- Blistering Texas sun is also part of producing the state's energy at NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth.
- An Op-Ed on grid infrastructure published at the Hill.
- Article about the 2021 ERCOT blackout: Opinion: What went wrong with Texas’s power failure and how to fix it by Le Xie, Mark Barteau, Chanan Singh, and Efstratios Pistikopoulos. ( Link from Texas A&M)
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Interview reports about the 2021 ERCOT blackout:
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- Vox:
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- NPR- All Things Considered:
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- Washington Examiner:
- CBSN-Dallas:
- COVID-19 Impact on Energy Consumption in ERCOT: Interview by 25abc
Dr. Le Xie's Research Group

Le Xie, Ph.D., Fellow of IEEE
- Segers Family Dean’s Excellence Professor
- Chancellor EDGES Fellow, and Presidential Impact Fellow
- Engineering Dean’s Research Fellow
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Associate Director-Energy Digitization, Texas A&M Energy Institute
- Department Profile Page
Announcements and News
- The Blockchain & Energy Research Consortium was featured on TAMU Engineering News in article titled: " Hash it out: Can crypto offer scalable demand flexibility?"
- A commentary article “ Towards Carbon-neutral Electricity and Mobility: Is the Grid Infrastructure Ready? ” published in Joule (Cell Press).
- Prof. Xie is chairing the organization of NSF workshop on carbon neutral electricity and mobility, to be held in College Station on April 24-25, 2023.
- We are excited to announce a new initiative on blockchain and energy, available at Texas A&M Blockchain and Energy Initiative.
- Prof. Xie is appointed as the Engineering Dean’s Research Fellow in the academic year 2022-2023, he will coordinate the energy cluster research that is happening in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M.
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We congratulate 3 recent postdoc/Ph.D.s who have joined academia as Tenure-track Assistant Professors:
Dr. Tong Huang, ECE Department at San Diego State University
Dr. Sivaranjani (Siva) Seetharaman, School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University
Dr. Bin Wang, ECE Department of the University of Texas at San Antonio
- Prof. Xie and collaborators have published a new article to appear in Patterns (Cell Press), entitled “Energy System Digitization in the Era of AI: A Three-Layered Approach towards Carbon Neutrality”. Preprint available here.
- Prof. Xie and collaborators have published a new article to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE, entitled “On an Information and Control Architecture for Future Electric Energy Systems”. Paper available online at here.
- Prof. Xie and collaborators have published a new article to appear in Nature Scientific Data, entitled “PSML: A Multi-scale Time-series Dataset with Benchmarks for Machine Learning in Decarbonized Energy Grids”. Preprint available at arXiv.
- Prof. Xie and collaborators have published a new article to appear in Proceeding of the IEEE, entitled “Massively Digitized Power Grid: Opportunities and Challenges of Use-inspired AI”. Preprint available at arXiv.
- Prof. Xie was appointed Segers Family Dean’s Excellence Professor in the College of Engineering, effective May 1, 2022.
- Prof. Xie is appointed an IEEE Power and Energy Society Distinguished Lecturer, effective March 2022.
- Prof. Xie serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems effective January 2022.
- Prof. Xie is elevated to the Fellow of IEEE (Class of 2022) [ Press Release].