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12/15/2025: Nick’s paper titled “Maximizing Grid Support of Electric Vehicles by Coordinating Residential Charging: Insights From an Arizona Feeder Case Study.” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy.

10/13/2025: Antos’ paper titled “System-wide instrument transformer calibration and line parameter estimation using PMU data” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.

07/18/2025: Shiva was awarded the University Graduate Fellowship (UGF) for the Fall 2025 Semester.

07/10/2025: Satya’s paper titled “A Preventive-Corrective Scheme for Ensuring Power System Security During Active Wildfire Risks” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy.

06/30/2025: Yadu’s paper titled “Transfer Learning on Synchrophasor Data for Automatically Detecting and Classifying Critical Power System Events” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

05/30/2025: Shiva’s paper titled “Topology-Aware Graph Neural Network-Based State Estimation for PMU-Unobservable Power Systems” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

05/23/2025: Anushka’s paper titled “A Practical Approach Towards Inertia Estimation Using Ambient Synchrophasor Data” has been selected for the best paper session at 2025 IEEE PES General Meeting.

05/21/2025: Marco Iorio awarded the 2025-2026 Pamela and Jack Saltich Fellowship.

05/05/2025: Marco Iorio received the 2025 IEEE Phoenix Section Scholarship.

03/13/2025: Book Chapter titled “Application of AI and Machine Learning Algorithms in Power System State Estimation” written by Behrouz Azimian, Reetam Sen Biswas, and Anamitra Pal published by IEEE/Wiley Press in the Book Titled “Smart Cyber‐Physical Power Systems: Solutions from Emerging Technologies, Volume 2”.

03/04/2025: Anushka’s paper titled “A Practical Approach Towards Inertia Estimation Using Ambient Synchrophasor Data” has been accepted for publication at PESGM 2025.

02/28/2025: Anamitra Pal delivered a Keynote Talk titled “Big Data Analytics for the Electric Power Grid of the 21st Century” at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Developments in Electrical Engineering (SSDEE) organized by the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India.

02/06/2025: The Patent Office agreed to grant a new U.S. patent directed to John Patterson and Anamitra Pal’s work on “Time-Synchronized Micro-CPOW Measurement Device”. The patent will carry an official U.S. patent number of 12,235,292 and officially will grant on 02/25/2025. The new patent can be viewed by entering the patent number on or after the grant date in Google Patents.

01/06/2025: Antos Varghese joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a Research Engineer. Congratulations Antos!

Dhaval and Zach’s Doctoral Graduation Ceremony, 2025:

2025 IEEE PES General Meeting in Austin, Texas:

12/31/2024: Zachary’s paper titled “Design and Validation of a Very Low-Power Phasor Measurement Unit for the Distribution System” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.

12/25/2024: Zachary Lythgoe joined Raytheon Technologies as a Senior Signal Processing Engineer. Congratulations Zak!

12/02/2024: Zachary successfully defended their Ph.D. Dissertation

12/02/2024: Dhaval’s paper titled “Improving Photovoltaic Hosting Capacity of Distribution Networks with Coordinated Inverter Control – A case study of the EPRI J1 feeder” has been accepted for publication in IET Renewable Power Generation

12/01/2024: Antos and Hritik’s paper titled “Time-Synchronized Full System State Estimation Considering Practical Implementation Challenges” was selected as an “Editor’s Pick” article for the Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy Issue 6, 2024

11/26/2024: PAL Lab was declared a winner of the Data-Driven Distributed (3D) Solar Visibility Prize

11/20/2024: Anamitra gave a PSERC webinar titled “Integrated Voltage Monitoring and Control of Active Distribution Systems“

11/01/2024: Behrouz joined GE Vernova-Digital as a full-time Senior Electricity Market Software Engineer

10/28/2024: Antos successfully defended their Ph.D. Dissertation

10/25/2024: Dhaval joined ACP Technologies as a Principal.

