online Dynamic Security Assessment Scheme using Phasor
Measurements and Decision Trees,¡± IEEE
Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 22, pp. 1935-1943, Nov 2007. (IEEExplore) 58. Ming Jin, Tarlochan S. Sidhu, Kai Sun, ¡°A New System Splitting
Scheme Based on the Unified Stability Control Framework,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
vol. 22, pp.433-441, Feb 2007. (IEEExplore)
59. Kai Sun, Da-Zhong Zheng, Qiang Lu, ¡°Searching for Feasible Splitting
Strategies of Controlled System Islanding,¡± IEE Proceedings Generation, Transmission & Distribution,
vol.153, pp.89-98, Jan 2006. (IEEExplore) 60. Kai Sun, Da-Zhong Zheng, Qiang Lu, ¡°A Simulation Study of OBDD-based
Proper Splitting Strategies for Power Systems under Consideration of
Transient Stability,¡± IEEE Transactions
on Power Systems, vo.l.20, pp.389-399, Feb 2005. (IEEExplore) 61. Qianchuan Zhao, Kai Sun, Da-Zhong Zheng, Jin Ma,
Qiang Lu, ¡°A Study of System Splitting Strategies for Island Operation of
Power System: A Two-phase Method Based on OBDDs,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.18, pp.1556-1565, Nov
2003. (IEEExplore) 62. Kai Sun, Da-Zhong Zheng, Qiang Lu, ¡°Splitting Strategies for
Islanding Operation of Large-scale Power Systems Using OBDD-based Methods,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
vol.18, pp. 912-923, May 2003. (IEEExplore) 63. Kai Sun, Qianchuan Zhao, Da-Zhong Zheng, ¡°A Hybrid Control for
Autonomous Systems of Electric Power Supply (in Chinese),¡± Journal of Control Theory and Applications,
vol. 19, pp. 23-28, Feb 2002. (LINK) Magazine Articles 64. K. Sun, ¡°Coherency Theory - An Excellent Reference on the Subject: Book
Review of Power System Coherency and Model Reduction,¡± IEEE Power and Energy
Magazine, vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 102-104, Jan 2014 Conference Papers 2018 1. Xin Xu, Chengxi Liu, Kai
Sun, ¡°A Holomorphic Embedding Method to Solve Unstable Equilibrium Points
of Power Systems,¡± to be presented at IEEE CDC 2018. 2. Nan Duan, Weihong Huang, Kai
Sun, Xiaochuan Luo, Qiang Zhang, ¡°Multiple-shaft Turbine Model Reduction
by Fractional-order Modeling,¡± 2018 IEEE PES General Meeting 3. Nan Duan, Srdjan Simunovic, Aleksandar Dimitrovski, Kai Sun, ¡°Improving the Convergence
Rate of Parareal-in-time Power System Simulation using the Krylov Subspace,¡±
2018 IEEE PES General Meeting 4. Denis Osipov, Nan Duan, Aleksandar Dimitrovski, Srikanth Allu,
Srdjan Simunovic, Kai Sun,
¡°Adaptive Model Reduction for Parareal in Time Method for Transient Stability
Simulations,¡± 2018 IEEE PES General Meeting 5. Q. Shi, Y. Xu, Y. Sun, W. Feng, F. Li, K. Sun, ¡°Analytical Approach to Estimating the Probability of
Transient Stability under Stochastic Disturbances,¡± 2018 IEEE PES General
Meeting 6. Yongli Zhu, Chengxi Liu, Kai
Sun, ¡°Image Embedding of PMU Data for Deep Learning towards Transient
Disturbance Classification,¡± IEEE the 2nd International Conference on Energy
Internet, Beijing, China, May 21-25, 2018 7. Bin Wang, Yichen Zhang, Kai
Sun, Kevin Tomsovic, ¡°Quantifying the Synthetic Inertia and Load-Damping
Effect of a Converter-Interfaced Power Source,¡± EnergyCon 2018, Limassol,
Cyprus, June 3-7, 2018. 8.
