Innocent Kamwa is a Canadian electrical engineer who is a professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Decentralised Sustainable Electricity Grids for Smart Communities at Université Laval. He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Early life and education

Kamwa studied applied science at the Université Laval, where he studied electronic engineering. He stayed at Laval for his doctoral research, where he modelled synchronous machines.^[1]

Research and career

Kamwa joined the Hydro-Québec Smart Grid Innovation program, where he spent 25 years.^[2] He has worked on improving power system stability, developing intelligent algorithms for application in industry. He developed Hydro-Quebec's first Multiband Power System Stabiliser.^{[citation needed]} In 2021, he was made a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, and became a full professor at the Université Laval.^[3]

Awards and honours

• Elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering^[4]
• 2005 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)^[5]
• 2019 IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award^[6]
• 2019 IEEE Charles Concordia Award^[7]
• 2022 Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering^[8]

Selected publications

• Andersson, G.; Donalek, P.; Farmer, R.; Hatziargyriou, N.; Kamwa, I.; Kundur, P.; Martins, N.; Paserba, J.; Pourbeik, P.; Sanchez-Gasca, J.; Schulz, R.; Stankovic, A.; Taylor, C.; Vittal, V. (November 2005). "Causes of the 2003 major grid blackouts in North America and Europe, and recommended means to improve system dynamic performance". IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 20 (4): 1922–1928. Bibcode:2005ITPSy..20.1922A. doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2005.857942. ISSN 1558-0679. S2CID 44001094.
• Kamwa, I.; Grondin, R.; Hebert, Y. (February 2001). "Wide-area measurement based stabilizing control of large power systems-a decentralized/hierarchical approach". IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 16 (1): 136–153. Bibcode:2001ITPSy..16..136K. doi:10.1109/59.910791. ISSN 1558-0679.
• Ghahremani, Esmaeil; Kamwa, Innocent (November 2011). "Dynamic State Estimation in Power System by Applying the Extended Kalman Filter With Unknown Inputs to Phasor Measurements". IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 26 (4): 2556–2566. Bibcode:2011ITPSy..26.2556G. doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2145396. ISSN 1558-0679. S2CID 37639566.