CURRENT POSITION
CTI Professor and Department Head: University of Tennessee - Knoxville from 2008
Research Emphasis: Intelligent systems and optimization methodologies applied to various power system problems, including distribution system design, electricity market analysis, equipment diagnostics and maintenance, operation of dispersed energy resources, production scheduling, and stabilization control.

ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Professor: Washington State University from 1992-2008 (Associate Professor 1996; Professor 2002)
Program Director: National Science Foundation, Division of Electrical and Communication Systems, 2004-2006
Kyushu Electric Endowed Chair for Advanced Technology for Electrical Energy : Kumamoto University (Japan) 1999-2000
Visiting Professor: Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) 1991-1992
Associate Professor: National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan) 1988-1991
Adjunct Professor: National Sun Yat-Sen University (Taiwan) 1988-1991
Adjunct Professor: Boston University 1988
Systems Analysis Staff: MIT Lincoln Laboratory 1987-1988
Research Assistant: University of Washington 1985-1987
Teaching Assistant: University of Washington 1982-1985
Testing and Control System Design Engineer: IBM Summer 1982 and 1983
Laboratory/Teaching Assistant: Michigan Technological University 1981-1982
Control System Design Engineer: McDonnell Douglas Co. Summer 1981

OVERVIEW OF PROFESSIONAL/SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Editor: IEEE Power Engineering Letters, 2004-present.
Editor: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2003-present.
IEEE: Power Engineering Society (PES), vice-Chair of Power Systems Analysis Computing and Economics committee, Chair of Intelligent Systems Applications subcommittee under PSACE Committee, 1999-2003.
Technical Program Committee: Power System Computations Conference 2008, ICEEDT07, ISAP (since inception)
Member of Advisory Board: Emanual E.W. Jones Electrical Engineering Foundation

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering University of Washington 1987
Thesis: "Development of Expert Systems as On-Line Operational Aids" Advisor: C.C. Liu

M.S. Electrical Engineering University of Washington 1984
Thesis: "Analysis of a Non-Gyroscopic Inertial Measurement Unit" Advisor: E. Noges

B.S. Electrical Engineering - High Honors Michigan Technological University 1982
Emphasis: Control Theory and Computer Engineering

HONORS
IEEE Fellow, Class of 2007, for contributions to intelligent systems in power engineering
Outstanding Researcher, School of EECS, WSU 2004-2005
Outstanding Researcher, School of EECS, WSU 2003-2004
Outstanding EE Teaching Faculty, School of EECS, WSU 2002-2003 (voted by students)
Outstanding Researcher, School of EECS, WSU 2001-2002
Kyushu Electric Endowed Chair for Advanced Technology for Electrical Energy 1999-2000
Outstanding EE Teaching Faculty, School of EECS, WSU 1996-1997 (voted by students)   

PERSONAL
Recent reading: Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.
Languages: English - native speaker; Chinese - spoken fluency in Mandarin, functional literacy; Japanese - minimal but still trying; Swedish - almost non-existent now and getting worse.

A QUOTE
"The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not!" -- Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End