Bernie Lesieutre Professor Department Electrical & Computer Engineering Contact 2546, Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Dr Madison, WI p: (608) 890-1883 e: lesieutre@wisc.edu Education PhD 1993, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMS 1988, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignBS 1986, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Awards 2023 University of Wisconsin – Madison, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Department Faculty Service Award2023 IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES), Fellow2013 North American Power Symposium, Second Prize, Student Paper Contest2012 North American Power Symposium, First Prize, Student Paper Contest2012 University of Wisconsin – Madison, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Holdridge Excellence in Teaching AwardU.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham and Canadian Minister of Natural Resources John Efford for work behalf of the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, Certificate of Appreciation Recent publications Lesieutre, B., Gu, Y., & Panciatici, P. (2024). Exploring Feasible Transition from Local to Global Optima in Power Systems. In 2024 60th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (pp. 1–8).Holzer, J. T., Coffrin, C. J., DeMarco, C., Duthu, R., Elbert, S. T., Eldridge, B. C., Elgindy, T., Garcia, M., Greene, S. L., Guo, N., Van Hentenryck, P., Hale, E., Veeramany, A., Lesieutre, B., Wangen, S., Mak, T., & Wert, J. (2024). Grid optimization competition challenge 3 problem formulation. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States).Lesieutre, B., & Kumar, B. (2023). Participation Factor Analysis of Nonlinear Systems: Beyond Equilibria. In 2023 59th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton) (pp. 1–5).Taylor, S., Rangarajan, A., Rhodes, N., Snodgrass, J., Lesieutre, B., & Roald, L. A. (2023). California test system (CATS): A geographically accurate test system based on the California grid. IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, 2(1), 107-118.Babaeinejadsarookolaee, S., Park, B., Lesieutre, B., & DeMarco, C. L. (2023). Transmission congestion management via Node-breaker topology control. IEEE Systems Journal, 17(3), 3413-3424.Abdennadher, Y., Lindberg, J., Lesieutre, B., & Roald, L. (2022). Carbon Efficient Placement of Data Center Locations. In 2022 North American Power Symposium (NAPS) (pp. 1–6).Babaeinejadsarookolaee, S., Park, B., Lesieutre, B., & DeMarco, C. L. (2022). Effective Congestion Management via Network Topology Optimization Based on Node-Breaker Representations. In 2022 North American Power Symposium (NAPS) (pp. 1–6).Safdarian, F., Snodgrass, J., Yeo, J. H., Birchfield, A., Coffrin, C., Demarco, C., Elbert, S., Eldridge, B., Elgindy, T., Greene, S. L., Guo, N., Holzer, J., Lesieutre, B., & others, (2022). Grid optimization competition on synthetic and industrial power systems. In 2022 North American Power Symposium (NAPS) (p. 1-6).Lesieutre, B., Abdennadher, Y., & Roy, S. (2022). Model-enhanced localization of forced oscillation using pmu data. In 2022 58th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton) (pp. 1–8).Brooks, A. E., & Lesieutre, B. (2022). A locational marginal price for frequency balancing operations in regulation markets. Applied Energy, 308, 118306. Courses COMP SCI 532 - Matrix Methods in Machine Learning (Fall 2025)ECE 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2025)ECE 532 - Matrix Methods in Machine Learning (Fall 2025)ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2025)ECE 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2025)ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2025)ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2025)ME 532 - Matrix Methods in Machine Learning (Fall 2025)ECE 203 - Signals, Information, and Computation (Summer 2025)ECE 399 - Independent Study (Summer 2025)ECE 699 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2025)ECE 790 - Master's Research (Summer 2025)ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2025)ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2025)ECE 999 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2025)ECE 203 - Signals, Information, and Computation (Spring 2025)ECE 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)ECE 230 - Circuit Analysis (Fall 2024)ECE 427 - Electric Power Systems (Fall 2024)ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)ECE 203 - Signals, Information, and Computation (Summer 2024)ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)ECE 790 - Master's Research (Spring 2024)ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)ECE 203 - Signals, Information, and Computation (Fall 2023)ECE 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2023)ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)