High-Performance Power System Simulation for DER and Data Center Integration

In this talk, I will introduce recent advances in power system simulation for distributed energy resource and data center integration. I will briefly review the evolution of computer methods for power system analysis, and discuss new challenges arising from inverter-dominated systems and large, fast-varying loads. I will then present GPU-accelerated methods and high-performance computing techniques that enable scalable and efficient simulation of complex power systems. Selected results will demonstrate how these approaches improve computational performance while maintaining modeling fidelity for planning and operational studies.

Hantao Cui

Associate Professor, NC State University on February 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM in EB2 1231
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Hantao Cui is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Prior to joining NC State, he was an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University from 2021 to 2024. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2018), following his M.S. (2013) and B.S. (2011) in the same field from Southeast University, China. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2024. Previously, he served as the Chief Technologist of the CURENT Large-Scale Testbed (LTB), a winner of the 2020 R&D 100 Awards. He is the Chair of the IEEE PES Computer and Analytical Methods Subcommittee (CAMS). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

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