Technical Program

Day 1: March 5, 2020

08:00 - 08:30 Registration + Breakfast

08:30 - 09:00 Welcome from NSF + organizers

    • Linda Blevins (Deputy Assistant Director Engineering, NSF)
    • Erwin Gianchandani (Deputy Assistant Director CISE, NSF)
    • Fil Bartoli (Division Director ECCS, NSF)
    • Tony Kuh (Program Director ECCS, NSF)
    • Sairaj Dhople (University of Minnesota)

09:00 - 09:45 Keynote 1: Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota) "AI for Power Grid Monitoring and Control"

09:45 - 10:00 Break

10:00 - 11:30 Panel 1: Power systems data generation/collection and open problems [Moderator: Hao Zhu, Scribe: Nikolaos Gatsis]

    • Thomas Overbye (Texas A&M University) "Electric Grid Modeling and Data Challenges Associated with Machine Learning Applications"
    • Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "Data-driven Coordination of Power Distribution System Assets"
    • Yilu Liu (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville) "Beyond today’s Synchrophasor"

11:30 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:00 Panel 2: Machine learning applications and challenges [Moderator: Yan Liu, Scribe: Anurag Srivastava]

    • Le Xie (Texas A&M University) "Adaptive and resilient protective relay in solar-rich distribution grid: A nested Reinforcement Learning Approach"
    • Lang Tong (Cornell University) "GAN up against bad and evil data"
    • Nikolaos Sidiropoulos (University of Virginia) "Physics-Aware Neural Networks for Distribution System State Estimation"
    • Sean Meyn (University of Florida) "Reinforcement Learning: Challenges and Opportunities for a Smarter Power Grid"

14:00 - 14:30 Break

14:30 - 15:15 Keynote 2: Nicole Hu (One Concern) "Using Non-traditional Technologies to Augment Physical Modeling in Disaster Resilience"

15:15 - 17:00 Panel 3: Perspectives from NSF centers and other funding agencies [Moderator: Tony Kuh, Scribe: Vijay Gupta]

    • Xiaoming Huo (Georgia Tech) "Transdisciplinary Research Institute for Advancing Data Science"
    • Stephen Wright (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Perspectives from TRIPODS Institutes"
    • Lalitha Sankar (Arizona State University) "Real-time Integration of Synchrophasors in the Electric Grid: An HDR I-DIRSE Data Science Perspective "
    • Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Pennsylvania) "The Practical Importance of Foundational Research on Artificial Intelligence: A Power Distribution System Case Study"
    • Tassos Golnas (Department of Energy) "Grid Integration of Solar Power: Opportunities for AI/ML applications"

17:00 - 17:30 Break + Poster Session Setup

17:30 - 18:30 Poster Session [Chairs: Laurent Lessard, Subhonmesh Bose] + Refreshments

Day 2: March 6, 2020

08:00 - 08:30 Breakfast + short summary from day 1

08:30 - 09:15 Keynote 3: Jeannette Wing (Columbia University) "Data for Good: Ensuring the Responsible Use of Data to Benefit Society"

09:15 - 10:00 Keynote 4: Eugene Litvinov (ISO New England) "Future Grid Analysis and Control Needs New Approaches"

10:00 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 12:00 Breakouts (in parallel)

      • PES + transportation [Moderators: Yueyue Fan, Mahnoosh Alizadeh; Scribe: Baosen Zhang]
      • PES + critical infrastructures [Moderators: Paul Hines, Line Roald; Scribe: Vassilis Kekatos]
      • PES + robotics [Moderators: Mihailo Jovanovic, Sonja Glavaski; Scribe: Oumar Barry]

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch + Breakout outcomes

13:00 - 13:45 Breakout outcomes / discussions

13:45 - 14:00 Break

14:00 - 14:45 Closing + discussion + next steps