Shan Jiang, ph.d. is a technical support and simulation engineer at the manitoba hvdc research centre since 2010. shan has over 10 years of experience in the field of engineering. he received his b.sc. and m.sc. degrees from chongqing universityin china in 1989 and 1992 respectively, and completed his ph.d. at theuniversity of manitoba in 2011. He has been involved in power system control andfacts, small signal stability, model validation, and has extensive experience in power simulation software, pscad.