Kai Sun 孙凯

Professor, IEEE Fellow
Department of EECS
University of Tennessee

 

Tel: 865-974-3982
Email: kaisun(at)utk.edu

Address: 612 Min H. Kao Building, 1520 Middle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-2250

Dr. Sun's Research Group

Current PhD Students

  • Zhenping Guo
  • Kaiyang Huang
  • Mahsa Sajjadi
  • Mohammed Khamees

Alumni (11 PhDs, 2 Masters)

  • Min Xiong
    Ph.D. in EE, December 2023 (now with National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
    Dissertation: Power System Electromagnetic Transient Simulation Using a Semi-Analytical Approach
  • Tianwei Xia
    Ph.D. in EE, July 2023 (now with Dominion Energy)
    Dissertation: Generalized Participation Factors on Nonlinear Power System Oscillations
  • Yang Liu
    Ph.D. in EE, December 2021 (now with Argonne National Laboratory)
    Dissertation: Power System Simulation using a Differential Transformation Method
  • Xin Xu
    Ph.D. in EE, October 2020 (now with Amazon Web Services)
    Dissertation: Stability Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Power System Oscillations
  • Denis Osipov
    Ph.D. in EE, October 2018 (now with New York Power Authority)
    Dissertation: Adaptive Nonlinear Model Reduction for Fast Power System Simulation (Link)
  • Wenyun Ju
    Ph.D. in EE, August 2018 (now with Pacific Gas and Electric)
    Dissertation: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Cascading Outages in Power Systems (Link)
  • Yongli Zhu
    Ph.D. in EE, July 2018 (now faculty with Sun Yet-Sen University)
    Dissertation: Control and Placement of Battery Energy Storage Systems for Power System Oscillation Damping
  • Nan Duan
    Ph.D. in EE, November 2017 (now with Midcontinent ISO)
    Dissertation: Towards Faster-than-real-time Power System Simulation Using a Semi-analytical Approach and High-performance Computing

  • Bin Wang
    Ph.D. in EE, October 2017 (now faculty with University of Texas at San Antonio)
    Dissertation: Nonlinear Oscillation Analysis and Modal Decoupling for Power Systems

  • Weihong Huang
    M.S. in EE, December 2014, and Ph.D. in EE, October 2017 (now with New York Power Authority)
    Master’s Thesis: A New Approach to Optimization of Dynamic Reactive Power Sources Addressing FIDVR Issues
    Dissertation: Optimal Allocation of Dynamic Var Sources Addressing FIDVR Issues

  • Fengkai Hu
    PhD in EE, July 2016 (now with Verizon)
    Dissertation: Real-time Voltage Stability Monitoring and Control for Load Areas: A Hybrid Approach

  • Hira Amna Saleem
    M.S. in EE, May 2014 (now with Shell, Pakistan)
    Master’s Thesis: Microgrid Modeling and Grid Interconnection Studies

 Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Dr. Tianwei Xia (2023-, PhD from University of Tennessee)
  • Dr. Yang Liu (2021-2022, PhD from University of Tennessee)
  • Dr. Xiaowen Su (2021-2022, PhD from University of Tennessee)
  • Dr. Chengxi Liu (2016-2018, PhD from Aalborg Univ., now Professor with Wuhan University)
  • Dr. Rui Yao (2016-2018, PhD from Tsinghua Univ., now with X, the Moonshot Factory)
  • Dr. Junjian Qi (2013-2014, PhD from Tsinghua Univ., now faculty with South Dakota State University),   
  • Dr. Miao Fan (2013, PhD from ASU, now with Siemens PTI)

 Visiting Scholars

  • Li Sun (2018, The University of Hong Kong, China)
  • Dr. Yanhui Xu (2018-2019, North China Electric Power University)
  • Changsheng Chen (2018-2019, China Electric Power Research Institute)
  • Guoqiang Zu (2016-2017, Tianjin University, China)
  • Yichen Guo (2016-2018, Shandong University, China)
  • Dr. Huimin Gao (2016, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)
  • José Iván Reyes Cabrera (2015-2016, CINVESTAV, México), 
  • 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)

 Photos

Dec 2023

(from left: Tianwei, Kaiyang, Zhenping, Mohammed, Kai, Min, Mahsa)

 

May 2022

(from left: Min, Tianwei, Kaiyang, Mohammed, Kai, Yang, Mahsa, Zhenping)

 

June 2021 (after the 1st wave of covid-19 in TN)

(from left: Rui, Min, Kai, Yang, Tianwei)

 

May 2019

(from left: Changsheng, Yanhui, Xin, Kai, Yang, Tianwei)

 

December 2017

(front from left, Denis, Wenyun, Weihong, Bin, Nan, Yongli; back from left, Xin, Kai, Rui, Yang, Yichen, Chengxi)

 

November 2016

(from left, Chengxi, Rui, Kai, Xin, Huimin, Yichen, Wenyun, Guoqiang, Bin, Nan, Xiaowen)

 

November 2015

(from left, Ivan, Hualiang, Fengkai, Kai, Wenyun, Denis, Weihong, Nan, Yongli, Dongsheng, Bin)

 

July 2014

(from left, Fengkai, Weihong, Chengxi, Kai, Bin, Yongli)

 

October 2013 (TVA Buffalo Mountain wind farm)

(from left, Bin, Fengkai, Kai, Miao, Nan, Weihong)