Universities and Executive Committee
PSERC's Director is Vijay Vittal, who is at Arizona State University, PSERC's lead university. The Director is responsible for overseeing all affairs of PSERC. The Executive Director, Dennis Ray, assists the Director in Center management, communications and industry relations. The Site Directors are PSERC's local campus representatives and liaisons to the university faculty, staff and administration. The Director and Site Directors comprise PSERC's Executive Committee. The PSERC member universities and their respective Site Directors are:
Facilitator and NSF Evaluator
PSERC's organization facilitator is Frank Wayno at Cornell University. The facilitator assists the Director by promoting improved communication among industry members and PSERC researchers, and by facilitating discussions to help PSERC better meet its objectives. Otto Doering from Purdue University is the evaluator for NSF's Industry/University Cooperative Research Program. As evaluator, Doering seeks to facilitate communications among industry and university members, and NSF in order to help PSERC to better meets its mission.
Industry Advisory Board
An Industry Advisory Board provides the critical linkage between industrial members and PSERC. The Board works with the universities to identify research and education opportunities, reviews and recommends projects, and works with the Director and Executive Committee to address PSERC business and policy matters.
The current Board officers are Lisa Beard (Quanta Technology), Chair, and Eugene Litvinov (ISO New England). The Industry Advisory Board meets twice annually. At the meetings, industrial members conduct Board business, meet researchers and students from the member universities, hear progress reports on research projects and proposals for new projects, and engage in current issue discussions with researchers and other industry members.
Research Stem Committees
Each research stem has a committee that organizes its research activities. Industrial members join researchers as stem committee members to set research directions, organize projects, and facilitate high quality research. The current stem committee chairs are:
- Markets: Tim Mount, Chair, Cornell University; Jim Price, Vice-Chair, California ISO
- Transmission and Distribution Technologies: Gerald T. Heydt, Arizona State University;
Simon Chiang, Vice-Chair, Pacific Gas and Electric - Systems: Jim McCalley, Iowa State University; Navin Bhatt, Vice-Chair, American Electric Power Co.