PSERC Leadership

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PSERC Leadership

Portrait of Kory Hedman

Kory Hedman

PSERC Director, Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Portrait of Taylor Leavitt

Taylor Leavitt

PSERC Business Operations Specialist

Fulton Schools of Engineering

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Executive Committee

Each university member appoints a Site Director as a representative and a liaison to their local faculty, staff, and administration. The university Site Directors comprise PSERC’s Executive Committee.

Shmuel Oren

Site Director

UC Berkeley

Alexandra Newman

Site Director

Colorado School of Mines

Lang Tong

Site Director

Cornell University

A.P. (Sakis) Meliopoulos

Site Director

Georgia Institute of Technology

James Momoh

Site Director

Howard University

Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia

Site Director

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Venkataramana Ajjarapu

Site Director

Iowa State University

Chee-Wooi Ten

Site Director

Michigan Technological University

Mladen Kezunovic

Site Director

Texas A&M University

Anjan Bose

Site Director

Washington State University

Chengzong Pang

Site Director

Wichita State University

Bernard Lesieutre

Site Director

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Industry Advisory Board Officers

The Industry Advisory Board provides the critical linkage between industrial members and PSERC. The Board works with the universities to identify research and education opportunities, reviews and recommends projects, and works with the Director and Executive Committee to address PSERC business and policy matters.

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Bo Gong

IAB Chair

Salt River Project

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Pradip Kumar

IAB Vice-Chair

NYISO

Research Stem Committees

Each research stem has a committee that organizes its research activities. Industrial members join researchers to set research directions, organize projects, and facilitate high-quality research.

Markets Stem

Kory Hedman

Markets Chair

Arizona State University

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Tongxin Zheng

Markets Vice-Chair

ISO New England

Systems Stem

Venkataramana Ajjarapu

Systems Chair

Iowa State University

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Bo Gong

Systems Vice-Chair

Salt River Project

Transmission and Distribution Technologies Stem

A.P. (Sakis) Meliopoulos

T&D Chair

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Kurt LaFrance

T&D Vice-Chair

Consumers Energy