Publications

Book Chapters

• Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, M. Z. Islam, and S. N. Edib, “Resilient Sensing and Communication Architecture for Microgrid Management,” Microgrids: Theory and Practice, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2024. [Read Here]

Journal Papers

• M. Z. Islam, S.N. Edib, Y. Yao, F. Ding, Y. Lin, “Risk-Aware Measurement Synchronization and Recovery for DSSE with Heterogeneous Data Sources”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, 2026 (accepted). [Read Here]
• W. Zhang, Y. Lin, M. Z. Islam, H. Huang, “Neuro-Physics Hybrid State Estimation of Distribution System with Smart Meter Voltage Measurements”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2026 (accepted). [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, W. Zhang, “Smart Meter Scheduling for Data-Driven Granular Customer Voltage Visibility”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2025 (accepted). [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, “Disaster-Resilient Cyber-Physical Distribution System Reconfiguration and Dynamic Networked Microgrid Formation under Intermittent Generation”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2025 (accepted). [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane and J. Ogle, “Observability-Aware Resilient PMU Networking,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 218-230, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2024.3387338. [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, N. Yu, “Robust Learning-based Real-time Load Estimation Using Sparsely Deployed Smart Meters with High Reporting Rates”, Applied Energy, Volume 352, 2023, 121964. [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, and V. Venkataramanan, “Cyber-physical Cascading Failure and Resilience of Power Grid: A Comprehensive Review”, Frontiers in Energy Research, 11, p.1095303, 2023. [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, S. N. Edib, V. M. Vokkarane, Y. Lin and X. Fan, “A Scalable PDC Placement Technique for Fast and Resilient Monitoring of Large Power Grids,” in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1770-1782, Dec. 2023. [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, M. S. Reza, M. M. Hossain and M. Ciobotaru, “Accurate Estimation of Phase Angle for Three-Phase Systems in Presence of Unbalances and Distortions,” in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 71, pp. 1-12, 2022, 9001712. [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, M. S. Reza, M. M. Hossain and M. Ciobotaru, “Three-Phase PLL Based on Adaptive Clarke Transform Under Unbalanced Condition,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 382-387, April 2022. [Read Here]

Conference Papers

• Y. Ding, M. Z. Islam, J. Shiau, A. D. Amico, Y. Tian, Z. Jiang, S. Ozharar, T. Wang, and Y. Lin, “Resilient DFOS Placement Strategy for Power Grid Monitoring: Integrating Fiber and Power Network Dependencies,” 29th International Conference On Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS), Porto, Portugal, 25-30 May 2025. [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam*, Y. Ding, Y. Tian, T. Wang, Y. Lin, “Integration of Fiber Optic Sensing and Sparse Grid Sensors for Accurate Fault Localization in Distribution Systems”, 2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Austin, TX, USA, 2025 (accepted). [Read Here]
• P. Christou, M. Z. Islam*, Y. Lin, and J. Xiong, “LLM4DistReconfig: A fine-tuned large language model for power distribution network reconfiguration,” 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL (NAACL), Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 29–May 4, 2025. [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, W. Zhang and Y. Lin, “Learning-Based Customer Voltage Visibility With Sparse High-Reporting-Rate Smart Meters,” 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Seattle, WA, USA, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM51994.2024.10688681. [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, Y. Lin, V. M. Vokkarane, Y. Yao and F. Ding, “Cyber-Physical Reconfiguration for Disaster Resilience of Power Distribution Systems,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 1-6. [Read Here]
• M. Z. Islam, V. M. Vokkarane and Y. Lin, “PMU Network Routing for Resilient Observability of Power Grids,” ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Rome, Italy, 2023, pp. 4584-4590. [Read Here]
• E. Meriaux, D. Koehler, M. Z. Islam, V. Vokkarane and Y. Lin, “Performance Comparison of Machine Learning Methods in DDoS Attack Detection in Smart Grids,” 2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-5. [Read Here]

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