November 鈥25 (edited)Sanjoy Banerjee and I are recruiting one PhD student in the framework of the Translational Research Excellence Across Disciplines (TREAD) program funded by the Dept. of Ed (EDIT: TREAD website with more details about program priorities and framework here). Our work will focus on identifying battery chemistries and plan battery deployments for cost-optimal load management of residential and small commercial US customers. We aim to improve existing programs and yield savings of at least 10% per household or business in 5 years. We will go beyond the peak鈥 Read More 禄
October 2025In the past few weeks the Climate Change AI Initiative introduced me to 2 reporters for input on the matter of the recent peaking interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its effects to electrical grids and electricity markets.Recent AI breakthroughs have meant the rampant growth of data center deployment and their load demand. For those unfamiliar with the topic, Machine Learning (ML), a branch of AI, requires training data to extract statistical mapping from certain types of input to patterns, knowledge or forecasting of trends or phenomena. At the current stage鈥 Read More 禄
November 2024On December 2nd I will be heading out to the Tandon School of Engineering of NYU, invited by Yuzhang Lin to contribute to a workshop sponsored by the Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO) of the Dept. of Energy in the framework of the awarded research grant 鈥淕raph-Learning-Assisted State and Event Tracking for Solar-Penetrated Power Grids with Heterogeneous Data Sources.鈥 My contribution will be on Optimal Power Flow (OPF) solver with Machine Learning and how to effectively approximate the OPF for distribution grids.With the new year and on Jan. 22nd, I will be in鈥 Read More 禄
October 2024Many thanks to Prof. Anurag Srivastava, West Virginia University, and Prof. Anuradha Annaswamy, MIT, for inviting me to their NSF-supported workshop on 鈥淓nabling Cyber-Resilient Distribution Systems with Edge Inverter-Based Resources (IBR)鈥 at MIT, Boston, on Saturday Oct. 19th. I reviewed my work on digital twins of distribution transformers and overhead conductors and made the case for why digital twins of IBRs are becoming imminently necessary, if we wish to maintain a high level of reliability, stability and security in electrical grids with high shares of鈥 Read More 禄
November 2023With the start of the 2023-24 academic semester at my new academic home, the Dept. of EE at the CCNY of the CUNY, I had little time to announce in advance and thank the hosts for inviting me to offer talks and seminars at their institutions. That been said, I owe some gratitude and will also give some heads-up for next events that you can catch me at. Here we go!Starting from the upcoming seminars, I am delighted beyond what words can describe to be returning to Greece and Cyprus to present my recent works at the Dept. of ECE at the University of Patras on Tuesday鈥 Read More 禄
May 2023I am ecstatic to announce that on Aug. 1st I will be joining the Dept. of Electrical Engineering within the Grove School of Engineering at t九色视频 (CCNY), as Assistant Professor. It is amazing to join an Institution with 175 years of history, founded as the first tuition-free college in the US (until 1976), and which still strives to provide wider access to higher education for all. Two units within CCNY have been named after notable alumni, who decisively redefined their course with their donations and leadership: the Colin Powell School for Civic鈥 Read More 禄
January 2023Prof. Fran Li, the EiC of the IEEE Open Access Journal of Power & Energy (OAJPE), kindly informed me I have been awarded the Outstanding Associate Editor (AE) recognition for 2022. It is always exciting to realize you are doing your job well, let alone in a nascent publication with exciting trajectory, immense potential and a respectful and strong Open Access policy. I would have not received this recognition without the expert Reviewers that accept my invitations and contribute their thoughtful and in-depth comments on the manuscripts submitted to the IEEE OAJPE鈥 Read More 禄
December 2022With the Inflation Reduction Act in the US and similar incentivizing initiatives all over the world, the clean energy transition is 鈥 more or less (and hopefully!) 鈥 set on long-term and fast(er) tracks. In this context, the roles and impact of grid modernization, its digitalization and the broader space of (what we call) the 鈥渟mart grid鈥 become rather interesting. This is because the electricity sector has never 鈥 practically 鈥 suffered from lack of capital. So one may ask why would the recently introduced frameworks matter and justify expectations for significant鈥 Read More 禄
November 2022I am honored and humbled by my dear friend鈥檚, Dr. Philip Pong鈥榮, invitation to offer the keynote speech at the 1st edition of the North Jersey Research Student Conference. The Conference will be held on December 9th at the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. I am particularly happy, as this initiative aims first and foremost to promote and encourage students鈥 research at all levels within the dept. of ECE at NJIT; postdocs, PhD, MSc and undergraduate students will be presenting their most recent research results鈥 Read More 禄
November 2022It is always a joy to join (albeit remotely) the co-organizer of the Newcastle University Optimization Group Webinars, my old student, the very hard-working and inspiring researcher Dr. Ilias Sarantakos. On, Nov. 21st at 14:00 15:00 (London time) I will be presenting my recently published paper at the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution journal on the solution of the AC OPF with the machine learning tool of top-down heuristically inducted binary decision trees (hiBDT). I strongly urge you to register and follow the Group鈥檚 webinar series here. They also鈥 Read More 禄
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