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Innovator Profile

Dr. Fangxing (Fran) Li

James W. McConnell Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at The University of Tennessee Knoxville. He is also an adjunct researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Dr. Fangxing (Fran) Li received his PhD from Virginia Tech University in 2001. His research interests include renewable energy integration, distributed energy resources, and power system computational methods. He is an adjunct researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the campus director of Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT).​

Available Technologies

  • SA-GAN Learning Package for Resilient Defense of Microgrids in Extreme Events​
    Researchers at the University of Tennessee have developed the Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network with a Deep Reinforced Learning package (S ... (read more)
  • Time-Varying PI Controller Gains for Guaranteed PQ Response Trajectory​
    Researchers at the University of Tennessee have developed a hybrid model- and data-driven method for tuning time-varying PI controller gains. This met ... (read more)
  • Decentralized and Coordinated V-f Control for Islanded Microgrids​
    Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Oklahoma State University and Missouri S&T have developed a decentralized control method for coordinat ... (read more)

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