Current Personnel

Ph.D. Students

Temitope Amuda

Temitope is from Ondo, Nigeria. He received his B.Sc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Lagos in 2017. He is currently pursuing his  PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His research interests include microgrid operation, control and integration with the current electric grid.

T.G. Roberts

T.G. is from Stockton, California. She received her B.S. In Energy Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. She is currently pursuing her M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include the integration of renewables into the grid, as well as control systems and modeling.

Eric Silk

Eric is from Hayden, Idaho. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho in 2016 and his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington in 2021. He worked for Schweitzer Engineering Labs from 2016 to 2022. His research interests include the control and security of power systems, as well as applications of machine learning to this space.

M.S. Students

Grant McKechnie

Grant is from Kentfield, California. He received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2023. He is currently pursuing his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include modeling of grid forming inverters and microgrid control system development.