EVERSOURCE - Key Persons


Ali Bazzi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Amir Herzberg

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Comcast Chair for Security Innovation

Anita Morzillo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment

Ankur Srivastava

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor, Eversource Energy Center

Anne George

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • New England Vice President
ISO-New England Vice President of External Affairs and Corporate Communications, oversees generation and transmission, and can help us bridge the link between individual distribution companies and the other players in the realm of electric generation, transmission, and distribution.

Chandi Witharana

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment

Christina Sames

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  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Gas Association Vice President of Operations
American Gas Association Vice President of Operations and Engineering, can help us diversify and expand our research to other infrastructure networks such as as distribution. Our Center will soon collaborate directly with the Gas Technology Institute.

Cory Merow

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor, Eversource Energy Center

David Gladey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Vice President of Distribution Engineering for Connecticut

David Wanik

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Residence, Business School

Diego Cerrai

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Manager
  • Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Associate Director for Storm Preparedness and Emergency Response
  • Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Ding Caiwen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

Doug Dorr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Program Manager of EPRI
Program Manager of EPRI, is on the forefront of analytics research for the ever evolving utility grid. Doug is spearheading an EPRI/EEX Initiative on Predictive Analytics for Grid Resilience.

Dr. Anne D'Alleva

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Dr. Indrajeet Chaubey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Dr. John Elliott

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Dr. Junbo Zhao

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University
  • Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Associate Director for Grid Modernization and Strategic Partnerships
  • Grid Modernization Team Leader
Dr. Junbo Zhao has been an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA since 2019. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 2018. He was a Research Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech from May 2018 to August 2019. He also did a summer internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory from May to August 2017. He is currently the chair of the IEEE Task Force on Power System Dynamic State and Parameter Estimation and the IEEE Task Force on Cyber-Physical Interdependency for Power System Operation and Control, co-chair of the IEEE Working Group on Power System Static and Dynamic State Estimation, the Secretary of the IEEE PES Bulk Power System Operation Subcommittee. He has published three book chapters and more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, where more than 50 appear in IEEE Transactions. His research interests are cyber-physical power system modeling, estimation, security, dynamics and stability, uncertainty quantification, renewable energy integration and control, robust statistical signal processing and machine learning. He serves as the editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Power and Engineering Letters, the Associate Editor of International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, and the subject editor of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution. He is the receipt of best paper awards of 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting and 2019 IEEE PES ISGT Asia. He received the Top 3 Associate Editor Award from IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE PES Outstanding Engineering Award in 2020.

Dr. Kazem Kazerounian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Dr. Pamir Alpay

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • UConn Vice President of Research

Dr. Zongjie Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Research Associate in Systems Engineering at Cornell University
Dr. Zongjie Wang is currently research associate in Systems Engineering at Cornell University. She earned her Bachelors,Masters, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. Dr. Wang's research interests focus on problems in modern power systems and renewable energy through leveraging data analytics, optimization and simulation techniques. Her projects include development of new algorithms for optimal power flow in power systems with high penetration of renewable energy sources; bi-level optimization between transmission and distribution systems; comprehensive modeling of distributed generators in active distribution systems; networkequivalent modeling of New York state power system topology; feasible power flow solutions in weakly-meshed active distribution systems, sensitivity analysis of new extended bus types in power systems. Dr. Wang has a patent "online multi-period power dispatch problems" filed by U.S. in 2020. As an invited speaker, she gave one of her talks at the headquarter ofUS Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)'s Technical Meeting in DC. She is also a member of PSERC committee and has collaborations with power system operators in the industries and other institutions, for example, New England ISO, New York ISO, MIT, Ohio State University, Technical University of Denmark.

Emmanouil N. Anagnostou

Job Titles:
  • Director

Fei Miao

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Feifei Yang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor, Eversource Energy Center

Fred Carstensen

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Finance Director, Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis

Georgios "George" Matheou

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Giulia Sofia

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor, Eversource Energy Center

Hank Webster

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Deputy Commissioner DEEP

Jeffery Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Finance

Kaleel Mahmood

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Residence, Computer Science and Engineering

Ken Bowes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Vice President of the Executive Committee

Kimberly Rollins

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

Malaquias PeƱa

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Marina Astitha

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Weather Forecasting Team Leader

Marissa Paslick Gillett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Chairman of Connecticut 's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
Marissa Paslick Gillett is Chairman of Connecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA). Governor Ned Lamont nominated Gillett to begin serving on the three member regulatory authority on April 26, 2019, and her appointment was confirmed by both the House of Representatives and State Senate in the 2019 session of the Connecticut General Assembly.

Natalka Tuczkewycz

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant / Eversource Energy Center

Robert Fahey

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Associate Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Tree and Forest Management Team Leader

Robert Hotaling

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Department of Economic and Community Development, Deputy Commissioner

Roger Kranenburg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Vice President of the Executive Committee

Ronny Heredia

Job Titles:
  • Administrator
  • Financial Analyst
  • Financial Analyst / Eversource Energy Center

Ryan O'Keefe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
Ryan O'Keefe is a UConn College of Engineering (B.S.E.E. 1990) alumnus who has worked with large power producers and small technology startups, founded two companies, and serves as a consultant and advisor to businesses focused on the clean energy transition.

Sergio Carillo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Managing Director of Incentive Programs
Managing Director of Incentive Programs, Sergio joined the Connecticut Green Bank in 2020, where he manages the organization's incentive programs, including the Residential Solar Investment Program (RSIP) and Energy Storage Solutions (ESS) Program

Stergios Emmanouil

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor, Eversource Energy Center

Sung-Yeul Park

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Thomas H. Meyer

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment

Thomas Worthley

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment

Wei Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Xinxuan Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Yang Cao

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Zhe Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment