Ning Lu
From 2003 to 2012, Dr. Ning Lu was a senior research engineer with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She was a substation design engineer with the Shenyang Electric Power Survey and Design Institute from 1993 to 1998. She has conducted and managed research projects in modeling and analysis of power system load behaviors, wide area energy storage management systems, renewable integration, climate impact on power grids, and smart grid modeling and diagnosis. Dr. Lu is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. She has authored or co-authored more than 60 publications, including journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
Research interests:
• Load modeling and control
• Wide-area energy storage
• Renewable integration
• Predictive defense model of the smart grid
• Climate change impacts on power grids
Education
2002 - Ph.D. in Electric Power Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
1999 - M.S. in Electric Power Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
1993 - B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Recent Publications
- Development of an Encoding Method on a Co-Simulation Platform for Mitigating the Impact of Unreliable Communication (2021)
- Diesel Generator Model Parameterization for Microgrid Simulation Using Hybrid Box-Constrained Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm (2021)
- FeederGAN: Synthetic Feeder Generation via Deep Graph Adversarial Nets (2021)
- MPC-Controlled Virtual Synchronous Generator to Enhance Frequency and Voltage Dynamic Performance in Islanded Microgrids (2021)
- Operating a Commercial Building HVAC Load as a Virtual Battery Through Airflow Control (2021)
- Time Series Classification for Locating Forced Oscillation Sources (2021)
- Two-Level Islanding Detection Method for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System-Based Microgrid With Small Non-Detection Zone (2021)
- A Data-Driven Pivot-Point-Based Time-Series Feeder Load Disaggregation Method (2020)
- Battery Model Parameterization Using Manufacturer Datasheet and Field Measurement for Real-Time HIL Applications (2020)
- PFR ancillary service in low-inertia power system (2020)