I joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington in 2015. My research interests are in the area of cyberphysical and power systems, spanning from control/optimization, statistics and machine learning to power electronics. If you are interested in any of these, I’m sure we can find things to chat about. My CV is here.

I completed my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley in 2013, where I worked with David Tse and my thesis is here. I was a postdoc at Stanford, jointly hosted by Ramesh Johari and Ram Rajagopal. I received my undergraduate degree in Engineering Science (Electrical Option) from the University of Toronto.

Industrial Relationships

We are fortunate to collaborate with some great companies and utilities in the Seattle area, including Microsoft Research, Doosan GridTech (formally 1Energy Systems), Distributed Energy&Power (Centrica), Seattle City Light, Battery Informatics and Google.

Funding Sources

Support from the National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, the Washington Research Foundation, the UW Clean Energy Institute, Doosan GridTech, Centrica, and Microsoft are gratefully acknowledged.

Best Papers

  1. With Trager Joswig-Jones, Prize Paper (1 out of 4 for the entire conference) Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2026, Safe Trajectory Gradient Flow Control of a Grid-Interfacing Inverter
  2. With Trager Joswig-Jones, Shuan Dong, Jin Tan, Di Wu, Best Conference Papers on Power System Operation, Planning, and Economics, Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2026: A Review of System Strength Metrics for Inverter-based Power Systems
  3. With Yize Chen, Best Conference Papers on Analytic Methods for Power System, Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2026: Voltage Regulation in Distribution Systems with Data Center Loads
  4. With Ling Zhang, Best Paper Finalist, ACM E-Energy: An iterative approach to improving solution quality for AC optimal power flow problems
  5. With Yize Chen, Best Conference Papers on Renewables, Storage, and Electric Vehicles, Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2022: State-of-Charge Aware EV Charging
  6. With Yize Chen and Yuanyuan Shi, Highlight Paper, Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), 2020: Data-Driven Optimal Voltage Regulation Using Input Convex Neural Networks
  7. With Yize Chen and Yushi Tan, Best Paper Runner Up, ACM E-Energy, 2019: Exploiting Vulnerabilities of Load Forecasting Through Adversarial Attacks
  8. With Jesus E. Contreras-Ocaña, Yize Chen and Uzma Siddiqi, Prize Paper (1 out of 4 for the entire conference) Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2018: Non-Wire Alternatives: an Additional Value Stream for Distributed Energy Resources
  9. With Atinuke Ademola-Idowu, Best Conference Papers on Power System Stability, Control, and Protection, Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2018: Optimal design of virtual inertia and damping coefficients for virtual synchronous machines
  10. With Pan Li and Shreyas Sekar, Best Paper Finalist, ACM E-Energy, 2018: A capacity-price game for uncertain renewables resources

Awards

  1. Outstanding Editor, IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy, and Regulation, 2024
  2. ACM SIGEnergy Rising Star Award, 2022
  3. NSF CAREER Award, 2019
  4. Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy, 2015
  5. NSERC Graduate Fellowship, 2008-2013
  6. UC Berkeley Fellowship, 2008
  7. Ontario Professional Engineers Foundation for Education Gold Medal, 2008