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The U-Smart lab is currently looking for talented and self-motivated Postdoctoral Scholars and PhD students who are passionate to pursue their PhD degree towards shaping the future sustainable and resilient power and energy systems. The Postdoctoral Scholars and PhD students will work on funded projects and receive competitive salary and benefits.

We are specifically looking for candidates with one or more majors in electrical engineering, industrial engineering, operations research, computer science and economics. The prospective students should have strong knowledge base in mathematical optimization techniques and economics, preferably in the context of power and energy systems.

If you feel confident about your qualifications, please send your CV and a representative paper to Dr. Parvania. Candidates for PhD studies should also review and satisfy the admission requirements of the ECE department for graduate studies.

Rebecca Novy, an undergraduate student at the U-Smart lab, is selected to receive an award from the IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative for the 2016/2017 academic year.

Rebecca is an outstanding student interested in power and energy systems, and passionate about pursuing her career in the power industry. She is also vice-chair of the IEEE PES Student Chapter at the University of Utah’s ECE Department, helping other students to learn more about the power and energy systems.

The award is very selective. Only 230 students across the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico receive the award. The award is given to undergraduate students in electrical engineering who have expressed interest in the power and energy field and who have maintained high GPAs. The $2,000 annual award is renewable for up to three years.

The 10th Annual Trans-Atlantic Infraday Conference was held at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington, DC, on Thursday, November 10, 2016. More info at the conference website: http://systems.jhu.edu/10th-annual-trans-atlantic-infraday-conference/

Dr. Parvania presented at the confernece on “Continuous-time Marginal Pricing in Electricity Markets”. The presentation was based on a recently published paper on continuous-time marginal pricing of electricity in power systems.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) held a technical conference on June 27-29, 2016 to discuss opportunities for increasing real-time and day-ahead market efficiency through improved software.
Dr. Parvania presented at the conference on recent developments on novel continuous-time Unit Commitment (UC) model for power systems operation. The new continuous-time UC model schedules for continuous-time power and ramping trajectories of generating units. In addition, the model enables the continuous-time marginal pricing of electricity in power systems. The presentation is available online here.

 

Dr. Parvania receives a National Science Foundation (NSF) Award for his new development on continuous-time flexiblity scheduling in electricity markets. The research offers a solution for the ramping scarcity problem in electricity markets with providing a continuous-time schedule for the generating units in day-ahead electricity markets, thus naturally taking care of sub-houlry and fast ramping of renewable energy resources.