Yitian Dai

Yitian Dai received her BEng and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Manchester in 2019 and 2024, respectively. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate within the Supergen Energy Networks Hub at Manchester. Her research interests include cascading blackout analysis and resilience assessment of future low-carbon energy systems. 

During the fellowship, Yitian will develop open, reusable workflows for climate-driven transmission network resilience assessment, covering asset vulnerability modelling, windstorm hazard processing, and probabilistic network simulation. These workflows will be hosted on the DAFNI platform to enable reproducible execution and geospatial visualisation of resilience metrics across large-scale electricity networks. She will share these tools through tutorial demonstrations and written guides, and will co-organise workshops bringing together network operators, regulators, and climate scientists to apply the workflows to real infrastructure challenges and embed them in planning practice.