Dr. Sun's Research Group
Current PhD Students
- Zhenping Guo
- Kaiyang Huang
- Mahsa Sajjadi
- Mohammed Khamees
Alumni (11 PhDs, 2 Masters)
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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
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Tianwei Xia
Ph.D. in EE, July 2023 (now with Dominion Energy)
Dissertation: Generalized Participation Factors on Nonlinear Power System Oscillations
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Yang Liu
Ph.D. in EE, December 2021 (now with Argonne National Laboratory)
Dissertation: Power System Simulation using a Differential Transformation Method
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Xin Xu
Ph.D. in EE, October 2020 (now with Amazon Web Services)
Dissertation: Stability Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Power System Oscillations
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fengkai
Hu
PhD in EE, July 2016 (now with Verizon)
Dissertation: Real-time Voltage Stability Monitoring and Control
for Load Areas: A Hybrid Approach
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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)
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May 2022
(from left: Min, Tianwei, Kaiyang, Mohammed, Kai, Yang, Mahsa, Zhenping)
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June 2021 (after the 1st wave of covid-19 in TN)
(from left: Rui, Min, Kai, Yang, Tianwei)
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May 2019
(from left: Changsheng, Yanhui, Xin, Kai, Yang, Tianwei)
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December 2017
(front from left, Denis, Wenyun, Weihong, Bin, Nan, Yongli; back
from left, Xin, Kai, Rui, Yang, Yichen, Chengxi)
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November 2016
(from left, Chengxi, Rui, Kai, Xin, Huimin, Yichen, Wenyun,
Guoqiang, Bin, Nan, Xiaowen)
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November 2015
(from left, Ivan, Hualiang, Fengkai, Kai, Wenyun, Denis, Weihong,
Nan, Yongli, Dongsheng, Bin)
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July 2014
(from left, Fengkai, Weihong, Chengxi, Kai, Bin, Yongli)
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October 2013 (TVA Buffalo Mountain wind farm)
(from left, Bin, Fengkai, Kai, Miao, Nan, Weihong)
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