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-### ***2024-12-12:*** Notice to Prospective Researchers and Students
-I will NOT be recruiting any graduate students (MSc and PhD) to join my team for the foreseeable future.
-
-I have been on sabbatical from August 2023 to August 2024 and, unfortunately, I have not managed to obtain any new research grants (in other words, many grant applications have been rejected :-( ). Consequently, I will NOT be looking for any new students in the near future. 
-My current priority is to find funds to support my existing group of students, however, if funding becomes available, I may start looking for new students to join in Fall 2026.
-
-Please do not email me with requests and questions about joining my research program because I will not have available funding to support additional students. 
-See more information about how funding/support schemes for  [here](https://alsetlab.github.io/students/).
+### ***2025-02-18:*** Notice to Prospective Researchers and Students
+- Please see the information [here](https://alsetlab.github.io/students/) for students, researchers, etc., looking to join my team.
 
 ### About this Website
 This is the website of Prof. Luigi Vanfretti and ALSETLab (a research group and a laboratory) at the department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
 
-**If you are a student, and would like to enquire how to join my team, please see this page:** [Join!](https://alsetlab.github.io/students/)
-
 ### About ALSETLab
 ALSETLab is the name of Luigi's research group and also the real-time hardware-in-the-loop laboratory facility built for research at RPI. The acronym stands for (ALSET: Analysis Laboratory for Synchrophasor and Electrical energy Technology) and (Lab: for Laboratory). Click on "The Lab!" in the navigation bar to see what "The Lab!" is all about.
 
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 ### About Luigi Vanfretti
 Luigi Vanfretti received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electric power engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He is a Full Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, since July 2022, where he was a tenured Associate Professor from 2017-6/2022-6. At RPI, he leads research projects in his laboratory and with his research team, ALSETLab, in the domains of electrical power systems and aircraft electrification.
 
-Professor Vanfretti has held temporary posts in prestigious international institutions, in 2019 he was a Visiting Faculty at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; in 2022 he was a Visiting Professor at both the Laboratoire Ampère of the École Centrale de Lyon and the SuperGrid Institute, both located in Lyon, France, and from 2023-2024 he was Visiting Faculty at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., Cambridge MA. He has also been a Visiting Researcher during summer of 2023 at Laboratoire Ampère of the École Centrale de Lyon and the SuperGrid Institute, both located in Lyon, France, 
+Professor Vanfretti has held temporary posts in prestigious international institutions, in 2019 he was a Visiting Faculty at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; in 2022 he was a Visiting Professor at both the Laboratoire Ampère of the École Centrale de Lyon and the SuperGrid Institute, both located in Lyon, France, and from 2023-2024 he was Visiting Faculty at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., Cambridge MA. He has also been a Visiting Researcher during summer of 2023 at Laboratoire Ampère of the École Centrale de Lyon. 
 
 In addition to his academic duties, through Vanfretti Consulting LLC, Dr. Vanfretti serves as a consultant for utilities and research institutions, including Dominion Energy in VA, the SuperGrid Institute in Lyon, France, and CENACE (the power system operator of Ecuador), Quito, Ecuador, to name a few.
 
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 His research interests are in “electrified systems,”' and include cyber-physical system (CPS) modeling, simulation, stability and control in the domains of power grid and electrified transportation, both vehicles and infrastructure. In addition, he performs research on synchrophasor technologies, both on technology development and data analytics, and is interested in the application of software technologies, signal processing, system identification and machine learning for design and operation analytics for CPS.
 
-Here's a (old) picture of Luigi:
+Here's a picture of Luigi from 2024:
 
 ![luigixsmall](https://alsetlab.github.io/images/luigi_small.jpg "Small Picture")
 
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 Services are provided to institutions as well as individuals. Some of the companies to which consulting services have been provided to include:
 
 - Industry:
-  - [2024 - present] Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., USA
+  - [2025 - present] CompassBlue, Cazenovia, NY, USA
+  - [2024] Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., USA
   - [2022 - present] New York Power Authority, USA
   - [2020 - present] Dominion Energy Virginia, USA
   - [2019 - 2023] SuperGrid Institute, France
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 ## Website and Email
 - Website: [ALSETLab.com](http://www.ALSETLab.com)
-- GMAIL E-mail: <mailto:luigi.vanfretti@gmail.com>
-- Please don't send emails to my @rpi.edu address, your email might be blocked by the university servers.
+- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute E-mail: [Click Here](mailto:vanfrl@rpi.edu?subject=Your%20Subject&body=Body%20text)
+
 
 # Abridged CV
 - Please see my LinkedIn profile [here](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanfretti/), it is kept up to date more frequently.
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 - 2017 – 2022/6: Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, U.S.A.
 
 #### Part-time appointments:
+- 2023/8 - 2024/3: Visiting Faculty, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., Cambridge, MA, USA.
 - 2023/6 - 2023/07:	Visiting Researcher, École Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France.
 - 2022/7: Visiting Professor, SuperGrid Institute, Lyon, France.
 - 2022/6:	Invited Professor (Enseignant Invité), École Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France.
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-### ***2024-12-12:*** Notice to Prospective Researchers and Students
+### ***2025-02-18:*** Notice to Prospective Researchers and Students
 I will NOT be recruiting any graduate students (MSc and PhD) to join my team for the foreseeable future.
 
 I have been on sabbatical from August 2023 to August 2024 and, unfortunately, I have not managed to obtain any new research grants (in other words, many grant applications have been rejected :-( ). Consequently, I will NOT be looking for any new students in the near future. 
-My current priority is to find funds to support my existing group of students, however, if funding becomes available, I may start looking for new students to join in Fall 2026.
+
+My current priority is to find funds to support my existing group of students, however, in the unlikely event that more funding than expected becomes available, I may start looking for new students to join in Fall 2027.
 