Nan Duan, Aleksandar
Dimitrovski, Srdjan Simunovic, Kai Sun,
Junjian Qi, Jianhui Wang, ¡°Embedding Spatial Decomposition in Parareal in
Time Power System Simulation,¡± IEEE ISGT 2018, Feb. 19-22, 2018 in
Washington, DC 2017 9. Wenyun Ju, Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Can Nonlinear
Electromechanical Oscillation be Analyzed Using an Equivalent SMIB System?¡± 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting 10. Y. Wang, H. Pulgar-Painemal, K. Sun, ¡°Online analysis of voltage
security in a microgrid using convolutional neural networks,¡± 2017 IEEE PES
General Meeting. 11.
I.R.
Cabrera, Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°A Method to Locate the
Source of Forced Oscillations Based on Linearized Model and System
Measurements,¡± 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting. 12.
Chengxi Liu, Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Fast Power System
Simulation Using Semi-Analytical Solutions Based on Pade Approximants,¡± 2017
IEEE PES General Meeting. 13.
Eric Abreut, Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Semi-Analytical Fault-on
Trajectory Simulation and Its Application in Direct Methods,¡± 2017 IEEE PES
General Meeting. 14. Yongli Zhu, Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Damping Control for Power
Systems Using Energy Storage,¡± 29th Chinese Control and Decision Conference,
May 28-30, 2017, Chongqing, China. 2016 15.
N. Duan, A. Dimitrovski, S.
Simunovic, K. Sun, ¡°Applying
Reduced Generator Models in the Coarse Solver of Parareal in Time Parallel
Power System Simulation,¡± IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe
(ISGT Europe) Conference, October 9-12, 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 16. J. Qi, K. Sun, W. Kang, ¡°Adaptive Optimal PMU Placement Based on
Empirical Observability Gramian,¡± IFAC Symposium on Non-Linear Control
Systems (NOLCOS), August 23-25, 2016, Monterey, CA. 17.
A. C. Teron, A. Bartlett, N.
Duan, K. Sun, ¡°Estimating the
Nonlinear Oscillation Frequency of a Power System Using the Harmonic Balanced
Method,¡± IEEE PES General Meeting, July 17-21, 2016, Boston, MA. 18. D. Osipov, F. Hu, K. Sun, ¡°Voltage Stability Margin
Estimation for a Load Area Using a Three-Bus Equivalent,¡± IEEE PES General
Meeting, July 17-21, 2016, Boston, MA 19. F. Hu, L. Yang, J. Wang, Y.
Ma, K. Sun, L.M. Tolbert, F. Wang,
¡°Measurement-based Voltage Stability Assessment and Control on CURENT
Hardware Test Bed System,¡± IEEE PES General Meeting, July 17-21, 2016,
Boston, MA 20. S. Maslennikov, B. Wang, Q.
Zhang, F. Ma, X. Luo, K. Sun, E. Litvinov, ¡°A Test Cases Library for Methods
Locating the Sources of Sustained Oscillations,¡± IEEE PES General Meeting,
July 17-21, 2016, Boston, MA 2015 21. Y. Tong, J. Sun, K. Sun, P. Li, ¡°Outsourcing Power
System Simulations,¡± IEEE GLOBECOM, San Diego, CA, Dec 6-10, 2015 22. Y. Tong, J. Sun, K. Sun, ¡°Privacy-preserving spectral
estimation in smart grid,¡± IEEE SmartGridComm Symposium, Miami, FL, Nov 2-5,
2015 23. F. Bai, H. Liu, L. Zhu, Y.
Liu, K. Sun, X. Wang, M. Patel, E.
Farantatos, ¡°A Measurement-based Control Input-output Signal Selection
Approach to Damp Inter-area Oscillations,¡± 2015 APPEEC 24. T. Ding, K. Sun, F. Li, H. Sun, X. Zhang, ¡°Graph Theory Based Splitting
Strategies for Power System Islanding Operation,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General
Meeting 25. G. Gurrala, A. Dimitrovski, P.
Sreekanth, S. Simunovic, M. Starke, K.
