Radha Krishna Moorthy, a researcher in ORNL’s Grid Research Innovation and Development Center, will brainstorm with other early-career engineers at a national symposium in September. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL
Radha Krishna Moorthy, a grid researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is among 74 highly accomplished, early-career engineers chosen to participate in the 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium of the National Academy of Engineering.
Invited participants from industry, academia, and government were nominated by their peers for exceptional research. They will attend the symposium Sept. 14-17 at the University of Pennsylvania, bringing technical expertise from a variety of engineering disciplines to collaborate toward advances in the rapidly-evolving fields of neural engineering, fusion energy, aerial mobility and next-generation/quantum computing.
Since joining ORNL in 2019, Krishna Moorthy has focused on grid modernization technologies in the Energy Science and Technology Directorate. As a member of the Grid Systems Architecture Group, Krishna Moorthy uses both simulation and hardware to validate grid system architectures and frameworks for intelligent and autonomous systems. Krishna Moorthy is a senior member of the international Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers who leads a key research initiative focused on solid-state power substations, for which she holds multiple patents.
Since the program began in 1995, more than 5,000 early-career engineers have participated, many of them growing into national leadership in the engineering community.
