Congratulations to CURENT student Ori Yuru on being recognized as NASPI’s (The North American SynchroPhasor Initiative) Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year for 2024. The award celebrates students who make substantial contributions to the use or advancement of synchronized measurement…
Dr. Alvarez-Malebrán visited the University of Tennessee on March 5, 2025. He presented to CURENT faculty and students on the subjects of PUM measurement applications, power system planning, and quantum computing. CURENT faculty met with Dr. Alvarez to discuss future…
Dr. Kevin Bai visited Lucid Motors on February 24 as part of the ongoing DOE motor drive inverter project effort. Bai discussed the progress and challenges of the present inverter and motor design with Lucid teams. In addition, Bai introduced…
Dr. Yilu Liu, CURENT Deputy Director, traveled to Chile January 7-10, 2025. She presented on the topic of the GridEye GPS-synchronized wide-area power system frequency network at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Santiago, Chile. She also visited the…
CURENT’s Deputy Director, Dr. Yilu Liu, was the keynote speaker at the Executive Women’s Association of Knoxville’s End of the Year luncheon at Bistro By The Tracks on Wednesday, December 4. The Executive Women’s Association is an organization composed of…
On November 21, 2024, the CURENT research center welcomed a team from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a Principal Member of the CURENT Industry Program. The visiting delegation included Anish Gaikwad (Deputy Director of Transmission Operations & Planning), Vikas…
On November 7, 2024, CURENT was pleased to host a visiting team from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a Principal Member of the CURENT Industry Program. The group, led by Michael McAmis, Sr. Program Manager for Grid R&D Innovation and…
CURENT graduate student, Sebastian Martinez Lizana, received the second-place Graduate Presentation Award for his paper titled, “Application of Orthogonal Projectors in Power System Dynamics.” This research applies orthogonal projectors to simplify power system dynamics analysis. By projecting complex, high-dimensional behaviors…
IEEE Energy Conversion and Congress Expo (ECCE) 2024 was hosted in Phoenix, AZ, Oct 19-24. CURENT has 10 Professors and Staff (Kevin Bai, JiangBiao He, Leon Tolbert, Fred Wang, Ruirui Chen, Jingxin Wang, Shiyuan Fan, Anubrata Das, Nupur, Anwesha Mukhopadhyay)…
Dr. Horacio Silva, a UT Graduate who studied under Dr. Hector Pulgar, is now working for Electric Power Group in California where he recently won first place in the Next Generation Network (NGN) Showcase Presentation. In August, he represented the…