John W. Simpson-Porco
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John W. Simpson-Porco, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Email: jwsimpson [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca |
I am looking for talented and highly motivated M.Sc./P.hD. students for research projects in control and optimization of smart power grids, cyber-physical systems, and distributed control. Those with a strong background in control, optimization, physics or applied math are especially encouraged to apply.
Students: Please click here for more information.
Research Interests
Control, monitoring and optimization for smart grids
Decentralized and distributed control systems
Recent Papers
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| Electrical Circuits and Graph Theory Proc IEEE, 2018, (pdf), (bib) | Equilibrium-Independent Dissipativity, IEEE TAC, 2017 (pdf), (bib) |
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| Theory of Power Flow IEEE TCONS, 2017 (Part 1,Part 2), (bib1, bib2) | Lossy DC Power Flow, IEEE TPWRS, 2017 (pdf), (bib) |
News
May 2018: Our paper on dissipativity has been accepted as a full paper in TAC.
May 2018: Task force paper on microgrid stability definitions.
April 2018: Our paper on algebraic graph theory for circuit analysis has appeared in Proceedings of the IEEE.
March 2018: New paper on input-output performance of saddle-point algorithms.
February 2018: New paper on estimation and control in platoons.
September 2017: New paper on equilibrium-independent dissipativity theory.
September 2017: Liam Lawrence (MASc) joins the group.
New paper on power flow solvability in homogeneous distribution networks.
New paper on low-inertia stability.
Submitted a two-part paper on solvability of lossless power flow equations.
Submitted paper on Lossy DC Power Flow.
My PhD thesis won the CCDC Best Thesis Award.
September 2016: New paper on
-gain analysis of primal-dual algorithmsSeptember 2016: Yousef Sawires (MASc) joins the group.
July 2016: We will have three papers appear at CDC 2016 in Las Vegas, NV, USA.
July 2016: New paper on robustness of k-nearest neighbor vehicle platoons.
March 2016: Here is some press on our Nature Communications paper.
March 2016: We sent three papers to CDC.
February 2016: Our paper on voltage collapse has appeared in Nature Communications.
February 2016: We submitted a journal paper on optimal voltage control to TCONS.
November 2015: I was named CCDC Student of the Month.
March 2015: We submitted a conference paper on
performance of microgrid controllers to ACC 2016.August 2015: We submitted a journal paper on distributed monitoring of static voltage instability to TSG.
July 2015: We submitted a journal paper on quadratic voltage droop control to TAC.
Upcoming and Recent Travel
December 2018: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control In Miami Beach, FL, USA.
November 2018: INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, USA.
August 2018: PES General Meeting in Portland, OR, USA.
July 2018: American Control Conference in Milwaukee, WI, USA.
June 2018: Biennial Conference on Systems and Control, Toronto, ON, Canada.
March 2018: Visit to Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
April 2017: Seminar at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.
March 2017: Seminar at Control Strategies and Hardware Topologies for the Operation of Energy Storage System in Microgrids Workshop, Santiago, Chile.
January 2017: CCDC Seminar at UC Santa Barbara on January 20th (Slides).
January 2017: LANL Grid Science Conference in Santa Fe, NM.
December 2016: Presentations at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control In Las Vegas, NV (Slides)..
September 2016: Invited paper at Allerton in Monticello, IL.
July 2016: American Control Conference in Boston, MA (Slides)..
June 2016: Invited talk at the Workshop on Communications, Computation and Control for Resilient Smart Energy Systems in Waterloo, ON.
May 2016: 7th Biannual Meeting on System and Control Theory at Queen's University, Kingston, ON.
February 2016: Invited talk at the Centre for Power and Information, University of Toronto.
January 2016: Invited talk at ESIF Workshop on Frontiers in Distributed Optimization & Control of Sustainable Power Systems, NREL, Golden, CO, USA.
December 2015: Invited talk at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.
November 2015: Invited talk at University of Groningen in Groningen, Netherlands.
October 2015: Three month visit to Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland.
May 2015: SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Snowbird, UT.
January 2015: Grid Science Winter School and Conference in Santa Fe, NM.