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Updated in 8/2017.
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 Prof. Sun received his Ph.D. in Control
Science & Engineering (2004) and B.S. in Automation (1999) both from Tsinghua University,
Beijing. Before joining UTK, he was a Project Manager with EPRI in Palo Alto, CA for R&D programs in
Grid Operations and Planning and Renewable Integration. He is an IEEE senior
member, an editor with IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and an associate
editor with IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution. 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 network systems (CV,
GoogleScholar, ResearchGate). Latest News 10/2016: Dr. Sun and Bin Wang received the
CRSTT Most Valuable Players Award by North American Synchrophasor
Initiative 07/2016: Dr. Sun received a 3-year NSF
grant for ¡°A Semi-Analytical Framework for Faster Deterministic and
Stochastic Power System Simulations¡± Resources Test Cases Library on
Forced/Sustained Power System Oscillations IEEE PES Task Force on Oscillation
Source Location Teaching ECE 421
(Electric Energy Systems): Fall 13, Fall 14, Fall 17 ECE 620
(Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electrical Energy Transmission Networks): Fall
16, Fall 17 ECE
692 (Advanced Topics on Power System Stability): Spring 16 ECE422
(Power System Operations & Planning): Spring 14, Spring 15 ECE521
(Power Systems Analysis I): Fall 13 Experiences 2012 - University
of Tennessee, Knoxville - Assistant & Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering 2007-2012 EPRI,
Palo Alto - Project Manager in Grid
Operations and Planning 2006-2007 Arizona
State University, Tempe - Research
Associate 2005 University
of Western Ontario, London - Postdoctoral
Fellow Patents 1. Nan Duan, Kai Sun, Transient Stability Simulation and Operation of Power
Systems, US Patent Application,
No. 14/956,076, Dec 2015 (link) 2. 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) 3. 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) 4. 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) Journal
Papers 1. 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, accepted (PDF). 2. Fengkai Hu, Kai Sun, Di Shi, Zhiwei
Wang, ¡°Measurement-based Voltage Stability Assessment for Load Areas
Addressing n-1 Contingencies,¡± IET
Generation, Transmission & Distribution, accepted (PDF). 3. 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,
DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2016.1797 (in press) 4. Weihong Huang, Kai Sun, Junjian Qi, Jiaxin Ning,
¡°Optimization of Dynamic Reactive Power Sources Using Mesh Adaptive Direct
Search,¡± IET Generation, Transmission &
Distribution,
DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2016.1912 (in press) (PDF) 5. Bin Wang, Chengxi Liu, Kai Sun, ¡°Multi-Stage Holomorphic
Embedding Method for Calculating the Power-Voltage Curve,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2711260 (PDF;
IEEExplore) 6. 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). 7. 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). 8. 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, in press (PDF;
IEEExplore). 9. 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, DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2016.2635687 (IEEExplore). 10. 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, DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2016.2580584, (PDF; IEEExplore) 11. 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) 12. 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) 13. 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, DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2015.2493880 (IEEExplore) 14. 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;
link) 15. 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) 16. Nan Duan, Kai Sun, ¡°Power System Simulation Using the Multi-stage Adomian Decomposition Method,¡± IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,¡± vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 430-441,
January 2017 (PDF) 17. 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) 18. 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) 19. 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, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/etep.2233 (link) 20. 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). 21. 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) 22. Fengkai Hu, Kai Sun, Alberto Del Rosso, Evangelos
Farantatos, Navin Bhatt, ¡°Measurement-Based Real-Time Voltage Stability Monitoring for Load Areas,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 2787-2798, July 2016 (PDF; IEEExplore) 23. Rui Yao, Shaowei
