Name: NGUYEN Hung Dinh

Email: hunghtd@ntu.edu.sg

Phone: (65)67904509

About me

Assistant Professor, School of EEE, NTU
Cluster Director of Power Systems, ERIAN

Employment History
  • Jan 2019 – Dec 2020:  Cluster Director of Power Systems, ERIAN
  • Feb 2018 – Jan 2019:  Assistant Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, NTU.
  • Mar 2018 – Jul 2018:  Visiting Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
  • Oct 2017 – Nov 2017:  Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
  • Jan 2013 – Jul 2013:  Instrument and System Engineer, Daelim Corporation, Seoul, South Korea.
Academic Qualifications
  • 2013-2017 - PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
  • 2010-2012 - MS, Seoul National University, South Korea.
  • 2004-2009 - BS, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam.
Research Interests

Health Magament System; Digital Twin; Online Optimization and Controls; Power Distribution Operation; Resilience of critical infrastructure; Electric vehicles; Electric power system analysis, optimization, operation, and control; Security and stability assessment; Renewables integration

10 Most Important Publications
  1. Hung Dinh Nguyen; Krishnamurthy Dvijotham; Suhyoun Yu; Konstantin Turitsyn, “A Framework for Robust Long-Term Voltage Stability of Distribution Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2018.2869032.
  2. Hung Dinh Nguyen; Krishnamurthy Dvijotham; Konstantin Turitsyn. “Constructing Convex Inner Approximations of Steady-State Security Regions”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2868752.
  3. P Pareek, K Turitsyn, K Dvijotham, HD Nguyen, “A Sufficient Condition for Small-Signal Stability and Construction of Robust Stability Region”, IEEE PESGM, 2019, accepted.
  4. Nguyen HD; Vu TL; Turitsyn K; Slotine JJ. “Contraction and Robustness of Continuous Time Primal-Dual Dynamics”, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2(4), 0, 2018.
  5. D. Krishnamurthy; H. Nguyen and K. Turitsyn. “Solvability regions of affinely parameterized quadratic equations”, IEEE Control Systems Letters 2.1 , 25– 30, 2018.
  6. T. L. Vu; H. D. Nguyen; A. Megretski; J. J. Slotine and K. Turitsyn, “Inverse Stability Problem and Applications to Renewables Integration”. IEEE Control Systems Letters 2.1, 133 – 138, 2018.
  7. 1. Zheng Zhang, Hung Dinh Nguyen, Konstantin Turitsyn and Luca Daniel, “Probabilistic Power Flow Computation via Low-Rank and Sparse Tensor Recovery”, arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02489.
  8. Hung Dinh Nguyen, Long Vu, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Konstantin Turitsyn, “Contraction Analysis for Differential Algebraic Equation Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 3rd revision, arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07421
  9. H. D. Nguyen and K. Turitsyn, "Robust Stability Assessment in the Presence of Load Dynamics Uncertainty," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 1579-1594, March 2016
  10. S. Yu, H. D. Nguyen and K. S. Turitsyn, "Simple certificate of solvability of power flow equations for distribution systems," 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Denver, CO, 2015, pp. 1-5.
Other Publications
  1. Dongchan Lee, Hung D Nguyen, Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, Konstantin Turitsyn, “Convex Restriction of Power Flow Feasibility Set”, TCNS, 2nd revision, 2018, arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.00818
  2. D. Mehta, H. D. Nguyen and K. Turitsyn, "Numerical polynomial homotopy continuation method to locate all the power flow solutions," in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 2972-2980, 9 2 2016.
  3. H. D. Nguyen and K. Turitsyn, "Voltage Multistability and Pulse Emergency Control for Distribution System With Power Flow Reversal," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 2985-2996, Nov. 2015.
  4. Hung Nguyen Dinh, Minh Y Nguyen, Yong Tae Yoon, “A new approach for corrective and preventive control to unsolvable case in power networks having DERs,” Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 411-420, May 2013
  5. Hung Nguyen Dinh, Yong Tae Yoon, “Novel Techniques for Real Time Computing Critical Clearing Time SIME-B and CCS-B,” Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Vol. 8, No. 2: 197-205, 2013
  6. Minh Y Nguyen, Hung Nguyen Dinh, Yong Tae Yoon,“A New Battery Approach toWind Generation System in Frequency Control Market,” Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 4, pp.667-674, 2013
  7. Nguyen Minh Y., Hung Dinh Nguyen, Yong Tae Yoon. "A new battery energy storage charging/discharging scheme for wind power producers in real-time markets." Energies, 5.12 (2012): 5439-5452.
  8. H. D. Nguyen and K. S. Turitsyn, “Voltage Multistability and Pulse Emergency Control for Distribution System with Power Flow Reversal”, IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, Hanoi, 2016
  9. Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, Konstantin Turitsyn, Suhyoun Yu and Hung Nguyen, “Construction of inner feasible approximations for AC power flow”, INFORMS Computing Society (ICS), Austin, TX, 2017.
  10. H. D. Nguyen and K. S. Turitsyn, "Appearance of multiple stable load flow solutions under power flow reversal conditions," 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting / Conference & Exposition, National Harbor, MD, 2014, pp. 1-5.
  11. H. N. Dinh and Y. T. Yoon, "A novel method for solving the divergence of power flow and controlling voltage in integrated distributed generators network," 2012 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2012, pp. 1-5.
  12. Nguyen Dinh Hung, Yoon Yong Tae, “Sphere of Influence for localizing the network,” KIEE Summer Conference, Korea, 2012
  13. Nguyen Dinh Hung, Nguyen Minh Y, Nguyen Van Thang, Kim Tae Won, Kim Kern Jong, Yoon Yong Tae, “Load flow and voltage control problem for integrated DGs network”, KIEE Summer Conference, Korea, 2011
  14. Nguyen Dinh Hung, Yoon Yong Tae, “Two Novel Methods for Real Time Determining Critical Clearing Time SIME-B and CCS-B Based on Clustering Identification,” ISMS, 3rd Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modeling and Simulation, Malaysia, 2012
  15. Nguyen Dinh Hung, Kim Tae Won, Kim Kern Jong, Yoon Yong Tae , “Vibration absorber for measurement devices in SCADA systems,” KIEE Fall Conference, Korea, 2011
Professional Awards
  • 2019    MOE, Stochastic Optimization and Functional Learning Algorithm for Optimal Energy Storage Sizing (PI, amount: $85,000)
  • 2019    RR@NTU Corp Lab, Power System Health Management (SHM) (Co-PI, amount: $769,929)
  • 2019    ERIAN, DERMS: Distributed Energy Resource Management System (Co-PI, amount: TBA)
  • 2018    NTU SUG, Enhancing the Resilience of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures (PI, amount: S$300,000)
  • 2017    Siebel Scholars
Current Post-doctorates and PhD students
  • Zhai Chao    Post-doctorate (SUG, M6 Chair account)
  • Yang Liu     Post-doctorate (SUG, M6 Chair account)
  • Weng Yu    PhD student (SUG, RSS)
  • Pareek Parikshit    PhD student (SUG, RSS)
  • Logesh Kumar    PhD student (RR@NTU)