Ezra Systems Seminar: Junbo Zhao (UConn)

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Bio:
Junbo Zhao is the director of DOE Northeast University Cybersecurity Center for Advanced and Resilient Energy Delivery and Castleman Term Assistant Professor in Engineering Innovation at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He is also a research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He was an associate director of the Eversource Energy Center for Grid Modernization and Strategic Partnerships from 2022-2024. He was also an assistant professor and research assistant professor at Mississippi State University and Virginia Tech from 2019-2021 and 2018-2019, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2018.

Prof. Zhao is the principal investigator for a multitude of projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, DoD ESTCP, National Laboratories, Eversource Energy, Dominion Energy, Avangrid, ISO New England, etc.  He is now leading multiple IEEE PES technical activities, such as the founding chair of the IEEE PES Working Group on Distribution System Behind-The-Meter DERs: Visibility, Analytics, and Control, chair of the IEEE Task Force on Cyber-Physical Interdependency for Power System Operation and Control, co-chair of the IEEE Working Group on Power System Static and Dynamic State Estimation, the secretary of the IEEE PES Distribution System Analysis Subcommittee, and IEEE PES Renewable Systems Integration Coordinating Committee.

Prof. Zhao serves as the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, North America Regional Editor of the IET Renewable Power Generation, and subject editor of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution.