Marija Ilic

Senior Research Scientist, LIDS; Adjunct Professor, EECS

Prof. Ilic is a Senior Research Scientist at LIDS, Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and Professor Emerita of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Ilic was formerly Director of the Electric Energy Systems Group (EESG) at Carnegie Mellon. She now leads MIT’s EESG.

She has been appointed Visiting Professor of Intelligent Electricity Networks and Chair in Control of Future Electricity Network Operations at Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands.

Prof. Ilic was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and tenured Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was then a Senior Research Scientist in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT from 1987 to 2002. She has over 30 years of experience in teaching and research in the area of electrical power system modeling and control. Her main interest is in the systems aspects of operations, planning, and economics of the electric power industry.

She has co-authored several books in her field of interest. Prof. Ilic is an IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer.