Kai Sun 孙凯

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Prof. Sun received his B.S. in Automation (1999) and Ph.D. in Control Science & Engineering (2004) both from Tsinghua University, Beijing. Before joining UTK, he was a Project Manager with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, CA for R&D programs in Grid Operations and Planning from 2007 to 2012. He conducted postdoctoral studies at Arizona State University (2006-2007) and the University of Western Ontario (2005).

Prof. Sun is currently an editor/associate editor with IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Access, and is a faculty Member of NSF/DOE engineering research center CURENT. Prof. Sun is a recipient of 2016 NSF CAREER award.

His research interests include stability, dynamics and control of power grids and other complex systems.

PhD positions are available for Spring and Fall 2020. Applicants in power, control or applied mathematics are all welcome to apply.

Latest News

• Recent journal papers:

  • Mitigation of Cascading Outages Using a Dynamic Interaction Graph-Based Optimal Power Flow Model (IEEE ACCESS '19)

  • An Online Search Method for Representative Risky Fault Chains Based on Reinforcement Learning and Knowledge Transfer (IEEE TPWRS '19)

  • Solving Power System Differential Algebraic Equations Using Differential Transformation (IEEE TPWRS '19)

  • Efficient and Robust Dynamic Simulation of Power Systems with Holomorphic Embedding (IEEE TPWRS '19)

  • Understanding Subsynchronous Oscillations in DFIG-based Wind Farms without Series Compensation (IEEE ACCESS '19)

  • Nonlinear Modal Decoupling Based Power System Transient Stability Analysis (IEEE TPWRS '19)
    

  • Measurement-Based Voltage Stability Assessment Considering Generator VAR Limits (IEEE TSG '19)
    

  • Real-time Optimized Load Recovery Considering Frequency Constraints (IEEE TPWRS '19)
    

  • Vectorized Efficient Computation of Pade Approximation for Semi-Analytical Simulation of Large-Scale Power Systems (IEEE TPWRS '19)
    

  • Power System Time Domain Simulation Using a Differential Transformation Method (IEEE TPWRS '19)

• 8/2019: Five papers were presented at 2019 IEEE PES General Meeting in Atlanta.

• 6/2019: Four papers were presented at 2019 IEEE PowerTech in Milan.

• 10/2018: Denis Osipov passed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Osipov.

• 8/2018: Wenyun Ju passed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Ju.

• 7/2018: Yongli Zhu passed his PhD defense. Congrats to Dr. Zhu.