 Please do not email me with requests and questions about joining my research program because I will not have available funding to support additional students. 
 See more information about how funding/support schemes for  [here](https://alsetlab.github.io/students/).
diff --git a/_pages/recruiting.md b/_pages/recruiting.md
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-### ***2024-12-12:*** Notice to Prospective Researchers and Students
+### ***2025-02-18:*** Notice to Prospective Researchers and Students
 I will NOT be recruiting any graduate students (MSc and PhD) to join my team for the foreseeable future.
 
 I have been on sabbatical from August 2023 to August 2024 and, unfortunately, I have not managed to obtain any new research grants (in other words, many grant applications have been rejected :-( ). Consequently, I will NOT be looking for any new students in the near future. 
-My current priority is to find funds to support my existing group of students, however, if funding becomes available, I may start looking for new students to join in Fall 2026.
+
+My current priority is to find funds to support my existing group of students, however, in the unlikely event that more funding than expected becomes available, I may start looking for new students to join in Fall 2027.
 
 Please do not email me with requests and questions about joining my research program because I will not have available funding to support additional students. 
 See more information about how funding/support schemes for  [here](https://alsetlab.github.io/students/).
diff --git a/_pages/research.md b/_pages/research.md
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 # Research Projects
 ## Current Research Projects
-- (2022 - 2024) NSF-funded project: "Enhanced Power System Resiliency through Adaptive Automatic Remedial Action Selection using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning", with [Dr. Tetiana Bogodorova](https://ecse.rpi.edu/people/research-scientist/tetiana-bogodorova) as CO-PI.
-  - Abstract: see the published abstract in NSF's website, [here](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2231677).
-  - Note: to be completed in 2025, under 6-month no cost extension.
-- (2020 - 2024) DOE-funded project "OpTEN": [Optimal Co-Design of Integrated Thermal-Electrical Networks and Control Systems for Grid-interactive Efficient District (GED) Energy Systems](https://sites.psu.edu/sbslab/research/city/grid-interactive-efficient-district-energy-system/).
-  - Abstract: see project website [here](https://sites.psu.edu/sbslab/research/city/grid-interactive-efficient-district-energy-system/) and a summary slide-set (circa 2022) [here](https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/3.07%20-%20Baker%20and%20Zuo.pdf).
-  - Note: to be completed in 2025, under 6-month no cost extension.
+- (2025) New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) Funded Project: "Dynamic Modeling of Voltage Source Converters for Black Start Capability Analysis".
+  - Abstract: To aid the NYISO better determine the potential application of VSC-HVDC “black start” capabilities currently adopted in the field, this project addresses fundamental aspects of VSC-HVDC modeling and simulation. The project will derive and implement the required models to analyze the operation of VSC-HVDC for black start capabilities, both using “conventional” black start control loops as implemented in the field and alternative control configurations.
 
 To be updated, some may be missing...
 
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 ## Past Research
 ### Past Funded Research in the USA (Partial List, incomplete, ask for more details if interested)
+- (2022 - 2025) NSF-funded project: "Enhanced Power System Resiliency through Adaptive Automatic Remedial Action Selection using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning", with [Dr. Tetiana Bogodorova](https://ecse.rpi.edu/people/research-scientist/tetiana-bogodorova) as CO-PI.
+  - Abstract: see the published abstract in NSF's website, [here](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2231677).
+  - Note: being completed in 2025, under 6-month no cost extension.
+- (2020 - 2025) DOE-funded project "OpTEN": [Optimal Co-Design of Integrated Thermal-Electrical Networks and Control Systems for Grid-interactive Efficient District (GED) Energy Systems](https://sites.psu.edu/sbslab/research/city/grid-interactive-efficient-district-energy-system/).
+  - Abstract: see project website [here](https://sites.psu.edu/sbslab/research/city/grid-interactive-efficient-district-energy-system/) and a summary slide-set (circa 2022) [here](https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/3.07%20-%20Baker%20and%20Zuo.pdf).
+  - Note: being completed in 2025, under 6-month no cost extension.
 - (2024) New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) Funded Project: "Analysis of Embedded High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Links in a Synchronous Dispatch Zone".
   - Abstract: High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) technologies have been adopted for the development of two important projects in New York State, the Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) and Clean Path New York (CPNY, https://www.cleanpathny.com/). CHPE will link New York City with clean energy resources in Quebec through underwater and underground HVDC facilities for 339 mi (546 km) and at a rating of 1,200 MW. Meanwhile, CPNY will build a 175 mi (28 km) underground and submarine link from Delaware County and the Hudson River transporting up to 1,300 MW. To understand the amount of power these HVDC lines will carry, consider the Robert Moses Niagara Hydroelectric Power Station, NYS’ largest electricity producer that has an installed capacity of 2,525 MW. This implies that roughly, each of this HVDC lines will transport ½ Niagara’s capacity, and consequently, any factors that impact their operation would have important consequences to reliability and resiliency of the overall NYS grid. More importantly, while CHPE is asynchronous (i.e., its terminals are in two non-synchronized grids), CPNY is within a single dispatch zone operated by the NYISO. Consequently, continuous operation of HVDC lines must be carefully planned out through steady-state, dynamic and electro-magnetic transient studies to avoid unforeseen technical operational challenges that if not properly addressed, may result in the malfunctioning, poor operation, under-performance of such advanced technologies. This project aims to address some fundamental aspects of these embedded HVDC links.
 
