REAL-TIME EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY (RTX-LAB)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
REAL-TIME EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY
The RTX-LAB specializes in experimental research in real-time simulation and control in Power and Energy Systems. The RTX-LAB was established thanks to the generous contributions from the following organizations:
Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Recent Events
Yulin Wang presenting his research at the IEEE PES General Meeting 2025, Austin, Texas, USA.
Xinyu Zhao delivering a presentation at the UNENE R&D Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 2025.
Weiran Chen, Xinyu Zhao, and Yuyao Wang participating in the SMR Canada Summit 2025, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
Yulin Wang presenting at the UNENE R&D Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 2025.
Visiting Students
Jesus Flores Huaman
Visiting PhD Student (2026)
ELAP Program, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Xinfang Chen
Visiting Professor (2022)
Institute of Disaster Prevention, China
Dongchen Hou
Visiting Ph.D Student (2022)
Hohai University, China
Keyu Zhai
Visiting Graduate Student
NCEPU, China
Ritu Tiwari
Visiting Ph.D Student (2022)
IIT Roorkee
Yaxian Cheng
Visiting Graduate Student
NCEPU, China
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SOLEDAD FERNANDEZ
UARE Scholarship Intern (2023)
UNI, Peru
Current Students
Eswaran Nanthaluxsan
MSc. student (2026)
Shamaltha Wickramaarachchi
Msc. student (2026)
Hasini Kasthuriarachchi
MSc. student (2025)
Han Wu
Ph.D student (2024)
Yuzhong Zhang
MSc. student (2023)
Seema Powdel
Yang Li
Moon Yong Ha
Phd. student (2022)
MSc. student (2023)
MSc. student (2022)
Dinusha Madushani Maramba Gamage
MSc. student (2022)
Yulin Wang
MSc. student (2022)
Xinyu Zhao
MSc. student (2022)
Alumni
Alumni group 1
Alumni group 2
Alumni group 3
Alumni group 4
Shiqi Cao
(PhD., 2022. )
Qiang Fan
(Visiting PhD Student, 2022, North China Electric Power University, China. )
Jiuwei Guo
(Visiting PhD Student, 2022, North China Electric Power University, China. )
(MSc., 2020)
Madhawa Ranasinghe
MSc. student (2022)
Bingrong Shang
MSc. Student (2020)
Chengzhang Lyu
Ph.D Student (2019)
SongYang Zhang
Ph.D Student (2019)
Weiran Chen
Ph.D Student (2019)
Tianshi Cheng
Ph.D Student (2018)
Zeyang Ma
(Visiting Ph.D. student, 2020, North China Electric Power University, China.)
Wenqiang Hu
Xinxin Lyu
Visiting Ph.D. student, 2020, Visiting Ph.D. student, Hohai University, China.)
(Visiting Ph.D. student, 2020, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.)
Tong Duan
(PhD., 2021, National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological Research Center (NDSC))
Jiacong Li
(MSc. 2021, TetraTech, Edmonton, Canada)
Ruimin Zhu
(Visiting Ph.D. student，2020, North China Electric Power University, China.)
(MSc., 2020)
Qingjie Xu
(MSc., 2020)
Peng Liu
(Ph.D. 2020, ANSYS, Vancouver, Canada)
Zhen Huang
(Ph.D., 2020)
Qing Liu
(Visiting Ph.D. student, 2020, Beijing Jiaotong University, China.)
Tian Liang
(Ph.D. 2020, RTDS Technologies Inc., Winnipeg)
Yue Wang
(Ph.D., 2020)
Zhichao Shi
(Ph.D. 2020, Asst. Professor, NUDT, China)
Yi Wang
(Visiting Ph.D. student, 2019, Hohai University, China.)
Ning Lin
(Ph.D., 2018)
Behzad Jangaghi
(Ph.D. 2018, OPAL-RT)
Zhuoxuan Shen
(Ph.D. 2018, Post-Doc., Tsinghua University, China)
Zhiyin(Gene) Zhou
(Ph.D., 2017, China Mobile, China)
Shengjun Huang
(PhD 2018, Assis. Professor, NUDT, China.)
Dewu Shu
(Visiting Ph.D 2018, Assoc. Prof., Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Fengqiu Xu
(Visiting Ph.D., 2016, Wuhan University, China)
Shenhao Yan
(M.Sc., 2016, Tesla Inc., China)
Bo Shi
(M.Sc., 2016)
Hadis Karimipour
(Ph.D. 2016, Assoc. Professor, University of Calgary)
Jiadai Liu
(Ph.D., 2016, RTDS Technologies Inc., Winnipeg)
Nariman Roshandel Tavana
(Ph.D., 2015, BC Hydro, Vancouver)
Oscar Jimenez
(Visiting PhD student, 2014, Zaragoza Univ., Spain)
Yuan Chen
(Ph.D., 2012, RTDS Techologies Inc., Winnipeg)
Babak Asghari
(Ph.D., 2011, NEC Laboratories, Cupertino)
Vahid Jalili
(Ph.D., 2010, OPAL-RT Technologies Inc., Montreal)
Wentao Wang
(M.Sc., 2014, RTDS Technologies Inc., Winnipeg)
Yifan Wang
(M.Sc., 2013, Phasor Engineering Ltd., Calgary)
Song Wang
(Visiting PhD student, 2012, South West Jiaotong Univ., China)
Aung Myaing
(M.Sc., 2010, Siemens, Edmonton)
Thu Luu
(M.Eng., 2009, ATCO Electric Ltd., Edmonton)
Xiaoyu Wang
(Ph.D., 2009, Assoc. Prof., Carleton University, Ottawa)
Omar Faruque
(Ph.D., 2008, Asst. Prof., Florida State University, Tallahassee)
Ying Chen
(M.Sc., 2006, Eaton Corp., Edmonton)
Edward Song
(M.Sc, 2006, Asst. Prof., Univ. of New Hampshire)
Gustavo G. Parma
(Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2006, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Guiying Yu
(M.Sc., 2006, Dow Chemical, Edmonton)
Xin Nie
(M.Sc., 2006, State Grid, China)
Lok-Fu Pak
(M.Sc., 2005, Suncor Energy Inc., Calgary)
Interns
Pritam Das
(Mitacs Globalink Intern 2023, IIT Kharagpur)
Tejas Amritkar
(Mitacs Globalink Intern 2024, IIT Bombay)
Akash Sansugu Palaniswami
(Mitacs Globalink Intern 2024, IIT Bombay)
Gianmarco Ocampo Ortega
(UARE Intern 2023,Ingenio)
Zhengxiong Li
( Mitacs Globalink
Intern 2023, Wuhan University)
Intern of 2020 (Zoey Song)
Interns of 2016
Interns of 2014
Interns of 2013
Jiaxin Shi
(2018, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecomm.)
Nikhil Bhelave
(2018, IIT Kharagpur)
Aishwary Srivastava
(2018, IIT Delhi)
Binhan Xu
(2016, Zhejiang Univ.)
Hao Zhang
(2016, Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Tech. of China)
Ouhan You
(2016, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.)
Sneha Goenka
(2015, IIT Bombay)
Yue Wang
(2015, Shandong Univ.)
Guoxing Lan
(2014, Tsinghua Univ.)
Sihuan Li
(2014, Huazhong Univ.)
Kaixuan Zhang
(2014, Zhejiang Univ.)
Christine Shen
(2014, Tsinghua Univ.)
Contact Us
Venkata Dinavahi
Address: 9107 116 St NW Edmonton, T6G 2V4 Canada
Email: dinavahi@ualberta.ca
Web: www.ece.ualberta.ca/~dinavahi