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 District

Advisory 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 Laboratory

Song 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

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