Experience

Amazon Web Services

Sr. Solution Architect | Industry Specialist, Energy and Utilities

2022.6 - present

• Work with power and utility companies on decarbonization and digitalization through cloud adoption at AWS. Unleash greater values and built the future for the power industry

ISO New England

R&D Lead Scientist/Analyst

2020.8 - 2022.6

• Continue to lead ISO-NE's cloud computing projects. Take charge of application and infrastructure design of current cloud product for planning studies.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic advice to the company for decision making on cloud/AI/big data technologies

• Promote research applicable and beneficial to the ISO, preparing the ISO for the upcoming challenges associated with grid modernization and decarbonization

Senior Power System Scientist/Analyst

2017.1 - 2020.8

• Lead the ISO-NE’s cloud computing projects including development of an application-independent, scalable and cost effective Amazon EC2 based simulation platform for transmission planning, resource adequacy analysis and forward capacity auction, a Spark/Hadoop based big data analytics platform running on Amazon EMR for historical data mining (PMU data, weather data, market data), and a serverless architecture built on Amazon Lambda for cloud-based power grid emergency generation dispatch

• Frequently Interact with Operations, System Planning, IT and PMO departments internally, and externally with universities, National Labs and research organizations such as EPRI to bring new ideas, methodologies and solutions to the company

• Study, develop and implement new technologies and algorithms in power system planning and real time operations to improve the reliability and efficiency of New England electric power system

GE Grid Solutions (a GE and Alstom Joint Venture)

Software Product Business Analyst

2015.1 - 2017.1

• Work closely with various customers including AEP, Entergy, Florida Power & Light, BC Hydro and Hydro One to formulate the detailed design 

of computing, alarming, displaying, data retrieving and archiving as per the 

their requirements. 

• Develop new algorithms for network solutions to electric energy management, 

which help customers greatly enhance their system performance, e.g., a customer

 reported 40% time cost reduction in CA execution after using our enhancement features.

•  Architect and implement new features for Alstom EMS products, including 

contingency analysis (CA), optimal power flow (OPF)/security enhancement (SENH), 

state estimation (RTNET), outage evaluation, and (voltage and transient) stability 

assessment. The new features can improve the efficiency of customers’ system 

in daily operation and accuracy of decision making in control rooms.

•  Perform cross-platform (Windows/Linux) C++ programming, debugging, 

documentation, and user interface (UI) change to support project and software delivery.

Alstom Grid Inc. (acquired by GE)

Power System Engineer

2014.6 - 2015.11