Ning Zhou, ECE Department, SUNY Binghamton University

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Citation of the following papers can be found at google scholar.

A. Journal Publications:

  1. Zhengwei Shen, Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Yong Tang, Ning Zhou, "An Online Line Switching Methodology with Look-ahead Capability to Alleviate Power System Overloads Based on a Three-Stage Strategy," International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, (Accepted)
  2. Yu Chen, Zekun Yang, Ning Zhou, Aleksey Polunchenko, Yilu Liu, "Data-Driven Online Distributed Disturbance Location for Large Scale Power Grids," IET Smart Grid, (Accepted)
  3. Shahrokh Akhlaghi, Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, “A hybrid approach for estimating dynamic states of synchronous generators,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution. , vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 669-678, Feb. 2019.
  4. Mohammadreza Ghorbaniparvar, Ning Zhou, Xiaohua Li, Daniel Trudnowski, Ruichao Xie, “A forecasting-residual spectrum analysis method for distinguishing forced and natural oscillations,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.10, no. 1, pp. 493-502, Jan. 2019.
  5. Pei Bie, Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Buhan Zhang, Ning Zhou, “Online multi-period power dispatch with renewable uncertainty and storage: a two-parameter homotopy-enhanced methodology,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 6321- 6331, Nov. 2018.
  6. Pei Bie, Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Buhan Zhang, Ning Zhou, “Toward online multi-period power dispatch with AC constraints and renewable energy,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 12, no. 14, pp. 3502-3509, 2018.
  7. Shahrokh Akhlaghi, Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, “A multi-step adaptive interpolation approach to mitigating the impact of nonlinearity on dynamic state estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3102-3111, Jul. 2018.
  8. Mohammadreza Ghorbaniparvar, Ning Zhou,  “A multi-delay self-coherence method for detecting sustained oscillations using PMU data,” Electric Power Construction,  vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 73-80, Sept. 2017, (invited).
  9. Hossein Sangrody, Morteza Sarailoo, Ning Zhou, Shahrokh Akhlaghi, Mandana Rezaeiahari, “Weather forecasting error in solar energy forecasting,” IET Renewable Power Generation, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 1274-1280, Jun. 2017.
  10. Tao Jiang, Hongjie Jia, Haoyu Yuan, Ning Zhou, Fangxing Li, “Project pursuit: a general methodology of wide-area coherency detection in bulk power grid,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 2776-2786, Jul. 2016.
  11. Ning Zhou, “A cross-coherence method for detecting oscillations,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 31, no.1, pp. 623-631, Jan. 2016.
  12. Tao Jiang, Haoyu Yuan, Hongjie Jia, Ning Zhou, Fangxing Li, “Stochastic subspace identification-based approach for tracking inter-area oscillatory modes in bulk power system utilising synchrophasor measurements,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 9, no. 15, pp. 2409-2418, Nov. 2015.
  13. Ning Zhou, Da Meng, Zhenyu Huang, Greg Welch, “Dynamic state estimation of a synchronous machine using PMU data: a comparative study,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 450-460, Jan. 2015.
  14. Ning Zhou, Jeff Daggle, “Initial results in using a self-coherence method for detecting sustained oscillations,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 552-530, Jan. 2015.
  15. Shaobu Wang, Shuai Lu, Ning Zhou,  Guang Lin, Marcelo Elizondo, M.A. Pai,  “Dynamic-feature extraction, attribution and reconstruction (DEAR) approach for power system model reduction,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 29, no.5, pp. 2049-2059, Sept. 2014.
  16. Shaobu Wang, Pengwei Du, Ning Zhou, “Power system transient stability analysis through a homotopy analysis method,” Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 1079-1086, Apr. 2014.
  17. Ning Zhou, Da Meng, Shuai Lu, “Estimation of the dynamic states of synchronous machines using an extended particle filter,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 28, no.4, pp. 4152-4161, Nov. 2013.
  18. Peng Zhang, Ning Zhou, Ali Abdollahi, “A generalized subspace-least mean square method for high-resolution accurate power system oscillation mode estimation,” Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 1205-1212, July 2013.
