Teaching
Courses
AI for Power & Energy Systems
A five-course online program co-instructed with Dr. Fangxing (Fran) Li. I contributed to the first course below and was responsible for the other three listed here.
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- Contributed to Computation Acceleration in Modeling and Control
- Responsible for Forecasting, Awareness, and Data Augmentation
- Responsible for Physics-Informed, Explainable, and Safe AI Solutions
- Responsible for Generative AI and Large Language Models
ECE 685 — Power Systems Design
Follow the lecture slides through generation planning, AC circuits, transformers, transmission lines, and power flow.
- Explore all 30 lecturesCourse framework
Physics-informed GNN for microgrid N-1 security prediction
Interactive power-flow lessons and code experiments, extending toward physics-informed graph neural networks.
- Balanced Power FlowInteractive lesson
- Unbalanced Power FlowInteractive lesson
- PandaPower-based ImplementationInteractive lesson
IBR Dynamics and Physics-Informed Learning
Three core courses connect GFL, GFM, and hybrid modeling, stability and reduction, and physics-informed Neural ODEs. Two advanced topics extend the path to identification and multi-IBR network dynamics.
- IBR Dynamic Modeling and SimulationCore course · Framework
- IBR Stability, Model Reduction, and ValidationCore course · Framework
- Physics-Informed Neural ODEs for IBR DynamicsCore course · Framework
- IBR Identification and Learned-Model ValidationAdvanced topic · Framework
- Multi-IBR Network DynamicsAdvanced topic · Framework
Student Mentoring
I have mentored or co-mentored undergraduate and graduate interns on topics spanning power systems, AI, and cybersecurity.
| Name | Level | University / Program | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taha | Graduate | University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst | Carbon-aware LLM Training |
| Boqiang Li | Graduate | Clemson University | Economical Training of LLM |
| Junjie Yin | Graduate | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) | Virtual inertia scheduling |
| Brian Chen | Undergraduate / Graduate | The University of California, Riverside | LLM for Power Engineering |
| Nabina Niraula | Undergraduate | Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) Program | LLM for DLR benefit Visualization |