Kai Sun 孙凯

Dr. Sun's Research Group

Current PhD Students

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

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 Quanta Technology)
  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

• 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

• 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 with ISO New England)
  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)

 Group Photos

July 2024

@IEEE PES General Meeting, Seattle, MA (from left: Chengxi, Rui, Fengkai, Kaiyang, Miao, Bin, Kai, Zhenping, Weihong, Min, Xiaowen, Yongjian)

 

Dec 2023

@Sitar Indian Cuisine, Knoxville, TN (from left: Tianwei, Kaiyang, Zhenping, Mohammed, Kai, Min, Mahsa)

 

May 2022

@Carl Cowan Park, Knoxville, TN (from left: Min, Tianwei, Kaiyang, Mohammed, Kai, Yang, Mahsa, Zhenping)

 

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

@Concord Park, Knoxville, TN (from left: Rui, Min, Kai, Yang, Tianwei)

 

August 2019

@IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, GA

 

May 2019

@Concord Park, Knoxville, TN (from left: Changsheng, Yanhui, Xin, Kai, Yang, Tianwei)

 

December 2017

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

 

November 2016

@Asia Kitchen, Knoxville, TN (from left, Chengxi, Rui, Kai, Xin, Huimin, Yichen, Wenyun, Guoqiang, Bin, Nan, Xiaowen)

 

November 2015

@El Burro Flojo Maxican Restaurant, Knoxville, TN (from left, Ivan, Hualiang, Fengkai, Kai, Wenyun, Denis, Weihong, Nan, Yongli, Dongsheng, Bin)

 

July 2014

@IEEE PES General Meeting, National Harbor, MD (from left, Fengkai, Weihong, Chengxi, Kai, Bin, Yongli)

 

October 2013

@TVA Buffalo Mountain wind farm, Oak Ridge, TN (from left, Bin, Fengkai, Kai, Miao, Nan, Weihong)