Faculty and Staff

Zhixin Miao, PhD, PE

Professor
P.E.

Office: ENB 370

Phone: 813-974-4237

Email

Zhixin Miao

Research Interests

Dr. Miao's research focuses on smart grid power systems and technologies for integrating renewable energy: solar PV and wind grid integration, operation of battery storage systems, direct current grid technologies, power system modeling and stability control, microgrid technology, real-time monitoring/control, data acquisition, protection of power grids, integrating electrical vehicles with power grids, cybersecurity, and more.

Biography

Dr. Miao received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China) in 1992, a master's degree from Nanjing  Automation Research Institute (NARI) in 1997. He completed his PhD in electrical engineering at West Virginia University in 2022. He served as a protection engineer at NARI from 1992 to 1999 and held the position of a transmission planning engineer at Midwest IS from 2002 to 2009. He is currently a professor of EE at USF.

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Teaching

  • Power System Protection
  • Power Electronics
  • Electrical Machines and Drives

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Publications

  • Z. Miao, "Impedance-Model-Based SSR Analysis for Type 3 Wind Generator and Series-Compensated Network," IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 984-991, Dec. 2012.
  • Z. Miao, L. Xu, V. R. Disfani and L. Fan, "An SOC-Based Battery Management System for Microgrids," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 966-973, March 2014.
  • Z. Miao, L. Piyasinghe, J. Khazaei and L. Fan, "Dynamic Phasor-Based Modeling of Unbalanced Radial Distribution Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 3102-3109, Nov. 2015.
  • Z. Miao, "Analysis of coupling dynamics for power systems with iterative discrete decision-making architectures." Electric Power Systems Research 137 (2016): 34-40.
  • Y. Zhou and Z. Miao, "Cyber attacks, detection and protection in smart grid state estimation," 2016 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Denver, CO, USA, 2016, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NAPS.2016.7747874.
  • Z. Miao, L. Fan, H. G. Aghamolki and B. Zeng, "Least Squares Estimation Based SDP Cuts for SOCP Relaxation of AC OPF," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 241-248, Jan. 2018.
  • J. Khazaei and Z. Miao, "Consensus Control for Energy Storage Systems," IEEE trans. Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3009-3017, July 2018.
  • A. Tazay and Z. Miao, "Control of a Three-Phase Hybrid Converter for a PV Charging Station," in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1002-1014, Sept. 2018.
  • Z. Miao and L. Fan, "A Laplace-Domain Circuit Model for Fault and Stability Analysis Considering Unbalanced Topology," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 1787-1790, March 2023.
  • R. Mittal, Z. Miao and L. Fan, "Stability Enhancement for IBRs Operating in Weak Grids Through Proper Coordination and Control," in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, doi: 10.1109/TEC.2024.3357803.

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