CONNECT
MIT
Room 32-D726
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA, 02139
Telephone: 617.324.0645
Email: ilic@mit.edu
EDUCATION
Dipl. Ing. and MEE in Electrical Engineering (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1974 and 1977)
M.Sc. (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1978)
D.Sc. (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1980)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Smart Grids as a means of implementing sustainable IT-enabled electricity services; Modeling and control of future electric energy systems (transforming hierarchical into open-access systems); Modeling and control of economic, policy and technical interactions in dynamic systems under uncertainties (applied to electricity markets); Critical infrastructures and their interdependencies (cyber-physical systems); Computer methods and algorithms for simulating large-scale dynamic systems; Electric power systems modeling; Design of monitoring, control and pricing algorithms for electric power systems; Normal and emergency control of electric power systems.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Marija Ilic is a Senior Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. She is also a Senior Staff member at Lincoln Laboratory in Energy Systems Group 73, and a Visiting Professor of the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) at MIT.
Professor Ilic has had a long and distinguished career. She received her doctorate in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, in 1980. After teaching at Drexel University and Cornell, she moved to the University of Illinois (UIUC, 1984-89), where she rose to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. From 1989 to 2003, she was with MIT as a Senior Research Engineer. Furthermore, from 2002 to 2017, she was a tenured Professor at CMU, during which time she also held an honorary chair at TU Delft, Netherlands. She is now a Professor Emerita from CMU.
Professor Ilic is a world leader in the area of electric power systems. Her work involves the toolbox of systems, optimization, and control, but is also combined with a deep knowledge of the real-world aspects of power systems and a strong engagement with the power industry. She is a prolific author with hundreds of journal and conference publications, has supervised about 50 doctoral theses, and is the coauthor, with J. Zaborszky, of a major text on “Dynamics and Control of Large Electric Power Systems.” Among several other awards, she is an IEEE Life Fellow. She has also been playing a prominent role in the power systems community, which she has served in many different roles, including as NSF Program Director (1999-2001).
Her contributions span the whole gamut, from detailed dynamical models of the physical aspects of power systems, all the way to high-level issues involving coordination and economics. She has been a strong advocate of an integrated hierarchical approach that faithfully takes into account the multiple time and spatial scales that are present in the power network. In the recent past, she has been working on defining the next generation of SCADA systems for power networks, that can take advantage of new capabilities in sensing and communications, accompanied by powerful and realistic simulation tools.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(1) Ilic, Marija D., “Toward a Uniï¬ed Modeling and Control for Sustainable and Resilient Electric Energy Systems,” Foundations and Trends in Electric Energy Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2016), pp. 1-141.
(2) M. Ilic, L. Xie, Q. Liu (eds.), Engineering IT-Enabled Sustainable Electricity Services, Power Electronics and Power Systems 30. DOI 10.1109/JPROC.2007.894711. Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 (Available from MIT Libraries)
(3) Ilic, Marija D., “From hierarchical to open access electric power systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 95, No. 5, 2007, pp. 1060-1084.
(4) Ilic, Marija D., “Energy Cyber-Physical Systems,” Chapter 2 in Cyber-Physical Systems, eds. Raj Rajkumar, Dionision de Niz, and Mark Klein, Addison-Wesley, 2017. ISBN-13:978-0-321-9296-8.
(5) Ilic, Marija D, “2016 State of Reliability,” talk presented at Panel I of the FERC Reliability Technical Conference, Washington, DC (submitted).
SELECTED BOOKS
(1) Allen, E.H. and Ilic, M., Price-Based Commitment Decisions in the Electricity Market, Springer-Verlag London Series on Advances inIndustrial Control, November 1998.
(2) Ilic, M.D. and J. Zaborszky, Dynamics and Control of Large Electric Power Systems, Wiley Interscience, May 2000 (900 pages).
(3) Skantze, P. and Ilic, M., Valuation, Hedging and Speculation in Competitive Electricity Markets: A Fundamental Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.