Team
Meet our team
The team is highly diversified, with delegates from utilities/ISOs, cloud service providers, system integrators, power system solution vendors, trading companies, consulting firms, research institutes, universities, as well as regulatory bodies (NERC and FERC). A breakdown of the group by sectors is illustrated below. This interactive chart will be updated dynamically as the number of registered members grows.
Officers
Chair:
Song Zhang, Grid Solution Leader, AWS Energy & Utilities (former R&D Lead Analyst/Cloud Apps & Infrastructure Lead, ISO New England)Vice Chair:
Xiaochuan Luo, Manager, ISO New EnglandAmritanshu Pandey, Assistant Professor, University of Vermont (former Special Faculty at Carnegie Mellow University)Secretary:
Shaohui Liu, Ph.D. candidate, The University of Texas at AustinMike Swan (Secretary at Large), Transmission Planning Engineer, Omaha Public Power DistrictAdvisory Board:
Maggy Powell, Principal Industry Specialist, Amazon Web ServicesRanjan Banerji, Principal Partner Solutions ArchitectLiang Downey, Digital Advisor, Microsoft AzureKen Birman, N. Rama Rao Professor, Cornell UniversityFeng Qiu, Principal Computational Scientist, Argonne National LaboratorySong Zhang
(Chair)
Xiaochuan Luo
(Vice Chair)
Amrit Pandey
(Vice Chair)
Shaohui Liu
(Secretary)
Mike Swan
(Secretary at Large)
Core Members
RTOs/ISOs
New York ISO, California ISO, ERCOT, ISO New England, SPP, IESO, Midcontinent ISO
Utilities
OPPD, NYPA, Dominion Energy, NextEra
Cloud Providers/Partners
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud
Solution Vendors
Siemens PTI, GE, PowerGem, Axceleon, SmartWires, Energy Exemplar, Kalkitech, PingThings, Cognite
Research Institutes
EPRI, PNNL, ANL, Hitachi America
Regulatory Authorities
FERC, NERC
PES Committee/Subcommittee
PSOPE, AMPS, BDA
System Integrators
Accenture, Deloitte
Universities
Carnegie Mellon University, New York City College of Technology, Iowa State University, Texas A&M, UT Austin