LucyY.Pao, Ph.D., is the Palmer Endowed Chair Professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering Department at CU Boulder. She earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Her research primarily focuses on engineering control systems, with applications ranging from rapid and precise control of atomic force microscopes to multi-megawatt wind energy systems. She is a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Selected recent awards include the 2012 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, the 2015 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Journal on Control and Optimization Best Paper Prize, the 2017 Control Engineering Practice Award from the American Automatic Control Council, and the Scientific Award 2017 from the European Academy of Wind Energy. Selected recent and current professional society activities include being General Chair of the 2013 American Control Conference, member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Board of Governors (2011-2013 and 2015), IEEE CSS Fellow Nominations Chair (2016-2019), and member of the IFAC Executive Board (2017-2020)
Lucy's Recent RASEI Activities
Control Co-Design of Wind Turbines
ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONTROL, ROBOTICS, AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS, 2024, 7, 201-226 Read more
Gravo-aeroelastically-scaled demonstrator field tests to represent blade response of a flexible extreme-scale downwind turbine
RENEWABLE ENERGY, 2023, 218, 119217 Read more
Advanced wind turbine control development using field test analysis for generator overspeed mitigation
WIND ENERGY, 2023, ASAP Read more
Grand challenges in the design, manufacture, and operation of future wind turbine systems
WIND ENERGY SCIENCE, 2023, 8, 7, 1071-1131 Read more
Insensitivity to propagation timing in a preview-enabled wind turbine control experiment
FRONTIERS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, 2023, 9, 1145305 Read more
Buoyancy can ballast control for increased power generation of a floating offshore wind turbine with a light-weight semi-submersible platform
Applied Energy, 2022, 330, 120287 Read more
Design space exploration and decision-making for a segmented ultralight morphing 50-MW wind turbine
Wind Energy, 2022, 25, 2016-2035 Read more