PENSA: POWER & ENERGY NETWORK SYSTEM ANALYSIS

Team Member

Principal Investigator

Dr. Sijia Geng

Assistant Professor (ECE)

Dr. Sijia Geng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Johns Hopkins University. Before joining JHU in January 2023, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT in 2022. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she also received the M.S. in Mathematics and M.S. in ECE.

Her research integrates methodologies from system and control theory, analysis, and optimization to address pressing and fundamental challenges in complex and networked energy systems. She aims at driving the widespread utilization of renewable energy resources while enhancing the resiliency and efficiency of energy systems through developing rigorous theory and scalable computational tools. She is the recipient of a Best Paper Award at the MIT/Harvard Applied Energy Symposium in 2022 and was named a Barbour Scholar in 2021.

Ph.D. Students

Sushobhan Chatterjee

First-Year Ph.D. Student (ECE)

Sushobhan Chatterjee is a PhD student in the Power and Energy Network System Analysis (PENSA) Lab at the Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Prof. Sijia Geng. Prior to PhD, he received a master’s degree in Control and Optimization theory from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur. Prior to pursuing his master’s, he worked briefly as an Operations and Maintenance Engineer (Electrical) in the Linde plc. During his bachelor’s, he interned at the CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

His research interests lie at the intersection of Nonlinear Analysis, Control, and Optimization theory in Modern Power Systems, where he focuses on developing theoretical tools to advance the complex world of inverter-based resources. In particular, his current research is centered on nonlinear understanding of the erratic behavior in renewable power grids, as well as their application in control and optimization theory.

Zudika Siahaan

First-Year Ph.D. Student (ECE)

Zudika is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Johns Hopkins University. In 2023, he joined the PENSA lab, under the guidance of Prof. Sijia Geng, to study and delve deep into the intricacies of control and dynamic systems. His current research focuses on the stability analysis and control of power networks with high penetration of inverter-based resources (IBRs).

Zudika graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Power Engineering from Indonesia’s Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in 2022. Prior to JHU, he worked as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he joined a team in advising one of Indonesia’s prominent banks on their corporate transformation initiative.

Master Students

Undergrad Students

Postdocs

Activities

Location

Barton Hall, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore,MD 21218