Chen Chen is a professor at School of Electrical Engineering of Xi’an Jiaotong University. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, in 2013. Prior to joining Xi’an Jiaotong University, he had over six-year service at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA, with the last appointment as Energy Systems Scientist. His research interest includes power system resilience, cyber-physical system modeling and analysis, critical infrastructure interdependence, etc. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers on top journals, with google scholar citation over 13000. He is the recipient of the IEEE PES Chicago Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2017. 

The widespread power outages caused by ever increasing occurrence of natural disasters have highlighted the significance of power system resilience. Distribution system restoration is an important aspect for resilience enhancement. Flexible resources play a critical role but effective coordination actually should consider the interdependence of power grid, transportation network, and communication network. This presentation will describe how this interdependence impact power system restoration, how to model this interdependence, and how we can achieve effective restoration utilizing this interdependence. Some numerical studies will also be discussed as validation.