Vibhu Kaushik

Director of Grid Technology and Modernization
Southern California Edison

As the Director of Grid Technology and Modernization at SCE, Vibhu leads SCE's strategic roadmap for grid modernization, and serves as SCE's leader in applied research and grid modernization, leading industry groups and external stakeholders on industry initiatives, research activities, standards and cooperative projects. He also leads SCE's technical efforts in deployment of emerging technologies including key integrated pilot demonstration projects.

Prior to joining SCE in 2011, Vibhu was section head for generation operations planning group at Manitoba Hydro's system control center in Canada, where he lead the team responsible for generation reliability, generation modeling and optimal utilization, and outage management functions.

Vibhu earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from University of Manitoba, Canada. He is also a registered professional engineer. He is currently pursuing an executive MBA from UCLA Anderson.