Anurag Srivastava

As the Chairperson of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department and Raymond J. Lane Professor at West Virginia University, Dr. Srivastava leads a team of faculty, staff, and students passionate about advancing computer science, cybersecurity, electrical engineering, computer engineering, AI, robotics, and biometrics. Over the past three years, research expenses in the department have more than doubled, while also significantly increasing both the quality and quantity of total departmental publications.

With over 18 years of experience as a scientist, educator, researcher, and leader, he brings a robust background in academic leadership, power grid operation and control, electric power grid resilience against cyber and weather events, renewable energy integration, physics-aware ML, synchrophasor applications, and integrated cyber-power simulations. Currently, Dr. Srivastava holds a joint appointment as a Senior Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, working on projects leveraging computational methods to address complex scientific and societal challenges. Additionally, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at Washington State University, mentoring graduate students in electric power engineering.

In previous roles, Dr. Srivastava has worked internationally in visiting positions at institutions such as the Réseau de transport d´électricité in France, RWTH Aachen University in Germany, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India, and at Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. He also worked at the PEAK Reliability Coordinator, Idaho National Laboratory, PJM Interconnection, Schweitzer Engineering Lab (SEL), GE Grid Solutions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mississippi State University.