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Mariko Shirazi

Shirazi is the University of Alaska President’s Professor in Energy at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1996 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2007 and 2009 respectively. She is interested in bridging power electronics and power systems research to understand the performance of converter-dominated microgrids.

Rich Wies

Wies received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming in 1992, 1995 and 1999 respectively. Since 1999, he has been at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he is currently a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department with a concentration in electric power systems. He leads research focused on the engineering challenges of renewable energy integration in remote islanded microgrids in collaboration with the Alaska Center for Energy and Power. Wies has served on the PES Power Systems Dynamic Performance and Power Engineering Education Committees, contributed to two task force reports and been invited to present on several panels at IEEE sponsored conferences about his research work with remote islanded microgrids. His specific research interests include the development of advanced distributed generation and load control schemes and optimal power dispatch strategies for remote islanded microgrids employing high penetrations of renewable energy. His other research interests include grid-forming operation with standalone asynchronous renewable generation, impacts of renewable power on food and water systems, and stability of converter-dominated grids.

Phylicia Cicilio

Cicilio is a research assistant professor at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She received a B.S. in chemical engineering in 2013 from the University of New Hampshire. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 2017 and 2020 from Oregon State University. Her research interests include power system reliability and dynamic power system modeling particularly of loads, inverter-based resources and distributed energy resources.

Dayne Broderson

Fabio Andrade

Andrade is the director of the Sustainable Energy Center and associate professor in power electronics applied to renewable energy in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. His main research interests include modeling, analysis, design and control of power electronic converters, principally for DC/AC power conversion, grid-connection of renewable energy sources and microgrid application.

Agustín Irizarry-Rivera

Irizarry-Rivera obtained his B.S. from the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez in 1988, his M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1990 and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1996, all degrees in electrical engineering. His research interests are electric power systems dynamics, renewable energy resources and sustainable integration of renewables into existing power grids. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Power and Energy Society and Tau Beta Pi. He is a registered professional engineer in Puerto Rico and has been a member of the College of Engineers and Surveyors since 1991.

Efraín O’Neill-Carrillo

O'Neill-Carrillo is a professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University (1999), an MSEE from Purdue University (1995) and a BSEE from UPRM (1994). He is a registered professional engineer in Puerto Rico. He was the PI in a distance learning master's program on sustainable energy between UPRM and University of APEC, which was followed by work in an undergraduate option in renewable energy at the University of APEC. Fifteen Dominican engineers earned their masters degrees from this program. He is currently collaborating with efforts in two communities to integrate renewable energy, efficiency and conservation into their initiatives in order to transition to more sustainable energy practices focused on the use of local resources. His participation in these community collaborations is supported by two projects funded by the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation.

Barry Mather

Mather is the manager of the Integrated Devices and Systems Group and principal engineer in the Power Systems Engineering Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, working within the Colorado Power Electronics Center. His research interests include the development of grid-connected power electronic interfaces to ease renewable generation interconnection, cosimulated transmission and distribution system analysis to investigate system interactions with high levels of distribution-connected generation, and technical standards development. Mather has more than 90 publications in these research areas and is the author of the “High Penetration PV Integration Handbook for Distribution Engineers,” which is used as a reference by many utilities worldwide.

Blake Lundstrom

Michael Ropp

Ropp has more than 20 years of experience in research and education in power engineering, power electronics and photovoltaics. He has authored over 80 technical publications and holds six patents. He is a senior member of the IEEE and is active in standards creation. He is also a registered professional engineer in South Dakota and Hawaii. His primary technical interests are in the planning, design, modeling and simulation, control, dynamics, protection, reliability, diagnosis and event analysis of low-inertia, distributed and inverter-dominated power systems. In addition, he has a long-standing fascination with electrified transportation. Ropp is passionate about the education of future electrical engineers and engages in education, mentorship and outreach whenever possible. He does occasionally still get to use his musical skills.

Matthew Reno

Reno is a principal member of technical staff in the Electric Power Systems Research Department at Sandia National Laboratories. His research focuses on distribution system modelling and analysis with high penetration PV, including advanced software tools for automated analysis of hosting capacity, PV interconnection studies, and rapid Quasi-Static Time Series simulations. Reno is also involved with the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee for developing guides and standards for protection of microgrids and systems with high penetrations of inverter-based resources. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

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