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Author:

Dalvi, Sourabh Prabhakar

Title:

THE VALUE OF FLEXIBILITY IN ELECTRICITY MARKETS FROM GAS TURBINE UPGRADES: A STOCHASTIC MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Stochastic Optimization
Power System
Electricity Markets
Unit Commitment
Flexibility

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_Sourabh.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Janis P Terpenny, Committee Member

Author:

Zad Tootaghaj, Diman

Title:

MODELING, MONITORING AND SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES FOR NETWORK RECOVERY FROM MASSIVE FAILURES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network Recovery
Massive Disruption
Stochastic Optimization
Uncertainty
Network Recovery Massive Disruption
Uncertainty.
Cascading Failures
Interdependent Networks
Power Grid
Software-Defined Networking

File:

Download diman-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ting He, Committee Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Committee Member
Marek Flaska, Outside Member

Author:

Jalilzadeh, Afrooz

Title:

Variance-reduced First-Order Methods for Convex Stochastic Optimization and Monotone Stochastic Variational Inequality Problems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Stochastic Optimization
Convex Optimization
Stochastic Approximation
Nonsmooth Optimization
Stochastic Variational Inequality

File:

Download Afrooz_Jalilzadeh_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vinayak V Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Necdet S Aybat, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bukenberger, Jesse

Title:

Latent Factor Approximating Models for Stochastic Optimization: Applications to Power System Planning

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Transmission Planning
Stochastic Optimization
Principal Components Analysis
Large-Scale Optimization
Discrete Optimization
Approximation Methods
Clustering Methods
Energy Systems
Planning

File:

Download Bukenberger_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mort D Webster, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Steven J Greybush, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Xuan

Title:

Stochastic Accelerated Primal Dual Methods for Minimax Problems

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Minimax Optimization
Nonconvex Optimization
First Order Method
Stochastic Optimization

File:

Download xuan_dissertion_finalfixed.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Necdet Aybat, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Uday Shanbhag, Major Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Outside Field Member
Constantino Lagoa, Outside Unit & Minor Member