Friday, April 1, 2022 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Event Calendar Category
Other LIDS Events
Speaker Name
Juan M. Morales
Affiliation
University of Málaga
Zoom meeting id
974 6030 4229
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https://mit.zoom.us/j/97460304229
Abstract
The extensive monitoring of the power grid, together with the proliferation of technologies for intelligent metering, control and computations, is allowing us to record, and possibly exploit, the context under which power grids are operated. In this talk, we will show examples of how ideas from the fields of machine learning, optimization and decision-making can be put to work together to develop context-driven methods that improve the solution to challenging problems in power system operations. We will discuss a variety of context-driven methods of different complexity, some of which are surprising for their apparent simplicity but remarkable benefits in terms of computational costs and/or social welfare, proving the huge potential value in the contextual data still to be unleashed.
Biography
Juan M. Morales is currently the head of the research group OASYS ― Optimization and Analytics for Sustainable Energy Systems at the University of Málaga in Spain, where he also holds a tenured associate professorship position in the Department of Applied Mathematics. Juan M. Morales received his M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Málaga and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. In 2011, he was awarded a Hans Christian Ørsted research fellowship by the Technical University of Denmark, where he was also an associate professor in Stochastic Optimization in Energy Systems within the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, until 2016. Juan M. Morales’s expertise lies in the fields of Data Analytics and Optimization, with particular focus on their applications to Energy Engineering and Economics, to which he has contributed a number of technical publications, including two monographs on the challenges of a fossil-free energy sector. He is a recipient of a Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council for his project “Advanced Analytics to Empower the Small Flexible Consumers of Electricity,” a Senior Member of IEEE, and a current member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and the Springer journal TOP (the official journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research).