Speakers

Manu Parashar has been with GE for 13 years and has most recently been serving as the Senior Product Director for the Transmission Segment at GE Digital. Prior to this, he was the Services Director managing the Applications Engineering team across WAMS, Market Applications, and Generation. Before joining GE, Manu worked for a Los Angeles-based consulting firm where he was responsible for coordinating R&D activities across utility stakeholders including ISOs, government labs, universities, and the Department of Energy.  Manu received his BS (summa cum laude), MS, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has been active in various technical forums in North America such as the North American SynchroPhasor Initiative (NASPI) and IEEE Power Systems Relaying Committee (PSRC), and has numerous publications including a co-author of the "Wide Area Monitoring and Situational Awareness" chapter of the Electric Power Engineering handbook. Manu has been the recipient of the Gilbreth Lectureship by the National Academy of Engineering which was established to recognize young outstanding engineers and voted the Seattle PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer for 2015.