  19. Luke Dosiek, Ning Zhou, John Pierre, Zhenyu Huang, and Dan Trudnowski, “Mode shape estimation algorithms under ambient conditions: a comparative review,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 779-787, May 2013.
  20. Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, Greg Welch, Jinghe Zhang, “Identifying optimal measurement subspace for ensemble Kalman filter,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 618-620, May 2012.
  21. Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, Daniel Trudnowski, “A stepwise regression method for estimating dominant electromechanical modes,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1051-1059, May 2012.
  22. Gerald Heydt, Vijay Vittal, Sunita Malhara, Yuri Makarov, Ning Zhou, Pavel Etingov, “Characterization and impact of extreme forecast errors on power systems,” Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 39, no. 15, pp. 1685-1700,  Oct. 2011.
  23. John W. Pierre, Ning Zhou, Frack Tuffner, John Hauer, Dan Trudnowski, William Mittelstadt, “Probing signal design for power system identification,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 835-843, May 2010.
  24. Ning Zhou, Dan Trudnowski, John W. Pierre, William A. Mittelstadt, “Electromechanical mode on-line estimation using regularized robust RLS methods,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 1670-1680, Nov. 2008.
  25. Dan Trudnowski, John W. Pierre, Ning Zhou, John Hauer, Manual Prashar “Performance of three mode-meter block-processing algorithms for automated dynamic stability assessment,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 680-690, May 2008.
  26. Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, Dan Trudnowski, Ross Guttromson “Robust RLS methods for on-line estimation of power system electromechanical modes,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 22, no. 3, pp.1240-1249, Aug. 2007.
    (Technical Committee Prize Paper Award from the IEEE/PES Power System Dynamic Performance Committee in 2009)
  27. Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, John Hauer, “Initial results in power system identification from injected probing signals using a subspace method,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,  vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1296-1302, Aug. 2006.
  28. Michael Anderson, Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, Richard Wies, “Bootstrap-based confidence interval estimates for electromechanical modes from multiple output analysis of measured ambient data,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 943-50, May 2005.
  29. Yan Gao, Lihua Dou, Qi Gao, Ning Zhou, “Computer network control system in automatic automobile detection,” Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology (English Edition), vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 406-411, Dec. 2001. (a journal in China)
  30. Ning Zhou, Qi Gao, Yugui Li, Fuyou Zhang, “Primary design strategies for a large security system,” Information and Control, vol. 28, no. 2, pp.152-155, Feb. 1999. (a journal in China)
  31. Ning Zhou, Yugui Li, Ruixia. Fan, “Design and development of an access control system,” China Instrumentation, pp. 4-6, May 1998. (a journal in China)
  32. Ning Zhou, Fuyou Zhang, Qi Gao, Yan Gao, “Application of the distributed structure in a data acquisition system,” Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 397-400, Mar. 1997. (a journal in China)
  33. Jie Chen, Zhihao Gong, Lushen Chen, Ning Zhou, “Application and design of the economical nonlinear controller,” Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 42-47, Jun. 1996. (a journal in China)

B. Conference Papers

  1. Shahrokh Akhlaghi, Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, "A Multi-Model Adaptive Kalman Filtering Approach to Power System Dynamic State Estimation," 2019 IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, Aug. 4-8, 2019. (Best Conference Papers on Power System Modeling, Analysis, and Planning,)
  2. Junbo Zhao, Shaobu Wang, Ning Zhou, Renke Huang, Lamine Mili, Zhenyu Huang, "A New Multi-Scale State Estimation Framework for Next Generation of Power Grid EMS," 2019 IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, Aug. 4-8, 2019.
  3. Alem Fitwi, Yu Chen, and Ning Zhou "An agent-administrator-based security mechanism for distributed sensors and drones for smart grid monitoring", Proc. SPIE 11018, Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXVIII, 110180L (7 May 2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2519006;
  4. Zekun Yang, Ning Chen, Yu Chen and Ning Zhou, “A novel PMU fog based early anomaly detection for an efficient wide area PMU network, ”  2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2018), Washington DC, USA, May 2018.
