John W. Simpson-Porco

John W. Simpson-Porco 

John W. Simpson-Porco, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Systems Control Group
University of Toronto

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Control Systems Group
University of Waterloo

Email: jwsimpson [at] ece [dot] utoronto [dot] ca
Tel: +1 416-978-5185
Office: GB 340

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Research Interests

  1. Analysis and design of feedback control systems

    1. nonlinear control

    2. distributed control systems

    3. optimization-based control

  2. Control, monitoring and optimization for smart grids

    1. bulk power systems analysis, control and optimization

    2. ac, dc, and hybrid microgrids

    3. active distribution systems

Recent News

Recent Papers

Integral Control Article Microgrid Article
Low-Gain Integral Control IEEE TAC , 2020 (pdf), (bib) Microgrid Stability, IEEE TPWRS, 2020 (pdf), (bib)

Fixed Point Power Flow Article Optimal Steady-State Control
Theory of Power Flow IEEE TCONS, 2017 (Part 1,Part 2), (bib1, bib2) Optimal Steady-State Control, IEEE TAC, 2021 (pdf), (bib)

Older News

Older Travel

  • May 2023: Presentation at 9th Meeting on System and Control Theory, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

  • December 2022: Presentation at IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico.

  • November 2022: Invited talk at workshop on polynomial optimization at CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  • November 2022: Invited talk at TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands.

  • September 2022: Invited talk at Allerton Conference, Monticello, IL, USA.

  • June 2020: Canadian Operations Research Conference in Toronto, ON, Canada.

  • February 2020: CCDC Invited Seminar, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.

  • February 2020: ECE Invited Seminar, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA.

  • November 2019: Keynote talk at Energy Open workshop at J. C. Willems Center, Groningen, Netherlands.

  • June 2019: Tutorial session on distributed power system control at ECC, Naples, Italy.

  • May 2019: Invited talk at Issac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.

  • April 2019: Invited talk at NREL's Innovative Optimization and Control Methods for Highly Distributed Autonomous Systems Workshop, Golden, CO, USA.

  • April 2019: Invited talk at Michigan Power and Energy Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

  • March 2019: Invited talk at Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, John's Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, USA.

  • February 2019: Future Electric Power Systems and the Energy Transition, Champerey, Switzerland.

  • December 2018: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control In Miami Beach, FL, USA.

  • November 2018: INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, USA.

  • August 2018: PES General Meeting in Portland, OR, USA.

  • July 2018: American Control Conference in Milwaukee, WI, USA.

  • June 2018: Biennial Conference on Systems and Control, Toronto, ON, Canada.

  • March 2018: Visit to Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

  • April 2017: Seminar at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.

  • March 2017: Seminar at Control Strategies and Hardware Topologies for the Operation of Energy Storage System in Microgrids Workshop, Santiago, Chile.

  • January 2017: CCDC Seminar at UC Santa Barbara on January 20th (Slides).

  • January 2017: LANL Grid Science Conference in Santa Fe, NM.

  • December 2016: Presentations at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control In Las Vegas, NV (Slides)..

  • September 2016: Invited paper at Allerton in Monticello, IL.

  • July 2016: American Control Conference in Boston, MA (Slides)..

  • June 2016: Invited talk at the Workshop on Communications, Computation and Control for Resilient Smart Energy Systems in Waterloo, ON.

  • May 2016: 7th Biannual Meeting on System and Control Theory at Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

  • February 2016: Invited talk at the Centre for Power and Information, University of Toronto.

  • January 2016: Invited talk at ESIF Workshop on Frontiers in Distributed Optimization & Control of Sustainable Power Systems, NREL, Golden, CO, USA.

  • December 2015: Invited talk at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.

  • November 2015: Invited talk at University of Groningen in Groningen, Netherlands.

  • October 2015: Three month visit to Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland.

  • May 2015: SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Snowbird, UT.

  • January 2015: Grid Science Winter School and Conference in Santa Fe, NM.