ABOUT ME

Konrad Schmitt (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University, USA, in 2023, and the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, in 2019. Dr. Schmitt is currently an Power Engineer at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), in Pullman, USA, where he supports the design, development and validation of Distribution Management Systems (DMS) applications that improve reliability, continuity, quality, and safety of power delivery. Dr. Schmitt’s technical expertise is in the field of power distribution systems, where has more than fifty technical publications and one book chapter related to network reconfiguration, self-healing, outage restoration and management, renewable energy integration, voltage control, and hardware-in-the-loop simulation. Since 2017, Dr. Schmitt has been an active IEEE Power & Energy Society volunteer, where he has held  local and global positions, besides contributing to IEEE Technical Committees. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and member of IEEE HKN, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies.