FRESCO: Fast, Resilient, and Cost-Optimal Co-Designs for Wide-Area Control of Power Systems

Aranya Chakrabortty is an Associate Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department of North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. He received his Ph.D degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 2008 in Electrical Engineering. From 2008 to 2009 he was a post-doctoral research associate at University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests are in all branches of control theory, and their applications to power system dynamics and control using emerging technologies such as Wide-Area Measurement Systems (WAMS). Dr. Chakrabortty is a senior member of IEEE, and contributes actively to the North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI). He received the NSF CAREER award in 2011.