Huang, Kai Sun, Feng Liu, Xuemin Zhang, Shengwei Mei, ¡°A Multi-timescale Quasi-Dynamic Model for
Simulation of Cascading Outages,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 3189-3201, July 2016 (PDF; IEEExplore) 24. 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) 25. 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) 26. 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) 27. Junjian Qi, Kai Sun, Wei Kang, ¡°Optimal PMU
Placement for Power System Dynamic State Estimation by Using Empirical
Observability Gramian,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 30, pp. 2041-2054, July 2015 (PDF; IEEExplore) 28. Junjian Qi, Kai Sun, Shengwei
Mei, ¡°An Interaction Model for Simulation and Mitigation of Cascading
Failures,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems,
vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 804-819, March 2015 (PDF) 29. 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 Trans. Power Systems, vol. 29,
No. 2, pp 717-730, March 2014 (PDF) 30. Kai Sun, Qiang Zhou, Yilu Liu, ¡°A Phase Locked Loop-based Approach to
Real-time Modal Analysis on Synchrophasor
Measurements,¡± IEEE Trans. Smart Grid,
vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 260-269, Jan. 2014 (PDF)
31. Kai Sun, Kyeon Hur, Pei Zhang, ¡°A New Unified Scheme for Controlled
Power System Separation Using Synchronized Phasor Measurements,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 26,
No. 3, pp. 1544-1554, Aug. 2011 (PDF) 32. Chong Wang, Vijay Vittal, Kai Sun,
¡°OBDD-Based Sectionalizing Strategies for Parallel Power System Restoration,¡±
IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 26,
No. 3, pp. 1426-1433, Aug. 2011 (PDF) 33. Yunhe Hou, Chen-Ching Liu, Kai Sun, Pei Zhang, Shanshan Liu, Dean Mizumura,
¡°Computation of Milestones for Decision Support during System Restoration,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 26 ,
No. 3, pp. 1399-1409, Aug. 2011 (PDF) 34. Kai Sun, Stephen T. Lee, Pei Zhang, ¡°An Adaptive Power System
Equivalent for Real-time Estimation of Stability Margin using Phase-Plane
Trajectories,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems,
vol. 26, pp. 915-923, May 2011. (PDF) 35. 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 Trans. Power Systems, vol. 24, pp.832-839, May 2009. (PDF) 36. Kai Sun, Siddharth Likhate,
Vijay Vittal, V. Sharma Kolluri,
Sujit Mandal, ¡°An Online Dynamic Security Assessment
Scheme using Phasor Measurements and Decision Trees,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 22, pp. 1935-1943, Nov 2007. (PDF) 37. Ming Jin, Tarlochan
S. Sidhu, Kai Sun, ¡°A New System Splitting
Scheme Based on the Unified Stability Control Framework,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol. 22,
pp.433-441, Feb 2007. (PDF) 38. 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. (PDF) 39. 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 Trans. Power Systems, vo.l.20, pp.389-399, Feb 2005. (PDF) 40. 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 Trans. Power Systems, vol.18,
pp.1556-1565, Nov 2003. (PDF) 41. Kai Sun, Da-Zhong Zheng, Qiang Lu, ¡°Splitting Strategies for
Islanding Operation of Large-scale Power Systems Using OBDD-based Methods,¡± IEEE Trans. Power Systems, vol.18, pp.
912-923, May 2003. (PDF) 42. 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) Conference Papers 1. Nan Duan,
Aleksandar Dimitrovski, Srdjan Simunovic, Kai Sun, Junjian Qi, Jianhui Wang,
¡°Embedding Spatial Decomposition in Parareal in
Time Power System Simulation,¡± to be presented at 2017 IEEE ISGT Europe. 2.
Wenyun Ju, Bin Wang, Kai
Sun, ¡°Can Nonlinear Electromechanical Oscillation
be Analyzed Using an Equivalent SMIB System?¡± to be presented at 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting 3.
Y.
Wang, H. Pulgar-Painemal, K. Sun, ¡°Online analysis of voltage security in a microgrid using convolutional neural networks,¡± to be
presented at 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting. 4.
I.R.
Cabrera, Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°A
Method to Locate the Source of Forced Oscillations Based on Linearized Model
and System Measurements,¡± to be presented at 2017
IEEE PES General Meeting. 5.
Chengxi Liu, Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Fast
Power System Simulation Using Semi-Analytical Solutions Based on Pade Approximants,¡± to be
presented at 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting. 6.
Eric Abreut, Bin Wang, Kai Sun, ¡°Semi-Analytical
Fault-on Trajectory Simulation and Its Application in Direct Methods,¡± to be presented at 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting. 7. 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. 8.
