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Ning Kang (she/her/hers)

Department Manager
Idaho National Laboratory
Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States

Dr. Ning Kang is the Department Manager of the Idaho National Laboratory’s Power & Energy Systems Department. Her research interests include clean and renewable energy resources grid integration, power systems reliability and resilience, and energy system decarbonization. Ning also serves as the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium’s Flexible Generation and Load Pillar Lead, one of the six pillars under DOE’s Grid Modernization Initiative. Before joining INL, she was a Principal Engineer at the Argonne National Laboratory where she focused on research in transmission and distribution systems (T&D) co-simulation and planning and operations coordination, reliability impact of distributed energy resources (DERs) on the bulk electric system, advanced distribution management system (ADMS), and microgrid integration and impact analysis. Ning has six years’ industry R&D experience when she was a Senior R&D Engineer at ABB U.S. Corporate Research Center in Raleigh, NC. At ABB, she was the main contributor to developing a substation-based protection and automation solution for ABB’s substation controllers, a Volt-VAR optimization solution considering high DER penetration for ABB’s DMS software, and condition-based and data-driven algorithms for ABB’s recloser controllers. She is the main creator of an open-source T&D systems co-simulation software (TDcoSim) and holds five U.S. patents and one U.S. patent application. She has co-authored more than 50 journal and conference papers, book chapters, and technical reports. Ning is a senior member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society. She is also the Reliability and Resilience Task Force Chair within the Idaho Strategic Energy Alliance under Idaho Governor’s Office of Energy & Mineral Resources. Dr. Kang currently serves as the senior editor of the Power and Energy Section of the IEEE Access Journal and the advisory committee member and nuclear and microgrids subcommittee member for POWERGEN International. Dr. Kang has been a registered Professional Engineer since 2015.

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