Lina He, Ghansham Meghwar, Shiwen Yu receive IEEE PES Best Paper Award

Andrea Poet | Posted on August 26, 2024
Lina He

Assistant Professor Lina He and two of her graduate students, Ghansham Meghwar and Shiwen Yu, have been honored for their paper, “An Enhanced Fault Detection Strategy Based on Transient Voltage in Multi-terminal HVDC Grid,” which was presented in July at the 2024 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting.

The IEEE PES General Meeting unites professionals and researchers from the power and energy engineering field worldwide. The conference draws in thousands of attendees from academia, industry, and government sectors and is the most prestigious annual gathering in the field.

“With approximately 1,200 paper submissions this year, being selected as the best paper among less than 5% of submissions is truly an honor,” He said.

“The paper presents an innovative fault detection and classification algorithm for multi-terminal HVDC grids based on transient energy,” He said. “This cutting-edge approach ensures a more robust and reliable threshold selection for DC fault detection, aiming to accelerate renewable energy integration and enhance power grid resilience.”

“This topic is particularly significant as it aligns with one of my focuses on offshore wind integration,” she added.

He has four concurrent grants, securing a total of $6.1 million in funding for UIC.

He is the director of the Power Energy Innovation laboratory in the ECE department at UIC. Prior to joining UIC in 2018, He was a senior consultant and project manager with Siemens. Her research interests include modeling, controlling, protecting, and securing of power electronics-based power systems, renewable energy integration, HVDC control and operation, PMUs, and wide-area protection and cybersecurity. He is currently seeking fully funded PhD candidates and postdocs to join her lab, particularly those with a strong background in power systems, power electronics, machine learning, and renewable energy integration.