Guest Editorial: Machine Learning in Power Systems

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Zhaoyu Wang is the Harpole-Pentair Assistant Professor at Iowa State University. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2009 and 2012, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012 and 2015, respectively. His research interests include power distribution systems and microgrids, particularly on their data analytics and optimisation. He is the Principal Investigator for a multitude of projects focused on these topics and funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, National Laboratories, PSERC, and Iowa Energy Center. Dr. Wang is the Secretary of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Award Subcommittee, Co-Vice Chair of PES Distribution System Operation and Planning Subcommittee, and Vice-Chair of PES Task Force on Advances in Natural Disaster Mitigation Methods. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE PES Letters and IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, and an associate editor of IET Smart Grid. Dr. Gu's research has been supported by the UK funding agency (EPSRC), the industry (NPG, NGC and WPD), and the UK government (DECC). He now is the Subject Editor IET Smart Grid. Anurag K. Srivastava is an Associate Professor of electric power engineering at Washington State University and the Director of the Smart Grid Demonstration and Research Investigation Lab (SGDRIL) within the Energy Systems Innovation Center (ESIC). He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2005. His research interest includes data-driven algorithms for power system operation and control, including resiliency analysis. Dr. Srivastava high impact research projects resulted in tools installed at the utility control center supported for more than $50M by the US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Siemens Corporate Research, Electric Power Research Institute, Schweitzer Engineering Lab, Power System Engineering Research Center, Office of Naval Research and several National Labs. Dr. Srivastava is an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy and Elsevier Sustainable Computing. He is an IEEE distinguished lecturer and has delivered 30+ keynotes/tutorials in more than 15 countries. He is an author of more than 300 technical publications, including a book on power system security and 3 patents.