Bala Kameshwar Poolla received his B.Tech. (H) degree in Electrical Engineering, M.Tech. degree in Control System Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India in 2013 and the Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zürich, Switzerland in 2019. He is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include applications of control theory to power grids, renewable energy systems, and energy markets. Publications:

• Optimal Placement of Virtual Inertia in Power Grids
• Placement and Implementation of Grid-Forming and Grid-Following Virtual Inertia and Fast Frequency Response
• Input-Output Performance of Linear-Quadratic Saddle-Point Algorithms with Application to Distributed Resource Allocation Problems
• Increasing the Resilience of Low-inertia Power Systems by Virtual Inertia and Damping
• Placing Rotational Inertia in Power Grids
• Quadratic performance of primal-dual methods with application to secondary frequency control of power systems
• Virtual Inertia Placement in Electric Power Grids
• Quadratic performance analysis of secondary frequency controllers
• A market mechanism for virtual inertia

Research: EMAC (Energy Modeling, Analysis and Control – Callaway) Contact: bpoolla@berkeley.edu