  5. Hossein Sangrody, Ning Zhou, Salih Tutun, Benyamin Khorramdel, Mahdi Motalleb, and Morteza Sarailoo, “Long-term forecasting using machine learning methods,” Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), 2018 IEEE, pp. 1-5, IEEE, Urbana, IL, USA, Feb. 2018.
  6. Zekun Yang, Mohammadreza Ghorbaniparvar, Ning Zhou, Yu Chen, “Enhancing sustained oscillation detection by data pre-processing using SSA,” North American Power Symposium 2017, Morgantown, WV, USA, September 17-19, 2017.
  7. Shahrokh Akhlaghi, Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, “Adaptive adjustment of noise covariance in Kalman filter for dynamic state estimation,” 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, July 16-20, 2017.
    (Best Conference Paper on Power System Modeling and Analysis).
  8. Xu Zhang, Ning Zhou, Xiaorong Xie, Zhenyu Xu “Performance comparison of three algorithms for estimating oscillation modes using ringdown data,” 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, July 16-20, 2017.
    (Best Conference Papers on Power System Stability, Control, and Protection).
  9. Hossein Sangrody, Ning Zhou, Xingye Qiao, “Probabilistic models for daily peak loads at distribution feeders,” 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, July 16-20, 2017.
  10. Shahrokh Akhlaghi, Ning Zhou, “Adaptive multi-step prediction based EKF to power system dynamic state estimation,” Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) 2017, Urbana, IL, USA, Feb. 23-24, 2017. 
  11. Ning Zhou, Mohammadreza Ghorbaniparvar, Shahrokh Akhlaghi, “Locating sources of forced oscillations using transfer functions,” Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) 2017, Urbana, IL, USA, Feb. 23-24, 2017. 
  12. Mohammadreza Ghorbaniparvar, Ning Zhou, Xiaohua Li,  “Coherence function estimation with a derivative constraint for power grid oscillation detection,” GlobalSIP 2016 -- Symposium on Signal and Information Processing for Optimizing Future Energy System, Washington DC, USA, Dec. 7-9, 2016.
  13. Xiaohua Li, Mohammadreza Ghorbaniparvar, Ning Zhou, “Population dynamic human behavioral models for smart grid demand-side management,” North American Power Symposium 2016, Denver, CO, USA, Sept. 18-20, 2016.
  14. Meng Jia, Ning Zhou, Brett Amidan, “A comparative study on the Prony analysis and the ERA for modal analysis,” 2016 IEEE PES General Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Jul. 2016.
  15. Shahrokh Akhlaghi, Ning Zhou, Eva Wu, “PMU placement for state estimation considering measurement redundancy and controlled islanding,” 2016 IEEE PES General Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Jul. 2016.
  16. Hossein Sangrody, Ning Zhou, “An initial study on load forecasting considering economic factors,” 2016 IEEE PES General Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, Jul. 2016.
  17. Mohammadreza Ghorbaniparvar, Xiaohua Li, Ning Zhou, “Demand-side management with a human behavior model for energy cost optimization in smart grids,” GlobalSIP 2015 -- Symposium on Signal and Information Processing for Optimizing Future Energy System, Orlando, FL, USA, Dec. 14-16, 2015.
  18. Zekun Yang,  Ning Zhou, Aleksey Polunchenko, Yu Chen, “Singular spectrum analysis based quick online detection of disturbance start time in power grid,” 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015), San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 16-10, 2015.
  19. Shahrokh Akhlaghi, Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, “Exploring adaptive interpolation to mitigate non-linear impact on estimating dynamic states,” 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, Jul. 26-30, 2015.
  20. Mohammadreza Ghorbaniparvar, Ning Zhou, “Bootstrap-based hypothesis test for detecting sustained oscillations,” 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, Jul. 26-30, 2015.
  21. Zhenyu Huang, Ning Zhou, Ruisheng Diao, Shaobu Wang, Steve Elbert, Da Meng, and Shuai Lu, “Capturing real-time power system dynamics: opportunities and challenges,” 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, Jul. 26-30, 2015.
