Weiqian received his B.E. and M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA. His research interests include modeling and control on control and implementation of grid-forming inverters, grid-tied inverters,  and machine emulation control.

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Pranav completed his B.Tech and M.S degrees in Electrical engineering from SRM Institute of Science and Technology in 2019 and University of Washington, Seattle in 2021 respectively. His research interests include electric drives, wave energy converters, design of power electronic converters, classical control, and robust control design. He is currently pursuing his PhD in power electronics and drives at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Debjyoti received his B.Tech and M.S degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli, India in 2020 and The University of Texas in Austin in 2022 respectively. His Master’s thesis was on short-circuit behavior and voltage balancing ability of Grid-forming inverters in islanded microgrids. His research interests include grid-forming inverter modeling and control, and power electronic interfaces for renewable integration.

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Soham obtained his B.E and M.E degrees, respectively, from Jadavpur University, India in 2015 and the Indian Institute of Science in 2017, both in Electrical Engineering. His Master’s thesis was on the emulation of AC transmission lines using back-to-back power electronic converters. His research interests include design and control of medium voltage cascaded dc-ac converters for ultra-fast Electric Vehicle charging stations.

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Cuauhtémoc received his B.S. in electrical engineering from The University of Pittsburgh in 2022 and his M.S. Degree, in electrical and computer engineering, from The University of Texas at Austin in 2024. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. Degree, also in electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include kinetic energy storage systems, power electronics, and optimal control.

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Ajinkya received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2021 and his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering Pune, India, in 2019. He is currently working towards a PhD in the Power Electronics and Systems Group at UT-Austin. Ajinkya has, in the past, interned with Texas Instruments Inc. and later worked as a Hardware Design Engineer with Apple Inc. His research interests include system-level Power Electronics, its controls, and Power Management Integrated Circuits.

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Kamakshi received her B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from V.J.T.I, Mumbai, in 2020 and joined The University of Texas at Austin to pursue her MS-PhD in 2021. During her Masters, she interned for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado, to formulate Deep Learning based black-box models for Inverter based resources. Her current research interests include Modeling of Inverter Based Resources, Optimization, and Controls in Low Inertia Power Systems.

Jakob received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2024. He is currently pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include power systems, grid-forming inverters, and control of power electronics.

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