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Map of relative wildfire risk and resilience

Sep 18, 2025

Protecting the Grid from Wildfire

PhD student Soroush Vahedi and Professor Junbo Zhao are lead authors of "Probabilistic Resilience-Oriented Assessment Approach for Transmission Networks under Wildfires" published in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Their approach provides critical insights for identifying system vulnerabilities and developing robust strategies to protect transmission networks from wildfires.

IEEE cover art

Sep 11, 2025

Safe Reinforcement Learning

PhD student Tong Su and Professor Junbo Zhao are coauthors of "A Review of Safe Reinforcement Learning Methods for Modern Power Systems," published in and featured on the cover of Proceedings of the IEEE. The article "summarizes existing safe RL techniques, evaluates their performance, analyzes suitable deployment scenarios, and examines algorithm benchmarks and application environments."

the transmission-based probe

Sep 11, 2025

Broadband Microwave Sensor

Professor Paul Meaney and  Research Associate Zamzam Kordiboroujeni are coauthors of "Real-Time Microwave Medical Scanning" published in IEEE Microwaves Magazine. "We have developed a new broadband microwave sensor for detecting and diagnosing subsurface medical conditions such as sarcopenia," states the article. "The device is an open-ended coaxial concept that has been fabricated using 3D metal printing technologies."

JEPE cover image

Sep 04, 2025

New Energy Editor

Professor Junbo Zhao was appointed editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. "This is a prestigious journal with a long history in the power and energy field, and I am very honored to be appointed. This is great opportunity to make contributions to our community and increase Thayer's visibility to the world in the energy domain," said Zhao.

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