Townhall Session
Dr. Tadeja Babnik
Power System Programme Manager at Elpros
Slovenia
Dr. Tianshu Bi
President, North China Electric Power University
China
Dr. Renata Rubesa
Assistant Director at HOPS Croatian Transmission System Operator
Croatia
Renata Rubeša received her B.Sc.E.E degree in 2005. in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University of Zagreb in 2005, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia in 2015. Since 2005. she has been with the Croatian transmission system Operator, where she started working as a relay protection engineer. Since 2007 she is with the Department for support to power system control, responsible for maintenance, development and integration of SCADA, EMS, AGC and WAM systems. She is currently head of department for the support to power system control in HOPS. She has participated in several projects and conferences involving development of WAM system in Croatia and international CIGRE working groups for the integration of WAMS in the control room. She is Member of IEEE, member of CIGRE Croatia study committee C2 Power system operation and control and chair of Croatian CIGRE study committee B5 Protection and automation. She has participated in several research and development projects funded by the EU. Since 2017 she is technical lead for the integration and development of an automated Volt Var control system in Croatia, as part of the Sincro.Grid project co-funded by the European Commission in the field of smart grids. Her main topics of interest are transmission system protection, wide area monitoring and energy management systems.
Dr. Jhi-Young Joo
Grid Data Analytics Area Lead for Cyber and Infrastructure Resilience Program, LLNL
USA
Jhi-Young Joo serves as the Grid Data Analytics Area Lead for Cyber and Infrastructure Resilience Program under the Energy and Homeland Security (E Program) of Global Security. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing and developing a portolio of projects that uses data science to improve resilience and security of the electric power grid. Her research interests are in using increasingly abundant sensor measurements and data from the power grid to ensure resilient and secure operation of the national power grid infrastructure.
Jhi-Young joined LLNL in April 2018 as Distribution Automation Lead Engineer. Before LLNL, she worked as a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and as an assistant professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology. In these roles, she led a number of research projects sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE), California Energy Commission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), among others. Her past and current research work includes preventing power equipment-caused wildfires by developing a data-based algorithm for detecting and identifying arcing in a power distribution system, and analyzing cybersecurity impacts of distributed energy resources.
Jhi-Young is an inaugural co-chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society Task Force on Big Data Analytics on Synchro-Waveform Measurements, and holds patents on adaptive load management and arcing anomaly detection (pending). She is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, and the 2019 FLC Far West Regional Award for Outstanding Partnership, among others.