Prof. Shadmand will serve as Co-Principle Investigator for development of an RTS and HIL testbed project at the UIC.

Prof. Shadmand (Co-PI) in collaboration with Prof. Mazumder (PI) and 3 other ECE faculties at UIC (Prof. Partin-Vaisband (Co-PI), Prof. Trivedi (Co-PI), Prof. He (Co-PI)) awarded a project to develop “Real-time-simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (RTS-HIL) scalable and flexible software/hardware platform for emerging cyber-physical energy systems”. Such a system enables one to simulate in RT rapidly switching power-electronic systems (PESs) to relatively slower but large-scale power systems thereby supporting Spatio-temporal scalability. Further, it provides a one-stop solution from RT simulation to RT hardware validation thereby enabling a rapid transition from theory to practice and prototyping. At UIC, the proposed RTS and HIL testbed will be widely available to researchers and educators engaged in power electronics, power systems, coordinated and resilient control, cybersecurity, and machine-learning disciplines. This collaborative project is advancing the core area of power to address existing and emerging opportunities.