Sun, ¡°Application of Adomian Decomposition for Multi-Machine Power System
Simulation,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting 26. N. Duan, B. Wang, K. Sun, ¡°Analysis of Power System
Oscillation Frequency Using Differential Groebner Basis and the Harmonic
Balance Method,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting (PDF) 27. Y. Zhu, R. Azim, H. A. Saleem,
K. Sun, D. Shi, R. Sharma,
¡°Microgrid Security Assessment and Islanding Control by Support Vector
Machine,¡± IEEE PES General Meeting(PDF) 28. B. Wang, K. Sun, X. Su, ¡°An Oscillation Decoupling Based Direct Method for
Power System Transient Stability Analysis,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting (PDF) 29. W. Ju, J. Qi, K. Sun, ¡°Simulation and Analysis of
Cascading Failures on an NPCC Power System Test Bed,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General
Meeting (PDF) 30. E. Farantatos, A. Del Rosso,
N. Bhatt, K. Sun, Y. Liu, L. Min,
C. Jing, J. Ning, M. Parashar, ¡°A Hybrid Framework for Online Dynamic
Security Assessment Combining High Performance Computing and Synchrophasor
Measurements,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting 31. M. Nakmali, D. Osipov, K. Sun, ¡°A New Hybrid Approach to
Thevenin Equivalent Estimation for Voltage Stability Monitoring,¡± 2015 IEEE
PES General Meeting (PDF) 32. W. Huang, K. Sun, J. Qi, Y. Xu, ¡°Voronoi Diagram Based Optimization of
Dynamic Reactive Power Sources,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting (PDF) 33. N. Duan, K. Sun, ¡°Application of the Adomian Decomposition Method for
Semi-Analytic Solutions of Power System Differential Algebraic Equations,¡±
Powertech 2015, Eindhoven (PDF) 34. R. Azim, K. Sun, F. Li, Y. Zhu, H. A. Saleem, D. Shi, R. Sharma, ¡°A
Comparative Analysis of Intelligent Classifiers for Passive Islanding
Detection in Microgrids,¡± Powertech 2015, Eindhoven (PDF). 35. R. Azim, Y. Zhu, H. A. Saleem,
K. Sun, F. Li, D. Shi, R. Sharma,
¡°A
Decision Tree Based Approach for Microgrid Islanding Detection,¡± 2015 IEEE
ISGT Conference in DC (PDF). 2014 and before 36. A.D. Rosso, E. Farantatos, N.
Bhatt, K. Sun, Y. Liu, C. Jing, J.
Ning, ¡°Hybrid Simulation/Measurement-Based Framework for Online Dynamic
Security Assessment,¡± CIGRE, Houston, TX, 2014 37. K. Sun, W. Kang, ¡°Observability and Estimation Methods Using
Synchrophasor,¡± The 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014 (PDF) 38. F. Bai, Y. Liu, Y. Liu, K. Sun, et al, ¡°Methods to Establish
Input-Output Relationship for System Identification-Based Models,¡± 2014 IEEE
PES General Meeting, National Harbor, MD (PDF) 39. Y. Lei, Y. Liu, G. Kou, B.
Wang, C. Liu, K. Sun, Y. Liu, K.