  22. Maria Vlachopoulou, Luke Gosink, Trenton Pulsipher, Ryan Hafen, Jeremiah Rounds, Ning Zhou, Jianzhong Tong, “Net interchange schedule forecasting using Bayesian model averaging,” 2015 IEEE PES General Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, Jul. 26-30, 2015.
     (Best Conference Papers on Power System Modeling and Simulation).
  23. Zhenyu Huang, Kevin Schneider, Jarek Nieplocha, Ning Zhou, “Estimating power system dynamic states using extended Kalman filter,” 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting, National Harbor, MD, USA, Jul. 27-31, 2014.
  24. Ning Zhou, John Pierre, Dan Trudnowski, “Some considerations in using Prony analysis to estimate electromechanical modes,” 2013 IEEE PES General Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 21-25, 2013.
    (Best Conference Papers on Network Analysis and Dynamic Performance).
  25. Ning Zhou, “A coherence method for detecting and analyzing oscillations,” 2013 IEEE PES General Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 21-25, 2013.
  26. Da Meng, Ning Zhou, Shuai Lu, Guang Lin, “An expectation-maximization method for calibrating synchronous machine models,” 2013 IEEE PES General Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jul. 21-25, 2013.
  27. Maria Vlachopoulou, Tom Ferryman, Ning Zhou, Jianzhong Tong, “A stepwise regression method for forecasting net interchange schedule,” 2013 IEEE PES General Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jul. 21-25, 2013.
  28. Maria Vlachopoulou, Luke Gosink, Trento C Pulsipher, Tom Ferryman, Ning Zhou, Jianzhong Tong, “An ensemble approach for forecasting net interchange schedule,” 2013 IEEE PES General Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jul. 21-25, 2013.
  29. Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, Yulan Li, Greg Welch, “Local sequential ensemble Kalman filter for simultaneously tracking states and parameters,” 2012 North American Power Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, Sept. 9-11, 2012. 
  30. Zhenyu Huang, Ning Zhou, Yulan Li, Patrick Nichols, Shuangshuang. Jin, Ruisheng. Diao, Yousu Chen, “Dynamic paradigm for future power grid operation,” IFAC 8th PPPSC (Power Plant and Power Systems Control) Symposium, Toulouse, France, Sept. 2-5, 2012.
  31. Steve Elbert, Karanjit Kalsi, Maria Vlachopoulou, Mark Rice, Kurt Glaesemann, Ning Zhou “Advanced computational methods for security constrained financial transmission rights: structure and parallelism,” IFAC 8th PPPSC (Power Plant and Power Systems Control) Symposium, Toulouse, France, Sept. 2-5, 2012.
  32. Da Meng, Ning Zhou, Shuai Lu, Guang Lin, “Estimate the electromechanical states using particle filtering and smoothing,” 2012 IEEE PES General Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, Jul. 22-26, 2012.
  33. Tom Ferryman, David Haglin, Maria Vlachopoulou, Jian Yin, Chao Shen, Ning Zhou, Guang Lin, Frank Tuffner, Jianzhong. Tong, “Net interchange schedule forecasting of electric power exchange for RTO/ISOs,” 2012 IEEE PES General Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, Jul. 22-26, 2012.
  34. Karanjit Kalsi, Steve Elbert, Maria Vlachopoulou, Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, “Advanced computational methods for security constrained financial transmission rights,” 2012 IEEE PES General Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, Jul. 22-26, 2012.
  35. Shaobu Wang, Shuai Lu, Guang Lin, Ning Zhou, “Measurement-based coherency identification and aggregation for power systems,” 2012 IEEE PES General Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, Jul. 22-26, 2012.
  36. John W. Pierre, Dan Trudnowski, Matt Donnelly, Ning Zhou, Frank K. Tuffner, Luke Dosiek, “Overview of system identification for power systems from measured responses,” 16th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, SYSID 2012, vol. 16, no.1, Brussels, Belgium, Jul. 11-13, 2012.
  37. Yulan Li, Zhenyu Huang, Ning Zhou, Barry Lee, Ruisheng Diao, Pengwei Du, “Application of ensemble Kalman filter in power system state tracking and sensitivity analysis,” 2012 IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, Orlando, FL, USA, May 7-10, 2012.
