Yuan Liao, Ph.D.

Blazie Family Professor, Director of PEIK Graduate Certificate, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• Energy Management System
• Intelligent Techniques
• Power Quality Monitoring and Analysis
• Power System Economics and Optimization
• Protective Relaying
• Security

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University

M.S., Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore

M.S., Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiao Tong University (China)

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiao Tong University (China)

Appointments

06/2015-Present: Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky

07/2010-Present: Associate Director for the Graduate Program of Power and Energy Institute of Kentucky, University of Kentucky

07/2009-06/2015: Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky

08/2005-07/2009: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky

03/2005-08/2005: Principal Consulting R&D Engineer, Power Technology Division, ABB Corporate Research Center, Raleigh, NC

08/2000-03/2005: Consulting R&D Engineer, Power Technology Division, ABB Corporate Research Center, Raleigh, NC