10/11/2024: Dhaval successfully defended their Ph.D. Dissertation

09/04/2024: Hritik and Behrouz’s paper, “Creating Temporally Correlated High-Resolution Profiles of Load Injection Using Constrained Generative Adversarial Networks” accepted for publication at the North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 2024

09/03/2024: The paper titled “Machine-Learning-Based Adaptive Settings of Directional Overcurrent Relays With Double-Inverse Characteristics for Stable Operation of Microgrids” that Anamitra Pal wrote with researchers from Egypt has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

07/22/2024: Anamitra Pal received the 2023 Outstanding Editor Award for the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

07/12/2024: Anamitra’s views on how artificial intelligence can help parse (power grid) sensor data were published under the title “Strengthening our power grid through AI”

07/02/2024: Behrouz successfully defended their Ph.D. Dissertation

05/23/2024: Marco Iorio received the 2024 Fulton Fellowship Award

05/18/2024: The paper titled “Stability-Constrained Settings of Directional Overcurrent Relays with Shifted User-Defined Characteristics for Distribution Networks with DERs” that Anamitra Pal wrote with researchers from Egypt has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Summer 2024 Internships
Antos interned at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Behrouz interned at EDF North America
Satya interned at Hitachi Energy
Shiva interned at PJM

04/29/2024: Prof. Pal’s team, The Solar Custodians, awarded the Palais Prize for Excellence in Senior Design

04/18/2024: Shiva awarded the 2024-2025 ASU Iranian American Alumni Scholarship

04/17/2024: Dhaval awarded the Graduate College Completion Fellowship

03/28/2024: Anushka awarded the Graduate College Enrichment Fellowship

03/07/2024: Anamitra Pal’s paper with Prof. Anguluri of University of Maryland-Baltimore County, titled “Localizing Single and Multiple Oscillatory Sources: A Frequency Divider Approach” accepted for publication at the IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM) 2024

03/06/2024: Dhaval’s paper “Analyzing Cross-Phase Effects of Reactive Power Intervention on Distribution Voltage Control” accepted for publication at the IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM) 2024

03/06/2024: Mohammad’s paper “High-Speed Voltage Control in Active Distribution Systems with Smart Inverter Coordination and Deep Reinforcement Learning” accepted for publication at the IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM) 2024

03/05/2024: Prof. Pal received the 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

02/27/2024: Anushka’s paper “Comparative Analysis of Information Theoretic and Statistical Methods for Line Parameter Estimation” accepted for publication at SGSMA 24

02/22/2024: Zachary’s paper “Design and Validation of a Very Low-Power Phasor Measurement Unit” accepted for publication at Presented at Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) 2024

02/20/2024: Antos’s paper “Deep Neural Network-Based State Estimator for Transmission System Considering Practical Implementation Challenges” accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

2/13/2024: Zachary received a Best Paper Award for his paper/presentation at Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) 2024

01/29/2024: The PES Technical Report titled “State Estimation for Integrated Energy Systems: Motivations, Advances, and Challenges” that Anamitra contributed to has been recommended to receive the 2024 IEEE PES Technical Committee Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Report

The winner in the 3D Solar Visibility Prize by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the American-Made Program! December 2024:

11/01/2023:  Behrouz’s paper titled “Analytical Verification of Performance of Deep Neural Network Based Time-Synchronized Distribution System State Estimation” accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

09/01/2023: Anwarul Sifat joins Lamar University as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering.

07/22/2023: MPCE Award http://mpce.ijournals.cn/mpce/news/view/20240729111137001

07/17/2023: Anamitra Pal received the 2022 Outstanding Editor Award for the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

07/11/2023: Shiva Moshtagh awarded the 2023-2024 Irv and Ruby Kaufman Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to support graduate students with a preference for research interests in climate change, sustainability, and/or renewable energy resources

07/01/2023: Shiva’s Paper Accepted for Publication in NAPS 2023

07/01/2023: Behrouz Azimian awarded University Graduate Fellowship (UGF) for the academic year 2023-2024

05/05/2023: Anamitra Pal was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at ASU

04/24/2023: Shiva Moshtagh awarded Iranian American Alumni Scholarship for the Academic 2023-2024 Year. This award is an academic scholarship and is given based on academic merits and community performance

