Service

Editor: 

1. Journal of Control Science and Engineering, Special issue on Advancements and Innovations in Smart Grid Technologies, Guest Editor, 2024-present

2. Energies, Special issue on Emerging Cyber Physical System and Security Technologies for Battery Energy Storage Systems, Guest Editor, 2022-2023

3. IET Smart Grid, Special Issue on Blockchain Technologies Empowering Peer-to-Peer Trading in Multi-Energy Systems: From Advanced Technologies Towards Applications, Guest Editor, 2021 

4. Complexity, Special Issue on Advanced Control and Optimization for Complex Energy Systems 2021, Guest Editor 

5. Energies, Special issue on Cyber-physical Power and Energy System, Guest Editor, 2021

6. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selective Topics in Power Electronics, Special Issue on “Cybersecurity of Power Electronics through Hardware Hardening,” Guest Associate Editor, 2019-2020

7. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics Special Issue on "Power Integration with WBG Devices and Components", Guest Associate Editor, 2019-2020

8. Complexity, Special Issue on Advanced Control and Optimization for Complex Energy Systems, Guest Editor, 2019

Professional Committee: 

1. SunSpec DER Device Cybersecurity Certification Program, 2023-present 

2. SunSpec & Sandia DER Cybersecurity Working Group, 2022-present

3. Working group of IEEE Task Force on Cyber-Physical Interdependence for Power System Operation and Control, 2021-present 

4. Working group of P1547 (IEEE 1547.3 Standard, Guide for Cybersecurity of Distributed Energy Resources Interconnected with Electric Power Systems), 2021-present

5. Working group 3 in IEEE International Technology Roadmap of Power Electronics for Distributed Energy Resources (ITRD), 2020-present 

6. IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) TC10. Design Methodologies, 2021-present

7. IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Cyber-Physical Security Steering Committee, 2018-present

US-KOREA Committee:

1. Korea Technology Advisory Group (K-TAG) at Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT), 2018-present 

2. Auditor, Korea Institute of Power Electronics (KIPE) at the U.S. Chapter, 2018-2022 

3. Secretary of Executive at Korean American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) Coastal Bend, 2018-2022

4. Global Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP), 2018-2021

Proposal Pannel Review:

1. DOE Advisory Reviewer Board, 2023

2. Knowledge Foundation in Sweden, 2023

3. NSF Review Panel, 2022, 2024

Conference/Symposium/Workshop:

1. Technical Track Chair, Energy, IECON 2024 Nov. 2024. 

2. Technical Committee, Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS) USA 2024, Balton Rouge, LA, Jul. 9-12, 2024. 

3. Special Sessions Co-Chair, 2024 International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, May 2024. 

4. Program Committee, 2023 Ninth Annual Industrial Control System Security (ICSS) Workshop, Dec. 5, 2023 

5. Special Session Organizer, Smart Inverter Security and Resilience by Design: Industry Best Practices, Standard and Security Certification, and Research, 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Nashville, TN, Oct. 29-Oct. 2, 2023

6. Session Chair, Resonant DC/DC Converters I, ICPE 2023-ECCE Asia, Jeju Island, Korea, May 22-25, 2023.

7. Technical Committee, Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRW) USA 2023, Baltimore, Jul. 9-12, 2023. 

8. Session Chair, Sessions on Data Analysis and Cybersecurity I, 2021 IEEE ISGT-Asia, Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 5- Dec. 8, 2021. 

9. Session Chair, Sessions on Grid Forming Control I, Sustainable Energy Miscellaneous Topic II, 2021 IEEE PEDG, Jun. 28- Jul. 1, 2021. 

