ECE 290 Seminar: AI for Enhancing Power Grid Resilience Against Extreme Weather Events

Presenter: Masood Parvania, Roger P. Webb Endowed Professor, University of Utah

Description: Many communities across the world are experiencing more frequent and severe extreme weather disturbances such as wildfires, heatwaves, drought, storms, rising sea levels, and flooding, which not only pose threats to human health, and the environment but also affect the ability of the power grid to continue powering the communities. This requires upgrading the operation of power grid from passive and manual applications to making complex decisions in real-time to facilitate the automated recovery of the system after major disturbances. This talk will review the application of various AI and ML techniques for detection, response and mitigation of cyber anomalies and extreme weather events in power distribution systems.

Bio: Masood Parvania is the Roger P. Webb Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Utah Smart Energy Laboratory (U-Smart) at the University of Utah. Dr. Parvania is the Principal Investigator and Director of the U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid (NSF WIRED Global Center), co-funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He is also the Founder and President of the Energy-AI company, Grid Elevated, which specializes on developing and commercializing AI technology for resilient and efficient power grid operation.

Hosted by: Professor Soumya Bose, ECE Department

Zoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97975378707?pwd=ljcgaCfhMmhZ88Vt5dqQUBVQRjehOx.1