Title:	Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
	Office:	Bannan Engineering 223
	Phone:	(408) 554-2394
	Fax:	(408) 554-5474
	Email:	azecevic@scu.edu
	Website:	N/A
	Education:	Ph.D., Santa Clara University, 1993 M.S., Santa Clara University, 1990 B.S., University of Belgrade, 1984
	Interests:	Control of Large Power Systems, Parallel Computation and Simulation

Biography

Research Interests

Recent Publications

Awards

Courses Taught

Dr. Zecevic's research in the control and computation of large power systems has received continuous funding from the National Science Foundation since 1996. Other external sponsors include the Electric Power Research Institute and Sandia National Laboratories.

Parallel Computation and Simulation - The simulation of large-scale systems represents a major computational challenge, since it typically involves the repeated solution of thousands of equations. In order to do this, it is necessary to develop graph theoretic decomposition algorithms, and use the obtained structural information to parallelize the computation.

• A. I. Zecevic and D. D. Siljak, "Stabilization of nonlinear systems with moving equilibria," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, pp. 1036-1040, 2003.

• A. I. Zecevic and D. D. Siljak, "A parallel Krylov - Newton algorithm for accurate solutions of large, sparse Riccati equations," in Practical Applications of Parallel Computing, L. T. Yang and M. Paprzycki, Eds., New York, Nova Science Publishers, pp. 49-65, 2003.

• A. I. Zecevic and D. Miljkovic, "The effects of generation redispatch on Hopf bifurcations in electric power systems," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol.49, pp. 1180-1186, 2002.

• D. D. Siljak, D. M. Stipanovic and A. I. Zecevic, "Robust decentralized turbine/governor control using linear matrix inequalities," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 17, pp. 715-722, 2002.

• A. I. Zecevic and D. Miljkovic, "Enhancement of voltage stability by an optimal selection of load following units," International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol. 23, pp. 443-450, 2001.

• A. I. Zecevic and N. Gacic, "A partitioning algorithm for the parallel solution of differential - algebraic equations by waveform relaxation," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 46, pp. 421 - 434, 1999.

• A. I. Zecevic and D. D. Siljak, "Parallel solutions of very large sparse Lyapunov equations by balanced BBD decompositions," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 44, pp. 612 - 618, 1999.

• 2003 - President's Faculty Recognition Award
• 2003 - Scholar of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
• 2002 - Researcher of the Year in the School of Engineering
• 1990 - Elected to the Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Honor Society

• Santa Clara University
  • Undergraduate:
    • Electric Circuits I & II (sophomore/junior-level introductory courses)
    • Linear Systems (junior-level introductory course)
    • Fund. of Computer-Aided Circuit Simulation (senior-level technical elective)
    • Modern Network Synthesis and Design (senior-level technical elective)
    • Control Systems (senior-level technical elective)
  • Graduate:
    • Modern Network Analysis I & II (first-year graduate level)
    • Linear Control Systems (first-year graduate level)
    • Fund. of Computer-Aided Circuit Simulation (advanced graduate level)
    • Modern Network Synthesis and Design (advanced graduate level)