I am an Associate Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. I am with the Schweitzer Power and Energy Systems group, and my focus is on algorithmic solutions for problems related to monitoring and optimization of electric power systems using tools from machine learning and quantum computing.
Prospective PhD students
We are looking for PhD students. Students with a strong analytical background could apply here. If you decide to send me your resume by email, please do not send reminders.News
- 04/2025: Our NSF research proposal Optimizing Power Distribution Grids on a Data and Computational Budget has been awarded. I am excited to work with Junjie Qin on this interesting project. Thanks to NSF for the support!
- 03/2025: Katerina Gratsea has joined our research group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome, Katerina! We are excited to collaborate with you.
- 01/2025: Our first workshop organized by Purdue's Grid of Tomorrow Consortium was completed with great success! Thanks to the entire organizing team and the Dean's office for their support and hard work. We had interesting panel discussions with industry leaders from the electric grid ecosystem. Panel discussions and photos can be found here. We are looking forward to our next event in August 2025.
- 01/2025: Ashutossh, Roy, Dionysis Aliprantis, and I started working on an interesting research problem under the NSF-ERC ASPIRE program. We aim to model the power spectral density (frequency content) of the total power consumed at a transmission substation feeding an electrified roadway using the DWPT (dynamic wireless power transfer) technology.
- 12/2024: Jinlei defended his MSc thesis. Congratulations, Jinlei!
- 10/2024: Our NSF research project on solving optimization problems using variational quantum computers has been awarded. Thanks to NSF for the support!
- 09/2024: Roy Yang and Obaidur Rahman have joined our research group as graduate students. Welcome, Obaidur and Roy! We look forward to working with you.
- 08/2025: Our ONR research proposal, "VQEC: Constrained Optimization on a Variational Quantum Computer: Problem Modeling, Algorithmic Design, and Performance Analysis," has been awarded. Thanks to the Office of Naval Research for the support!
- 01/2024: I am excited to teach the graduate-level course Power Distribution System Analysis this semester.
- 01/2024: Joined Purdue University and the Schweitzer Power and Energy Systems group at the ECE department.
