• Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Regents Professor
  • Wofford Cain Chair IV
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • University Distinguished Professor
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Mladen Kezunovic

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas – 1980
  • M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas – 1977
  • Dipl.Ing., Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo – 1974

Research Interests

    • Protective relaying
    • Power systems
    • Computational intelligence
    • Smart grids

Awards & Honors

  • Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering – 2022
  • Guest Professor, State Key Laboratory of Simulation of Power System and Generation Equipment, Tsinghua University, China – 2018-2021
  • Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Research, Texas A&M University – 2018
  • Member, Department of Energy, Electricity Advisory Committee, Appointed by the US Secretary of Energy – 2017-2021
  • Life Fellow, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering – 2017
  • Distinguished Member, International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) – 2018
  • Special Visiting Scholar, Science without Borders, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil – 2015-2017

Selected Publications

  • R. Baembitov, M. Kezunovic, K. A. Brewster and Z. Obradovic, “Incorporating Wind Modeling into Electric Grid Outage Risk Prediction and Mitigation Solution,” IEEE Access, February 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3234984.
  • M. Khoshjahan and M. Kezunovic, “Robust bidding strategy for aggregation of distributed prosumers in flexiramp market,” Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 209, 107994, August 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2022.107994.
  • M. Alqudah, M. Pavlovski, T. Dokic, M. Kezunovic, Y. Hu, Z. Obradovic, “Convolution-based Fault Detection Utilizing Timeseries Synchrophasor Data from Phasor Measurement Units,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2021.3135336.
  • M. Soleimani, M. Kezunovic, S. Butenko “Linear Arrhenius-Weibull Model for Power Transformer Thermal Stress Assessment” IEEE Access, Vol 10, 19013-19021, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3150039.
  • K. M. Silva, J. S. G. Pena, H. D. M. Braz, M. Kezunovic, “An Adaptive Scheme to Mitigate the Infeed Effect on Overreaching Distance Zones,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 3345-3356, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2021.3128131.
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