Smart Grid
Securing our Energy Delivery Infrastructure
FESC Expertise and Resources in Smart Grids and Energy Storage
To reduce system-wide power outages and for more stable and reliable power delivery, the Consortium is pursuing research in microgrids and smartgrids. Microgrids provide islanding capabilities allowing grids to separate from each other. This streamlines integration of both stationary and non-stationary energy storage devices. Smartgrids allow control strategies and two way communications via Smart Meter system, provide intelligent energy management and improve energy efficiency.
Core Faculty and Research Expertise
Faculty | University | Expertise | Position/Department |
Gabriel Alsenas | FAU | Knowledge Thrust: Other
Hydrokinetic energy conversion, ocean turbine dynamometer – Hydrokinetic Energy Conversion; 22 kW Ocean Turbine Dynamometer; Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) |
Director, SE National Marine Renewable Energy Center |
Bill Laing | FAU | Knowledge Thrust: Other
Hydrokinetic energy conversion, ocean turbine dynamometer – Hydrokinetic Energy Conversion; 22 kW Ocean Turbine Dynamometer; Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) |
Energy Systems Engineer, SE National Marine Renewable Energy Center |
Mohammad Ilyas | FAU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
High-speed communication networks (wireless, sensor, optics, traffic management, healthcare) |
Professor, Computer and Electrical Engineering |
Kemal Akkaya | FIU | Knowledge Thrust: Grid Security
Wireless and Network Security; User Privacy in Smart Grid; Internet of Things and Ad Hoc Networks |
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Selcuk Uluagac | FIU | Knowledge Thrust: Grid Security
Cybersecurity and privacy with an emphasis on its practical and applied aspects |
Assistant Professor, Director, Cyber-Physical Systems Security Lab (CSL), Electrical and Computer Engineering Department |
Jason Liu | FIU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Parallel and distributed discrete-event simulation; High-performance simulation and modeling of large-scale computer networks. |
Associate Professor, Engineering and Computing |
Osama Mohammed | FIU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems; Systems Integration
Power System Operations and Control; Artificial Intelligence Applications to Power Systems; Energy conservation and alternate energy sources; Electromagnetic Field Modeling and computations; Asynchronous Learning Networks and Educational Methods |
Professor and Director of the Energy Systems Research Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Shu-ching Chen | FIU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Distributed Multimedia Database Systems; Database Management; Multimedia Data Mining; Multimedia Systems, GIS |
Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences |
Stavros V. Georgakopoulos | FIU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems
Wireless communications and wireless sensor networks; Smart, On-chip, miniaturized, High frequency (HF) antennas; Broadband analysis of RF propagation for wireless communication systems; RFID; Computational and applied electromagnetics |
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
|
Charles McClure | FSU | Knowledge Thrust: Socio-economics
Information policy research |
Director, Information Use Management & Policy Institute |
Chris Edrington | FSU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems
Control systems; Applied power electronics; Electrical machinery/variable speed drives; Renewable energy sources that utilizes cutting edge theory and technology |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Hui Li | FSU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems
Power Electronics |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Karl Schoder | FSU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems
Electric power systems; Control and automation strategies for electric power systems; Soft computing; Distributed algorithms; Medium voltage AC and DC shipboard electric power systems; Large-scale electric power systems on the transmission level, i.e., Florida’s grid |
Research Faculty, Center for Advanced Power Systems |
Linda DeBrunner | FSU/FAMU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems
Special Purpose Hardware Implementations |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Ming Yu | FSU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
MAC and Routing Protocols; Network Traffic Modeling; Radio Resource Management |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Mischa Steurer | FSU | Knowledge Thrust: Power Systems
Integration of novel high power apparatus, such as superconducting devices, power electronics converters, and novel rotating machines into power systems; Large scale hardware-in-the-loop simulations coupled to high power testing for model validation and analysis |
Research Faculty, Center for Advanced Power Systems |
Omar Faruque | FSU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems; Systems Integration
Co-simulation; Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation; Modeling and simulation of FACTS; HVDC and renewable resources; Electric ship power system; Grid Integration of distributed resources and their impacts on electrical systems; Modeling and simulation of renewable energy and its impact |
Assistant Professor, Center for Advanced Power Systems |
Tingting Zhao | FSU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Human ecological impacts; Remote sensing; GIS; Energy conservation; Climate change |
Associate Professor,
Department of Geography |
Victor DeBrunner | FSU/FAMU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems
Signal and Image Processing |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Simon Foo | FSU/FAMU | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems
Neural networks; Ant colony systems; Genetic algorithms; Fuzzy logic; Pattern recognition; Random number generators; Field programmable gate array (FPGA) applications |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Zhihua Qu | UCF | Knowledge Thrust: Power Systems
Stability of power systems, distributed control of DGs, distributed optimization and communication for smart grid, islanding operation and anti-islanding algorithm |
Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Arturo Bretas | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Power Systems, Grid Security
Cyber-Physical Systems Security, Power Systems Operation, Control and Protection. |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Sean Meyn | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Stochastic approximation
