Date: April 15, 2019
Time: 11:00am
Location: Davis Auditorium
Speaker: Prof. Anna Scaglione
Faculty Host: Professor Gil Zussman

Abstract: The past ten years of research had produced a variety of models for managing flexible electric loads, by enabling a more efficient dynamic pricing of electricity that would alleviate congestion in the grid. Many believe that this is a necessary component to support integration of renewable power. However, real change has been hard to come by in practice. The goal of this talk is to review such models, highlighting the difference between distributed algorithms, that seek to decompose the problem, and aggregate representations that map large populations of flexible loads onto spinning reserves, to interface the whole sale electricity market. The objective is to highlight the challenges that exist in transforming and remaining compatible with the established retail and wholesale market practices and how new abstractions may be necessary to rip the benefits of flexible load as a viable alternative to bulk power storage.

Bio: Anna Scaglione (M.Sc.'95, Ph.D. '99) is currently a Professor of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. She was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering previously at the University of California at Davis (2008-2014) and at Cornell University (2001-2008), where she became Associate Professor with tenure in 2006. Prior to joining the engineering faculty at Cornell, Scaglione was an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico (2000-2001). Dr. Scaglione’s expertise is in the broad area of statistical signal processing with application to communication networks, electric power systems/intelligent infrastructure and network science. She was elected as Fellow of IEEE in 2011, honored by both the Signal Processing and the Communication Societies. She was Editor in Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters in (2012-2013) and served as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2002 to 2005. From 2008 to 2011, she served on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2008, where she was area editor in 2010-11. She is currently serving as Senior Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems. She was General Chair of the SPAWC 2005 workshop and of the Signal Processing for Communication Committee from 2004 to 2009. She has been an IEEE SmartGridComm Conference steering committee member since 2010, and was on board of governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society during 2011-2014, and was member of the SPS Awards Board in 2016-2017. She has also served in a number of IEEE conference technical committees and as Technical Chair for DCOSS 2010, SmartgridComm 2012 and GlobalSIP 2013, as well as Guest Editor for several special issues for IEEE journals and magazines.

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