  38. Ning Zhou, Shuai Lu, Ruchi Singh, Marcelo Elizondo, “Calibration of reduced dynamic models of power systems using phasor measurement unit (PMU) data,” 2011North American Power Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, Aug. 4-6, 2011.
  39. Jim Follum, Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, “Evaluation of mode estimation accuracy for small-signal stability analysis,” 2011 North American Power Symposium, Boston, MA, USA, Aug. 4-6, 2011.
  40. Yousu Chen, Zhenyu Huang, Ning Zhou, “An advanced framework for improving situational awareness in electric power grid operation,” 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, Aug. 28 - Sept. 2, 2011. (Invited paper)
  41. Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, Frank Tuffner, Dan Trudnowski, William Mittelstadt, “A modified stepwise linear regression method for estimating modal sensitivity,” 2011 IEEE PES General Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, USA, Jul. 24-29, 2011.
  42. Marcelo A. Elizondo, Shuai Lu, Ning Zhou, Nader Samaan, “Model reduction, validation, and calibration of wind power plants for dynamic studies,” 2011 IEEE PES General Meeting, Detroit, MI, USA, Jul. 24-29, 2011.
  43. Yousu Chen, Jason Fuller, Ruisheng Diao, Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, Frank Tuffner, “The influence of topology changes on inter-area oscillation modes and mode shapes,” 2011 IEEE PES General Meeting, Detroit, MI, USA, Jul. 24-29, 2011.
  44. Tom Ferryman, Frank Tuffner, Ning Zhou, Guang Lin,  “Initial study on the predictability of real power on the grid based on PMU Data,” 2011 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exposition, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Mar. 20 - 23, 2011.
  45. Guang Lin, Ning Zhou, Tom Ferryman, Frank Tuffner, “Uncertainty quantification in state estimation using the probabilistic collocation method, ” 2011 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exposition, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Mar. 20 - 23, 2011.
  46. Pengwei Du, Yuri Makarov, Ning Zhou, Pavel Etingov, “Application of virtual energy storage to partially mitigate unscheduled interchange caused by wind power,” 2011 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exposition, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Mar. 20 - 23, 2011.
  47. Ruisheng Diao, Zhenyu Huang, Ning Zhou, Yousu Chen, Frank Tuffner, Jason Fuller, Shuangshuang Jin, Jeff Dagle, “Deriving optimal operational rules for mitigating inter-area oscillations,” 2011 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference & Exposition, Phoenix, AZ, USA, Mar. 20 - 23, 2011.
  48. Zhenyu Huang, Ning Zhou, Frank Tuffner, Dan Trudnowski, “Use of modal sensitivity to operating conditions for damping control in power systems,” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 44), Kauai, HI, USA, Jan 4-7, 2011. (Invited Paper)
  49. Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, Frank Tuffner, John W. Pierre, Shuangshuang Jin, “Automatic implementation of Prony analysis for electromechanical mode identification from phasor measurements,” 2010 IEEE PES General Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Jul. 25-29, 2010.
  50. Zhenyu Huang, Ning Zhou, Frank Tuffner, Yu Chen, Dan Trudnowski, William Mittelstadt, John Hauer, Jeff Dagle, “Improving small signal stability through operating point adjustment,” 2010 IEEE PES General Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Jul. 25-29, 2010.
  51. Pavel Etingov, Ning Zhou, Yuri V. Makarov, Jian Ma, Ross Guttromson, Bartholomew McManus, and Clyde Loutan, “On possible improvements of the ACE diversity interchange methodology,” 2010 IEEE PES General Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, July 25-29, 2010.
  52. Jian Ma, Ruisheng Diao, Yuri Makarov, Pavel Etingov, Ning Zhou, Jeff Dagle, “Building decision trees for characteristic ellipsoid method to monitor power system transient behaviors,” 2010 IEEE PES General Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, July 25-29, 2010.
  53. Ning Zhou, Pavel Etingov, Yuri Makarov, Ross Guttromson, Bartholomew McManus, “Improving area control error diversity interchange (ADI) program by incorporating congestion constraints,” 2010 IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, LA, USA, Apr. 19-22, 2010.
