Miscellaneous Projects

Interoperability of Legacy Devices:

• Defined the scope of the workshop, and invited over 20 researchers from buildings, transportation, and the electric grid.
• Planned the structure of the workshop, which consisted of 4 plenary kick-off presentations and small-group breakout sessions to discuss each of the topics and a plenary summary session.
• Organized a half-day workshop with a selected group of experts from each domain.
• Wrote a tech report about the findings of the workshop (under review).

Power Systems:

• Supported the planning and feasibility analysis for the deployment of an Internet of Things (IoT) cluster of 600+ Raspberry Pi devices.
• Mentored junior staff on the development of transfer functions representing load profiles of different energy end use applications.
• Compiled a commercial buildings dataset for all metropolitan and micropolitan areas in the US by fusing over 10 data sources. This dataset serves as a basis for realistic emulation of distributed energy resources (DER) for whole metropolitan areas.
• Planned and built a Grafana dashboard for real-time observation of data from the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) research platform, including system state, power flow and measurements of energy generation, consumption, and storage for 4 energy sources and 6 research assets.
• Ensured relevance and validated correctness of dashboard elements through collaboration with domain experts.

Hydrological Mesh Optimization:

• Mentored a Postbachelor employee on pit removal in hydrological surface meshes.
• Designed an algorithm to identify and remove topological inconsistencies between digital elevation models for hydrology and line strings of rivers.