Cluster Lead:
Center Director & Pegasus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zhihua.Qu@ucf.edu
UCF’s Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems Center, or RISES, works to develop sustainable and resilient energy systems and storage to make sure we have power and stay connected when disasters strike.
This Center, which has grown from it’s original cluster origination, focuses upon holistic analysis, design, development and deployment of distributed renewable energy resources, including advanced information, communication, control and optimization technologies and the economic and management policies that go along with them.
This research helps integrate renewable resources into the power generation mix while generating better power quality and allowing energy customers to make informed and environmentally conscientious decisions.
UCF Colleges Involved with Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (RISES) Center Research:
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Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (RISES) Center Research
Projects
Publications
- “Evaluate the capacity of electricity-driven water facilities in small communities as virtual energy storage”, Qifeng Li, Ph.D., Applied Energy vol. 309: Jan, 2022
- “The cost of utility discretion on residential solar requirements”, Kelly Stevens, Ph.D., Kris Davis, Ph.D., Sara Iman, Ph.D., Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 159, 112231: Feb, 2022
- Smart grid control: An overview and research opportunities, Zhihua Qu, Ph.D., Jakob Stoustrup, Ph.D., Anuradha Annaswamy, Ph.D., Aranya Chakrabortty, Ph.D. Springer: 2022
- “A Unified Grid-Forming and Grid-Following Primary Control Design With Optimized Enforcement of Grid Operational Constraints”, Zhihua Qu, Ph.D., IEEE Access: Jun, 2024
- “Public values failure associated with Hurricane Ian power outages”, Kelly Stevens, Ph.D., Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy: Dec, 2023
- “Multistage Charging Station and Distributed Generator Capacity Expansion in Decentralized Power Distribution and Transportation Systems”, , IEEE Systems Journal: Dec, 2023
- “Bayesian GAN-based False Data Injection Attack Detection in Active Distribution Grids with DERs”, Wei Sun, Ph.D., IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid: Nov, 2023
- “Imperceptible Attacks on Fault Detection and Diagnosis Systems in Smart Buildings”, Qun Zhou Sun, Ph.D., IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics: May, 2024
- “Determinants of the Use of Social Media in Crisis Communication: An Analysis of Microblogging by Chinese Local Government.”, Naim Kapucu, Ph.D., International Journal of Public Administration: Feb, 2024
- Smart Home Energy Management: VAE-GAN synthetic dataset generator and Q-learning, Damla Turgut, Ph.D., : 2024
- “Building community resilience through cross-sector partnerships and interdisciplinary research.”, Yue "Gurt" Ge, Ph.D., Naim Kapucu, Ph.D., Samiul Hasan, Ph.D., Public Administration Review: Jul, 2023
- “Investigation of H2 Plasma Incorporated ALD-TiOx Films as Hole-Selective Passivating Contacts in Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells”, Titel Jurca, Ph.D., Parag Banerjee, Ph.D., Chien-Hsuan Chen, Ph.D.,, S. Novia Berriel, Ph.D.,, Taylor M. Currie, Ph.D.,, Jannatul Ferdous Mousumi, Ph.D.,, Nicholas G. Rudawski, Ph.D., ACS Applied Energy Materials 7, 14, 5879–5892: Jul, 2024
Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (RISES) Center Degree Programs
UCF offers a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a Power and Renewable Energy Track that provides knowledge in power system operation and control, renewable energy integration, machines, microgrid design and operation, power markets and data analytics. For more programs, search UCF programs below.
Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (RISES) Center Faculty
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Kris Davis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering -
Aleksandar Dimitrovski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Chinwendu Enyioha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Yaser Fallah, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Naim Kapucu, Ph.D.
Pegasus Professor of Public Administration -
Like Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering -
Qifeng Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Zhihua Qu, Ph.D.
Thomas J. Riordan and Herbert C. Towle Chair and Pegasus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Yuxun Ren, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering -
Wei Sun, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Damla Turgut, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science -
Azadeh Vosoughi, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Qun Zhou Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering -
Yue “Gurt” Ge, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Public Administration -
Winston Schoenfeld, Ph.D.
Professor of Optics and Photonics -
Qichen Yang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering