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 was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 2019-2020.

Prof. Sun is currently an associate editor with IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy and IEEE Access, and he 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 2021. Applicants in power systems, control and applied mathematics are all welcome to apply.

Latest News

• Recent journal papers:

  • Location and Mechanism Analysis of Oscillation Source in Power Plant (IEEE Access '20)

  • Understanding a Type of Forced Oscillation Caused by Steam-turbine Governors (IEEE TEC '20)

  • Optimized Autonomous Operation Control to Maintain the Frequency, Voltage and Accurate Power Sharing for DGs in Islanded Systems (IEEE TSG '20)

  • Optimal Distributed Generator Placement in Utility-Based Microgrids during a Large-Scale Grid Disturbance (IEEE Access '20)

  • Characterization of Subsynchronous Oscillation with Wind Farms Using Describing Function and Generalized Nyquist Criterion (IEEE TPWRS '19)

  • 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)

• 4/2020: Four papers will be presented at 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting.