News items that have been archived from the current year press releases. These news items were posted to the press releases in 2024.
CURENT hosted three visitors from NTT DATA North America on October 10: Beth Howen – President of US Public Sector, NTT DATA, NA; Billy Johnson – Regional VP, NTT DATA NA; Jude Olesh – Account Representative, State of Tennessee, NTT DATA. NTT staff viewed the capabilities…
Dr. Fran Li, the Director of CURENT and a Professor in EECS, has organized a field trip to Norris Dam hydro power plant for the ECE 325 students on October 30th, 2025. A UT alumnus, Mr. Michael McAmis from TVA,…
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…
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)…
Kevin Bai, associate professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), shares a principle-investigator role in a collaboration with the ABB Group’s US Research Center to develop an integrated, compact drive inverter and motor…
Prof. Sun’s paper “Real-time Damping Estimation on Nonlinear Electromechanical Oscillation” (Xin Xu, Wenyun Ju, Bin Wang, Kai Sun) has been selected as one of the five IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Outstanding Papers in 2023.
Prof. Sun was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to power grid stability analysis and control.