Webinar: “Synchrophasors for Electrical Grid Management”
Webinar on “Synchrophasors for Electrical Grid Management”, delivered by Prof. Ali Abur and Dr. Paolo Romano.
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Ali Abur of Northeastern University, USA
Session 1: Synchrophasors in the power transmission network (1.00-1.50 pm)
Biography:
Ali Abur is a Professor in the Department of Elect. and Comp. Engg. at Northeastern University, Boston. He obtained his B.S. degree from Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi, Ankara, Turkey and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio State University, all in Electrical Engineering. He served as a Professor at Texas A&M University until Nov 2005. Then, he joined the Northeastern University as a Professor and Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. His research and educational activities have been in the areas of electric power systems modeling, state estimation, detection and identification of errors in the network model and measurements, fault location and electromagnetic transients modeling and simulations. He completed approx. 50 projects sponsored by Federal or State Agencies as well as energy industry. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and also served as a guest editor for special issues. He organized and co-chaired 2011 North American Power Symposium held in Boston. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003 and was the recipient of 2014 IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award and 2025 IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power System Engineering Award. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He co-authored the book “Power System State Estimation” in 2004.
Address:United States
Paolo Romano of Zaphiro Tech., Switzerland
Session-2: Synchrophasors in the Distribution Network (2.00-2.50 pm)
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Paolo Romano received BSc and MSc degree (with honors) in electronics engineering from the University of Genova, Italy, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. From 2011 to 2017 he pursued his PhD and post-doc at the Distributed Electrical System Laboratory (DESL) of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), with a thesis entitled “DFT-based Synchrophasor Estimation Algorithms and their Integration in Advanced Phasor Measurement Units for the Real-time Monitoring of Active Distribution Networks”. Since March 2017 he is co-founder and CEO of Zaphiro Technologies, a Swiss company that is commercializing SynchroGuard, the first real-time monitoring and automation system for distribution-grid based on synchrophasor measurements.
Address:Switzerland
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Session 1: Synchrophasors in the power transmission network (1.00-1.50 pm)
Session-2: Synchrophasors in the Distribution Network (2.00-2.50 pm)