Speakers

Dr. Kang is the Department Manager of the Idaho National Laboratory's Power & Energy Systems Department. Her research interests include clean and renewable energy resources grid integration, power systems reliability and resilience, and energy system decarbonization. Ning also serves as the Department of Energy (DOE)'s Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium's Flexible Generation and Load Pillar Lead, one of the six pillars under DOE's Grid Modernization Initiative. Before joining INL, she was a Principal Engineer at the Argonne National Laboratory where she focused on research in transmission and distribution systems (T&D) co-simulation and planning and operations coordination. Ning had six years' industry R&D experience when she was a Senior R&D Engineer at ABB U.S. Corporate Research Center where she focused on innovations for ABB's distribution systems software suite. She is the main creator of an open-source T&D systems co-simulation software (TDcoSim) and holds five U.S patents.