Current Personnel

Research Engineer

Olaoluwapo (Olaolu) Ajala

Olaolu is from Lagos, Nigeria. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Lagos in 2010, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014 and 2018 respectively. His research interests include microgrids modeling, analysis and control, and hardware implementation of microgrid control architectures.

 

 

 

 

Ph.D. Students

Siddhartha Nigam

Siddhartha is from Delhi, India. He received his B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology, India. in 2014, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2017. His research interests include microgrid modeling, operations, and control.

 

 

 

M.S. 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.

 

 

 

Isaac Lawanson 

Isaac is from Osun, Nigeria. He received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2020. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc, in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include microgrids and their modeling, as well as integration of renewable energy into current electric grids.

 

 

 

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.