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Vittal

Vijay Vittal

  • Professor
Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor in Electrical Engineering
Chair
School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
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  • Education
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Vijay Vittal joined the ASU faculty in 2005. Prior to ASU, he was an Anston Marston Distinguished Professor at the Iowa State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. In addition, Dr. Vittal was a Murray and Ruth Harpole Professor and director of the university’s Electric Power Research Center and site director of the National Science Foundation IUCRC Power System Engineering Research Center. He also served as the program director of power systems for the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical and Communication Systems in Washington, D.C., from 1993 to 1994. He currently is the director of the National Science Foundation IUCRC Power System Engineering Research Center.  He is the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He has published 108 articles in refereed journals, 97 refereed conference proceeding articles, nine books and book chapters and 13 research and technical reports.

Electric power, power system dynamics and controls, nonlinear systems, computer applications in power, sustainable energy, modeling and simulation of complex systems.

Ph.D.
Iowa State University 1982
MT Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology 1979

Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2004; Iowa State University College of Engineering Anson Marston Distinguished Professor, 2004; Iowa State University Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, 2003; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Power Engineering Society Technical Council Committee of the Year Award, 2000-2001; Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, Power Engineering Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2000; Warren B. Boast Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2000.

R. Diao, K. Sun, V. Vittal, R.J. O’Keefe, M.R. Richardson, N. Bhatt, D. Stradford, and S.K. Sarawagi, “Decision Tree-Based Online Voltage Security Assessment Using PMU Measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 24, no. 2, 832-839, May 2009.

W. Jiang, V. Vittal, and G.T. Heydt, “Diakoptic State Estimation Using Phasor Measurement Units,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, 1580-1589, November 2008.

B. Ramanathan, V. Vittal, “A Framework for Evaluation of Advanced Direct Load Control with Minimum Disruption,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, 1681-1688, November 2008.