Arun Shrestha

PhD Student

Expected Graduation: May 2016

Thesis Title: Dynamic Remedial Action Scheme for Using Online Transient Stability Analysis

Email: ashrest1@uncc.edu

 

Arun Shrestha was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2005 and his MSEE from University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2009. At present, he is working as an Power Engineer in R&D at

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. in Charlotte, NC. He also worked as an Electrical Engineer in Chilime Hydropower Company Ltd. In Nepal between 2005 and 2008.

Research Interest:

• Power system stability
• Wide-area protection and control
• Real-time power system modeling and simulation.

Publications:

1. Shrestha, V. Cecchi, R. Cox, “Transient Stability-Constrained Optimal Power Flow using Quasi-Linear Behavior of Critical Machines”, under review for theIEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

2. Shrestha, V. Cecchi, R.W. Cox, “Optimal Power Flow-based Generation Shedding for Dynamic Remedial Action Scheme”, to appear in theProceedings of the 2016 IEEE PES T & D Conference and Exposition

3. A. Shrestha, V. Cecchi, R.W. Cox, “Minimum-cost generation-shedding for dynamic Remedial Action Scheme”, Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting. Pub. Year: 2015.

4. A. Shrestha, V. Cecchi, R.W. Cox, “Dynamic Remedial Action Scheme using online transient stability analysis,” Proceedings of the IEEE 2014 North American Power Symposium. Pub. Year: 2014.

5. A. Shrestha, V. Cecchi, R.W. Cox, “A real-time platform for validating continuous wide-area control systems”, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2013), Washington, DC, Feb. 2013.