Power Systems Engineering Research Center

PSERC Personnel

• Director: Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University
• Deputy Director: Dennis Ray, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Founding Director: Robert J. Thomas, Cornell University
• IAB Officers
  
  • Kip Morison, BC Hydro, Vice-Chair
  • Mirraoul Mousavi, ABB Corporate Research
• Executive Advisory Committee
  • Chair: Yakout Mansour, Former CEO and President, California Independent System Operator
  • Michael Atkinson, Managing Director, ALSTOM Grid Automation - Americas and China
  • Brian Harris, Manager, System Operations, MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co.
  • Mike Heyeck, Senior Vice President-Transmission, American Electric Power Co.
  • Robin (Rob) Manning, Executive Vice President, Power System Operations, Tennessee Valley Authority
• Stem Leadership
  • Systems Stem
    • Pete Sauer, University of Illinois-Urbana, Chair
    • Doug McClaughlin, Southern Co. Services, Vice-Chair
  • Transmission and Distribution Technologies Stem
    • Jerry Heydt, Arizona State University, Chair
    • Simon Chiang, Pacific Gas & Electric, Vice-Chair
  • Markets Stem
    • Shmuel Oren,University of California-Berkeley, Chair
    • Jim Price, California ISO, Vice-Chair
• Junior and Full Adjunct Researchers
  • Ali Abur, Northeastern University
  • Ross Baldick, University of Texas - Austin
  • Judith Cardell, Smith College
  • Yihsu Chen, University of California at Merced
  • Reza Iravani, University of Toronto
  • Dan Shawhan, RPI
  • Siddharth Suryanarayanan, Colorado State University
• PSERC Facilitator: Frank Wayno, Cornell University
• NSF Evaluator: Otto Doering, Purdue University
• Administrative Support
  • Administrative Specialist: Theresa Herr, Arizona State University
  • Financial Specialist: Laura DiPaolo, Arizona State University

Annually, PSERC's Executive Committee meets with Industry Advisory Board officers and other industry members at a strategic planning retreat. This picture is from the 2008 retreat in Oregon.

Top row, left to right: Jim McCalley, Iowa State; Jay Giri, AREVA T&D; Jerry Heydt, Arizona State; James Momoh, Howard; Frank Wayno, Cornell; Navin Bhatt, AEP; Chris DeMarco, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Pete Sauer, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana; P.K. Sen, Colorado School of Mines; Marija Illic, Carnegie Mellon; Jim Gurney, BCTC.

Bottom row: Shmuel Oren, Berkeley; Anjan Bose, Washington State; Ward Jewell, Wichita State; Vijay Vittal, Arizona State (Director); Sakis Meliopoulos, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Dennis Ray, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (Executive Director); Mladen Kezunovic, Texas A&M.