Tomsovic, J. Chow, ¡°A Study on Wind Frequency Control under High Wind
Penetration on an NPCC System Model,¡± 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting, National
Harbor, MD (PDF) 40. B. Trento, B. Wang, K. Sun, and L. M. Tolbert,
¡°Integration of Phase-Locked Loop Based Real-time Oscillation Tracking in
Grid Synchronized Systems,¡± 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting, National Harbor,
MD (PDF) 41. F. Hu, K. Sun, A. D. Rosso, E. Farantatos, N. Bhatt, ¡°An Adaptive
Three-bus Power System Equivalent for Estimating Voltage Stability Margin
from Synchronized Phasor Measurements,¡± 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting,
National Harbor, MD (PDF) 42. L. E. Bernal, F. Hu, K. Sun, E. Farantatos,
¡°Identification and Wide-area Visualization of the Centers of Oscillation for
a Large-scale Power System,¡± 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting, National Harbor,
MD (PDF) 43. B. Wang, K. Sun, A. D. Rosso, E. Farantatos, N. Bhatt, ¡°A Study on Fluctuations
in Electromechanical Oscillation Frequencies of Power Systems,¡± 2014 IEEE PES
General Meeting, National Harbor, MD (PDF) 44. W. Huang, K. Sun, J. Qi, Y. Xu, ¡°A New Approach to Optimization of Dynamic
Reactive Power Sources Addressing FIDVR Issues,¡± 2014 IEEE PES General
Meeting, National Harbor, MD (PDF) 45. F. Bai, Y. Liu, K. Sun, et al, ¡°Input Signals
Selection for Measurement-Based Power System ARX Dynamic Model Response
Estimation,¡± 2014 IEEE PES T&D Conference, Chicago, IL, US, 2014 (PDF) 46. C. Li, Y. Liu, K. Sun, et al., ¡°Measurement Based
Power System Dynamics Prediction with Multivariate AutoRegressive Model,¡±
2014 IEEE PES T&D Conference, Chicago, IL, US, 2014 (PDF) 47. K. Sun, F. Hu, N. Bhatt, ¡°A New Approach for Real-Time Voltage
Stability Monitoring Using PMUs,¡± 2014 IEEE ISGT Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(PDF) 48. G Wang, CC Liu, N Bhatt, E.
Farantatos, K. Sun, ¡°Observability
for PMU-based monitoring of nonlinear power system dynamics,¡± 2013 IREP
Symposium - Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control-IX, Aug. 25-30, 2013,
Rethymnon, Greece (PDF) 49. K. Sun, X. Luo, J. Wong, ¡°Early Warning of Wide-Area Angular Stability
Problems Using Synchrophasors,¡± IEEE PES General Meeting, 23-26 July 2012,
San Diego, 2012 (LINK) 50. Y. Liu, K. Sun Y. Liu, ¡°Measurement-based Power System Dynamic Model for
Response Estimation,¡± IEEE PES General Meeting, 23-26 July 2012, San Diego,
2012 (LINK) 51. F. Galvan, A. Abur, K.
Sun, V. Venkatasubramanian, ¡°Implementation of Synchrophasor Monitoring
at Entergy: Tools, Training and Tribulations,¡± IEEE PES General Meeting,
23-26 July 2012, San Diego, 2012 (LINK) 52. G. Zhang, K. Sun, H. Chen, R. Carroll, Y. Liu, ¡°Application of
Synchrophasor Measurements for Improving Operator Situational Awareness,¡±
IEEE PES General Meeting,
Detroit, MI, 24-29 July 2011 (LINK) 53. K. Sun, P. Zhang, N.S.B.N. Yusuf, ¡°Predicting Post-contingency Stability
Margin Using Synchrophasors,¡± IEEE PES General Meeting, 25-29 July 2010,
Minneapolis, 2010 (LINK) 54. Y. Hou; C.-C. Liu; P. Zhang; K. Sun, ¡°Constructing power system
restoration strategies,¡± IEEE International Conference ELECO 2009. Page(s):
I-8 - I-13, 2009 (LINK) 55. R. Diao, V. Vittal, K. Sun, S. Kolluri, S. Mandal, F.
Galvan, ¡°Decision Tree Assisted Controlled Islanding for Preventing Cascading
Events,¡± IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exposition, Seattle, March
15-18, 2009 (LINK) 56. N. Bhatt, et al, ¡°Assessing
vulnerability to cascading outages,¡± IEEE PES Power Systems Conference &
Exposition, Seattle, March 15-18, 2009 (LINK) 57. IEEE PES CAMS Task Force on
Understanding, Prediction, Mitigation and Restoration of Cascading Failures,
¡°Vulnerability Assessment for Cascading Failures in Electric Power Systems,¡±
IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exposition, Seattle, March 15-18,
2009 (LINK) 58. IEEE PES CAMS Task Force on
Understanding, Prediction, Mitigation and Restoration of Cascading Failures,
¡°Initial review of methods for cascading failure analysis in electric power
transmission systems,¡± IEEE PES General Meeting, Pittsburgh, July 20-24, 2008
(LINK) 59. K. Sun, S. Lee, ¡°Power System Security Pattern Recognition Based on
Phase Space Visualization,¡± IEEE Int. Conf. on Electric Utility Deregulation
and Restructuring and Power Technologies (DRPT 2008), Nanjing, April 6-9, 2008
(LINK) 60. K. Sun, T. S. Sidhu, M. Jin, ¡°Online Pre-Analysis and Real-Time
Matching for Controlled Splitting of Large-Scale Power Networks,¡± IEEE Intl.
