Winter 2021: Designed and taught a course to local high school students in collaboration with [UCSB’s School for Scientific Thought (SST)].
Course Title:The Global Energy Transition: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy.
Course Overview: With the goal of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, societies across the entire world are shifting their energy usage away from traditional fossil fuels and increasing their usage of renewable energy resources. While this is a promising shift for the future of our planet, there are many obstacles to overcome during this transition. In this class, students will learn about the traditional methods for producing energy as well as the increasingly popular sustainable methods including solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal, and biomass. We will discuss how these renewable generation methods work, how they affect our societies, and what challenges stand in the way.
2021: Mentored Gil Sia. Together we studied potential electricity cost savings from optimally scheduling electric vehicle charging subject to time-of-use electricity rates. [Poster]
2020: Mentored Kelly Lin. Together we designed algorithms to predict electric vehicles' charging session parameters from historical data.
Summer 2021: Mentored Sebastian Cervantes, Alec Bronson Wheelan, and Andre Yousefian for their project Microgrid Test Bed. Project overview and final poster can be found [here].
Summer 2019: Mentored Juan Carillo and Emily Chapman for their project Don’t Crack Under Pressure: Creating a Pressure-Tolerant Circuit Board which won the 2019 PIPELINES Final Design Competition. Project overview and final poster can be found [here].
Other
2019: Mentored Tuo Zhang. Together we formulated a MILP to find the minimal cost charging and routing schedules for the electric buses in the Marguerite Shuttle Fleet at Stanford. The work resulted in a paper published in PESGM 2020. [Mobility-Aware Smart Charging of Electric Bus Fleets]