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SEAS presents a seminar with Le Xie, Texas A&M University.
SEAS presents a seminar with Le Xie, Texas A&M University.
The urgency of combating climate change requires an “all hands on deck” approach. How to model, analyze, control, and connect new technological innovations in the electric energy system plays a crucial role in speeding up climate change solutions at scale. This talk presents a large-scale cyber-physical-human modeling framework for evaluating the role of digitization in accelerating energy system decarbonization. The physical modeling will be illustrated through a streaming data-driven anomaly localization for renewable energy dynamics. The human modeling will be illustrated through an incentive-based experiment for scalable demand response. The cyber modeling will be illustrated through a dynamic watermarking approach to monitoring and control of cyber-physical vulnerabilities in solar-rich energy grids. The challenge that arises is of developing an appropriate architecture of market mechanisms and regulations so that incentives are aligned for appropriate stakeholders to implement the technological solutions at scale.
Dr. Le Xie is the Segers Family Dean’s Excellence Professor, Chancellor EDGES Fellow, and Presidential Impact Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, and the Associate Director-Energy Digitization at Texas A&M Energy Institute. He received B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2004, S.M. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard in 2005, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2009. His industry experience includes ISO-New England and Edison Mission Energy Marketing and Trading. His research interest includes modeling and control in data-rich large-scale systems, grid integration of clean energy resources, and electricity markets.
Dr. Xie is a Fellow of IEEE and a Power and Energy Society (PES) Distinguished Lecturer. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and Oak Ridge Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. He was awarded the 2021 IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems Mid-Career Award, and 2017 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award. He was the recipient of Texas A&M Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, ECE Outstanding Professor Award, and TEES Select Young Fellow. He serves or have served on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and IET Transaction on Smart Grid. He is the founding chair of IEEE PES Subcommittee on Big Data & Analytics for Grid Operations. His team received the Best Paper awards at North American Power Symposium 2012, IEEE SmartGridComm 2013, HICSS 2019 and 2021, IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference 2019, and IEEE PES General Meeting 2020.
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