MICHAEL ANGELO A. PEDRASA

Position: Professor
Laboratory Affiliation: Power Electronics Laboratory
Room: 426 and 220
Telephone Number: +63-2-9818500 loc 3340 and 3301
Email: michael.pedrasa@eee.upd.edu.ph
Research Interests: Power Systems; Renewable Energy; Power Electronics
Educational Background:
PhD Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, 2011
Administrative Positions:
  • Director, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (July 2019 – present)
  • Program Coordinator, Energy Engineering Graduate Program (August 2015 – July 2019)
  • Member, UP College of Engineering Executive Board, (August 2015 – present)
  • Member, UP COE Graduate Program Committee (March 2018 – present)
  • Track Head for Energy, Engineering Research and Development for Technology (ERDT) Consortium, (August 2015 – present)
  • Member, UP COE College Academic Personnel Committee (August 2015-present)
  • Member, UP COE Library Committee (August 2018-present)
  • Deputy Director for Academic Programs, EEE Institute (June 2013 – March 2015)
  • EEEI Admission Committee (June 2013 – March 2015)
  • Lab Head, Smart Grid Research Center, EEEI (August 2014 – present)
Research Grants:
  • Program Leader, “IIID 2015-10: Resilient Electricity Grids,” and Project Leader, “Resilient Electricity Grids through Data Analytics for Diagnostics and Intervention,” Philippines California Advanced Research Institute – Commission on Higher Education (PCARI-CHED), June 2016 – present
  • Project Leader, “Voltage Control of Distribution Networks with High Penetration of Distributed Generation,” UP Diliman OVCRD Outright Research Grant, July 2015 – present
  • Project Staff, “IIID 54: Resilient Cyber-Physical Societal Scale Systems,” Philippines California Advanced Research Institute – Commission on Higher Education (PCARI-CHED), March 2015 – present
  • Program Leader, “Smart Grid Technology for Filipino Households,” DOST-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD), Jul 2013 – present
  • Project Leader, “Design and Implementation of a Power Distribution System for Data Centers,” DOST-PCIEERD, Jan 2013 – Mar 2014
  • Project Leader, “Comparison of Heuristic Optim ization Methods with Applications to Electric Power Systems,” UP Diliman OVCRD Ph.D. Incentive Awards, Oct 2011 – Sept 2012
  • Assistant Project Leader, “Establishment of a Cooperative Research and Development Network for Robotics”, DOST-Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology Research and Development, Oct 1999 – Oct 2000
Contracted Services:
  • Task Leader, “Philippine Long-Range Energy Alternatives Planning (PH LEAP Model),” US Agency for International Development through Abt Associates, January – September 2013.
  • Consultant, “Enabling Climate Change Responses in Asia and the Pacific – Strengthening Planning Capacity for Low Carbon Growth in Developing Asia (Subproject 4) – National Transport-Energy Sector Specialist (44158-092), Asian Development Bank, October 2014-October 2015.
International Award:
  • Finalist, Basil Papadias Award for Best Student Paper, IEEE Bucharest PowerTech Conference, 2009. Paper Title: “Improved energy service provision through the intelligent control of distributed energy resources,”
Publication Reviewer:
  • Invited article reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, May 2015
  • Invited article reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, March 2014
  • Invited article reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, April 2013
  • Invited article reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, March 2013
  • Invited article reviewer, European Transactions on Electrical Power, April 2012
  • Invited article reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, May 2011
  • Invited article reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, April 2011
  • Invited article reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, September 2010
  • Invited article reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, May 2010.
Professional Society Memberships:
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • IEEE Power and Energy Society
  • Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers in the Philippines
Extension Services:
  • Chair, AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference on Energy Engineering (RCEneE 2018) – 15th Engineering Research and Development for Technology (ERDT) Conference, Manila, Philippines, 27-18 September 2018
  • Member, Ad-Hoc Hearing Committee, Office of Anti-Sexual Harassment, UP Diliman, 2016-18
  • University Representative, Student Disciplinary Committee, UP Diliman, 2015
  • Member, Ad-Hoc Hearing Committee, Student Disciplinary Council, UP Diliman, 2015
  • Faculty Adviser, Engineers Without Borders, College of Engineering, UP Diliman, 2015
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Region 10 Conference, Cebu City, Philippines, November 19-22 2012
  • Lecturer, Competency Training and Certification Program in Electric Power Distribution System Engineering: Power System Modeling and Analysis, University of the Philippines National Engineering Center (UP-NEC), 2011 – present
  • Lecturer, Competency Training and Certification Program in Electric Power Distribution System Engineering: Distribution System Planning. UP-NEC, 2011 – 2015
Recent Publication/s:
Michael Angelo Pedrasa, Ted Spooner and Iain MacGill, “A novel energy service model and optimal scheduling algorithm for residential distributed energy resources,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 2155 – 2163, December 2011.
Michael Angelo Pedrasa, Ted Spooner and Iain MacGill, “Coordinated scheduling of residential distributed energy resources to optimize ‘smart’ home energy services,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 134 – 143, Sept. 2010.
Michael Angelo Pedrasa, Ted Spooner and Iain MacGill, “Scheduling of demand side resources using binary particle swarm optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1173 – 1181, Aug. 2009.
Michael Angelo A. Pedrasa, “A path-planning algorithm for Soccer-Playing Robots Based on Repeated Modification of Bezier Polynomials,” Philippine Engineering Journal, vol. xxxvi, no. 1, Jun 2006, pp. 1-20.

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