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Sonja Glavaski and Kevin Schneider, both electrical engineers at PNNL, have been named as IEEE fellows. IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

Glavaski is recognized for leadership in energy systems. Schneider is recognized for contributions to the development of open-access tools for distribution system analysis.

Glavaski is the chief energy digitalization scientist and principal technology strategy advisor for the Energy & Environment Directorate at PNNL. She is responsible for understanding large, national, and global trends in the integration of information technologies and energy infrastructure and leveraging those trends to advance U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) missions. Her focus areas are advanced control, high-performance computing, and machine learning, as they relate to energy challenges.

Prior to joining PNNL, Glavaski established and managed DOE’s pioneering ARPA-E NODES program to develop technologies that cost-effectively and reliably manage dynamic changes in the grid by leveraging flexible loads and distributed energy resources.

Glavaski is a member of multiple IEEE societies and committees. She received her doctorate and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and a diploma of engineering and master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade.

Schneider, who came to PNNL in 2006, is a chief engineer, a part of the Laboratory’s electricity infrastructure team and the principal investigator for PNNL’s resilient distribution and microgrid analysis. His main areas of research are distribution system analysis and power system operations.

He has conducted numerous studies for DOE and utilities to help develop analysis capabilities to evaluate microgrids, support solar integration, and monitor multiple areas of electricity distribution. Schneider is an adjunct professor at Washington State University, as part of the PNNL-WSU Advanced Grid Institute, and an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington. He is based in PNNL’s Seattle office.

Schneider is a past chair of IEEE’s Power & Energy Society’s Distribution System Analysis Sub-Committee and the current chair of the Analytic Methods for Power Systems Committee. Schneider received his bachelor’s degree in physics and his master’s degree and doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Washington.

About IEEE

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