AGI DAY 2025

Anamika Dubey – Co-Director of AGI

Anamika Dubey received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in Dec 2015. She is currently Huie-Rogers Endowed Chair Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in the School of EECS at Washington State University (WSU), Pullman. She also holds a joint appointment as a Research Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and currently serves as the Co-director for the WSU-PNNL Advanced Grid Institute (AGI). Her research focuses on the scalable integration of cross-domain models and data to provide better decision support for the increasingly complex electric power grids. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2019) and the IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2023).

Angela Becker-Dippmann – Associate Laboratory Director, Energy and Environment

Ms. Angela Becker-Dippmann serves as Director of the Energy & Environment Directorate’s Program Development Office. She rejoined PNNL in April 2019. In this cross-cutting role, she evaluates emerging national, regional, and state energy and environmental priorities, policies and programs to ensure EED’s mission strategy and S&T are focused on the most impactful outcomes. She is based in PNNL’s Seattle office.

Jeff Cook – VP Transmission Engineering and Technical Services, Bonneville Power Administration

As leader of BPA’s Engineering and Technical Services organization, Jeff Cook is responsible for implementing Transmission Services’ capital program, providing technical support for the transmission maintenance program and providing real property services to BPA.

Jeff leads the design, material specification, coordination, project management and energization of major transmission infrastructure projects necessary to sustain and improve the reliability of the existing system and incorporate new energy generation facilities.

Crystal Ball – Executive Director, Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee

Crystal Ball serves as the Executive Director of the Pacific
Northwest Utilities Conference Committee (PNUCC), where she has
worked since January 2022. In her role she provides a platform for
industry leaders to discuss common interests, explore differences, and
collaborate on regional energy solutions. She also helps raise
awareness of the Pacific Northwest’s changing energy landscape.

Mani Venkatasubramanian – Director, Energy Systems Innovation Center

Mani V. Venkatasubramanian is a Boeing Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, WA. He also serves as the Director of the Energy Systems Innovation Center which manages the power engineering research and education at WSU. He serves as the Chair of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Working Group on Power System Dynamic Measurements. He is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. He was an invited member of the working groups that studied the 1996 Western interconnection blackouts and the 2003 Northeastern blackout. Mani has been working on modeling, stability analysis, and control designs for power grids for the past thirty years. He is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the online detection of oscillatory behavior of electric power systems. He is a recipient of the IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award.

Brad Heilman – Schweitzer Engineering Laboratory

Brad Heilman, P.E., has a B.S.E.E. degree from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. From 1990 to 1997, he was employed as a system protection engineer for Black Hills Power & Light. His utility work included transmission line and generator protection, power plant and substation commissioning, and SCADA system upgrades. In 1997, he joined Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. as a field application engineer supporting customers in Arizona, California, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, Idaho, and South Dakota. He is an IEEE member and licensed professional engineer in the state of South Dakota.

Brett Ross – Electrical Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Brett Ross received the BSEE from University of Central Florida in 2019 and the MSEE from the University of Idaho in 2025. He is an electrical engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL) in the Resilience Engineering group. His research interests include power systems applications of power electronics, power system protection, and power system transients. His current research portfolio focuses on power electronics performance requirements for grid stability and protection system combability as well as modeling and integration of large computational loads such as datacenters. Prior to joining PNNL, he worked for Duke Energy in Lake Mary, FL, and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., in Pullman, WA.