Digitalization of Power Markets and Systems Using Energy Informatics

Umit Cali, PhD, is an Associate in the Department of Electric Power Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Cali received the BE degree in Electrical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, and an MSc degree in Electrical Communication Engineering and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Kassel. He has 20 years of experience in academia and industry as project manager, CTO, and Co-Founder. His current research interests include energy informatics, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, renewable energy systems, and energy economics. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and IEEE SA, and is serving as an active member of the IEEE Blockchain in Energy Standards Working Group (P2418.5)
Murat Kuzlu, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University. Before joining ODU, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech's Advanced Research Institute. Prior to that, Dr. Kuzlu worked as a Global Network Product Support Engineer at Nortel Networks was a Senior researcher the Energy Institute of TUBITAK-MAM (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey-Marmara Research Center). He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. His research interests include smart grid, demand response, smart metering systems (AMR, AMI, AMM), home and building energy management system, co-simulation, wireless communication, and embedded systems
Manisa Pipattanasomporn, PhD, is an Associate Professor with the Smart Grid Research Unit (SGRU) at Chula-Longkorn University, and an adjunct instructor at the Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute. Her research interests include smart grid, smart home, smart building, demand response, renewable energy integration, electric vehicles, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning (with particular applications on energy savings), building-level load forecasting, and blockchain for peer-to-peer trading of solar electricity. Dr. Pipattanasomporn is also a guest lecturer at the International School of Engineering (ISE) and the Information and Communication Engineering (ICE).
James Kempf, PhD, graduated from University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering before going to work in Silicon Valley. Since then, Dr. Kempf has worked for a variety of tech companies, including Sun Microsystems, NTT Docomo, Ericsson, and most recently Equinix. Dr. Kempf started part time consulting with renewable energy startups on cloud computing and networking technology in 2016, and was an advisor to PV Complete, Extensible Energy and other greentech startups at the Powerhouse Solar Incubator in Oakland from 2016-2019. He has served on the Powerhouse Fund technical due diligence team and the Powerhouse Connector team, connecting with startups looking for help with cloud and networking issues for the DOE America's Solar Prize. Dr. Kempf has been a member of E8 cleantech angel investors since 2016, has served on the due diligence committee for one, and, in the summer of 2018, helped organize a workshop between Powerhouse and E8. 

Linquan Bai, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC). He received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Tianjin University, and his PhD in electrical engineering from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior to working at UNCC, Dr. BaiI worked as a Research Aide at Argonne National Laboratory and as a Consulting Engineer on electricity markets and GridView software at ABB Power Grids, ABB Inc. His research interests are in the areas of DER optimization and control, power system operation under u

Introduction to Digitalization of Energy Domain.- Energy Cyber-Physical Social Systems.- Smart Grid Applications: Information and Communication Technologies.- Standardization and Protocols of Energy Informatics.- Energy Internet of Things.- Distributed Ledger Technology based Energy Use Cases.- Optimization and Digitalization of Power Markets .- Outlook and Discussions.