Smart Microgrid and Renewable Technology (SMRT)

Research Laboratory

　

Room 224, Packard Laboratory, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA 18015

 

　

 

　

　

Members:

·              Director:

o      Prof. Wenxin Liu

·              PhD Students:

o      Ms. Karla Rincon Martinez

o      Ms. Kamelia Norouzi

o      Mr. Mari Fogle

o      Mr. Xiaoyu Sun

 

Equipment:

·              Modular Multi-level Converter

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·              Renewable Microgrid and Shipboard Power System Test-bed

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More information about our experimental platforms can be found in

·               W. Liu, J. Kim, C. Wang, W. Im, L. Liu, and H. Xu, “Power converters based advanced experimental platform for integrated study of power and controls,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 4940-4952, November 2018. 

·               Z. Tu, Z. Fan, W. Zhang, and W. Liu, “Development of deep reinforcement learning co-simulation platforms for power system control,” IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering (In press).

·               Z. Fan, Z. Tu, and W. Liu, “Online multi-agent deep reinforcement learning platform for distributed real-time dynamic control of power systems,” Neural Computing and Applications (Under review).

 

Alumni:

·               Dr. Won-Sang Im (Post-Doc, 2013~2016), Specialist, LG Electronics, Incheon, Republic of Korea

·               Dr. Shilin Guo, (Post-Doc, 2018~2019), Development Engineer, ECU Electronics Industrial Col, Ltd., Hefei, China

·               Dr. Yinliang Xu (PhD, 2000~2013), Associate Professor, Tsinghua-Berkley Shenzhen Institute, Shenzhen, China

·               Dr. Wei Zhang (PhD, 2001~2014, Post-Doc 2021~2022), Electrical Engineer, ETAP - Operation Technology, Inc., Tustin, CA

·               Dr. Ye Ma (PhD, 2012~2015), Senior Software Development & Data Science Engineer, General Motors, Austin TX

·               Dr. Jiajun Duan (PhD, 2015~2018), Senior Power System Engineer at Nextracker Inc., Fremont, CA

·               Dr. Jiangkai Peng (PhD, 2016-2021), Post-Doc, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

·               Dr. Zhenghong Tu (PhD, 2018-2022), Post-Doc, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL

·               Dr. Zhen Fan (PhD, 2019-2023), DER Planning Engineer, Eversource Energy, Bedford, NH

·               Mr. Balwinder Singh (MS, 2009~2011)

·               Ms. Cheryl Nez (MS, 2010~2012), Electrical Engineer, Salt River Project, AZ

·               Mr. Abdulmonem Albudbaisi (MS, 2012~2014), Electrical Engineer, Saudi Power, Saudi Arabia

·               Mr. Liang Tan (MS, 2013~2016), Firmware Engineer, goTenna, Brooklyn, NY

 

Research Sponsors:

·               Office of Naval Research

·               National Science Foundation

·               Department of Energy

·               California Energy Commission

·               Idaho National Laboratory

　

　

　

Last updated on 09/12/2024