Po-Chen Chen received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. His power system expertise include distributed generation, power system analysis, power system protection and control, voltage quality and stability studies, geographical information system, and big data application for distribution system.

Po-Chen Chen is currently a data science manager in Exelon's Infrastructure and Safety Analytics team. In his most recent role at Sentient Energy, he focused on agile product development to develop predictive analytics using waveform classification for outage detection. At Duke Energy, as a data scientist lead expert, his team developed advanced data analytics for load research and rate design and developed models for behavioral demand response programs and winter peak analysis for energy modeling. At Oncor Electric Delivery, he helped architect HDFS and data lake ecosystems on IBM cloud and developed AI solutions on Spark-Hadoop and GPU platforms for their T&D customers.

Mr. Chen's publications include 19 conference proceedings, 5 journal articles and 1 book chapter. He is also an elite reviewer for more than 16 journals, and have been recognized by IEEE Transactions societies with 4 exceptional reviewer awards.