Peng Zhang, PhD

Professor, SUNY Empire Innovation
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Active fault management (AFM) is developed to proactively manage the fault currents by controlling the power electronic interfaces (e.g. the grid-forming/supporting inverters) and eliminates the barriers against microgrid resilience and the ultra-reliable operations of DERs/microgrids. Upon faults occurrence, AFM aims to 1) maintain the total fault current unchanged to avoid detrimental impact on the naval power grid, 2) eliminate the damaging power ripples for inverters in DERs/microgrids, and 3) ensure the power flow of each individual microgrid identical before and after fault to avoid loss of loads and maintain microgrid stability. This presentation overviews the creation and development of AFM over the years. Dr. Zhang will also discuss a cybersecurity-enhanced AFM which is resilient to various cyberattacks.

Peng Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 2009. Dr. Zhang is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at Stony Brook University, New York. His research interests include AI-enabled smart grids, quantum-engineered power grids, networked microgrids, power system stability and control, cybersecurity, and formal methods and reachability analysis.

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