News

Our group has received an award from the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research (ONR) to study deep learning-based optimal control of naval microgrids. 

Ali Hosseinipour, a second-year PhD student of the INTEGRITY lab has published his first journal article in Elsevier's International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems  (a very good journal with impact factor of 5.6) . This is the first journal article to come out of the INTEGRITY lab since its establishment in 2021. Keep up the good work, Ali.  You can read his paper via this link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142061523002818?dgcid=author 

Our group has received an award from the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research (ONR) to study real-time resilience of naval microgrids. 

• Our group has received a grant from Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) to work with Lehigh's Institute for Cyber-Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) along with our industry partner "Duquesne Light Company" to work on a project on grid integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) using DC interlink system . 

Our group participated in Girl Scouts program in  Camp Small Valley, PA, to present the beauty of electrical engineering to girls from kindergarten to high-school. 

Our group received an award from National Science Foundation to study dynamic state-estimation of modern power systems using statistical machine learning approaches. 

More information here:  https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221784&HistoricalAwards=false

• Our group has received two grants from Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) to work with Lehigh's Institute for Cyber-Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) along with our industry partner "Honeywell" in developing algorithms for battery energy management in buildings with electric vehicles and explore cyber threats in building energy management systems. 

• Our group has received funding from Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) to work with Lehigh's Institute for Cyber-Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) along with our industry partner "ProtoGen Energy Aligned" in developing microgrid and energy storage solutions to enhance Quakertown's grid resilience against flash flooding and failures.  

•  I recently established the Power and Energy Society (PES) Chapter in IEEE Region 2, Susquehanna Section and I am the interim chair. The section aims at promoting the power and energy society by inviting experts in the field and holding workshops and conferences for professional networking and job opportunities. Please refer to the IEEE Region 2, Susquehanna Section PES chapter through the following link

• I am Co-organizing the Second International Workshop on Application of Big Data Analytics to Cyber-Physical Systems as a track chair embedded in IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference to be held virtually on October 19, 2020. Please submit  your articles by August 19, 2020. Link

• I am guest editing a special issue on Sustainability Journal with the topic of "Modeling, Optimization, and Security of Modern Energy-Water Nexus with High Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources". Two colleagues of mine are assisting me with the process, Dr. Arash Asrari from Southern Illinois University and Dr. Faegheh Moazeni from Penn State Harrisburg. Please feel free to submit your articles by October 2021. Link

• We received additional funding from the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research to develop a hardware testbed enabling integration of power converters up to 10kVA capacity to a real-time simulator for shipboard power system modeling  (July 2020).

• We received a funding from Penn State's Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE) under Homeland Security Track to study cyberattacks in interlinked water-energy networks (May 2020). Link  

• We received a funding from the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research to develop a distributed renewable energy resource (DER) and cybersecurity testbed for naval shipboard power systems and smart grids (January 2020). Link