【講座主題】Empowering Modern Power Grids to Withstand Extreme Events

【時  間】2023年4月10日

【地  點】zoom會議：84043531366

【主 講 人】Payman Dehghanian

【主講人簡介】

Dr. Payman Dehghanian (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2009, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. His research interests include power system reliability and resilience assessment, data-informed decision-making for maintenance and asset management in electrical systems, and smart grid applications.

Dr. Dehghanian is the recipient of the 2014 and 2015 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Professional Achievement Awards, the 2015 IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award, the 2021 Early Career Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences, the 2022 George Washington University (GWU)’s Early Career Researcher Award, the 2022 GWU’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award, and the 2022 IEEE IAS Outstanding Young Member Service Award. In 2015 and 2016, Dr. Dehghanian was selected among the World’s Top 20 Young Scholars for Next Generation of Researchers in Electric Power Systems.

【講座內容】

With increasing dependence on electricity for most daily activities and vital services (e.g., transportation, commerce, communications, health care, etc.), an urgent need exists to enhance the resilience of the electricity delivery infrastructure to reduce the impact and risk from natural and human-triggered events. In this talk, I will first discuss the need for the transitions to modernize the power grid with distributed intelligence for online situational awareness in the face of variant fast- and slow-dynamic disruptions. I will then describe how such solutions and other strategies can be designed, implemented, and used in practice in coordination with efficient decision-making support tools to achieve an improved survivability and resilience in power grids. The talk also introduces the ongoing projects and research efforts at GW SmartGrid Laboratory around power grid resilience to extreme events (e.g., wildfires).