Power Chair Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
As the Power Chair Professor in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University, Dr. Srivastava leads power and energy systems research and teaching. With over 20 years of experience as a scientist, educator, researcher, and leader, he brings a strong background in academic leadership, power grid operation and control, electric power grid resilience against cyber and weather events, renewable energy integration, microgrids, physics-aware machine learning, synchrophasor applications, data-driven and AI analytics for the power grid, and integrated cyber-power-human analysis.
Dr. Srivastava holds a joint appointment as a Senior Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he works on projects leveraging computational methods to address complex scientific and societal challenges. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Washington State University, mentoring graduate students in electric power engineering. Previously, Dr. Srivastava held international visiting positions at institutions such as Réseau de Transport d'Électricité in France, RWTH Aachen University in Germany, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India, and the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. He has also worked at PEAK Reliability Coordinator, Idaho National Laboratory, PJM Interconnection, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), GE Grid Solutions, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mississippi State University.
Notably, he served as Technical Lead and Lead Co-I of the $30M UI-ASSIST Center, driving advancements in renewable energy integration and decarbonization. His high-impact projects have resulted in tools installed at utility control centers and have been supported by more than $66M in funding from agencies and organizations such as the US Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, US Department of Education, Siemens Corporate Research, the Electric Power Research Institute, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, the Power Systems Engineering Research Center, the Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and several national laboratories.
He serves as Vice Chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Energy Development and Power Generation Committee, Co-Chair of the IEEE PES Microgrid Working Group, Chair of the PES Voltage Stability Working Group, Co-Chair of the Distributed Optimization Applications in the Power Grid Working Group, and Co-Chair of the Tools for Power Grid Resilience Task Force. He is Past Chair of the IEEE PES PEEC Committee, the PES Synchrophasor Applications Working Group, and the Bulk Power System Operations Subcommittee, as well as a member of CIGRE working groups related to voltage stability, resilience, AI, and wide area monitoring.
Dr. Srivastava has also contributed significantly as an editor for esteemed journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and Elsevier Sustainable Computing. He holds the distinction of being an IEEE Fellow, an IEEE PES and IAS Distinguished Lecturer, an SGSMA Distinguished Lecturer, and a Fellow of the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences (IAAIS). He has co-authored more than 450 technical publications, 4 books, and 3 patents, with more than 14,400 citations. His extensive experience includes delivering more than 90 keynotes, tutorials, and IEEE distinguished lectures in over 20 countries. He has visited all 50 US states and more than 83 countries.
Dr. Srivastava has supervised or co-supervised 63 graduate theses (28 Ph.D. and 35 M.S. students) and mentored more than 20 postdoctoral fellows and more than 45 undergraduate researchers. He is the recipient of the IEEE PES Pete Sauer Educator Award in 2025 and multiple best paper awards from IEEE and IET. He also serves/served on the IEEE IAS Fellow Evaluation Committee, the IEEE PES Fellow Nomination Committee, the Research Strategic Planning Committee (RSPC) in the WVU Research Office, and the AI Technical Advisory Committee (AI-TAC) for the West Virginia Department of Education.
Dr. Srivastava served as Conference Chair of the International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics 2024 (SGSMA 2024), Co-Chair of a series of workshops on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems at CPSWeek, Co-Chair of the Symposium on Communications and Networking at IEEE SmartGridComm 2026, Co-Chair of a series of workshops on Digital Twins for the Smart Grid at IEEE SmartGridComm (2025 and 2026), and Co-Organizer and Co-Chair of the Workshop and Joint Technical Meeting on Natural Disaster Mitigation and Grid Resilience at the IEEE PES General Meeting in 2025. Additionally, he has held key roles such as Technical Co-Chair of IEEE SmartGridComm 2021, organizing committee member of the NSF sponsored workshop "Forging Connections between Machine Learning, Data Science, and Power Systems Research" in 2020, Chair of the NSF sponsored workshop "Data Analytics for Power Grid Resiliency" in 2018, Chair of the North American Power Symposium in 2014, and Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Testing and Validation of Synchrophasor Devices and Applications in 2012.
He is frequently contacted by media outlets for his expertise, including CBS News, NPR, the BBC, and the Associated Press. His mission is to promote innovative solutions and to develop leaders in academia and research. Dr. Srivastava values collaboration, creativity, and integrity.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2005.