Tomas Dy-Liacco

Tomas Enciso Dy-Liacco (November 12, 1920 – October 24, 2019) was a Filipino-American electrical engineer, researcher, and developer often referred to as the father of modern energy control centers.

Dy-Liacco is one of the early pioneers of the basic concepts of security control. He developed several industry-first applications of advanced real-time functions in control centers. He also served as an international consultant on SCADA/EMS (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition/Energy Management System), Distribution Management Systems (DMS) and hydro power plant automation, assisting in the planning, implementation and testing of nearly 40 control center projects in more than 20 countries.

He then went to the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and received a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1955. In 1968 he received his PhD in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. which won an IEEE Power Group Prize Paper Award in 1968,

Affiliations He was awarded Life Fellow of IEEE in 1975

He was the founder and organizer of the International Workshop on Electric Power Control Centers held biennially in Europe, a member of PES, and an active member of committees and working groups of IEEE, IFAC, and CIGRE.

His other affiliations included: Sigma Pi Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, the Instrument Society of American, the Tensor Society of Great Britain, and the EEI Engineering and Technical Systems Computer Committee.