Hugo Villegas Pico

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Harpole-Pentair Assistant Professor

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2520 Osborn Dr
Ames, IA 500111046

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Coover 1124

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Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2016
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2011
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas – ESPE, 2008

Awards and Recognitions

  • Star Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 2017–2018
  • Prize paper award, IEEE Power & Energy Society, 2015
  • Best paper award, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 2013–2014
  • Fulbright Scholarship, 2009–2011

Publications

  • L. E. Guillén Montenegro and H. N. Villegas Pico, “Ac-heating and fast-charging power requirements of EV battery packs in subzero temperature,” IEEE Trans. Transport. Electrific., accepted for publication
  • H. P. Dang and H. N. Villegas Pico, “Blackstart and fault-ride through capability of DFIG-based wind turbines,” IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, accepted for publication
  • S. Roy and H. N. Villegas Pico, “Transient stability and active protection of power systems with grid-forming PV power plants,” IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 897–911, Jan. 2023
  • H. N. Villegas Pico and Vahan Gevorgian, “Blackstart capability and survivability of wind turbines with fully rated converters,” IEEE Trans. Energy Convers., vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 2482–2497, Dec. 2022
  • J. M. Miller, H. N. Villegas Pico, I. Dobson, A. Bernstein, and B. Cui, “Feedback control approaches for restoration of power grids from blackouts,” Electric Power Syst. Res., vol. 211, no. 108414, Oct. 2022
  • H. N. Villegas Pico and Brian B. Johnson,“Transient stability assessment of multi-machine multi-converter power systems,” IEEE Trans. Power Syst., vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 3504–3514, Sep. 2019
  • H. N. Villegas Pico and D. C. Aliprantis, “Reachability analysis of linear dynamic systems with constant, arbitrary, and Lipschitz continuous inputs,” Automatica, vol. 95, pp. 293–305, Sep. 2018
  • H. N. Villegas Pico and D. C. Aliprantis, “Voltage ride-through capability verification of DFIG-based wind turbines using reachability analysis,” IEEE Trans. Energy Convers., vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 1387–1398, Dec. 2016

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