Renewable integration, large-scale control of the grid; capacity, control, and resource allocation; policy in energy systems |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Shuo Wang | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Electronics
Power Electronics, Electrical Power, Electromagnetic Interference, Electric Vehicles, Green Energy Conversion and Grid Integration |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Mark Tehranipoor | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Grid Security
Hardware Security and Trust, IoT Security, Supply Chain Security, Counterfeit Electronics Detection And Prevention, Reliable Circuit Design and Analysis, and Integrated Circuits and Systems Testing |
Intel Charles E. Young Preeminence Endowed Chair Professor in Cybersecurity, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Erik Deumens | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Modeling, and computation of complex, novel molecular and materials systems; Electronic structure of materials in condensed phase, in solution and as nano structures; Time dependent electronic and molecular dynamics simulations; Parallel programming at the petascale using the Super Instruction Architecture to describe electronic structure of large complex systems (http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/ACES) |
Director, UF Information Technology – Research Computing and scientist in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics. |
Haniph Latchman | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Power Systems
Mathematical systems theory; Control systems Communication theory; Data communication networks; Multimedia information systems |
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Herman Lam | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Distributed computing; Service-oriented architecture; Web-services; Grid services; Distributed object technology; Database management; Computer architecture for non-numerical processing; Computer aided digital hardware design; Microprocessor-based design |
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Janice McNair | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Computer networks; Wireless and mobile networking; Sensor networks; Mobility and handoff management; Security and authentication Medium access control |
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Jose Fortes | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Network computing; Advanced computing architecture; Biologically inspired nanocomputing; Distributed information processing systems |
Professor and AT&T Eminent Scholar, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Mark Jamison | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Socio-economics
Leadership and Strategy, Competition and Pricing, Cost Analysis, Universal Service |
Director, Public Utility Research Center |
Shigang Chen | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Wireless networking (traffic engineering and security), Internet security (worms, DDoS, malware, and spreader detection), network algorithms and protocols |
Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
Ted Kury | UF | Knowledge Thrust: Socio-economics
Regulatory Policy, Energy Risk Management, Energy Policy and Regulation, Energy Pricing |
Director of Energy Studies, Public Utility Research Center |
Ashok Kumar | USF | Knowledge Thrust: Other
Nanotechnology, thin films, sensors, surface science |
Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Nanomaterials & Nanomanufacturing |
Huseyin Arslan | USF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Advanced signal processing techniques; Networking adaptivity; Wireless sensors networks and wireless telemetry; UWB, OFDM based wireless technologies with emphasis on WIMAX and IMT-Advanced |
Professor and Fellow of the IEEE, Electrical Engineering |
Kaushal Chari | USF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability
Software engineering; Business intelligence; Decision support systems; Information security & risk management; Distributed systems |
Professor and the Chair of Information Systems & Decision Sciences |
Balaji Padmanabhan | USF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Socio-economics
Data mining and data-driven decision making with a focus on learning from Web clickstream data; Applications such as behavioral profiling; Recommender systems and online fraud detection |
Director, Center for Analytics and Creativity
Professor, Information Systems & Decision Sciences |
Lingling Fan | USF | Knowledge Thrust: Power Systems
Renewable energy source grid integration; Modeling and control of energy systems; Large-scale power system planning and operation |
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering |
Manish Agrawal | USF | Knowledge Thrust: Interoperability; Socio-economics
Software quality; Electronic intermediaries and the development of Agent-based systems for negotiations and fraud detection. |
Professor, Information Systems and Decision Sciences |
Infrastructure, Facilities, and Other
- Center for Advanced Power Systems (http://www.caps.fsu.edu/ )
- Energy and Sustainability Center (esc.fsu.edu)
- Sustainable Energy Governance Center (seg.fsu.edu)
- National High Magnetic Field Lab (nhmfl.fsu.edu)
- Power Center for Utility Explorations (http://pcue.eng.usf.edu/Webpages/index.htm )
- Clean Energy Research Center (http://cerc.eng.usf.edu/)
- Florida Solar Energy Center ( http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/)
- The PV and TE Process Development and Integration Laboratory at FSEC and NSTC
- Major Analytical and Instrumentation Center (MAIC : http://maic.mse.ufl.edu/ )
- University of Florida High-Performance Computing Center (http://www.hpc.ufl.edu)
- Florida Lambda Rail (http://www.flrnet.org)
- Glove box and hoods, battery processing and testing capabilities, RTA and furnaces (Dr. K. Jones)
- Electrochemical laboratory, impedance and electrochemical instrumentation (Dr. M. Orazem)
- Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) at Florida Atlantic University, 101 N. Beach Road, Dania Beach, FL 33004 (http://www.coet.fau.edu/)
- Quantum Theory Project at UF is the world’s largest research center for theory, modeling, and computation of complex, novel molecular and materials systems (http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/)
Industrial Collaboration and Technology Commercialization
- Strong partnerships with various private sector entities that include FPL, TECO, Gulf Power Company, SAFT.
- Planar Energy Devices, Intel, IBM, Varian Semiconductor, TI (Dr. K. Jones)
- Planar Energy and Sandia National Labs (Dr. M. Orazem)
- Partnerships with private, academic and governmental entities in the area of hydrokinetic and ocean thermal energy conversion.