Conf. Future Power Systems, Amsterdam, Nov 16-18, 2005 (LINK) 61. M. Jin, T. S. Sidhu, K. Sun, ¡°A New System Splitting
Scheme Based on the Identification of Controlling Group,¡± IEEE Intl. Conf.
Future Power Systems, Amsterdam, Nov. 16-18, 2005 (LINK).
62. K. Sun, Q. Zhao, D. Zheng, J. Ma, Q. Lu, ¡°A Two-phase Method Based on
OBDD for Searching for Splitting Strategies of Large-scale Power Systems,¡±
IEEE Intl. Conf. PowerCon 2002, Kunming, Oct. 13-17, 2002 (LINK) Published
EPRI Technical Reports 1. N. Bhatt (PM), E. Farantatos,
A. Del Rosso, K. Sun, F. Hu,
¡°Real-Time Reactive Power Management and Voltage Control: Hybrid Voltage
Stability Assessment (HVSA),¡± EPRI Product ID: 3002002868, 2014 2. K. Sun, F. Hu, N. Bhatt, E. Farantatos, A. Del Rosso (PM), ¡°Hybrid
Voltage Stability Assessment (HVSA): Integration of Simulation-Based and
Measurement-Based Approaches in Real-Time Operation,¡± EPRI Product ID:
3002001313, 2013. 3. W. Kang, K. Sun (PM), ¡°Detection of Instability Using Synchrophasors: A
Theoretical Investigation on Observability with Synchrophasor Networks,¡± EPRI
Product ID: 3002002061, 2013 4. A. Del Rosso (PM), K. Sun, Y. Liu, G. Zhang, H. Chen,
¡°Demonstration of a Novel Synchrophasor-based Situational Awareness System:
Wide Area Power System Visualization, On-line Event Replay and Early Warning
of Grid Problems,¡± EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2013. DOE-DE-OE0000128 (LINK, PDF) 5. C. Liu, G. Wang, Y. Liu, K. Sun, N. Bhatt (PM), E. Farantatos,
¡°Comprehensive Stability Analysis Using Synchrophasors,¡± EPRI Product ID:
1024264, 2012 6. E. Farantatos, K. Sun (PM), A. Del Rosso (PM), ¡°A Hybrid
Framework for Voltage Security Assessment Integrating Simulation- and
Measurement-Based Approaches,¡± EPRI Product ID: 1024260, 2012 7. K. Sun (PM), C. Liu, T. Yong, ¡°Visualization of Comprehensive
Operating Boundary and Margin Information for Situational Awareness:
Methodologies and Functional Requirements,¡± EPRI Product ID: 1021924, 2011 8. K. Sun (PM), Y. Wang, ¡°Program on Technology Innovation: Online Power
System Stability Assessment Using Real-time Measurements - Estimating
Stability Margin from Measured Dynamic Trajectories,¡± EPRI Product ID:
1022397, 2010 9. C. Liu, K. Sun (PM), ¡°Indication of Potential Cascading Outages Using
Measurement Data,¡± EPRI Product ID: 1020051, 2010 10. K. Sun (PM), G. Zhang, ¡°Preventing, Controlling and Mitigating Power
System Separation: Developing an Early Warning and Decision Support Tool,¡±
EPRI Product ID: 1020057, 2010 11. C. Liu, Y. Hou, K. Sun (PM), S. Liu, ¡°Prototyping a
Decision Support Tool for Evaluation of System Restoration Strategy Options,¡±
EPRI Product ID: 1017799, 2009 12. K. Sun (PM), K. Hur, ¡°Application of Phasor Measurement Units for
Controlled System Separation,¡± EPRI Product ID: 1017800, 2009 13. K. Sun, K. Hur (PM), ¡°Phasor Measurement Unit-Based Out-of-Step
Protection Scheme,¡± EPRI Product ID: 1020377, 2009 14. K. Sun, P. Zhang (PM), L. Min, ¡°Measurement-based Voltage Stability
