Design Automation Smart Power Grid

DAC Workshop on Smart Grid and Design Automation II

Collocated with the 48th Design Automation Conference on June 9, 2011, San Diego, California

The Smart Grid and Design Automation II workshop is a follow up to the “Workshop on the Synergies between DA and Smart Grid” in DAC 2010. The workshop in 2010 served the purpose of introducing the DA and Power Energy communities to each other and providing a forum for exchange of domain knowledge between the two respective disciplines.

This follow-up workshop will further strengthen the ties between the two communities and provide in-depth insights on potential Smart Grid research areas, with specific emphasis on computational challenges.

The workshop will be featuring leaders from the Power Energy industry and academia, who will present the challenges they are facing and the current activities in their organizations. Domain experts will lecture on topics that are of interest to the DA community, such as the challenges of a 2-way grid and distributed generation, the limits of the current infrastructure and what it should evolve into, the change in consumer habits and demand response, and the simulation and analysis tools used by the industry. We will also sample selective research topics on the Smart Grid from Design Automation researchers who have ventured into the Power Energy domain.

World-class prominent speakers will speak in this forum. Please mark your calendar for this thought provoking event. To see the announcement of this workshop at DAC, please click here.

To register for this event, please go to the DAC registration website. The rate for IEEE/ACM Member is USD 175; and for non IEEE/ACM Member is USD 230.

Technical Programs

Convention center: Room 25ABC, Wireless SSID: DAC2011

  1. 8:30-9:10, Keynote: Grid2050, a Century of Following the Load, Mr. Doug Houseman, VP, EnerNex Corp.

    Doug Houseman is Vice President of Technical Innovation at EnerNex Corporation. Mr. Houseman is currently working on the DOE Smart Grid Clearing House, the NIST Smart Grid Project, IEEE P2030, and other smart grid related projects. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer of Capgemini’s Global Energy, Utility and Chemical practice, where he was responsible for smart metering, smart grid, renewable energy, demand management, and field solutions for the electric, gas, and water industries. Mr. Houseman has consulted for companies such as Electricity de France, E On, Singapore Power, China Power and Light, Duke Energy, Florida Power & Light, Hydro One, Mid American Energy, and Energy Australia. He was a lead investigator in CEATI Utility Distribution Technology Roadmap 2025 from 2002 to 2008. Mr. Houseman is the Founder of the Smart Energy Alliance. He is a member of the World Generation Class of 2007. Mr. Houseman has over 20 years industry experience.

  2. 9:10-10:30, What is changing in the power grid and what are the challenges?

    • Imminent Smart Grid Challenges Facing Utilities Today, Mr. Christopher Couper, Distinguished Engineer, Energy and Utilities Industry, IBM

      Chris Couper is an IBM Distinguished Engineer for IBM’s North American Energy and Utilities industry. Throughout 28 years with IBM in systems engineering, product development, consulting and services, he has designed and deployed solutions for a wide range of customers in Energy and Utilities, Transportation, Communications, Healthcare, Public Safety, Health and Welfare, and State and Local Government. As an IBM Senior Certified IT Architect, Chris gained extensive experience in various industry systems and solutions. Chris’s expertise is in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), grid operations, customer care and billing, communications, modeling and simulation, sensors and actuators, provisioning and application development techniques. Chris is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and the IBM Americas Information Technology Architect Board. He holds a B.S. and M.A. in Physics from the University of California, Davis and has led strategic studies and participated in many technical and executive development programs at IBM. In addition to his IBM responsibilities, Chris is a Fire Chief of the Latrobe Fire Protection District in California.

    • Future Electric Energy Systems: Technology and Society, Prof. Mariesa L. Crow , Missouri University of Science and Technoogy

      Mariesa L. Crow is the F. Finley Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Missouri S&T. She received her BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her area of professional interest is computational methods, power electronics applications to renewable energy systems and energy storage. She is currently active in several research projects involving smart microgrid development for the military and domestic distribution systems. She is currently the Director of the state-funded Energy Research and Development Center at Missouri S&T. She is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Missouri and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

  3. 10:30-10:50, Coffee Break
  4. 10:50-12:10, Tools for Power Systems: state of the art and future requirements

    • Southern California Edison’s approach to the design and simulation of the smart grid, Mr. Christopher R. Clarke, P.E., Power System Technologies, Southern California Edison

      Mr. Christopher R. Clarke is an engineer in the Power System Studies Group in Southern California Edison’s Advanced Technology Organization. Mr. Clarke has more than seven years of electric utility experience primarily focusing on distribution planning, plug in electric vehicle impacts, and distributed photovoltaic generation impact. His research interests include electromagnetic transient analysis, energy storage, integration of plug in electric vehicles and photovoltaic systems, and advanced distribution protection. Mr. Clarke earned a bachelors of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2003 and a masters of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 2010. Mr. Clarke is a registered professional engineer in the state of California, and is a member of the IEEE.