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. 9. 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. 10.
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. 11. 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 12. 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 13. 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 14. Y. Tong, J. Sun, K. Sun, P. Li, ¡°Outsourcing Power
System Simulations,¡± IEEE GLOBECOM, San Diego, CA, Dec 6-10, 2015 15. Y. Tong, J. Sun, K. Sun, ¡°Privacy-preserving spectral
estimation in smart grid,¡± IEEE SmartGridComm
Symposium, Miami, FL, Nov 2-5, 2015 16. 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 17. 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 18. 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 19. 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) 20. 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) 21. B. Wang, K. Sun, X. Su, ¡°An Oscillation Decoupling Based Direct Method for
Power System Transient Stability Analysis,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting (PDF) 22. 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) 23. 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 24. M. Nakmali,
D. Osipov, K. Sun, ¡°A New Hybrid
Approach to Thevenin Equivalent Estimation for
Voltage Stability Monitoring,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting (PDF) 25. W. Huang, K. Sun, J. Qi, Y. Xu, ¡°Voronoi Diagram
Based Optimization of Dynamic Reactive Power Sources,¡± 2015 IEEE PES General
Meeting (PDF) 26. N. Duan, K. Sun, ¡°Application of the Adomian
Decomposition Method for Semi-Analytic Solutions of Power System Differential
Algebraic Equations,¡± Powertech 2015, Eindhoven (PDF) 27. 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). 28. 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). 29. 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 30. K. Sun, W. Kang, ¡°Observability and Estimation Methods Using Synchrophasor,¡± The 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town,
South Africa, 2014 (PDF) 31. F. Bai, Y. Liu, Y. Liu, K. Sun, et al, ¡°Measurement-Based and
Modeling-Based Methods to Establish Input-Output Relationship for System
Identification-Based Models,¡± 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting, National Harbor,
MD (PDF) 32. 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) 33. 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) 34. 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) 35. 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) 36. 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) 37. 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) 38. 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) 39. 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) 40. 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) 41. 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) 42. 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) 43. 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) 44. 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) 45. 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) 46. 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) 47. 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) 48. 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) 49. N. Bhatt, et al, ¡°Assessing
vulnerability to cascading outages,¡± IEEE PES Power Systems Conference &
Exposition, Seattle, March 15-18, 2009 (LINK) 50. 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) 51. 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) 52. 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) 53. 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) 54. 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).
55. 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) 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 Other Articles 1. K. Sun, ¡°Coherency Theory - An Excellent Reference on the Subject:
Book Review of Power System Coherency and Model Reduction (by Joe H. Chow),¡±
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 102-104, Jan 2014 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 1.
Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power
Systems, 2017-2018 2.
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
since 2012 3.
Associate Editor of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clear Energy
since 2017 4.
Associate Editor of IET Generation,
Transmission & Distribution since 2016 5.
Editor of Protection and Control of Modern
Power Systems (PCMP) since 2016 Alumni 1. Dr. Fengkai
Hu (now with Siemens), PhD in Electrical Engineering, July 2016 2.
Ms. Hira Amna Saleem (now with Shell,
Pakistan), M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2014 Current PhD Students: Postdoctoral
Researchers 1.
Dr. Rui
Yao (2016- ) 2.
Dr.
Chengxi Liu (2016-) 3.
Dr. Junjian
Qi (2013-2014, now professor with University of Central Florida), 4.
Dr. Miao
Fan (2013, now with Siemens PTI) Visiting Scholars 1.
Guoqiang Zu (2016-, Tianjin University,
China) 2.
Yichen
Guo (2016-, Shandong University, China) 3.
Jos¨¦ Iv¨¢n Reyes Cabrera (2015-2016, CINVESTAV, M¨¦xico), 4.
Donghseng Cai (2014-2016, UESTC,
China), 5.
Dr.
Hualiang Fang (2015-2016, Wuhan University, China), 6.
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(2014-2015, Tsinghua University, China), 7.
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Liu (2012-2013, Aalborg University, Denmark), 8.
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