Dr. Paras Mandal is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Director of Power & Renewable Energy Systems (PRES) Laboratory within the ECE Department at UTEP. His research interests include electric power systems operations and markets, renewable energy integration and forecasting, machine learning applications to smart grid, and cyber-security of power systems. He has authored more than 200 scientific articles and proven technical, academic and leadership skill with various awards and honors. He is a recipient of the best papers award by IEEE and Young Engineer award from IEEJ. He participates and assumes leadership roles in multiple professional groups within the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, past Chair of IEEE PEEC award subcommittee, past Secretary of IEEE New Product Development (NPD) Committee – Selection & Quality Control Subcommittee, and Member of various IEEE working groups and subcommittees. Dr. Mandal is a regular reviewer of journals and conferences and, serves as an Editorial Board of the journals and a session chair and panelist in IEEE PES conferences. His research has been funded by NSF, DOE, DoEd, and Industry. He is a Co-Lead Power Thrust of NSF-ERC-ASPIRE (National Science Foundation’s flagship Engineering Research Center program).

• UTEP Travel Award - UTEP (09/01/2016-09/30/2016)
• Excellent MS Thesis - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (05/01/2016-05/31/2016)
• UTEP Travel Award - UTEP (03/01/2016-03/31/2016)
• UTEP Travel Award - UTEP (10/01/2015-10/31/2015)
• Excellent MS Thesis - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (12/01/2014-12/31/2014)

• Ph D in Electrical Engineering, Power System, University of the Ryukyus (2005)
• MS in Energy Economics and Planning, Asian Institute of Technology (2002)

• Improving the resilience of large-scale power systems using distributed static series compensators International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 145 (2023), Izaz Zunnurain, Yuanrui Sang, Paras Mandal, Miguel Velez-Reyes, Jose F. Espiritu Nolasco.
• A coherent strategy for peak load shaving using energy storage systems Journal of Energy Storage 32 (2020), Sayed M. Danish, Mikaeel Ahmadi, Mir S. Danish, Paras Mandal, Atsushi Yona, Tomonobu Senjyu.
• A contemporary novel classification of voltage stability indices Applied Sciences 10 5 (2020), Hameedullah Zaheb, Mir S. Danish, Tomonobu Senjyu, Mikaeel Ahmadi, Abdul M. Nazari, Mohebullah Wali, Mahdi Khosravy, Paras Mandal.
• Demand Response Economic Assessment with the Integration of Renewable Energy for Developing Electricity Markets Sustainability 12 7 (2020), Abdul Conteh, Mohammed E. Lotfy, Oludamilare B. Adewuyi, Paras Mandal, Hiroshi Takahashi, Tomonobu Senjyu.
• Energy Storage System Analysis Review for Optimal Unit Commitment Energies 13 1 (2020), Harun O. Howlader, Oludamilare B. Adewuyi, Ying-Yi Hong, Paras Mandal, Ashraf Mohamed Hemeida, Tomonobu Senjyu.

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