Communication and Control in Electric Power Systems - Application of Parallel and Distributed Processing

MOHAMMAD SHAHIDEHPOUR, PhD, is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Director of the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he has served in various administrative positions, including Dean of the Graduate College and Associate Vice President for research. He has over twenty years of experience as a consultant to the electric power industry. He is the author of more than 250 technical papers as well as three books on power system optimization and energy scheduling. Dr. Shahidehpour is a Fellow of IEEE. YAOYU WANG, PhD, is a senior research scientist in the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has twelve years of industrial and academic experience in power systems computation, optimization, and control; power market analysis; and EMS/DMS applications, development, and integration. He was a recipient of a research fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and was a guest research scientist of Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Wang is a Senior Member of IEEE.