Grants

  • 2020-2025, funded by NSF’s Research Trainee (NRT) program, “Enhancing Resiliency and Equity in Energy Transitions” $2.7 M. I am one of four coPIs, with PI Matt Lackner. The core research and training course of this proposal are in my area of expertise, the economics, analytics and optimization of electricity markets. I am a critical contributor to, and leader of, this project. This large grant will support several new PhD students.
  • 2020-2025 funded by NSF’s Convergence Research (GCR) program, “Social and Economic Equity in Energy Transition $3.6 M. I am a Senior Personnel, with PI Matt Lackner.
  • 2020– (in progress) ARPAe SHARK, “Transformational Integrated HKT Design Engineering Strategy (TIDES)Multi-Physics Design Platform for the Optimization of Utility-Scale Tidal Energy Systems”, co-PI, with PI Sharman.
  • 2020– (in progress) DoE EERE, Connected Communities Program, PI and
    UMass lead, with PI Gabriel (UMD).
  •  2016-9, Ministry for Business, Innovation and Economics’ (MBIE) National
    Science Challenge (NSC7) Program,“Analytics of agile and resilient manufacturing” 854,442 NZD. I was sole PI. Completed.
  • 2014-17, Transpower (Independent System Operator for New Zealand), “Risk
    averse investment in electricity market infrastructure”, PhD Support for my student Corey Kok, 115,000NZD, I was sole PI. Completed.
  •  2014-17, MBIE, “Large scale electrical storage”, 1,800,000 NZD, PI, with Taylor and Sharp.
  •  2013-14, Coincyt (Chilean Science Foundation), “Long term planning of hydrodominated electricity markets”, 65,000 NZD, PI with Palma.
  •  2012-13, Conicyt, “Firming solar with hydro”, 65,000 NZD, PI with Palma.
  •  2012-13, UoA FRDF, “Hydro-electric Reservoir Optimization”, 105,350 NZD
    sole PI, Postdoc support.
  •  2011-13, UoA FRDF, “Economics of renewable energy”, 21,926 NZD bf PI.
  •  2008-11, NZ Institue for Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA) PhD support for J.Khazaei 75,000 NZD PI.
  • 2006-07, UoA VCUDF Masters support for Zuzhia Lee, 25,000 NZD, PI.
  •  2000-05, NZ PGSF, “Optimization and applications”, 575,000 NZD AI.