• Power system security, stability and vulnerability,
• Electric ship power system, 
• Power system economics and deregulation,
• Power system real time modeling and simulation, 
• Intelligent control of power system, 
• Distributed generation and grid integration issues,
• Smart grid,
  
• Energy policy. 

Present Research Work (See deatils for funded project in resume):

Co-PI, Advanced Naval Power Systems through Electric ship system research and development, Office of Naval Research (Prime) through Florida State University, $6,540,000, (10/2007 - 9/2012).

Co-PI, Study of interconnection benefits, strategies and impact of biomass distributed generation on the electric power grid. US Department of Energy (DoE), $199,358, (06/2007 - 10/2010).

Researcher, Remote, nondestructive testing of power system, Multiple University Research Initiative, ONR through Drexel University, $239,622, (5/2004 - 11/2009). 

Completed Research Work:

Co-PI, Adaptive reconfiguration for shipboard power and support systems, Office of Naval Research (Prime) through Florida State University, $1,429,863.00, (10/2006 - 5/2007).

Researcher, Semantic-driven knowledge discovery system for wide area monitoring of electric power grid, funded by department of Homeland Security (DoHS), $588,000, (04/2007 - 12/2008).

Researcher, High performance real time system for hardware in the loop testing and analysis of advanced power and control systems, DURIP, Department of Defense (DoD),  $310,000.00, (04/2006 - 03/2007).

Present Educational Research Work:

Co-PI, International Graduate Students: Challenges, Issues and Recruitment: A Survey based study