    • Centralized vs. Decentralized Distribution Automation, SDG&E's Experience, Mr. William V. Torre, Chief Engineer, San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

      Bill Torre is Chief Engineer and leads the Technology Innovation and Development group, in charge of implementation and testing of new technology at SDG&E, in the Electric Transmission and Distribution Engineering department at San Diego Gas and Electric Co (SDG&E). Bill has worked at various management and engineering positions SDG&E for 28 years. At SDG&E Bill has been Chief Engineer of the $ 1.9 Billion Sunrise Powerlink 500 kV transmission project, Manager of Transmission Engineering, and principal engineer in Transmission Engineering and Transmission Planning. He holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic University, he is a senior member of IEEE, and is a registered professional engineer in California. Bill established the power engineering program in electrical engineering at San Diego State University where he taught for 7 years. He has also worked at General Atomics and various research projects, and at Pacific Gas and Electric Co.

  5. 12:10-13:00, Lunch Break
  6. 13:00-15:20, Current research on the Smart Grid

    • Leveraging Emerging Computer Architectures in Smart Grids, Prof. Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University

      Franz Franchetti is an Assistant Research Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2006 he was member of the team winning the Gordon Bell Prize (Peak Performance Award) and in 2010 he was member of the team winning the HPC Challenge Class II Award (most productive system). Dr. Franchetti's research focuses on automatic performance tuning and program generation for emerging parallel platforms, including multicore CPUs, clusters and high-performance systems (HPC), graphics processors (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and FPGA-acceleration for CPUs. As member of the Spiral research team (www.spiral.net), his research goal is to enable automatic generation of highly optimized software libraries for important kernel functionality. Dr. Franchetti is Thrust Leader of the Security Thrust in Carnegie Mellon's SRC Smart Grid Research Center and co-founder of SpiralGen, a Pittsburgh, PA company commercializing the technology developed in the Spiral project.

    • Control-based Alternatives to Power System Expansion, Prof. Ian Hiskens, University of Michigan

      Ian A. Hiskens is the Vennema Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has held prior appointments in the Queensland electricity supply industry (for ten years), and various universities in Australia and the US. Dr Hiskens’ major research interests lie in the area of power system analysis, in particular system dynamics and control, and security assessment. His recent activity has focused largely on integration of new forms of generation and load. Other research interests include nonlinear and hybrid dynamical systems. He is actively involved in various IEEE societies, and is Treasurer of the IEEE Systems Council. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a Chartered Professional Engineer in Australia.

    • Demand-Side Load Scheduling Incentivized by Dynamic Energy Prices, Prof. Massoud Pedram, University of Southern California

      Massoud Pedram is currently a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Young Investigator Award (1994) and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (a.k.a. the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award) (1996). His research has received a number of awards including two Best Paper Awards from the International Conference on Computer Design, two Design Automation Conference Best Paper Awards, an IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Best Paper Award, and an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award. He obtained his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1986. Subsequently, he received M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and 1991, respectively.

    • Statistical Load Profiling: CAD and Smart Grid Perspectives, Prof. Yiyu Shi, Missouri University of Science and Technoogy

      Yiyu Shi is currently an assistant professor at ECE Dept., Missouri University of Science and Technology. His main research interests include statistical circuit design methodologies and smart grid. He holds one U.S. patent and has authored or co-authored over 30 journal articles and conference papers, including multiple best paper nominations. He is the recipient of the 2009 IBM Invention Achievement Award, and the second placer winner of the 2011 TAU power grid analysis contest sponsored by IBM research.

  7. 15:20-15:40, Coffee Break
  8. 15:40-16:40, Breakout Session
    • Massive Data Analytics
    • Stochastic Optimization
    • Modeling and Simulation
    • TBD
  9. 16:40-17:30, Wrap-up and concluding remarks

Program Committees