Students in Professor Young-Jin Kim’s laboratory in POSTECH Electrical Engineering received five Best Oral Awards at the 27th International Council on Electrical Engineering Conference (ICEE), held June 28–July 2, 2022. This was the highest number of awards ever received by a single laboratory.

Jointly organized by electrical engineering institutes from China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea, ICEE has attracted more than 600 participants from academia, industry, and government annually since 1995 and is Asia’s largest power systems conference. This year’s keynote speakers included the IEEE President and the NREL Director.

1. Virtual Battery Modeling of Thermostatically Controlled Loads with Parameter Uncertainties

Field: Demand response. Recipients: Seung-Jun Ham and Young-Jin Kim.

2. Optimal Data-driven Control of Hydrogen Energy Storage Systems for Real-time Grid Frequency Regulation in an Islanded Microgrid

Field: Energy storage systems. Recipients: Kiho Lee and Young-Jin Kim.

3. Optimal Secondary Control for Frequency Regulation of MTDC-linked AC Grids

Field: High-voltage direct-current power transmission systems. Recipients: Junsu Kim and Young-Jin Kim.

4. Reconfigured Photovoltaic Model to Facilitate Maximum Power Point Tracking for Micro and Nano-Grid Systems

Field: Photovoltaic generation. Recipients: J. Prasanth Ram and Young-Jin Kim.

5. Microgrid: A Self-reliable, Open-loop DC Micro-grid System Assisted by Efficient Energy Management System for Remote Area Electrification

Field: Microgrids. Recipients: J. Prasanth Ram and Young-Jin Kim.