  54. Shuai Lu, Ning Zhou, Nirupama Kumar, Nader Samaan, Bhujanga Chakrabarti, “Improved DC power flow method based on empirical knowledge of the system,”  2010 IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, LA, USA, Apr. 19-22, 2010.
  55. Frank Tuffner, Zhenyu Huang, Ning Zhou, Ross Guttromson, Avnaesh Jayantilal, “Initial studies on actionable control for improving small signal stability in interconnected power systems,” 2010 IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, LA, USA, Apr. 19-22, 2010.
  56. Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, Luke Dosiek, Dan Trudnowski, John W. Pierre, “Electromechanical mode shape estimation based on transfer function identification using PMU measurements,” 2009 IEEE PES General Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 26-30, 2009. (Invited Panel Paper)
  57. Luke Dosiek, John W. Pierre, Dan Trudnowski, Ning Zhou, “A channel matching approach for estimating electromechanical mode shape and coherence,” 2009 IEEE PES General Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 26-30, 2009.
  58. Ning Zhou, Dan Trudnowski, John W. Pierre, “Mode initialization for on-line estimation of power system electromechanical modes,” 2009 IEEE Power System Conference and Exposition (PSCE), Seattle, WA, USA, Mar. 15-18, 2009.
  59. Ning Zhou, Dan Trudnowski, John W. Pierre, Sanjory Sarawgi, Navin Bhatt “An algorithm for removing trends from power system oscillation data,” 2008 IEEE PES General Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Jul. 20-24, 2008.
  60. Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, “Time limited perturbation waveform generation by an extended time-frequency domain swapping algorithm,” 51st IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Knoxville, TN, USA, pp. 149-152, Aug. 2008.
  61. Yuri Makarov, Jian Ma, Ning Zhou, C. Miller, T. Nguen, and E. De Tuglie, “A new CELL method to monitor power system dynamics,” in Proceedings of the 6th Mediterranean Conference and Exhibition on Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion (Medpower08), Thessaloniki, Greece, Nov. 2-5, 2008.
  62.  Y. V. Makarov, J. Ma, Ning Zhou, Carl Miller, Tony Nyguen, and De Tuglie, “A CELL Method based on PMU Measurements for Power System Dynamic Monitoring,” in Proceedings of 2008 International World Energy System Conference, Iasi, Romania, June 30 - July 2, 2008.
  63. Don Hammerstrom, Ning Zhou, Ning Lu, “Controller design of power quality-improving appliances,” 38th IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, pp. 1164-1169, June 17-21, 2007.
  64. Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, Dan Trudnowski, “A bootstrap method for statistical power system mode estimation and probing signal selection,” Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society General meeting, Montreal, Canada, June, 2006. Also, presented in 2006 IEEE PES Power System Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 172-178, Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, 2006. (Invited Paper)
  65. Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, “Waveform generation of time-limited pseudo-random signals,” 12th Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Jackson Lake Lodge, WY, USA, pp. 197-202, Sept. 24-27, 2006.
  66. Ning Zhou, Zhenyu Huang, Jarek Nieplocha, Tony Nguyen, “Wide-area situational awareness of power grids with limited phasor measurements,” Third International Conference on Critical Infrastructures, Alexandria, VA, USA, issue 3, pp. 8-15, Sept. 2006.
  67. Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, “Estimation of autoregressive parameters by the constrained total least Square algorithm using a bootstrap method,” 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), vol. 4, pp. 417-20, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Mar. 2005.
  68. Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, “Electromechanical mode estimation of power systems from injected probing signals using a subspace method,” 36th North American Power Symposium, Moscow, ID, USA, pp. 82-86, Aug. 2004.
  69. Ning Zhou, John W. Pierre, Richard Wies, “Estimation of low-frequency electromechanical modes of power systems from ambient measurements using a subspace method,” 35th North American Power Symposium, Rolla, MI, USA, pp. 599-604, Oct. 2003.
  70. Ning Zhou, Lushen Chen, Fuyou. Zhang, Guangrong Liu, “Three methods for microscopic image analysis,” 1st Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Automation in China, Beijing, China, Aug. 1995.