Experience

Academic

Texas A&M University (TAMU), Department of ECEN, College Station, TX

Director, Smart Grid Center

August 2012 – September 2019

Leader, Smart Grid Center Initiative

January 2012 – August 2012

Leader, Smart Energy Campus Initiative

August 2009 – Present

Site-Director, NSF I/UCRC PHEV/EBV-TEC

March 2009 – August 2010

Deputy Director, Electrical Vehicles-Transportation and Electricity Convergence (EV-TEC) Center

2008 – 2013

Site Director, PSERC, former NSF I/UCRC

September 2000 – Present

Eugene E. Webb endowed Professor

January 2000 – Present

Director, Electric Power and Power Electronics Institute

June 1997 – December 2006

Coordinator, Electric Power and Power Electronics Program

June 1997 – December 2006

Tenured Professor

September 1996 – Present

Tenured Associate Professor

September 1994 – August 1996

Director, Power System Control and Protection Laboratory

January 1992 – Present

Associate Professor

January 1992 – May 1994

Adjunct Associate Professor

September 1991 – December 1991

Graduate Student Advisor, 31 Ph.D., 24 M.Sc., 8 M.E.

September 1989 – Present

Visiting Associate Scientist

June 1989 – August 1991

Visiting Associate Professor

August 1986 – May 1989

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Visiting Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

September 2007 – December 2007

TxCEE Consortium (six Texas Universities), Texas

Leader, Texas Consortium for Electric Energy

December 2004 – December 2007

Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

August 1986 – May 1987

The University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia

Associate Professor (equivalent title from industry)

April 1986 – May 1987

Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering

October 1974 – April 1986

Industry

Test Laboratories International, Inc. d.b.a. XpertPower Associates, College Station, TX

President & CEO, Principal Consultant

1992 – Present

INESC-TEC Portugal

Consultant (Sabbatical leave), Department of Power System Studies

Jan 2024 – Jul 2024

Electricité de France, Research Center, Clamart, France

Consultant (Sabbatical leave), Department FCR

September 1999 – June 2000

Energoinvest Company, Sarajevo, Bosnia

Project Leader, Institute for Control & Computer Sciences

March 1982 – August 1987

Systems Engineer, Institute for Computer & Information Systems

October 1980 – February 1982

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, USA

Systems Engineer, Industry Systems Division

May 1979 – September 1980

Domestic clients:

ISO New England; AVO Multi-Amp Corporation; Bonneville Power Administration; CenterPoint Energy; Commonwealth Edison; Decision Systems International; Duke Power; Electric Power Research Institute; Entergy Services, Inc.; First Energy; GE Corporate Research; Florida Power & Light Company; Hewlett-Packard; Harza Engineering; Holland & Knight Law Firm; Illinois Power; Industrial Economics, Inc.; K&L Gates LLP law firm; MICON Inc.; New York Power Authority; Oncor; Quanta Technologies; Quarles Law Firm; Reliant Energy HL&P; Southern California Edison; Shook-Hardy-Bacon Law Firm; Edison; TECHRON, Inc.; Test Laboratories International, Inc.; Texas Engineering Experiment Station; The World Bank Group; Toshiba America, Inc; University of Kentucky; Western Area Power Administration; Wisconsin Power & Light

International clients:

BC Hydro (Canada); CEPEL (Brazil); CHESFE (Brazil); CEATI (Alberta, Canada); DuServe (Dubai); Electricité de France (France); Electrix (New Zealand); Electropaulo Metropolitana (Brazil); Elia (Belgium); Energoinvest Company (Bosnia); ESKOM (South Africa); Government of China (China); Hydro Québec (Canada); Institute Nikola Tesla, Serbia; King Saud University (Saudi Arabia); RTE (France); Statnett (Norway); Saudi Electric (Saudi Arabia)