Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, PhD, FIET, FSAIEE
Duke Energy Distinguished Professor of Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Founder and Director of the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (http://rtpis.org)
303-D Riggs Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0901
Tel. No: 864-656-5936; E-mail: ; URL: http://people.clemson.edu/~gvenaya
EDUCATION
· PhD in Electrical Engineering, February 2002, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
· MScEng in Electrical Engineering, April 1999, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
· BEng (First Class Honors) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering March 1994, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
· 01.12 to date Duke Energy Distinguished Prof. of Electrical Comp. Eng., Clemson University
· 09.11 – 12.11 Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri S&T.
· 09.06 – 08.11 Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Computer Engineering, Missouri S&T.
· 05.02 – 08.06 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA.
· 6.01 – 4.02 Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronics Engineering, Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
· 8.00 – 8.01 Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA.
· 1.99 – 8. 99 Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA.
· 3.96 – 5.01 Lecturer, Department of Electronics Engineering, M L Sultan Technikon, Durban, South Africa.
· 10.95 – 2.96 Graduate Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.
· 8.94 – 9.95 Computer Engineer, Square One Comnet, Maseru, Lesotho.
· 3.94 – 7.94 Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Nigeria.
RESEARCH INTERESTS (listed alphabetically):
Computational Intelligence; Intelligent Sense-making, Decision-making and Adaptation Technologies; Power Systems Operations, Stability and Control; Real-Time Grid Simulation; Renewable Energy Systems; Reconfigurable Hardware Systems; Situational Intelligence; and Smart Grid Technologies.
HONORS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS:
1. Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET-UK) and the South African IEE
2. 2011, 2008, 2007 and 2005 Missouri S&T Faculty Excellence Award
3. 2011 Missouri S&T Intelligent Systems Center Distinguished Researcher Award
4. 2010 Innovation Award, Academy of Science, St. Louis, MO, USA
5. 2010 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Member Award
6. 2009 Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) Faculty Research Award
7. 2008 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Educator
8. 2007 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
9. 2006 IEEE PES Walter Fee Outstanding Young Engineer Award
10. 2006 Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology School of Eng. Teaching Excellence Award
11. 2005 South African Institute of Electrical Engineers Young Achievers Award
12. 2005 IEEE Industry Applications Society Outstanding Young Member Award
13. 2004 NSF CAREER Award Recipient
14. 2004 IEEE St. Louis Section Outstanding Young Engineer Award
15. 2003 INNS Young Investigator Award for Applications of Neural Networks in Power Systems
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
1. Chair – 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid
2. Chair – 2013 Power Systems Conference, Clemson, SC, USA
3. Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid & Neural Networks Journal
4. Chair – IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Smart Grid,
5. Past Chair – IEEE Power and Energy Society Intelligent Systems Subcommittee
SUMMARY OF PUBLICATIONS (full list available at http://people.clemson.edu/~gvenaya):
Archival Publications: 107 (96 journals, 8 book chapters and 2 edited books) & Conf. Publications: 300
SCOPUS citations: > 2000, h-index = 22;
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (10 of over 400)
1. Venayagamoorthy GK, Rohrig, K, Erlich I, “One Step Ahead: Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting and Intelligent Predictive Control Based on Data Analytics”, IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 5, September/October 2012.
2. Venayagamoorthy GK, “Future Grids Will Not Be Controllable Without Thinking Machines”, IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter – October 2011.
3. Venayagamoorthy GK, “Dynamic, Stochastic, Computational and Scalable Technologies for Smart Grid”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (Special Issue on Smart Grid), Vol. 6, No. 3, August 2011, pp. 22-35.
4. Liang J, Venayagamoorthy GK, Harley RG, “Wide-Area Measurement based Dynamic Stochastic Optimal Power Flow Control for Smart Grids with High Variability and Uncertainty” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 3, no. 1, March 2012, pp. 59-69.
5. Luitel B, Venayagamoorthy GK, “Decentralized Asynchronous Learning in Cellular Neural Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, November 2012, Vol. 23. No. 11, pp. 1755-1766.
6. Saber A, Venayagamoorthy GK, “Resource Scheduling Under Uncertainty in a Smart Grid with Renewables and Plug-in Vehicles” IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2012, pp. 103-109.
7. Mitra P, Venayagamoorthy GK, “Wide Area Control for Improving Stability of a Power System with Plug-in Electric Vehicles”, IET Proceedings of Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Vol. 4, No. 10, 2010, pp. 1151-1163.
8. Venayagamoorthy GK, Welch R, “Energy Dispatch Controllers for a Photovoltaic System”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 23, Issue 2, March 2010, pp. 249-261.
9. del Valle Y, Venayagamoorthy GK, Mohagheghi S, Hernandez JC, Harley RG, “Particle Swarm Optimization: Basic Concepts, Variants and Applications in Power Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 12, Issue 2, April 2008, pp. 171 – 195.
10. Venayagamoorthy GK, Harley RG, Wunsch DC, “Comparison of Heuristic Dynamic Programming and Dual Heuristic Programming Adaptive Critics for Neurocontrol of a Turbogenerator”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 13, No. 3, May 2002, pp. 764-773.
COLLABORATORS IN THE LAST 48 MONTHS (excluding graduate students)
Affiliations: 1Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, USA, 2Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, 4Clemson University, 5Missouri University of Science and Technology, 6University of Duisburg-Essen, 7ABB CRC (USA)
K. Corzine4, I Erlich6, D Falcao2, R Harley1, J Liang7, D Liu3, E Makram4, G Taranto2, D Wunsch5
GRADUATE ADVISOR: Ronald G Harley (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta).
Summary of postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students advised /co-advised in the last 5 years
Postdocs: P Nguyen, B. Luitel, R. Kulkarni, C. Yan, K Folly, S Ahmed, E Anene; PhD students: 7 in progress and 7 completed (R Kulkarni, C. Yan, P Mitra, Y Yare, C Johnson, B Luitel, J Makasa); MS students: 2 in progress and 7 completed (S Bashyal, B Luitel, P Palangpour, A Mannava, Y Liu, P. Charkravarty, S Roychowdhury).