[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).
