Townhall Session
Prof. Zoran Obradovic
Temple University, Philadelphia
USA
Topic: "Future trends in ML/AI for power system data analytics"
Zoran Obradovic is a Distinguished Professor and Center Director at Temple University, an
Academician at the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe), and a Foreign Academician at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has mentored 74 postdoctoral fellows and Ph.D. students, many of whom have established independent research careers at academic institutions (e.g., Northeastern University, Ohio State University) and industrial research labs (e.g., Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Hitachi Big Data, IBM T.J. Watson, Microsoft, Yahoo Labs, Uber, Verizon Big Data, Spotify).
Zoran serves as the editor-in-chief of the Big Data journal and is the steering committee chair for the SIAM Data Mining conference. He is also a member of the editorial boards for 13 journals and has held roles as general chair, program chair, or track chair for 11 international conferences. His research interests encompass data science and complex networks in decision support systems, addressing challenges related to big, heterogeneous, spatial, and temporal data analytics, motivated by applications in healthcare management, power systems, and earth and social sciences. His studies have received funding from AFRL, DARPA, DOE, NIH, NSF, ONR, the PA Department of Health, US Army ERDC, US Army Research Labs, and various industry sources. He has published 470 articles and has been cited more than 35,000 times (H-index 70). For more details, see http://www.dabi.temple.edu/zoran-obradovic.
Dr. Julia Matevosyan
Associate Director, Chief Engineer, ESIG, International
USA
Topic: "Data analytics for IBR deployment"
nergy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) announced today that Dr. Julia Matevosyan has been appointed as Associate Director, in addition to her current title of Chief Engineer. Matevosyan assumes the role after three years as the organization’s Chief Engineer, during which time she grew ESIG’s work on grid-forming inverter-based resources, stability phenomena, and system services.
In her new role, Matevosyan will work alongside ESIG Executive Director Debbie Lew to drive the organization’s strategy and launch a new effort addressing the integration of large loads such as data centers, hydrogen production and industrial electrification.
Matevosyan specializes in integration of wind, solar and battery storage into power systems and transmission system planning, and has spent her impressive career working with world-leading institutions and organizations. She has 25 years of experience, including at ERCOT as a Lead Planning Engineer, and several global consulting firms.
She holds both a PhD and Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Riga Technical University. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, and is an active member of CIGRE, the International Energy Agency Wind Task 25. She leads a number of impactful industry working groups such as the NERC Inverter Based Resource Performance Subcommittee, the ERCOT Inverter-Based Resource Working Group, member of the leadership team of IEEE P2800.2 Working Group and others.