2023 News

[09/2023] Our paper is accepted to the 2023 IEEE Control and Decision Conference (CDC):

Anh Phuong Ngo, Christan Thomas, Ali Karimoddini, and Hieu T. Nguyen. "Multi-UAV trajectory planning problem using the difference of convex function programming."

[09/2023] Hieu participated in the Center for Regional and Rural Connected Communities (CR2C2), a regional university transportation research center led by Dr. Karimoddini (NCAT is the prime).
[08/2023] Welcome Lidia Zewde to join our lab. She will work on Urban Air Mobility (co-supervised with Dr. Faisal M Alkaabneh at the Department of Industrial System Engineering).
[06/2023] Hieu visited National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and participated in NREL Student Training in Applied Research Internship (STAR) Program as NC A&T faculty mentor.
[04/2023] Our collaborative proposal with PSE Healthy Energy "Equity indexed Value of Lost Load: Energy Justice in Outage Cost Analysis" (Hieu Nguyen, Patrick Murphy) was selected for funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under the Energy Insight 2022 call.
[04/2023] Phuong received the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society (DAS)'s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Fellowship and was appointed as admin of IBMQ NCAT-group to support other students/researchers in NCAT in quantum research with IBM Quantum Computer Cloud Service. Congratulations Phuong!
[02/2023] Our paper is accepted to The 2023 IEEE GreenTech.
Phuong Anh Ngo, Nhat Le, Hieu T. Nguyen, Abdullah Eroglu, and Duong T. Nguyen. "A Quantum Neural Network Regression for Modeling Lithium-ion Battery Capacity Degradation." Phuong received the NSF Student Travel Grant for IEEE GreenTech and INFORMS Student Travel Grant for INFORMS Annual Meeting. Congratulations Phuong!
[01/2023] Nhat received the "Dominion Energy Scholarship". Congratulations Nhat!
[01/2023] Christan Thomas graduated and joined Department of Flight Test, Lockheed Martin. Congratulations Christan!
[01/2023] Hieu attended the The 2023 North American Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies and delivered the talk "Addressing the Blackswan events with Sharing Energy Storage under the great energy transition" under the Panel "Addressing Reliability and Resilience of 100% Renewable Grid: Challenges, Recent Research, and Standards " (Invited by Dr. Tu Nguyen from Sandia National Lab)
[01/2023] Our paper is accepted to the 2023 IEEE Texas Power Energy Conference:

Nhat Le, Alexis Plasencia Leos, Juan Henriquez, Anh Phuong Ngo, and Hieu T. Nguyen. "Analyze the Effects of COVID-19 on Energy Storage Systems: A Techno-Economic Approach." (Congratulations Nhat, Alexis, and Juan for the NSF Student Travel Grants)

Welcome Michael Famakinde and Destiny Erhimefe to join our lab in Spring 2023. Michael and Destiny are working on "Development of Sensorless Control for PMSM using Gallium Nitride (GaN) based Inverter". They presented their premilinary results at the Anual COE graduate research symposium.

2022 News

[12/2022] Hieu attended the Energy Insight 2022 organized by Resource for The Future and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in Washington DC (invited)

[08/2022] Hieu attended the 2nd US Transmission Grid Conference in DC hosted by Global Transmission and the Engineering Research Vision Alliances Conference on Unhackable Infrastructure hosted by NSF and MIT Industrial Liaison Program in Cambridge, MA (Invited).

[03/2022] We have two papers accepted for the IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference 2022:

Phuong Ngo, Christian Thomas, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Hieu Nguyen, and Duong Nguyen "On the comparison of different convexified power flow models in radial distribution network.

Hieu Nguyen, Duong Nguyen, Phuong Ngo, Christian Thomas, "Solar PV modeling with Lambert-W function: An exponential cone programming approach".

