This is a preliminary program subject to change.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
7:00 - 9:00 pm Registration, reception, and dinner to be held at the hotel
Sheraton La Jolla, Executive Room
Welcome: Rajesh Gupta, University of California, San Diego
Overview of MPE and MPE 2013+ and of this workshop: Fred Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers University
Monday, September 29, 2014
7:30 - 8:15 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast at meeting site
8:15 - 8:30 Opening Remarks:
Yuvraj Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University
Mario Berges, Carnegie Mellon University
Rajesh Gupta, University of California, San Diego
Zico Kolter, Carnegie Mellon University
Balarkrishnan Narayanaswamy (Murali), University of California, San Diego
Fred Roberts, Rutgers University and DIMACS
8:30 - 9:55 Session A1: Sensing: Yuvraj Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:
8:30 - 9:05 Model-IQ: Low-cost Model Capture, Control Design and Tools for Energy-Efficient Buildings
Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania
9:05 - 9:40 From Buildings to Smart Buildings
Yuvraj Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University
Short Talks:
9:40 - 9:55 Minimizing Data Storage for High Granularity Energy Data Collection
Zhichuan Huang, University of Maryland
9:55 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 12:00 Session A2, Part 1: Data/Information Processing: Yuvraj Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:
10:15 - 10:50 Increasing Consumer Flexibility by Demand-Side Resource Matching
Ram Rajagopal, Stanford University
10:50 - 11:25 11 Insights Made Possible by High Resolution Disaggregated Data on Residential Electricity Use
Brewster McCracken, Pecan Street
11:25 - 12:00 Data Driven Investigation of Faults in HVAC Systems
Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy, UC San Diego
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (Optional Tour of Micro-grid instead of lunch)
1:00 - 1:45 Session A2, Part 2: Data/Information Processing: Yuvraj Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University
Short Talks:
1:00 - 1:15 Distributed Independent Actuation for Irrigation Control
Daniel Winkler, UC Merced
1:15 - 1:30 SolarCast: An Open Service to Predict Solar Power in the Black Box Setting
Srinivasan Iyengar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1:30 - 1:45 Beyond Binary Occupancy: Non-Intrusive Sensing of Occupancy Level and Occupant Identities
Wentao Ouyang, UCLA
1:45 - 3:10 Session A3, Part 1: Smart Grid: Balarkrishnan Narayanaswamy (Murali), University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:
1:45 - 2:20 A New Paradigm for Building Data and Control: Linking Internal and External Networks for Greater Energy Efficiency and Grid Integration
Mary Ann Piette, LBNL
2:20 - 2:55 Algorithmic Decision Theory and the Smart Grid
Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers University
Short Talks:
2:55 - 3:10 Optimizing Demand Response for Smart Grid
Zhenhua Liu, LBNL & Stony Brook University
3:10 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:15 Session A4: Preliminary Open Discussion: Next Steps for MPE2013+ and Data-aware Energy Use: Fred Roberts, Rutgers University
4:15 - 5:00 Demo Session: Bharatan Balaji, UCSD
4:15 - 4:40 Short Term Solar Forecasting Using Sky Imagery and Its Potential Application in Control and Optimization for a Smart Grid
Kleissl Lab
4:40 - 5:00 UCSD Microgrid PI system: Leveraging large data in a campus microgrid
Natasha Balac, San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)
5:00 - 5:35 Session A3, Part 2: Smart Grid: Bharatan Balaji, UCSD
Invited Speakers:
5:00 - 5:35 Towards More Automated Engagement of Electrical Appliances in the Smart Grid
Mario Berges, Carnegie Mellon University
7:00 - 9:00 Banquet at the hotel
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
8:00 - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast at meeting site
8:30 - 10:30 Session B1, Part 1: Smart Homes and Buildings: Zico Kolter, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:
8:30 - 9:05 Model-driven Energy Management for Smart Buildings
David Irwin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
9:05 - 9:40 Sensing Infrastructures for Building Analytics
Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles
9:40 - 10:15 Lab of Things: An extensible platform for Home Sensing, Data Collection, and Actuation
A. J. Brush, Microsoft Research
Short Talks:
10:15 - 10:30 Energy Analysis of HVAC Systems in Commercial Buildings
Bharatan Balaji, UCSD
10:30 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:35 Session B1, Part 2: Smart Homes and Buildings: Zico Kolter, Carnegie Mellon University
Short Talks:
10:50 - 11:05 Data-driven Building Model Capture for Economic Energy Demand Control
Madhur Behl, University of Pennsylvania
11:05 - 11:20 Agents Vote for the Environment: Designing Energy-Efficient Architecture
Leandro Soriano Marcolino, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
11:20 - 11:35 Optimal HVAC Building Control with Occupancy Prediction
Alex Beltran, UC Merced
11:35 - 12:10 Session B2, Part 1: Load balancing: Balarkrishnan Narayanaswamy (Murali), University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:
11:35 - 12:10 Data centers and energy: Did we get it backwards
Adam Wierman, California Institute of Technology
12:10 - 1:30 Lunch + Poster Session
1:30 - 3:45 Session B2, Part 2: Load balancing: Adam Wierman, California Institute of Technology
Short Talks:
1:30 - 1:45 Fair Load-side Control for Frequency Regulation in Smart Grids
Enrique Mallada, Caltech
1:45 - 2:00 Competition and Coalition Formation of Renewable Power Producers
Baosen Zhang, Stanford University
2:00 - 2:15 Placement and Control of Energy Storage in the Grid: a System Operator's Viewpoint
Subhonmesh Bose, Cornell University
2:15 - 2:30 SmartShift: Expanded Load Shifting Incentive Mechanism for Risk-averse Consumers
Bochao Shen, Northeastern University
2:30 - 2:45 Spatio-Temporal Workload Deferral in Data Centers for Energy Efficiency
Mohammad Adnan, University of California, San Diego
2:45 - 3:00 AMI data for Advanced Distribution Automation
Vahraz Zamani, University of California, San Diego
3:00 - 3:15 Using Behavioral Science to Make an Impact with Energy Data in the Field
Nicole Sintov, ISI at USC
3:15 - 3:30 Net load forecasting for communities with distributed and centralized solar generation
Amanpreet Kaur, UCSD
3:30 - 3:45 Exploiting Flexible Loads for Renewable Integration
Borhan Sanandaji, University of California, Berkeley
3:45 - 4:05 Break
4:05 - 5:25 Session B3: Education for Planet Earth of Tomorrow:
Energy, Fred Roberts, Rutgers University and DIMACS
Invited Speakers:
4:05 - 4:40 Teach Your Children Well: Planning for Sustainability
Tamra Carpenter, DIMACS, Rutgers University
Short Talks:
4:40 - 4:55 Issues related to Energy Consumption in STEM Education
Joyati Debnath, Winona State University
4:55 - 5:25 Panel Discussion: Next Steps for Education in Data-aware Energy Use
Panelists: Tamra Carpenter, Joyati Debnath, Fred Roberts, Rajesh Gupta
5:25 - 6:00 Session B4: Localized Electrical Energy Reduction, Generation, and Sharing: Mario Berges, Carnegie Mellon University
Invited Speakers:
5:25 - 6:00 Taking off in a Universal Energy Information Plane
David Culler, University of California-Berkeley
6:00 Dinner on your own
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
8:00 - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast at meeting site
8:30 - 9:00 Session C1, Part 1: Decision Making and policy: Rajesh Gupta, University of California, San Diego
Short Talks:
8:30 - 8:45 Bioenergy Sustainability Assessment: Mathematical approaches to protocol development
Nathan Pollesch, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
8:45 - 9:00 Integration Strategies for High Penetration of Photovoltaics Using Solar Forecasting, Control, and Optimization
Dung Nguyen, University of California, San Diego
9:00 - 10:00 Session C2: Talk by Gary Mathews, University of California, San Diego
10:00 - 10:35 Session C1, Part 2: Decision Making and policy: Rajesh Gupta, University of California, San Diego
Invited Speakers:
10:00 - 10:35 On the Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
Bruno Sinopoli, Carnegie Mellon University
10:35 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Session C3: Continued Open Discussion: Next Steps for MPE2013+ and Data-aware Energy Use; Fred Roberts, Rutgers University
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