Invited Talk

P.-C. Chen, et al., "AMI 2.0 Meets AI — Customer Insights with a Panel of Utility Leaders", DistribuTech, Feb 2026.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "Restoring Power, Reinventing Response - AI-Powered Transformation in Outage Management at Exelon, Eversource, and Oncor", DistribuTech, Feb 2026.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "“The Out of Stock Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions”, The AI Summit New York, Dec 2025.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "AI-Powered Operations: Insights from Northeastern Utilities", DTECH Northeast, Nov 2025.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "Smarter Outage Management and Restoration: How Do Utilities Improve and Excel against Storms via Data Analytics", IEEE PES General Meeting, Jul 2025.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "Data Scientist for Power System Education", IEEE PES General Meeting, Jul 2025.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "Generative AI is transforming Exelon's organization", DistribuTech, Mar 2025.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "Enhancing worker and driver safety with AI at Exelon", DistribuTech, Mar 2025.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "Making the most of AMI: Data drives organizational decisions at Exelon and Duke", DistribuTech, Mar 2026.

P.-C. Chen, et al., “Synthetic Scenes, Real Defects: A Next-Level Utility Inspection Pipeline”, New York Power Authority (NYPA) Data Analytics and AI CoP meeting, Feb 2025.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "Integrating AI Models and Synthetic Image Data for Enhanced Asset Inspection and Defect Identification", AEIC Member Spotlight Webinar, Jan 2025.

P.-C. Chen, et al., “Automating Visual Asset Inspection at Exelon”, Oncor Center of Excellence, Oct 2024.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "UAI Community Conversations - Grid Analytics: Machine Learning and Drone Image Processing, and Predictive Analytics and Vegetation Intelligence", Utility Analytics Week, Oct 2024.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "Future of Utilities: Image Analytics and AI for Automated Drone Inspection", IEEE PES General Meeting, Jul. 2024.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "How Drone Engineering, AI Modeling, and Imagery Are All Advancing", Utility Imagery & Inspection Consortium (UIIC) Summit, Feb. 2024.

P.-C. Chen, "Insight to Action - Grid Analytics Journey", IEEE PES Richmond Section Seminar, Dec 2023.

P.-C. Chen, et al., "EVs and Grid Analytics: Driving the Future Together", UAI Community Conversation - Grid Analytics, Utility Analytics Week, Oct. 2023.  

P.-C. Chen and Haley Saul "Utility Industry and Young Tech Talent: Do They Even Know?" Utility Analytics Summit, Apr. 2023.  

A. Agarwal (Exelon), P.-C. Chen (Exelon), A. Toy (Evergy), B. C. Steere (Consumer Energy), S. Green (Consumer Energy), Prasenjit Shil (Ameren), "Creating an Analytics Academy" Utility Analytics Institute Virtual Panel Discussion, Feb. 2023. 

A. Agarwal, P.-C. Chen, and V. Anderson, "Using Synthetic Data Generation of Grid Infrastructure to Automate Drone Inspection", NVIDIA GTC Conf, Mar 2023. link

• Exelon Uses Synthetic Data Generation of Grid Infrastructure to Automate Drone Inspection | NVIDIA Technical Blog Link

P.-C. Chen, "Insight to Action - Grid Analytics Journey", IEEE PES Foothill Section Seminar, Working Group on Data-Driven Modeling, Monitoring, and Control in Power Distribution Systems, Nov 2022.

P.-C. Chen, T. Dokic, and M. Kezunovic, “The Use of Big Data for Outage Management in Distribution Systems," in Texas A&M University Smart Grid Journal Club, College Station, TX, USA, Nov. 2014.

P.-C. Chen, T. Dokic, D. W. Goldberg, and M. Kezunovic, "Utilizing Geographical Information System (GIS) for Distribution Outage Management (OM)," in Texas A&M GIS Day 2014, College Station, TX, USA, Nov. 2014.

P.-C. Chen, "The Use of Big Data for Outage Management in Distribution Systems," in Science, Engineering, and Technology Seminar (SETS), The Association of Chinese American Professionals (ACAP), Sugar Land, TX, USA, Jun. 2014.

M. Kezunovic and P.-C. Chen, "The Use of Big Data for Outage Management in Distribution Systems," in Advanced Grid Modeling Peer Review, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Alexandria, VA, USA, Jun. 2014.

T. Dokic, P.-C. Chen, and M. Kezunovic, “The Use of Big Data for Power System Outage Management in the Case of Catastrophic Events," in Summer Institute on Flooding, Center For Emergency Informatics (CEI), College Station, TX, USA, Jun. 2014.

P.-C. Chen, V. Malbasa, and M. Kezunovic, “Locating Sub-Cycle Faults in Distribution Network Applying Half-Cycle DFT Method," in 2nd Smart Grid Workshop, Smart Grid Center, Texas A&M Engineering Experimental Station (TEES), College Station, TX, USA, Apr. 2014.

P.-C. Chen, V. Malbasa, and M. Kezunovic, “Locating Sub-Cycle Faults in Distribution Network Applying Half-Cycle DFT Method," in Student Research Week (SRW), Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, TX, USA, Mar. 2014.

P.-C. Chen and T. Dokic, “GIS data utilization for outage management in distribution system" in Texas A&M University Smart Grid Journal Club, College Station, TX, USA, Feb. 2014.

P.-C. Chen and M. Kezunovic, “Analysis of the Impact of Distributed Generation Placement on Voltage Profile in Distribution Systems," in 1st Smart Grid Workshop, Smart Grid Center, Texas A&M Engineering Experimental Station (TEES), College Station, TX, USA, Apr. 2013.