Contact/CV

Contact

Physical

• Postal Address:
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  JEC 6220, 110 Eighth Street
  Troy, New York 12180-3590
  USA

• Locations @RPI
  Office: JEC 6220
  ALSETLab-Maxwell: JEC 6119
  ALSETLab-Volta: 2327B ECSE, High Bay Area

Digital

• Website: ALSETLab.com
• GMAIL E-mail: luigi.vanfretti@gmail.com

Analog

• Mobile: (518) 496 0196
• Office: (518) 276 2378

Education

• Electrical Engineering Degree, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Spring 2005.
• Visiting Researcher, The University of Glasgow, Fall 2005.
• MSc in Electric Power Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007. Major: Electric Power. Minor: Control Systems.
• Ph.D in Electric Power Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2009.
  
• Post Doc., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2010.
  

Work Experience:

• Academia:
  
  • 08/2017 - to date: Associate Professor, ECSE Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Technology.
    
  • Previous Appointments:
    

    • 12/2009 - 05/2010: Post Doctoral Research Associate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Technology.

    • 06/2010 - 08/2017: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
      

      • 05/2010 - 2013: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track.
      • 2012: Docent Title (explanation in Wikipedia.)
      • 03/2013 - 08/2017: Associate Professor, Tenured.
• Professional:
  
  • Special Advisor at Statnett SF, the Norwegian electrical power transmission system operator.
    
    • 01/2015 - 07/2016: Special Advisor in Strategy and International Collaboration.
    • 03/2013 - 12/2014: Special Advisor in Strategy and Public Affairs.
  • External Consultant.
    • 08/2016 - 07/2017: Scientific Advisor to Statnett SF, Research and Development Division.
    • 01/2011 - 03/2013: Scientific Advisor to Statnett SF, Research and Development Division.

Current Synergistic Activities:

OpenIPSL.org Project: http://openipsl.org

Technical Groups Membership / Participation:

• North American Modelica User’s Group (NAMUG) - Member / Participant / Presenter: 2015 - 2017 link
  

• Open Source Modelica Consortium (OSMC) - Individual Member:link
  

• North American Synchrophasor Initiative: https://www.naspi.org - Co-Lead of the Distribution Systems Task Team (DiSTT):link
  

• Global Network for Synchrophasor Solutions (GNSS) - Steering Committee Member: link
  

Technical Committee Memberships:

• Modelica Conferences, as Technical Program Committee Member or other roles:
  • 13th International Modelica Conference, 2019 link
  • The American Modelica Conference 2018 link
  • Japanese Modelica Conference 2018 link
  • 12th International Modelica Conference, 2017 link
  • 11th International Modelica Conference, 2015 link
    
    
• Other:
  
  • The First IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics – SGSMA, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, May 20-23, 2019 link
  • IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Conference. Program Committee Member: 2018 Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems
  • IEEE Power and Energy Society Conferences. Technical Program Committee Member: 2017 ISGT Latin America

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