Agenda
| 8:00 am | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:30 am | University Welcome | Christopher Frey, PhD Associate Dean for Research and Infrastructure College of Engineering NC State |
| FREEDM Update | Iqbal Husain, PhD FREEDM Executive Director NC State |
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| Active MV Substations to Power the Hyperscaler Datacenter Complex | Johan Enslin, PhD Program Director ARPA-E |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:15 am | Large Load Integration | |
| DC Distribution in Data Centers | Calvin Zhang, PhD Director of Engineering Eaton |
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| Battery Energy Storage Systems for AI Data Centers | Ahren Leith Director of Engineering FlexGen |
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| Large Load Modeling for Grid Impacts | Ning Lu, PhD Professor NC State |
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| 11:30 am | Industry Collaboration | Ed White CEO Field2Base |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch and Posters | |
| 1:30 pm | Supply Chain Modeling and Analytics for Resilient Power Systems | Maria Mayorga, PhD Goodnight Distinguished Chair, ISE Benjamin Rachunok, PhD Assistant Professor, ISE Jordan Kern, PhD Associate Professor, ISE Anderson de Queiroz, PhD Associate Professor, CCEE |
| 2:00 pm | Electric Transportation | |
| Powertrain Electric Machines and Controls | Iqbal Husain, PhD FREEDM Executive Director NC State |
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| High Power SiC Inverters with Ultra-High Efficiency for Transportation Applications | Wensong Yu, PhD Associate Research Professor NC State |
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| Flexible Scheduling of Large EV Loads for Improving the Stability of Power Distribution Systems | Amit Podder, PhD Senior Engineer, ET Strategic Initiatives Dominion Energy |
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| 3:00 pm | Break and Posters | |
| 3:30 pm | Power Systems | |
| Operations Research Meets AI: Shaping the Future of Power Systems | Wenyuan Tang, PhD Associate Professor NC State |
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| Data-Driven Nonlinear Control of Power Systems with Inverter Based Resources | Aranya Chakrabortty, PhD Associate Department Head for Research, ECE NC State |
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| Challenges and Recent Breakthrough in the Stability and EMT Simulation of Large Scale Power Systems | Hantao Cui, PhD Assistant Professor, ECE NC State |
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| 4:15 pm | Power Electronics | |
| Power Converters for Energy Storage Integration into DC Microgrid Systems – Research Overview | Zeljko Pantic, PhD Assistant Professor, ECE NC State |
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| III-Nitride Power Devices: Fundamental Research and Prototyping Opportunities | Spyros Pavlidis, PhD Assistant Professor, ECE NC State |
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| Advancing Power Electronics & Packaging Including AI/ML/DT Reliability Integration | Doug Hopkins, PhD Research Professor, ECE PREES Lab Director NC State Jon Ryu, PhD Associate Professor, MAE NC State |
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| WBG Devices-enabled Power Conversion System and DC Grids | Subhashish Bhattacharya, PhD Duke Energy Distinguished Professor NC State |
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| 5:30 pm | Reception with heavy Hors d'Oeuvres | |
| 8:00 am | Registration and Breakfast | Speaker |
| 8:30 am | Welcome | |
| FPL BESS and Microgrid Update | Joel Linton Engineer Florida Power and Light |
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| A Cooperative Control Hardware in the Loop | Tim Gubitz, PE Manager, Energy Services & Technology NCEMC |
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| Developing a Three-Node Marine DC Microgrid | Al Raji Billah Graduate Research Assistant, ECE NC State |
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| 9:45 am | Break and Posters | |
| 10:30 am | Electrical Engineering in the 4th Industrial Revolution | Bill Dean CEO M.C. Dean, Inc |
| 11:00 am | M.C. Dean Hub Projects | |
| Coordinated Control of Energy Storage in Networked Microgrids | Aranya Chakrabortty, PhD Associate Department Head for Research, ECE NC State |
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| Development of a Data Center Digital Twin for Energy and Power Management System Design | Ning Lu, PhD Professor NC State |
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| Dynamic Data Center Models to Enhance Grid Stability and Reliability | Hantao Cui, PhD Assistant Professor, ECE NC State |
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| Future Industrial Infrastructure Distribution Systems Consortium | Srdjan Lukic, PhD Lampe Distinguished Professor, ECE NC State |
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | Lab Tour and Posters | Follow directions to FREEDM lab or parking deck. |
| 3:00 pm | Adjourn | |
