Slavko Vasilic, Ph.D., P.E., CRE

Dr. Vasilic specializes in electrical and electronic systems, particularly in power systems, power electronics, control systems and signal processing. He has extensive experience with consumer products and appliances, industrial process control and instrumentation, power generation plants, transmission lines, power supplies, electro-hydraulic systems, electrical machines, motor drives, protective relays, analog and digital electronic systems, computer systems, and programmable controllers. He also has a broad expertise in product reliability and failure analysis, power system faults and outages, investigations of fires allegedly caused by electrical equipment, electric shock risk assessment, accelerated lifetime testing, process modeling and simulation, numerical algorithms, and real-time software and firmware applications for data acquisition, diagnostics, and sequential and supervisory control.

Dr Vasilic received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, where his research was focused on developing and implementing intelligent techniques for real-time and off-line power system fault and disturbance detection and classification. Dr. Vasilic was also a research assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering, at the University of Belgrade, where his research was aimed at improving the performance of complex electrical feedback systems using modern control techniques. Dr. Vasilic served as a Consulting Engineer in Energoproject-Hydroengineering, Serbia, where he performed system design, hardware configuration, and software applications for monitoring and control of power generation plants. He also served as a Technology Engineer at Technical Overhauling Department, Serbia, where he performed system analysis and testing of object targeting and fire control systems.

Books

Vasilic S. Fuzzy Neural Network for Pattern Recognition of Power System Events. VDM Verlag, December 2009.

Publications

Vasilic S, Kezunovic M. Fuzzy ART neural network algorithm for classifying the power system faults. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 2005; 20/2:1306–1314.

Petrovic T, Vasilic S. Studies on robust control of parallel operating DC/DC converters. Electrical Engineering 1998; 81/4:245–251.

Vasilic S, Petrovic T. Design of advanced robust decentralized control of parallel DC/DC converters. Electrical Engineering 1998; 81/1:27–34.

Petrovic T, Vasilic S. Robust decentralized controllers with disturbance rejection for parallel operating DC/DC converters. Control and Computers 1997; 25/3:80–87.

Conference Papers and Presentations

Nie B, Lam S, Karchemskiy F, Taylor E, Nilsson S, Vasilic S. Sensitive relay inputs—Contributing factor to major power outage. Western Protective Relay Conference, Spokane, WA, October 2008.

Du Y, Loud J, Murray S, Vasilic S. Accelerated stress testing for home appliances. IEEE ASTR Workshop, San Francisco, CA, October 2006.

Kezunovic M, Vasilic S. Analysis of protective relaying operation and related power system interaction. IFAC Symposium Power Plants and Power Systems Control, Seoul, Korea, November 2003.

Kezunovic M, Vasilic S, Bagriyanik F. Advanced approaches for detecting and diagnosing transients and faults. 3rd Mediterranean Conference Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Energy Conversion – Med Power, Athens, Greece, November 2002.

Kezunovic M, Vasilic S, Ristanovic D. Interfacing protective relays and relay models to power system modeling software and data files. International Conference Power System Technology – PowerCon, Kunming, China, October 2002.

Vasilic S, Kezunovic M, Sobajic D. Optimizing performance of a transmission line relaying algorithm implemented using an adaptive, self-organized neural network. 14th Power System Computation Conference, Seville, Spain, June 2002.

Vasilic S, Kezunovic M. An improved neural network algorithm for classifying the transmission line faults. IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting; New York, NY, January 2002.

Vasilic S, Kezunovic M. New design of a neural network algorithm for detecting and classifying transmission line faults. IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2001.

Ristanovic D, Kezunovic M, Vasilic S. Design and implementation of scenarios for evaluating and testing distance relays. North American Power Symposium, College Station, TX, October 2001.

Kezunovic M, Vasilic S. Design and evaluation of context-dependent protective relaying approach. IEEE Porto Power Tech' Conference, Porto, Portugal, September 2001.

Kezunovic M, Vasilic S. Advance software environment for evaluation protection performance using modeling and simulation. CIGRE SC 34 Colloquium, Sibiu, Romania, September 2001.

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers—IEEE (member)
• IEEE Power & Energy Society (member)
• IEEE Control Systems Society (member)
• American Society for Quality (member)