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Publications

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Journal

• C. Xiao, Y. Liao*, Y. Weng*, “Privacy-Preserving Line Outage Detection in Distribution Grids: An Efficient Approach with Uncompromised Performance”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, early access, DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2024.3411023 (Manuscript).

• C. Xiao, Y. Liao*, Y. Weng*, “Distribution Grid Line Outage Identification with Unknown Pattern and Performance Guarantee”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, March 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2023.3314708.

• Y. Liao, Y. Weng, C. W. Tan, R. Rajagopal, “Quick Line Outage Identification in Urban Distribution Grids via Smart Meters”, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Nov 2021, DOI: 10.17775/CSEEJPES.2020.04640.

• H. Li, Y. Weng, Y. Liao, B. Keel, K. E. Brown, “Distribution grid impedance & topology estimation with limited or no micro-PMUs”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 129: 106794, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.106794.

• Y. Liao, A.S. Kiremidjian, R. Rajagopal, C.H. Loh, “Application of Vibration-based Damage Detection Algorithms to Experimental Data from Multi-story Steel Structures”, International Journal of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems, Speicial Issue: Smart Structures, Structural Control and Health Monitoring – A Special Issue in Honour of Professor Fabio Casciati and Professor Lucia Faravelli, vol.4 No.234, 199-226, Aug 2020, DOI: 0.1504/IJSMSS.2020.10031277.

• Y. Liao, Y. Weng, G. Liu, Z. Zhao, C.W. Tan, R. Rajagopal, “Multi-Phase Distribution Grid Topology Estimation and Bus Phase Identification”, IET Smart Grid, 2: 557-570, 2019, DOI: 10.1049/iet-stg.2018.0291.

• Y. Liao, A.S. Kiremidjian, R. Rajagopal, C.H. Loh, “Structural Damage Detection and Localization with Unknown Post-Damage Feature Distribution Using Sequential Change-Point Detection Method”, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 32(2): 04018149, 2018, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)AS.1943-5525.0000979.

• Y. Liao, Y. Weng, R. Rajagopal, “Urban MV and LV Distribution Grid Topology Estimation via Group Lasso”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, September 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2868877.

• Y. Weng, Y. Liao, R. Rajagopal, “Distributed Energy Resources Connectivity Identification via Graphical Modeling”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 32(4): 2682-2694, July 2017.

• Y. Liao, M. Mollineaux, R. Hsu, R. Bartlett, A. Singla, A. Raja, R. Bajwa, R. Rajagopal, “SnowFort: An open source wireless sensor network for data analytics in infrastructure and environmental monitoring”, IEEE Sensors Journal: Special Issue on Sensing Technologies for Intelligent Urban Infrastructures, 14(12): 4253-4263, December 2014.

Conference

• Y. Liao, C. Xiao, Y. Weng, “Quickest Line Outage Detection with Low False Alarm Rate and No Prior Outage Knowledge”, 2022 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES-GM 2022) at Dever, CO, USA, July 2022. [Best Papers]

• Y. Liao, A.S. Kiremidjian, R. Rajagopal, C.H. Loh, “Experimental Validation of an Improved Dynamic Displacement Estimation Method using Accelerometer and Gyroscope”, International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM2017) at Stanford, CA, September 2017.

• S.K. Huang, Y. Liao, C.M. Chang, C.H. Loh, A.S. Kiremidjian, R. Rajagopal, “Use of Time-frequency Damage Sensitive Features for Structural Damage Diagnosis”, International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM2017) at Stanford, CA, September 2017.

• Y. Liao, Y. Weng, C.W. Tan, R. Rajagopal, “Urban Distribution Grid Line Outage Identification”, 2016 International Conference On Probability Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS 2016) at Beijing, China, October 2016. [PMAPS Roy Billinton Student Paper Gold Award]

• Y. Liao, Y. Weng, R. Rajagopal, “Urban Distribution Grid Topology Reconstruction via Lasso”, 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES-GM 2016) at Boston, MA, July 2016.

• Y. Liao, A.S. Kiremidjian, R. Rajagopal, C.H. Loh, “Sequential Damage Detection and Localization with Unknown Post-Damage Distribution”, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2016 (EMI 2016) at Nashville, TN, May 2016. [1st Place of Student Paper Competition for Structural Health Monitoring & Control]

• J. Andre, A.S. Kiremidjian, Y. Liao, C. Georgakis, R. Rajagopal, “Structural health monitoring approach for detecting ice accretion on bridge cable using the Haar Wavelet Transform”, SPIE Smart Structures/NDE conference 2016 at Las Vegas, NV, March 2016.

• Y. Liao, A.S. Kiremidjian, R. Rajagopal, C.H. Loh, “Angular velocity-based Structural Damage Detection”, SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference 2016 at Las Vegas, NV, March 2016.

• Y. Liao, Y. Weng, M. Wu, R. Rajagopal, “Distribution grid topology reconstruction: an information theoretic approach”, 47th North American Power Symposium (NAPS2015) at Charlotte, NC, October 2015.

• Y. Liao, K. Balafas, A.S. Kiremidjian, R. Rajagopal, C.H. Loh, “Application of acceleration-based damage detection algorithms to experimental data from multi-story steel structures”, 10th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM2015) at Stanford, CA, September 2015.

• Y. Liao, R. Rajagopal, “Message-passing sequential detection of multiple structural damages”, 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP12) at Vancouver, Canada, July 2015.

• Y. Liao, K. Balafas, R. Rajagopal, A.S. Kiremidjian, “Sequential damage detection based on the Continuous Wavelet Transform”, SPIE Smart Structures/NDE Conference 2015 at San Diego, CA, March 2015.

• D. Brown III, Y. Liao, and N. Fox, “Low-complexity real-time single-tone phase and frequency estimation”, IEEE Military Communications, Oct 2010.

Other

• Y. Liao, “Phase and frequency estimation: High-accuracy and low-complexity techniques”, Master's thesis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, May 2011.

• Y. Liao, “Power flow analysis on CUDA-based GPU”, Bachelor's thesis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, April 2011.

Invited Talks

• “Urban Distribution Grid Topology Estimation: Data-Driven Approaches”, Big Data on Power System Applications Panel Session, IEEE PES Asia Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference 2016 (APPEEC 2016), Xi'an, China, October 2016.

• “Urban Distribution Grid Line Outage Identification”, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, October 2016.

• “Structural Damage Detection and Localization: Data-Driven Approaches”, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, September 2016.

• “Distribution Grid Topology Reconstruction: Data-Driven Approaches”, Stanford Smart Grid Seminar, Stanford Univresity, Stanford, CA, March 2016.

Technical Reports

• Y. Liao, A. Bajric, “Wireless Sensor Monitoring Test Documentation for UCSD Shake Tests”, NEESR: Novel Embedded Diagnostics Wireless Structural Monitoring Systems, December 2014.

• Y. Liao, “A study of maximum likelihood estimation with non-linear iterative method”, August 2010.

Academic Review Works

• Applied Energy

• IEEE Access

• IEEE Control Systems Letters

• IEEE Industrial Electronics

• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems

• IEEE Sensors Journal

• IEEE Transactions of Power Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

• IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

• IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

• Structural Health Monitoring

• IEEE International Conference on Communications, Controls, and Computing Technology for Smart Grids (IEEE SmartGridComm) at Aalborg, Denmark, Octomber 2018

• IEEE Power Energy Society General Meeting (PES-GM) at Boston, MA, July 2016

• International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring 2015 (IWSHM 2015) at Stanford, CA, September 2015