AGI DAY 2026

Anamika Dubey – AGI Co-Director

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).

Wei Du – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Dr. Wei Du received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014. His main areas of research are control design, modeling, and simulation of power systems with high penetration of power electronics devices. He is currently a senior research engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and serves as the principal investigator for multiple Department of Energy (DOE) funded projects that focus on studying the impacts of high penetration inverter-based resources on the transient and dynamic behaviors of power systems at different scales.

Jeff Dagle – AGI Co-Director

Dagle joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 1989, and currently manages several projects in the areas of transmission reliability and resilience for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity and other clients.

Recent project highlights include leading the North American SynchroPhasor Initiative; serving on the leadership team of the Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium; leading the team that provides cybersecurity reviews for the DOE Smart Grid Investment Grants and Smart Grid Demonstration projects associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; and co-leading the PNNL Future Power Grid Initiative from 2010 to 2015. In 2014, Dagle was invited to serve on a National Academy committee to provide recommendations for the analytical research foundations for the next-generation electric grid. In 2016, he was invited to serve on another National Academy committee focused on enhancing the resilience of the United States’ electricity system. And in 2019, he was invited to serve on a third National Academies study committee on the future of electric power in the United States.

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.

Sandra Haynes – Executive Vice President for Washington State University Statewide Campuses

Sandra Haynes serves as Executive Vice President for Washington State University Statewide Campuses, providing strategic leadership for WSU Everett, WSU Tri-Cities, and WSU Vancouver. In this role, she strengthens coordination and alignment across these campuses to advance student success and regional impact.

Noel Schulz – Inaugural Director – Institute for Northwest Energy Futures

Anjan Bose – Professor, Washington State University

Dr. Anjan Bose has over forty years of experience in industry and academia, as an engineer, educator, and administrator. He is well known as a technical leader in the power grid control industry, a researcher in electric power engineering, an educator in engineering, and an administrator in higher education. He is a Regents Professor at Washington State University (WSU), where he also served as the Dean of Engineering and Architecture (1998-2005) and in 2012-13 served as a Senior Advisor to the US Department of Energy (DOE) in the Obama administration.

Jim Ogle – Electricity Infrastructure and Research Principal, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jim Ogle is the Electricity Infrastructure director and research principal at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). With industry experience since 1995, he leads PNNL’s Grid Research Program to advance solutions that strengthen grid reliability and security, expand transmission and distribution capacity, and lower the cost of grid operations. His expertise spans transmission and distribution operations, communication networks, cybersecurity, and machine learning.

Mark Rice – Research Line Manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Mark Rice is the group leader for the Energy Systems Resiliency group. Prior to serving as the group leader, he served as the team leader for the Cybersecurity Research team for several years and has been a researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the Energy and Environment Directorate since 2011. His research interests include control center applications, wide-area measurements and controls, power system modeling and analysis, and human decision-making.  As a cybersecurity researcher, he has been a principal investigator on power system research for more than 10 years and has conducted cybersecurity for energy delivery systems research for more than six years. He was a technical lead for PNNL’s involvement in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Rapid Attack Detection, Characterization Systems (RADICS) program, where he led efforts in data creation and tested new cyber sensors created by other institutions. He led analytics for the cyber-physical agile initiative, PACiFiC, and led the cyber physical testbed used for PNNL’s Control of Complex Systems Initiative.  Prior to joining PNNL, Rice  worked for Alstom Grid (on the E-terra platform, an energy management software) where he developed network applications (e.g., real-time applications, including state estimation and contingency analysis) for four years. He also was a research assistant at Arizona State University where he was focused on synchrophasor applications to power systems state estimation.

Andy Reiman – Power Systems Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jana Doppa – Professor & Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Studies, Washington State University

Bruce Walker – Advisor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

In 2017, Bruce Walker was nominated by President Trump and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity at the Department of Energy (DOE). In this capacity, he provided national leadership to enhance our nation’s security for Defense Critical Electric Infrastructure and led national research to develop technologies and capabilities to meet this responsibility, including the creation of the North American Energy Resilience Model and the establishment of the Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response office.