Monitoring and Control for Load Centers,¡± EPRI Product ID: 1017798, 2009 15. K. Sun, P. Zhang (PM), ¡°Controlled System Separation,¡± EPRI Product
ID: 1015993, 2008 16. P. Zhang (PM), K. Sun, ¡°Effective Use of Distributed
Phasor Measurement Units and
Disturbance Monitoring Devices for Wide-Area Monitoring, Load Modeling and
Voltage Instability Load Shedding,¡± EPRI Product ID: 1018432, 2008 Awards
and Honors 2016 CRSTT Most Valuable Players Award by North American
Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI) 2016 NSF
CAREER Award (abstract) 2016 Professional
Promise in Research Award by the College of Engineering, University of
Tennessee - Knoxville. 2016 Sigma
Xi member 2015 Best
Conference Papers Award by IEEE PES General Meeting 2014 Best
Conference Papers Award by IEEE PES General Meeting 2013 IEEE
senior member 2009 EPRI
Chauncey Award 2008 EPRI
Technology Innovation Excellence Award 2006 ¡°Best 100 Ph.D.
Dissertations of China¡± Award by the Ministry of Education, China (PDF) Services ¡¤
Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power
Systems, 2017-2018 ¡¤
Associate Editor of IEEE Access since 2018 ¡¤
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
since 2012 ¡¤
Associate Editor of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clear Energy
since 2017 ¡¤
Associate Editor of IET Generation,
Transmission & Distribution since 2016 ¡¤
Editor of Protection and Control of Modern
Power Systems (PCMP) since 2016 Alumni
(6 PhDs, 2 Masters) ¡¤
Wenyun Ju, Ph.D. in EE, August 2018 (now with
Electric Power Group) ¡¤
Yongli Zhu, Ph.D. in EE, July 2018
(now with GEIRI North America) ¡¤
Nan Duan, Ph.D.
in EE, November 2017 (now with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) ¡¤
Bin Wang,
Ph.D. in EE, October 2017 (now with Texas A&M University) ¡¤
Weihong Huang, M.S. & Ph.D. in EE,
December 2014 and October 2017 (now with New York ISO) ¡¤
Fengkai Hu, PhD in
Electrical Engineering, July 2016 (now with Siemens) ¡¤
Hira Amna
Saleem, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2014 (now with Shell, Pakistan) Current PhD Students: Postdoctoral
Researchers ¡¤
Dr. Chengxi
Liu (2016-2018, PhD from Aalborg Univ., now Associate Professor with
Aalborg Univ.) ¡¤
Dr. Rui Yao
(2016-2018, PhD from Tsinghua Univ., now with Argonne National Laboratory ) ¡¤
Dr. Junjian
Qi (2013-2014, PhD from Tsinghua Univ., now professor with University of
Central Florida), ¡¤
Dr. Miao
Fan (2013, PhD from ASU, now with Siemens PTI) Visiting Scholars ¡¤
Changsheng
Chen (2018-, China Electric Power Research Institute) ¡¤
Guoqiang
Zu (2016-2017, Tianjin University, China) ¡¤
Yichen
Guo (2016-, Shandong University, China) ¡¤
Jos¨¦ Iv¨¢n
Reyes Cabrera (2015-2016, CINVESTAV, M¨¦xico), ¡¤
Donghseng
Cai (2014-2016, UESTC, China), ¡¤
Dr.
Hualiang Fang (2015-2016, Wuhan University, China), ¡¤
Rui Yao
(2014-2015, Tsinghua University, China), ¡¤
Chengxi
Liu (2012-2013, Aalborg University, Denmark), ¡¤
Dr. Ping Ma (2012-2013, Qingdao University, China) |
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