10. Topic chair for Track B01 (Renewable Energy Grid Integration), 2021 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 10-14, 2021

11. Technical Program Committee, Cyber Security and Privacy Symposium track of IEEE SmartGridComm'20, Temple, AZ, USA, Nov. 11-13, 2020

12. Session Chair, Session on Control I, 2020 APEC, March 15-19, 2020

13. Session Chair, Session on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Mobility, and Vehicle Functional Security, 2020 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, June 23-26, 2020

14. Program Chair, 3rd Southwest Texas Asian Symposium, Kingsville, TX, Nov. 1, 2019

15. A Special Session Organizer, CyberPELS: Cyber and Hardware Security for Power Electronics in a Changing World, 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Baltimore, MD, Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2019

16. Topic chair for Track C (Datacenters and Telecommunication Applications), 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Baltimore, MD, Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2019

17. Program Committee Chair, 2nd Southwest Texas Asian Symposium, Corpus Christi, TX, Nov. 2, 2018

18. Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology, Lincoln, NE, USA, May. 14-17, 2017

19. Local Organizing Committee for the Energy Material Nanotechnology (EMN) Meeting on Batteries, Orlando, FL, USA, Feb. 22-25, 2016

Invited Talks:

1. [Invited Talk] University of Illinois Chicago, "Cyber-Physical Power and Energy Systems at TAMUK," Chicago, IL, July 31, 2023 

2. [Invited Talk] KERI, "Cyber-physical security for distributed energy resources and eMobility," Changwon, South Korea, May 30, 2023

3. [Invited Talk] Jeju University, "Cyber-physical power and energy systems," Jeju Island, South Korea, May 25, 2023

4. [Tutorial] 2023 ECCE-ASIA, "Cybersecurity modeling and testing for power electronic devices and systems in cyber-physical environments," Jeju Island, South Korea, May 22, 2023

5. [Invited Talk] Inha Unviersity, Cyber-Physical Resilience for Power and Energy Systems, Incheon, South Korea, May 19, 2023

6. [Webinar] SunSpec & Sandia DER Cybersecurity Webinar, "Ransomware attacks on DER inverters and device-centric defense," Jan. 26, 2023. 

7. [Invited Talk] 2022 KSEA West Gulf Coast Regional Conference, "Toward resilient cyber-physical security for power grid, Dec. 11, 2022.

8. [Invited Talk] SunSpec Alliance Annual Meeting, "Potential Quantum Computing Attacks on DER and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)-Grade IEEE 2030.5," Dec. 8, 2022  [https://vimeo.com/789159234]

9. [Seminar] Inha University, “Ransomware Attack and Forensics on DER Inverters, Nov. 29, 2022 

10. [Seminar] University of Michigan-Dearborn, “Toward Cyber-Resilient Distributed Energy Resources at Grid Edge, Oct. 12, 2022

11. [Seminar] Inha University, “Blockchain for firmware security check and recovery in smart inverters," South Korea, July 7, 2021

12. [Invited Talk] 2021 Korean Institute of Communication and Information Sciences (KICS) Summer Conference, "Security modeling for distributed energy resources in smart grid environment, " Jeju Island, South Korea, June 18, 2021.

13. [Invited Talk] 2021 Korean Institute of Communication and Information Sciences (KICS) Winter Conference, "An overview of cybersecurity for power and energy systems," Gangwon Province, South Korea, Feb. 5, 2021.

14. [Invited Speaker] T. Kim, “A next-generation cyber-physical battery energy storage system,” 2019 Southwest Texas Asian Symposium, Kingsville, TX, Nov. 1, 2019. 

15. [Seminar] Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), “Case study of cyber-physical security in power electronic devices,” South Korea, July 10, 2019

16. [Seminar] Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), "Cyber and physical security for power and energy systems," Pohang, South Korea, June 7, 2019

17. [Seminar] Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP), "Cyber-physical security for power and energy systems using blockchain technology," Seoul, South Korea, June 4, 2019

18. [Seminar] Soongsil University "A next-generation cyber-physical battery energy storage system," Seoul, South Korea, June 3, 2019 

19. [Seminar] Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, "Cyber and physical security for power and energy systems," Changwon, South Korea, May 31, 2019

20. [Tutorial] 2019 ECCE-ASIA, "Cyber and Physical Security for Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Power Electronics Devices,"  Busan, South Korea, May 27, 2019

21. [Seminar] Rochester Institute of Technology, "Toward next-generation battery energy storage system in cyber-physical environments," Rochester, NY, Mar. 2019 

22. [Seminar] Texas A&M University, “An internet of Things (IoT) enabled wireless battery management system,” College Station, TX, Mar. 2019 

23. [Seminar] University of Iowa, “Cyber-physical power and energy systems through IoT, AI, and blockchain,” Iowa City, IA, Nov. 2018

24. [Invited Talk] US-Korea Conference (UKC), "Blockchain for Internet-of-things (IoT)-enabled multiagent platform for resilient residential power grid under weather disasters," , New York, NY, 2018.