At DOE, he was also responsible for the four Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs). These four PMAs own and operate the transmission system that connects U.S. federal hydroelectric generation to rural America in 34 states covering more than 2 million square miles.

Srinivas Katipamula – Laboratory Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Dr. Katipamula is a Laboratory Fellow and Senior Staff Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, holding master’s and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. With over 30 years of experience, his work centers on building controls and building-grid integration. He leads multiple energy efficiency and building-grid integration projects at the lab. Katipamula recently contributed to the AI Data Center Energy Performance Framework, focusing specifically on data centers’ energy use and grid-integration. He is a Fellow of both the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Shuchi Biswas – Power Systems Researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Dr. Katipamula is a Laboratory Fellow and Senior Staff Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, holding master’s and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. With over 30 years of experience, his work centers on building controls and building-grid integration. He leads multiple energy efficiency and building-grid integration projects at the lab. Katipamula recently contributed to the AI Data Center Energy Performance Framework, focusing specifically on data centers’ energy use and grid-integration. He is a Fellow of both the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Ji Yun Lee – Associate Professor, Washington State University

Ji Yun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington State University, where she leads the Risk-Informed Decision-Making Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2015. She specializes in decision science, integrating stochastic modeling and simulations of natural hazards and engineering risk analysis with human behavioral insights. By applying AI and systems modeling, her work transforms multidisciplinary data into actionable intelligence, advancing fundamental understanding of how both physical systems and human behaviors drive community resilience. She received the Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium Outstanding Researcher Award (2025), NSF CAREER Award (2023), and Google Research Scholar Award (2022).

Jacob Reidt – Advisor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Jacob Reidt joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior power systems research engineer in 2023. He is currently an advisor for PNNL’s Grid Center for Reliable Electricity Delivery, where he directs high-impact research activities at the intersection of advanced analytics, modeling, and policy to enable a reliable and resilient power system.

At PNNL, he has led the research, design, and development of large-scale, distributed Internet of Things and intelligent energy systems by integrating power systems, telecommunications, and software platforms using advanced modeling, optimization, and control techniques. Reidt excels at applying systems engineering principles to guide interdisciplinary teams in developing and deploying secure, high-performance solutions, while contributing to high-impact publications and leading complex programs.

As Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Dr. Pike is responsible for stewarding Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)’s research and development strategy to address critical challenges across the Laboratory’s missions in science, energy, and national security. His leadership focuses on maximizing the scientific quality and mission impact of programs and capabilities across PNNL. His office oversees PNNL’s institutional science and technology strategy and investments, technology commercialization activities, strategic partnerships, and institutional planning. Prior to his current position, Dr. Pike was the Chief Science and Technology Officer (CSTO) for PNNL’s National Security Directorate. As CSTO, he led organizational strategy to advance fundamental science and applied impact in research areas spanning nuclear science, chemistry, biology, computing, and systems engineering. 

From 2014 to 2022, he was the Division Director for Computing and Analytics at PNNL, where he grew an R&D organization in computer science and software engineering into a nationally distinctive capability of more than 550 staff. He launched new strategic partnerships between PNNL and other leading research institutions and accelerated translation between scientific innovation and operational impact. His research has produced advances in visual data analysis methods and geospatial computing. Since joining PNNL in 2005, he has led computing research in streaming analytics and machine learning, computational knowledge representation for large-scale scientific collaboration, human-machine teaming, and large-scale data visualization. He serves on advisory boards for several academic computer science and engineering programs and has chaired IEEE computing conferences and symposia. 

He holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University and earned his Bachelor’s degree at Carleton College in Minnesota. 

Larry Bekkedahl | Senior Vice President, Advanced Energy Delivery | Portland General Electric

Eleanor Ewry | Supervisor Strategic System Planning | Puget Sound Energy

Greg Zweigle | CTO | Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

Nicole Rutherford | Chief Technology Innovation and Strategy Officer | Bonneville Power Administration

William Rambo | Director of Technology | Power Engineers

Avnaesh Jayantilal | Chief Technology Officer, Grid Innovation | GE Vernova Electrification Software

Mark Lauby | Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer | North American Electric Reliability Corporation

Mike Diedesch | Grid Innovation Lab Manager | Avista