Marianna Vaiman has been elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to transmission and distribution grids.“ She is the co-founder and CEO of V&R Energy. She has over 30 years of experience in the development and deployment of innovative technologies for the electric utility industry. Her areas of expertise include stability, resilience, optimization, and control in power systems with high penetration of inverter-based resources; use of synchrophasor measurements for enhanced situational awareness and control; use of machine learning; and analysis of cascading outages.
Marianna has been recognized as IEEE PES Women Engineers and Achievers in Power & Energy. She is a member of Power & Energy Magazine Editorial Board, a member of IEEE PES Industry Technical Support Leadership Committee, and a VP of Marketing at CIGRE US National Committee.