[01/2022] Our paper was accepted for publications on IET Generation, Transmission, Distribution:

Amarachi Umunnakwe, Masood Parvania, Hieu Nguyen, John Horel, Katherine Davis, "Data-Driven Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Wildfire Risk to Power Systems Operation", IET Generation Transmission & Distribution, 2022.

2021 News

[11/2021] Our proposal "A Computational MILP for UAV Search and Coverage" (Ali Karimoddini, Hieu Nguyen) was selected for funding by the U.S. Sandia National Lab.
[10/2021] Hieu received the College of Engineering/Intel Faculty Fellowship for a proposal "An Edge Computing Solution for Transactive Energy Market in Smart Distribution Networks" (Single PI).
[10/2021] Hieu attended Informs Annual Meeting 2021. We have one contributed presentation "Two-stage Robust Edge Service Placement and Sizing under Uncertainties"- Duong T. Nguyen, Ni Trieu, Hieu T. Nguyen, Jiaming Cheng, Vijay K. Bhargava at the Telecommunication and Networking Analytics section.
[09/2021] Welcome Christian Thomas (BS., Mechanical Engineering, NC A&T, Cum Laude) and Ryan Reese (BS, Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Summa Cum Laude) who joined us as Masters students.
[08/2021] Welcome Phuong Ngo (MS., Industrial Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Germany - Vietnamese German University) who joined us as a PhD student.
[07/2021] Our NSF REU/RET project "Smart Power Distribution System Modelling" were successfully reported. Thank Trupti, Jade, Haley, Ryan, and Toriano for your great works. Bellow are our elevator pitch and our final presentation. Look forward to more smartgrid projects with HBCU students

Elevator Pitch.mp4

Final Presentation REU.mp4

[06/2021] Our paper was accepted for publications on IEEE Internet of Things Journal:

D. Nguyen, H. Nguyen, N. Trieu, and V. Bhargava, "Two-stage robust edge service placement and sizing under demand uncertainty", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.

[05/2021] Hieu joined NSF REU/RET Mega Site to be a faculty lead for the project "Smart Power Distribution System Modelling". Welcome Trupti Bellundagi (North Carolina A&T State), Jade Adams (Alabama A&M), Haley Moses (Prairie View A&M), Ryan Ocasio Roca (Ana G. Mendez Univ.), and Mr. Toriano Baldwin (High Point Central High) to the smart grid project. Joseph L. Miller (NCAT) joined as a undergraduate research assistant.
[03/2021] Our research proposal "Development of a Cyber-physical Testbed for Evaluating Distributed Ledger Technology’s Performance in Smart Distribution Grid Communication" (Lead PI: Hieu Nguyen, PI: Ali Karimoddini) was selected for funding by the US Sandia National Lab.
[01/2021] Hieu joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University as an assistant professor.

2020 News

[12/2020] Our paper was accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery:

J. Muhs, M. Parvania, H. Nguyen, J. Palmer, “Characterizing Probability of Wildfire Ignition Caused by Power Distribution Lines,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, early access, 2021.

[11/2020] Our paper was accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery:

H. Nguyen, J. Muhs, M. Parvania, “Preparatory operation of automated distribution systems for resilience enhancement of critical loads,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, early access, 2021.

[07/2020] Our paper was accepted for publication on Applied Energy:

H. Nguyen, F. Felder, “Generation expansion planning with renewable energy credit market: A bilevel programming approach," Applied Energy, 2020.

[05/2020] Hieu delivered an invited talk "Power system operation and planning under decarbonization" at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University
[02/2020] Hieu gave an invited talk "Integrating environmental markets into power system operation modeling" at the Rutgers Industrial and System Engineering Seminar. https://soe.rutgers.edu/event/industrial-and-systems-engineering-seminar-8
[01/2020] Hieu presented his work "Generation expansion planning with renewable energy credit market: A bilevel programming approach" at the Advanced Workshop on Regulation and Competition in Network Industries, Rutgers' Center for Research in Regulated Industries.