[2023.12] Dr. Lucien Werner from Caltech presented his work on Pricing Uncertainty in Stochastic Multi-Stage Electricity Markets in our COOL Research Seminar.
[2023.11] Prof. Yue Chen from CUHK was our latest COOL Research Seminar speaker and gave a talk on Unlocking Demand-Side Flexibility for Low-Carbon Energy Systems.
[2023.10] Our paper “Optimal IC Task Mapping to Maximize QoS on Heterogeneous Multicore Systems” was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs!
[2023.10] We invited Prof. Yuanyuan Shi from UCSD to talk about Performance-Guaranteed Learning and Control for Sustainable Energy Systems at our COOL Research Seminar.
[2023.10] Kekun (master student) was awarded the Dean's First-Class Scholarship!
[2023.10] We held a joint symposium between PKU and CUHK-Shenzhen that features ten talks from students!
[2023.10] Our paper “Multi-Agent Cooperative Motion Planning based on Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers” was accepted to IEEE Control Systems Letters!
[2023.09] Chengrui (junior) was awarded Youth Student Basic Research Grant from NSFC to study learning-augmented operations management for electric vehicle charging!
[2023.09] Hengxing (Ph.D. student), Shufan (master student), Hanjiang (master student) joined DESIRES Lab.
[2023.09] Our paper “Market Power Mitigation in Two-stage Electricity Market with Supply Function and Quantity Bidding” was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation!
[2023.08] The COOL Research Seminar featured Prof. Angie Liu from JHU who shared Trustworthy Machine Learning in the Real World: Distributional Robust Extrapolation.
[2023.07] We invited Dr. Xiaohe Luo from Princeton to give a talk on Optimizing Solar Supply Chain: A Stochastic Optimization Approach.
[2023.06] The COOL Research Seminar featured Prof. Weiguo Xia from Dalian Institute of Technology who shared Spectral Properties of Grounded Laplacian and Signed Laplacian Matrices.
[2023.06] The COOL Research Seminar featured Prof. Yulong Gao from Oxford who shared Uncertainty Propagation and Quantification for Safe Control of Linear Systems.
[2023.06] We were awarded a grant from Ali Cloud and Damo Academy to study electricity trading and carbon emission reduction for data centers.
[2023.06] We invited Dr. Zhikun Zhang from Stanford & CISPA to give a talk on Privacy Preservation in Data Life Cycle.
[2023.06] We invited Dr. Jianqi Chen from HKUST to give a talk on Mean-Square Stability Radii for Stochastic Robustness Analysis in the COOL Research Seminar.
[2023.05] The latest COOL Research Seminar featured Prof. Jinlong Lei from Tongji University who discussed Nash Equilibrium Problems with Parametric Uncertainty.
[2023.04] Prof. Gang Wang from Beijing Institute of Technology gave a talk on Data-Driven Control in Network Systems in the COOL Research Seminar.
[2023.04] Prof. Xiuxian Li from Tongji University gave a talk on Distributed Online Optimization and Game in the COOL Research Seminar.
[2023.04] Prof. Jorge Goncalves from University of Luxembourg and University of Cambridge visited us and delivered a talk on Network Inference: From Theory to Application in Biology.
[2023.03] We invited Prof. Warren B. Powell from Princeton to talk about From Reinforcement Learning to Sequential Decision Analytics: Toward a Universal Framework for Sequential Decision Problems in the latest PKU Engineering Science Seminar.
[2023.03] The COOL Research Seminar featured Prof. Chenye Wu from CUHKSZ who shared Data-Driven Operation and Optimization of Modern Power Systems.
[2023.03] Pengcheng was admitted to the Startrack Scholar Program by Microsoft Research Asia.
[2023.02] Prof. Junfeng Wu from CUHKSZ School of Data Science shared his COOL Research on State Estimation in Robotics.
[2023.01] Ms. Ting Zhang joined DESIRES Lab as Laboratory Research Assistant.
[2023.01] Dr. Dan Wang from KTH delivered an online talk on Synchronization of Dynamic Network via Phase Analysis.
[2023.01] Prof. Feng Liu from Tsinghua EE kicked off the COOL Research Seminar in the new year! Find the talk info here.
[2022.12] Pengcheng accepted a joint appointment at National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data Analysis and Applications, Peking University.
[2022.11] We were awarded a grant from Qiyuan Lab to work on theories and applications of reinforcement leaning.
[2022.10] We were excited to have our second speaker Dr. Xiangqi Zhu from NREL for the COOL Research Seminar Series. The talk would cover Distributed System Solutions Enabling DERs to Improve Grid Resilience. Feel free to join us online.
[2022.10] We were awarded a grant from Huawei to work on multi-layer resource management for cloud services.
[2022.09] We were awarded an NSFC grant to study a digital-twin simulator for electric vehicle charging management.
[2022.09] Our newly launched seminar series “Control, Optimization, Operations research, and Learning (COOL) Research Seminar”, co-organized with Prof. Wei Chen and Prof. Wenjun Mei, aims to bring together junior research fellows of related communities to discuss the latest theoretical advances. Prof. Boyu Zhang from Beijing Normal University kicked off the very first talk Evolutionary Game Dynamics over Networks.
[2022.09] Our paper “Constrained Reinforcement Learning via Dissipative Saddle Flow Dynamics” was accepted to the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2022!
[2022.09] Zijian (Ph.D. student), Huilan (master student), and Endong (visiting professor) joined DESIRES Lab.
[2022.08] Xiwen (RA) and Ruishuang (visiting Ph.D. student) joined DESIRES Lab.
[2022.06] We were awarded a grant from the PKU Emerging Engineering Interdisciplinary Project to study participants’ coupled incentives in electricity and carbon markets, as a stepping stone towards carbon neutrality in the electricity sector. This project will be carried out in collaboration with Prof. Yunting Liu from School of Economics, Peking University.
[2022.06] We invited Prof. Adam Wierman from Caltech to give a talk on Learning and Control in Safety-Critical Systems in the PKU Engineering Science Seminar Series. Feel free to join online.
[2022.06] We organized an invited session on Data-Driven Operations Management in POMS International Conference in China (Xi'an, China, June 24 – 27), featuring four interesting talks from rising stars in both academia and industry. Come and join us.
[2022.05] Our paper “Equilibrium Analysis of Electricity Markets with Day-Ahead Market Power Mitigation and Real-Time Intercept Bidding” was accepted to ACM e-Energy 2022!
[2022.04] We invited Prof. Steven H. Low from Caltech to give a talk on Smart Grid Optimization in the PKU Engineering Science Seminar Series. He covered three projects of learning and control in distribution networks. Find the video recording here.
[2022.02] Our paper “A Market Mechanism for Truthful Bidding with Energy Storage” was accepted to Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) 2022!
[2022.02] We organized a special issue on AI, Data Analytics, and Mechanism Design for DER Integration Toward Net Zero. Please consider submitting a paper.
[2022.02] Pengcheng joined PKU (DESIRES Lab established).
