LORER Summer School

Invited Speakers

Professor Iman Shames, Australian National University, