CPSS Report - Fall 2020

• Worked with CPSS Awards Committee on selection of the 2020 WEK Excellence in Power Awardee
• Worked with conference committee planning for 2020 CPSS SoDaRP Conference
• EE Scholarship Program Committee Chair
• EE Program Bennett Fellowship Chair
• Served as EE Internship coordinator for 7 EE students.
• Assumed responsibility as Advisor the College of Engineering Tau Beta Pi Honors group.
• Outstanding Achievement in Advising, EECS Department, SDSU, AY20, for his work in advising graduate teaching assistants.
• Supervised two senior design teams (one sponsored by MidAmerican Energy and the other by Raven)
• Served as technical advisor to several multidisciplinary senior design groups including both ME and EE students.
• Board Member for the South Dakota Electrical Council

Research Grants and Contracts

• Principal Investigator – Reinaldo Tonkoski, Co-Principal Investigator – Tim Hansen: “Development and Validation of Models to Assess Dynamic Response of Converter-Dominated Power Systems across Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales,” from United States Department of Energy Office of Science, Grant No. DE-SC0020281, Sep. 15, 2019 to Sep. 14, 2021, Award: $592,899, SDSU sub-contract of a $3,000,000 award with University of Alaska Fairbanks (lead) and University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez. Year 2 funds were approved by DOE Program Manager Tim Fitzsimmons.

• Visiting Faculty at Sandia National Labs since January
• Awards and Honors
  • 2020 Excellence in Research Award 2020, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, South Dakota State University.
  • 2020 IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Award – Technical Report: PES-TR66 Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis and Modeling (Published April 2018) Role: Working Group member.
• Additional Ongoing Research Projects:.
  • Ni, Z. (PI), Tonkoski, R. (Co-PI), "Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Multi-disciplinary Training of Learning, Optimization and Communications for Next Generation Power Engineers," Sponsored by NSF, Federal, $ 299,876. (September 15, 2019 - August 31, 2023).
• Graduated students
  • Ujjwol Tamrakar (January 2016 – March 2020) - Dissertation Topic:  Virtual Inertia in Microgrids - Currently Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories
• Current Students:
  • • 3 PhD students
      • Coordination of Virtual Inertia in Microgrids
      • Developing dynamic models for converter dominated power systems
      • Advanced Control Systems for Sprayers - Raven
• Service
  • EE Graduate Program Coordinator
  • EE Assistant/Associate Professor Search Committee Chair 
  • Graduate School Strategic Enrollment Management Committee
  • Faculty Senate
  • Dean Advisory Council
  • F. O. Butler Foundation Board of Trustees
  • IEEE Siouxland Section Vice-Chair
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Access
  • Editor IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and
  • Editor IEEE Systems Journal
  • IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative Committee member
  • Supervising two senior design teams related to power systems (one sponsored by MRES)

• Graduated students
  • Ph.D.: Fernando Bereta dos Reis, “Data-Driven Synthetic Load Modeling for Smart City Energy Management Studies,” First position: Engineer-III, Electricity Infrastructure, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
  • M.S.: Abodh Poudyal, “Distributed Machine Learning Approach to Fast Frequency Response-based Inertia Estimation in Low Inertia Grids,” First position: Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University

• Current students

• Supervising 3 PhD EE graduate students
  • Markov chain approach to modeling and simulation of grid integration of power electronic converters
  • State and parameter estimation of low-inertia power systems
  • Data-driven modeling of grid integration of power electronic converters
• Supervising 2 EE undergraduate student researchers
  • Convolutional neural networks applied to building energy management (EECS Bennett Scholarship; Honor’s project)
  • Stochastic control of home energy management systems with rooftop solar (Honor’s project; Jump into STEM competition)

• Papers and Research Outcomes

• Three published journal articles in power systems journals
• Three published and 3 accepted conference papers in power systems/electronics conferences
• Three invited lectures on electric power system markets, renewable powered data centers, and high-performance computing

• Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Achievement in Advising, EECS Department, SDSU, AY20, for his work in advising graduate research assistants
• Inaugural 2020 Graduate of the Last Decade, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, received for accomplishments achieved of significant importance at an early stage of his career
• Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Grantswinship Award 2020

• Service

• Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
• IEEE PES Power Engineering Education Committee (PEEC) Awards Subcommittee Chair
• IEEE Siouxland Section Chair
• Associate Editor, Elsevier Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems
• Co-Organizer of Panel Session, “Definition, Planning, and Operations of Resilient Electric Grids,” 2020 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT 2020), Washington, D.C., Feb. 2020
• Committee Member, IEEE-HKN Outstanding Teaching Award Selection Committee, 2020
• Referee for multiple journals within IEEE and IET
• National Science Foundation panelist (2 panels), 2020
• IEEE-HKN Gamma Rho (SDSU) Chapter Faculty Advisor; won outstanding chapter award
• Supervised two senior design teams related to power systems (one sponsored by Burns & McDonnell)

• Suryanarayanan (provided only for period starting June 2020)

  Research Grants and Contracts

• Suryanarayanan, S. (PI), "Collaborative Research: A Scalable Sustainability-Based Approach to a Novel Demand Response Paradigm in the Emerging Smart Grid," Sponsored by NSF, Federal, $29685. (June 22, 2020—July 31, 2021).
• Suryanarayanan, S. (PI), " High Performance Computing-based Dynamically Adaptive Protection Schemes for Electric Grid Research," Sponsored by Idaho National Lab, Federal, $60577. (June 22, 2020—September 30, 2020).
• Suryanarayanan, S. (PI), "2018 Hurricane RAPID: Subcontract from CSU," Sponsored by Colorado State University as sub-award under NSF award, $115347. (September 8, 2020—May 31, 2021).

• Current students

• Supervising 1 PhD EE graduate student
  • Re-envisioning transmission switching for increased electric grid resilience

• Papers and Research Outcomes

• Four published or accepted journal articles in power systems journals
• One accepted conference papers in power systems conference
• Two invited lectures on electric power system markets and renewable energy technologies

• Service

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
• Search Committee Member, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Extended Studies, South Dakota State University

Fall 2020

• EE 218/L (3 labs, 4 cr) Linear Circuits II, 18 students
• EE316 (3 cr) Signals and Systems I, 27 students
• EE 420/L (1 lab, 4 cr) Electronics III and Lab, 6 students

Spring 2021

• EE 216/L (3 labs, 4 cr) Linear Circuits I
• EE 222/L (3 labs, 4 cr) Energy Conversion
• EE 315 (3 cr) Linear Controls

Fall 2020

• EE790 (1 cr) Power and Energy Seminar

Spring 2020

• EE790 (1 cr) Power and Energy Seminar

Fall 2020:

• EE/CSC-492/592 (3 cr) Fundamentals of High-Performance Computing

Spring 2020:

• EE245 (3+1 cr) Digital Systems

Suryanarayanan

Fall 2020:

• EE 422 (2 cr) Engineering Economics and Project Management