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20192025
most citedTowards Practical Physics-Informed ML Design and Evaluation for Power Grid

2 citations · 4 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2025

Homotopy-Guided Self-Supervised Learning of Parametric Solutions for AC Optimal Power Flow

Shimiao Li, Aaron Tuor, Draguna Vrabie +2

Learning to optimize (L2O) parametric approximations of AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) solutions offers the potential for fast, reusable decision-making in real-time power system o…

eess.SY2025

Voltage-Regulated Sparse Optimization for Proactive Diagnosis of Voltage Collapses

Qinghua Ma, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Ming Shi +2

This paper aims to proactively diagnose and manage the voltage collapse risks, i.e., the risk of bus voltages violating the safe operational bounds, which can be caused by extreme…

eess.SY2025

Frequency-Aware Sparse Optimization for Diagnosing Grid Instabilities and Collapses

Swadesh Vhakta, Denis Osipov, Reetam Sen Biswas +3

This paper aims to proactively diagnose and manage frequency instability risks from a steady-state perspective, without the need for derivative-dependent transient modeling. Specif…

eess.SY2025

Sparsity-exploiting Gaussian Process for Robust Transient Learning of Power System Dynamics

Tina Gao, Shimiao Li, Lawrence Pileggi

Advances in leveraging Gaussian processes (GP) have enabled learning and inferring dynamic grid behavior from scarce PMU measurements. However, real measurements can be corrupted b…

eess.SY2025

Cyber-Resilient System Identification for Power Grid through Bayesian Integration

Shimiao Li, Guannan Qu, Bryan Hooi +3

Power grids increasingly need real-time situational awareness under the ever-evolving cyberthreat landscape. Advances in snapshot-based system identification approaches have enable…

eess.SY2025

Multi-Period Sparse Optimization for Proactive Grid Blackout Diagnosis

Qinghua Ma, Reetam Sen Biswas, Denis Osipov +3

Existing or planned power grids need to evaluate survivability under extreme events, like a number of peak load overloading conditions, which could possibly cause system collapses…

eess.SY2025

Synergies between Federated Foundation Models and Smart Power Grids

Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Shimiao Li, Adedoyin Inaolaji +3

The recent emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 has marked a significant paradigm shift in machine learning. Trained on massive corpora of data, these models dem…

eess.SP2024

Exploiting sparse structures and synergy designs to advance situational awareness of electrical power grid

Shimiao Li

The growing threats of uncertainties, anomalies, and cyberattacks on power grids are driving a critical need to advance situational awareness which allows system operators to form…

eess.SY2023

Power Grid Behavioral Patterns and Risks of Generalization in Applied Machine Learning

Shimiao Li, Jan Drgona, Shrirang Abhyankar +1

Recent years have seen a rich literature of data-driven approaches designed for power grid applications. However, insufficient consideration of domain knowledge can impose a high r…

cs.CR2023

Contingency Analyses with Warm Starter using Probabilistic Graphical Model

Shimiao Li, Amritanshu Pandey, Larry Pileggi

Cyberthreats are an increasingly common risk to the power grid and can thwart secure grid operations. We propose to extend contingency analysis to include cyberthreat evaluations.…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Towards Practical Physics-Informed ML Design and Evaluation for Power Grid

Shimiao Li, Amritanshu Pandey, Larry Pileggi

When applied to a real-world safety critical system like the power grid, general machine learning methods suffer from expensive training, non-physical solutions, and limited interp…

eess.SY2022

Circuit-theoretic Line Outage Distribution Factor

Shimiao Li, Amritanshu Pandey, Larry Pileggi

This work presents the design of AC line outage distribution factor created from the circuit-theoretic power flow models. Experiment results are shown to demonstrate its efficacy i…

eess.SY2021

A Convex Method of Generalized State Estimation using Circuit-theoretic Node-breaker Model

Shimiao Li, Amritanshu Pandey, Larry Pileggi

An accurate and up-to-date topology is critical for situational awareness of a power grid; however, wrong switch statuses due to physical damage, communication error, or cyber-atta…

eess.SP2021

Combined Transmission and Distribution State-Estimation for Future Electric Grids

Amritanshu Pandey, Shimiao Li, Larry Pileggi

Proliferation of grid resources on the distribution network along with the inability to forecast them accurately will render the existing methodology of grid operation and control…

cs.LG2020

Dynamic Graph-Based Anomaly Detection in the Electrical Grid

Shimiao Li, Amritanshu Pandey, Bryan Hooi +2

Given sensor readings over time from a power grid, how can we accurately detect when an anomaly occurs? A key part of achieving this goal is to use the network of power grid sensor…

eess.SY2020

A WLAV-based Robust Hybrid State Estimation using Circuit-theoretic Approach

Shimiao Li, Amritanshu Pandey, Larry Pileggi

For reliable and secure power grid operation, AC state-estimation (ACSE) must provide certain guarantees of convergence while being resilient against bad-data. This paper develops…

eess.SP2019

A LASSO-Inspired Approach for Localizing Power System Infeasibility

Shimiao Li, Amritanshu Pandey, Aayushya Agarwal +2

A method is proposed to identify and localize the cause of network collapse with augmented power flow analysis for a grid model with insufficient resources. Owing to heavy network…

eess.SY2019★ 2 cited

A Circuit-Theoretic Approach to State Estimation

Shimiao Li, Amritanshu Pandey, Soummya Kar +1

Traditional state estimation (SE) methods that are based on nonlinear minimization of the sum of localized measurement error functionals are known to suffer from non-convergence an…