Professional Societies
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Membership grade: Fellow
- IEEE Central Illinois Section Treasurer, 1992-1998
- Secretary, Power Engineering Education Research Subcommittee, 2001-2003
- Chair, IEEE PES Walter Fee Award Committee, 2001-2005
- Vice Chair, Power Engineering Education Research Subcommittee, 2003-2005
- Chair, Power Engineering Education Research Subcommittee, 2005-2007
- Chair, IEEE PES Software Engineering Working Group, 2004-2006
- Society memberships: Power Engineering (PES), 1983-present, member of several committees, subcommittees and working groups; Computer Society, 1999-present
- Paper reviews: Transactions on Power Systems; Transactions on Circuits and Systems; Transactions on Automatic Control; Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS); Power System Computational Conference (PSCC)
- National Science Foundation-Proposal reviews, 1994 – present
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Mini-track Chair, 2000-2003, 2004-2005
- 14th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) Technical Committee, 2001-2002
- 15th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) Technical Committee, 2004-2005
- Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2001-2003
- Electric Power Components and Systems Journal, Editorial Board, 2002 – 2015
- 16th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) Technical Committee, 2007-2008
- IREP – Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control – VII Symposium, Organizing Committee, 2007, 2013
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Track Co-Chair, 2009-present
Federal and State
- U.S. Department of Energy Power Outage Study Team, Fall 1999. Investigated utility outages in the Mid-Atlantic and New England areas as part of a team formed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
- 2001 Governor’s Conference on Energy and the Illinois Environment, Planning Committee
- Testified before Illinois General Assembly Electric Utility Deregulation Committee, March 2001
- U.S. Department of Energy National Transmission Grid Study, co-authored one of six issues paper and participated in development of final report, 2001-2002
- Led on-site investigation team for U.S. Department of Energy August 14th 2003 Blackout Investigation, Fall 2003.
- NERC Climate Change Task Force, 2009-2010
- NERC Geomagnetic Disturbance Task Force, 2012-2015
Scholarly Activities
- Chair, US National Academies Study on the Next Generation Grid, 2013-2016
- Member, US National Academies Study on Enhancing the Robustness of the Nation’s Electric Power Transmission and Distribution (T&D) System, 2016-2018
Conferences Organized or Chaired
- Organizer of National Energy Supergrid Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, November 6-8, 2002
- Member of organizing committee for the National Academy of Engineering 2003 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (JAFOE), Irvine, CA, November 20-22, 2003
- Organizer of SuperGrid II Workshop, Urbana, IL, October 25-27, 2004
- Organizer of Power System Visualization Workshop, Hosted at TVA, Chattanooga, TN, March 28, 2007