Attendees:

Rafal Wojda (RW), Suman Debnath (SD), Aditya Sundararajan (AS), Jared Baxter (JB), Sudarshan Harave (SH), Doug Lattman (DL), Phani Marthi (PM), Shajjad Chowdhury (SC), Misael Martinez (MM), Pratishtha Shukla (PS)

Minutes:

1. New member introductions: Doug, Pratishtha from CSED
2. Soliciting potential guest lecture areas for Q2-Q4:
   • SC: electric ship propulsion challenges and future directions, AI
     1. SD knows a contact from Purdue on ship port
     2. RW knows a contact from ABB on the same topic
     3. MM has prior experience on medium voltage drives for ship propulsion
   • SD: from EPRI- IBR modeling and black start, transformer modeling, smart agriculture and data centers, and from UTK- hardware testbeds; email chain already shared with the ExCom. Depending on the theme decided, SD will connect the relevant speaker
   • MM: new technologies for power plants using power electronic systems, has a few contacts (senior engineers from Switzerland, a contact from Norway)
   • AS: cybersecurity, power systems resilience with microgrids
   • DL: has extensive experience in cybersecurity and can potentially give a lecture
   • PM: AI/ML applications on power systems and power electronics components, ancillary services in power systems, IBRs- can reach out to potential contacts
   • PS: cybersecurity as it relates to AI and edge computing, energy management and markets for renewable integration (FREEDM center)
   • DL: can reach out to the engineering VPs or CTOs of Fortune 500 companies in the ET region to join the ExCom for better knowledge exchange
3. To create a Google Sheets where members can add recommendations