Dr. Liuxi Zhang

Manager, Emerging Technology
Commonwealth Edison

With more than ten years experience in power energy field, Dr. Liuxi (Calvin) Zhang is now Key Manager of Emerging Technology at ComEd. His team evaluates emerging technologies and their business models for ComEd Smart Grid initiatives, as well as lead and manage smart grid projects, such as microgrid, distributed energy resources (DERs), smart inverter and energy storage. Before joining ComEd, he was lead of distribution systems analytic team in Nexant, where he leads the research, software development and product management of Smart Grid analytic platforms. His expertise includes modeling and analytics of power transmission and distribution systems with renewable energy, EMS/DMS/DERMS applications such as state estimation, load flow and optimization with renewable energy, as well as PMU applications. Dr. Zhang has led/managed several projects for major Utility companies in US, Europe and Asia. Dr. Zhang is IEEE Senior Member. He is core member of several working groups in IEEE PES Technical Committees. He has been frequently invited as panelist/session chair in major IEEE conferences. Dr. Zhang obtained his Ph.D. from Northeastern University, Boston, MA and his M.S. and B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He is the recipient of 2013 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award in Boston Chapter and 2012 IEEE Student Achievement Award in Boston Chapter.