Power grid engineering and power electronics faculty

Ayyanar's research interests include power conversion and control for renewable energy interface, especially PV and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives, wide bandgap devices

Hedman is a professor in the School of ECEE and is the director of PSERC. In 2017, Hedman received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), awarded by President Barack H. Obama.

Kitchen’s research focuses on improvements in efficiency and power management for high-frequency circuits and systems.

Kozicki develops new materials, processes, and devices in applications ranging from information storage to supply chain security.

Oliver Kosut is an associate professor in ECEE. His research focuses on information theory, particularly with applications to security, privacy, and machine learning, and smart grid cyber-security.

Ramapuram Matavalam's research addresses the challenges in achieving a 100% green power grid by leveraging machine learning and dynamical system theory.

Anamitra Pal leads the Phasor Assisted Learning (PAL) Lab at ASU and does research in the areas of power systems data analytics, renewable integration, and critical infrastructure resilience.

Park's work focuses on addressing the challenges that arise with the advancement of power semiconductors.

Dr. Lalitha Sankar is a Professor in the School of ECEE. Her research interests are at the intersection of information and data sciences with focus on fairness, privacy, and robustness.

Tao's research interests range from semiconductor surfaces, interfaces and thin films; terawatt-scale solar photovoltaics to two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides and chemical vapor deposition.

Vittal is a Regents Professor and an ASU Foundation Professor in Electric Power Systems. His areas of expertise include electric power, power system dynamics and controls, and nonlinear systems.

Advanced optimization, control, and machine learning for reliability and economically integrating large-scale distributed energy resources (DERs) into power system planning, operations, stability, and electricity markets.

Weng's research interests include power systems, machine learning, demand response, data analytics, cyber-physical systems and convex optimization.

Yu's areas of expertise range from nanostructure and nano device fabrication and characterization, wide bandgap semiconductor electronic and optoelectronics to wearable electronics.