Mert Korkali

Assistant Professor

335 Naka Hall

Phone: 573-882-6547

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Biography

Mert Korkali is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri (MU). Before joining MU, he worked as a Research Staff Member at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he served as a principal investigator (PI) and co-PI on several projects on power grid operations and planning, solar-grid integration, and extreme event modeling, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Vermont. His current research interests lie in the broad interface of power system state estimation, electromagnetic transient analysis, cascading failures, uncertainty quantification, and data-driven methods for power system operation, control, and planning. He received the Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). He is the Chair of the IEEE PES Task Force (TF) on Standard Test Cases for Power System State Estimation and the Secretary of the IEEE PES TF on Power System Uncertainty Quantification and Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making. He currently serves as an Editor of the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy and IEEE Power Engineering Letters and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. Dr. Korkali is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Education

PhD from Northeastern University

MS from Northeastern University

BS from Bahçeşehir University

Uncertainty quantification methods for power grid operation, planning, and control applications
Probabilistic risk/reliability assessment under rare events
Network science and its applications to infrastructure networks
Data-driven methods for decision making under uncertainty
Multi-timescale simulation of power grid dynamics
Cascading failures in interdependent critical infrastructure networks
Power grid state estimation
Fault identification and localization in power grids