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Dr. Shamim Hasan:<\/strong> Dr. Hasan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Grid Transients and Advanced Modeling Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Previously, he worked as an R&D Engineer at Hitachi Energy in India. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, Indian, and his M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India. His research interests include EMT modeling, control of grid-connected converters under unbalanced conditions, microgrids, and power quality improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Glen Halley:<\/strong> Mr. Halley has over thirty years’ experience as an electrical engineer and has worked for City Utilities in Springfield, Missouri, for twenty-three years doing distribution, transmission, substation, and broadband design. He was their only distribution planner for seven years and is now the transmission planner, a position he has held for three years. He has served as the Safety Committee chair and been a Duty Supervisor for system restoration. Currently, he serves on Southwest Power Pool’s Grid Transformation Advisory Group and Transmission Analysis and Technical Evaluation Task Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. David Gleich:<\/strong> Dr. Gleich is a Professor and University Faculty Scholar whose research is on novel models and fast large-scale algorithms for data-driven scientific computing including scientific data analysis, bioinformatics, and network analysis. In terms of buzzwords, he enjoys manipulating matrices, graphs, networks, tensors (if they fit). He is committed to making software available based on this research and has written software package such as MatlabBGL with thousands of users worldwide. Dr. Gleich has received a number of awards for his research including a SIAM Outstanding Publication price (2018), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2016), an NSF CAREER Award (2011), and the John von Neumann post-doctoral fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories (2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Francis Joseph:<\/strong> Dr. Joseph is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Grid Transients and Advanced Modeling Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He received his Ph.D. and master’s in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. He worked as a Senior Engineer in the R&D department at PRDC Pvt. Ltd., India. His research interests include power-system stability, high-performance computing applications in power systems, and time-domain simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Shamim Hasan: Dr. Hasan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Grid Transients and Advanced Modeling Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Previously, he worked as an R&D Engineer at Hitachi Energy in India. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, Indian, and his M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":628,"date":"2026-09-23T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/?p=628"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:55:48","slug":"emt-webinar-applications-pilots-integration-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.ornl.gov\/emt-simulations\/emt-webinar-applications-pilots-integration-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"EMT Webinar: Applications & Pilots – Integration Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Event Date: September 29, 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Narges Ghiasi:<\/strong> Dr. Ghiasi is a Senior Engineer with Dominion Energy Virginia, specializing in power system reliability, large load integration, and power system event analysis. She supports technical studies related to transmission system performance, power quality, and interconnection requirements for emerging large loads, with a particular focus on data centers. Her work includes collaboration with customers, utilities, regional reliability organizations, industry stakeholders and technical working groups to enhance grid reliability, improve system performance, and support the reliable integration of new and evolving load resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Dulip Madurasinghe:<\/strong> Dr. Madurasinghe received the B.Sc degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanke, in 2017, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA, in 2024. Professionally, he served as an Embedded Engineer with Atlas Labs (Pty) Ltd. from 2017 to 2018, and as a Research Assistant with the Real-Time Power and Intelligent System Laboratory at Clemson University from 2018 to 2024. He subsequently worked as a Software Engineer with GE Vernova from 2024 to 2026. Currently, he is a Research Associate with the Grid Transients & Advanced Modeling group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His primary research interests encompass real-time power systems control and operation, electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation and modeling, and the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for power system planning and operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Spencer Coffman:<\/strong> Spencer Coffman is an Engineer II on Planning & Policy at Southwest Power Pool (SPP). Spencer has been with SPP for three years. Spencer holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Technology. Spencer joined SPP through the Engineering Rotations Program, completing rotations in Transmission Planning and Generator Interconnection before transitioning into the Engineering Policy and Innovation Department. In Spencer\u2019s current role, he supports advanced modeling practices and policy development, EMT\/PSCAD study efforts, and innovation initiatives aimed at strengthening SPP\u2019s production modeling capabilities, system reliability, and interconnection processes across the SPP footprint. While also serving as an Industry advisor with two research institutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Overview of Data Centers Response to the Recent Large Load Events in Dominion Energy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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HILL with Integration Tool in RE-INTEGRATE: Experience and Its Learnings<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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