03/27/2023: Anamitra Pal received the prestigious Associated Students of ASU Centennial Professorship Award . The award recognizes ASU faculty who demonstrate outstanding leadership and instructional abilities

02/23/2023: Satya’s Paper Accepted for Publication in IEEE PESGM 2023

02/09/2023: Behrouz’s Paper Accepted for Publication in IEEE PESGM 2023

02/07/2023: Dhaval and Bilal’s Paper Accepted for publication in Special Issue Optimization and Energy Management in Smart Grids, Energies, MDPI

11/15/2022: Anamitra Pal gave a talk at the Power Seminar Series of Iowa State University (ISU) on “Time-synchronized State and Topology Estimation in Distribution Grids using Machine Learning”

08/31/2022: Anamitra Pal gave a presentation titled “Machine Learning Based State Estimation for Transmission and Distribution Grids” with Evangelos Farantatos of EPRI at the NASPI Webinar Series

08/28/2022: Antos’s Paper accepted for Publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

07/12/2022: Behrouz Awarded Joseph Barkson Fellowship from Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering for the Academic 2022-2023 Year. This is his second time being awarded with the fellowship.

06/16/2022: Fox 10 News spoke to Anamitra Pal on the risk of rolling blackouts in Arizona this summer, watch the interview here

06/10/2022:  ASU News spoke to Anamitra Pal [LINK] on the impact of current events and climate change on rolling blackouts.

03/26/2022: Behrouz’s Paper Accepted for Publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements

03/14/2022: Pal‘s Research on Sensor-enabled Wildfire Awareness and Risk Management (WARM) Highlighted in Full Circle

02/08/2022: Dhaval‘s Paper Accepted for Publication in IEEE PESGM 2022

01/26/2022: National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Grant [Link] Awarded to Anamitra Pal. The title of his proposal was: CAREER: Time-Synchronized Estimation in Power Systems: Unique Challenges and Innovative Solutions

• Fakhri Saadedeen defended his Master’s in Fall 2021.  Now transitioning to the power industry and with the goal of aiding the generation of clean energy in the future, he now works as a full-time engineer at Palo Verde Generating Station.
• Jairo Ramírez Torres graduated from Barrett, the Honors College with his Bachelor’s degree. He is excited to apply for a Master’s program to pursue a Master’s in Economics.
• 11/18/2021: Fakhri‘s Paper Awarded Third Best at the 53rd North American Power Symposium 2021
• 10/19/2021: Jairo Awarded IEEE PES – Scholar for the 2021-2022 School Year
• 10/10/2021: Behrouz Awarded Joseph Barkson Fellowship from Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering for the Academic 2021-2022 Year
• 10/06/2021: Fakhri‘s Paper Accepted for Publication in the North American Power Symposium 2021
• 08/12/2021: National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Grant [Link] Awarded to Pal Research Lab for Sensor-enabled Wildfire Awareness and Risk Management

Behrouz was Awarded the Al Gross Award for the year 2021

Funded Research Proposal from DOE to start in July 2021 researching “Artificial Intelligence for Robust Integration of AMI and PMU Data to Significantly Boost Renewable Penetration.”

06/23/2021: Pooja‘s Paper was Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

06/11/2021: Shiva Awarded Fulton Fellowship for the academic 2021-2022 Year

06/07/2021: Dhaval and Behrouz Awarded Engineering Graduate Fellowship (EGF) for the academic 2020-2021 Year

05/25/2021: Funded Research Proposal from SRP to start in August 2021 researching “Synthetic Scenario Generation Considering Different Correlations.”

05/20/2021: Graduated Students Transitioning to Industry

• Reetam Sen Biswas defended his Ph.D. in the Spring of 2021.  He joined Hitachi ABB Power Grid’s Power Applications team as a Senior Network Applications Engineer in May 2021.
• Pooja Gupta successfully defended her Ph.D. in April of 2021.  She will join GE Renewable Energy in the position of Power Systems Modeling & Controls Engineer, located in Niskayuna, New York in June 2021.
• John Patterson successfully defended his Master’s thesis in the Spring of 2021.  He is now transitioning to working at the start-up Hoolest Performance Technologies, Inc.  Having won thousands of dollars in entrepreneurship and design competitions, Hoolest is designing a neuromodulation device to reduce anxiety symptoms in patients, and John will be starting full-time this coming September.

