Prof. Junbo Zhao recently joined the University of Connecticut’s ECE Department as an assistant professor and is serving as the grid modernization team lead at the Eversource Energy Center.

Zhao, serving as chair of the IEEE Task Force on Power System Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation, was recognized as part of the IEEE group that earned the IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Report. The award is in recognition of outstanding performance in the development of a report that impacts the power and energy community. The committee’s report is titled “Power System Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation-Transition to Power Electronics-Dominated Clean Energy Systems.” This report aims to 1) clearly review its motivations and definitions, demonstrate its values for enhanced power system modeling, monitoring, operation, control, and protection as well as power engineering education; 2) provide recommendations to vendors, national labs, utilities, and ISOs on the use of dynamic state estimator for enhancement of the reliability, security, and resiliency of electric power systems. More information on the report and authors can be found here.

Prof. Zhao was also recently appointed as the Technical Committee Program Chair of the IEEE PES Renewable Systems Integration Coordinating Committee and has been nominated to serve as the next chair of the IEEE PES Connecticut Chapter.