25. [Seminar] Chonbuk National University, “Energy IoT towards secure cyber-physical power and energy systems,” South Korea, July 2018

26. [Seminar] Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), “Energy IoT towards secure cyber-physical power and energy systems,” South Korea, July 2018

27. [Seminar] Changwon National University, “Cyber-physical power and energy systems,” South Korea, April 2018

28. [Invited Speaker] EMN Meeting on Batteries, “Self-X multicell batteries: Condition monitoring and power management,” Orlando, FL, Feb. 2016  

29. [Seminar] Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, “Power electronics-enabled battery management system,” South Korea, June 2015

30. [Seminar] California State University, Long Beach, “Intelligent power and energy systems: An advanced battery management system and a multiagent system for residential DC microgrid,” Long Beach, CA, Mar. 2015

Journal Reviewer:

• IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification ;

• IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topic in Power Electronics;

• Applied Energy, Journal of Power Electronics, Energies, Journal of Energy, Journal of IET Power Electronics, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Applied Mathematic Modeling, Journal of Electric Power Components and Systems, and IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 

Professional Membership:

4. Senior Member of IEEE 

5. Member of: IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Power Electronics Society, IEEE Industry Applications Society, IEEE Electric Vehicles Community, IEEE IoT Community, IEEE Smart Grid Community  

6. Korean-American Scientist and Engineers Association (KSEA); Korea Institute of Power Electronics (KIPE)

Service at TAMUK:

• EECS Department Chair Searching Committe, 2022-2023

• Chair of EECS P&T Committee, 2022

• Computer Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum/ABET Committee, 2021-present

•  EECS Promotion/Tenure/Continuation Committee, 2021-present

• EE Graduate Program Committee , 2019-2021        

• Scholarship Committee Chair in the Department of EECS 2018        

• Javelina Scholarship Committee, 2016-2017

• Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Tracks Committee, 2015-2017

• PhD Dissertation Comittee

  1. Waeem A. Aqqad, Engineering Program, Title: Dynamics and resiliency of networks with concurrent cascading failure and self-healing, Dec. 2022 

  2. Qian Ma, Engineering Program, Title: Development of miniature wind energy harvesting systems, May 2022

  3. Sreelatha A. Subramanyam, Sustainable Energy System Engineering Program, Title: Innovations in electricity market-wholesale markets and prosumer markets, May 2020

  4. Hassan S. Hayajneh, Sustainable Energy System Engineering Program, Title: A solution to maximaize renewable energy generations, incentivize battery deployment and promote green transportation, May 2020

  5. Maximiliano L. Herrera, Sustainable Energy System Engineering Program, Title: A hierarchical design methodology for polygeneration microgrid deployment in medium-sized communities, May 2020

• MS Thesis Comittee

  1. Eugene Amoah, IE, May 2021

  2. Sharon Boddu, CS, Dec. 2020

  3. Olawale M. Agboola, EE, Aug. 2020

  4. Rishiraj Patel, EE, May 2019

  5. Mujahid A. A. Syed, CS, May 2019

  6. Dishant Harshadkumar Thakka, EE, May 2019

• Summer Internship Mentoring

  1. Alycia Jenkins, TAMUK, NSF REU, 2022

  2. Nigel Raymundo, Cosumnes River College, NSF REU. 2022

  3. Ying Su: UT Austin, NSF REU, 2021

  4. Abigail Villasenor, TAMUK, NSF REU, 2021