05/15/2021: Summer 2021 Internships

• Demetra Salls will be interning with Northrop Grumman in Chandler, AZ designing decommutation systems for telemetry devices.
• Behrouz Azimian will be interning with the department of Power Consulting at Hitachi-ABB Power Grids

Four Student’s Papers Uploaded to the IEEE Xplore Site

Papers presented at the Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society General Meeting in July of 2021 have been uploaded to the IEEE Xplore website.  This includes three papers from four of the students working in Pal’s laboratory.

Behrouz Azimian‘s paper “Time Synchronized State Estimation for Incompletely Observed Distribution Systems Using Deep Learning Considering Realistic Measurement Noise“

John Patterson‘s paper “An Inductively Powered Line-Mounted Time-Synchronized Micro Point-on-Wave Recorder“

Demetra Salls and Jairo Ramírez Torres‘s paper “Statistical Characterization of Random Errors Present in Synchrophasor Measurements“

Graduated Students Transitioning to Industry [12/09/2021]

Fakhri Saadedeen defended his Master’s in Fall 2021.  Presenting “GPS Spoofing Attacks on Phasor Measurement Units”, his work proved the feasibility of GPS spoofing attacks and proposed a hardware-based countermeasure.  Now transitioning to the power industry and with the goal of aiding the generation of clean energy in the future, he now works as a full-time engineer at Palo Verde Generating Station. When asked about his experience at ASU, Freddie enthused “I cherish my time at ASU and especially my time with the Pal group as I not only learned and enhanced my understanding, I enjoyed my time as well.”

We are certain that his impact on the power industry will be lasting and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.

Jairo Ramírez Torres graduated from Barrett, the Honors College with his Bachelor’s degree.  Completing both his honor’s thesis “Assessing the Economic Impact on Counties in the United States to a Loss of Fossil Fuel Dependence for Energy Production” and his capstone project “Determining Optimal Location of BESS within the Grid”, he is excited to apply for a Master’s program to pursue a Master’s in Economics.  His time as a part of the Pal Lab at ASU has given him privileges not usually available for undergraduate students, including participating in a nationally-funded research initiative, presenting his own unique research at the international PES General Meeting 2021, and being chosen as an IEEE PES – Scholar for the 2021-2022 Academic year. He wanted to express his gratitude for the Pal lab, saying “The work that I did with Professor Pal was unprecedented.  Not every undergraduate graduate can say they presented at an international conference or worked on field-changing research, but with Professor Pal, I can say just that.  He encouraged me to apply as a PES – Scholar and without his support, I’m certain that my time at ASU would look quite different.”

His hard work and determination will take him far in any career path he traverses, and we wish him the greatest of tidings upon his graduation.

Behrouz Awarded Digital Portfolio Award [05/03/2021]

Behrouz Azimian was the 2021 Awardee for the Digital Portfolio award from the ASU Graduate & Professional Student Association for the 2021 year.

Reetam‘s Paper Accepted for Publication in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems [04/27/2021]

Demetra Awarded IEF Fellowship from Arizona State University for the 2021-22 Academic Year [03/25/2021]

Demetra Salls was chosen to receive an Interdisciplinary Enrichment Fellowship from Arizona State University to support her study towards a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in the 2021-2022 academic year.  The fellowship is a merit-based award to support under-represented students who demonstrate academic excellence and have a mindset focused on social impact and creative collaboration.

Behrouz‘s Paper Accepted for Publication in the IEEE PESGM 2021 Conference [02/20/2021]

John‘s Paper Accepted for Publication in the IEEE PESGM 2021 Conference [02/19/2021]

Demetra and Jairo‘s Paper Accepted for Publication in the IEEE PESGM 2021 Conference [02/18/2021]

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