https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/control-and-information-design-for-water-infrastructure-operations/

Water systems are increasingly strained by rising demand, climate change, and more frequent extremes. These pressures intensify tradeoffs among municipal supply, agriculture, hydropower, flood control, and ecosystems. In regulated basins, water reservoir operations are the primary tool for managing these competing objectives. Mathematically, reservoir operations are typically framed as a model-based, closed-loop control problem, where...

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Speaker: Marta Zaniolo
Duke University

Dr. Marta Zaniolo is an assistant professor at Duke Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Her research addresses timely water sustainability challenges including how to ensure reliable and equitable access to water resources in the face of scarcity, competing demands, and a changing climate. She combines the fields of hydrology with machine learning, and optimal control techniques to enable more informed decision-making about water use at scales large and small. Dr. Zaniolo holds a BS and MS degree in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Information Technology earned in the Environmental Intelligence lab at Politecnico di Milano. Prior to joining Duke she was a postdoctoral researcher in the CEE department at Stanford University.

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/modeling-biology-on-a-quantum-computer-deciphering-the-mechanism-of-atp-hydrolysis-using-quantum-hardware/

The ability to model biochemical reaction dynamics on quantum hardware would open the door to the virtually exact description of enzymatic catalysis, accelerating the discovery of novel therapeutics. However, noisy hardware, the costs of computing gradients, and the number of qubits and gates required to simulate large systems present major challenges to realizing the potential...

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Speaker: Brenda Rubenstein
Brown University

Dr. Brenda Rubenstein is currently the Krieble Professor of Chemistry at Brown University. She was named to Popular Science magazine’s 2021 Brilliant 10 list of the top early career scientists and C&EN’s 2019 Talented 12 list of early career chemists, and has received a number of research and teaching honors including the Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, a Cottrell Teacher Scholar Award, and a Sloan Research Fellowship. While the focus of her work is on developing new electronic structure methods, she is also deeply engaged in rethinking computing architectures and computational biophysics. Prior to arriving at Brown, she was a Lawrence Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She received her Sc.B.s in Chemical Physics and Applied Mathematics at Brown University, her M.Phil. in Computational Chemistry while a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at Columbia University.

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/enabling-cyber-physical-human-resilience-in-der-rich-power-grids/

Ensuring the resilience of the cyber-physical-human electric grid is essential for maintaining power to critical loads such as hospitals, airports, and emergency services, especially during extreme weather events and cyber disruptions. The increasing integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs), and Internet of Things (IoT) devices has improved grid flexibility and automation but...

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Speaker: Anurag Srivastava
Chairperson, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department and Raymond J. Lane Professor
West Virginia University

Anurag K. Srivastava holds the Raymond J. Lane Professorship and serves as Chairperson of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at West Virginia University. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor at Washington State University and a senior scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2005. Dr. Srivastava's research focuses on data- driven algorithms and tools for cyber-resilient electric energy systems. His impactful research projects have resulted in the implementation of tools at utility control centers, supported by over $66M in funding from entities such as the US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Siemens Corporate Research, Electric Power Research Institute, Schweitzer Engineering Lab, Power System Engineering Research Center, Office of Naval Research, and various National Labs. Over the years, he has held visiting positions at organizations including Réseau de transport d´électricité in France, RWTH Aachen University in Germany, PEAK Reliability Coordinator, Idaho National Laboratory, PJM Interconnection, Schweitzer Engineering Lab (SEL), GE Grid Solutions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mississippi State University. He is an IEEE Fellow, recepient of IEEE PES Pete Sauer Educator Award, numbers of best papers award, leading multiple IEEE technical subcommittee/ WGs (Power System Operation, Resiliency, Microgrid, voltage stability, distributed optimization), and the author of over 400 technical publications, 3 books, and 3 patents.