Posted March 18, 2013 Atlanta, GA
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Santiago Grijalva was named as a Georgia Power Distinguished Professor, effective March 1. Dr. Grijalva has been an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech since 2009.
A pioneer in the area of power system informatics and green electricity, Dr. Grijalva serves as the director of the Advanced Computational Electricity Systems Laboratory, where he advises 22 graduate students. The group focuses on high-impact, transformative research on electrical energy systems for both large- and small-scale grid and on the “systems” problems of electrical energy, including planning and real-time system control stages. In his role as the associate director for electricity systems with the Strategic Energy Institute, he is responsible for coordinating large efforts on electricity research and policy at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Grijalva’s research and educational interests include real-time power system control, electrical energy informatics, and power system economics. He leads research efforts focused on future electricity grids for the U.S. Department of Energy, ARPA-E, the Electric Power Research Institute, and the Power Systems Engineering Research Center, an NSF-funded center based at Arizona State University. He is also the founding faculty advisor for the Georgia Tech Energy Club.
Prior to his arrival at Georgia Tech, Dr. Grijalva worked with PowerWorld Corporation as a senior software architect and developer of innovative power systems applications used today in more than 60 countries. He also worked with the Ecuadorian National Center for Energy Control as engineer and manager of the Real-Time EMS Software Department.
About the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of eight schools and departments in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Over 2,500 students are enrolled in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 723 degrees were awarded.
Over 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research, education, and commercialization – bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design.
About the Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Business, and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
