Invited Talks and Panel Discussions

Transmission Planning with High Penetration of Inverter Based Resources – Utility Experience and Challenges
Panel Discussion at the IEEE PESGM 2024 Conference in Seattle, WA, on July 25, 2024
2024
  • Panel Discussion Chair : Dr. Xuan Wu
  • Panelists : Rajarshi Roychowdhury, Principal Engineer, T&D Adv. Studies at AES US Utilities, Anish Gaikwad, Deputy Director, EPRI, Song Wang, Principal Engineer, Portland Gas & Electric, and Feng Qiu, Principal Computational Scientist and a Section Leader at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL).
Leveraging Big Data to Improve Distribution Grid Modeling and Operation
Panel Discussion at the IEEE-PES T&D 2024 Conference and Exposition, in Anaheim CA, on May 8, 2024
2024
  • Panel Discussion Chair : Zhaoyu Wang
  • Panelists : Matthew Reno, Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories, Vijay Vittal, Regents Professor, Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor and ASU Foundation Professor in Electric Power Systems at Arizona State University, Rui Yang, senior research engineer in the Power Systems Engineering Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Rajarshi Roychowdhury, Principal Engineer, T&D Adv. Studies at AES US Utilities.
Future of Distribution Planning Studies With DER Aggregation Due To FERC 2222 And Impact on Transmission Studies
Panel Discussion at the IEEE-PES T&D 2024 Conference and Exposition, in Anaheim CA, on May 7, 2024
2024
  • Panel Discussion Chair: Rajarshi Roychowdhury, PE
  • Panelists include Dr. Hui Zhang, Director, AES Next, Ravikanth Varanasi, Managing Director at Burns & McDonnell, Dr. Zhaoyu Wang, Northrop Grumman Associate Professor (ISU), Dr. Mohit Singh, Principal Engineer at Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) and Jessie Bauer, Manager of DER Planning & Engineering, Commonwealth Edison (ComEd).
Synchronous Machine Modeling and Control
Lecture for the IEEE PES Central Indiana Chapter held in IUPUI Campus on 30th April 2024.
2024
  • Presenter : Rajarshi Roychowdhury, Host : Xuan Wu, Chair, IEEE Central Indiana
  • The invited presentation included synchronous machine modeling, d-q frame theory, modeling of synchronous machines for power system dynamic simulations.
Automated Distribution Systems – Technologies, Trends, Needs and Challenges
Panel Discussion at the IEEE-PES ISGT Latin America conference, San Juan PR, November 6, 2023
2023
  • Panel Discussion Chair : Rajarshi Roychowdhury
  • Panelists include Dr. Henry Huang, Energy Systems Division Director (ANL), Dr. Xuan Wu, Manager, Transmission Planning (AES), Dr. Di Shi, Associate Professor (NMSU), Dr. Zhaoyu Wang, Northrop Grumman Associate Professor (ISU), Daniel Arden, Director of Grid Automation Marketing (Eaton).
Time Series Power Flow for Transmission and Distribution Studies for a Future with High Renewable Penetration.
Panel Discussion at the IEEE-IAS Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, Oct 29 - Nov 2, 2023
2023
  • Panel Discussion Chair : Xuan Wu
  • Panelists include Rajarshi Roychowdhury, Hui Zhang (Director, New Emerging Technologies, AES Corp), Piyasak Poonpun, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), and Ravikant Varanasi (Managing Director, 1898 & Co., a part of Burns & McDonnell)
Advanced Power System Distribution Modeling and Analysis
Purdue University Guest Lecture, September 2023
2023
  • Presenter : Rajarshi Roychowdhury; Host : Dr. Xuan Wu
Power System Planning and the Utility Industry
Invited Talk at The Ohio State University, ECE 6541 Class, April 2023
2023
  • Presenter : Rajarshi Roychowdhury, Host : Dr. Mahesh Illindala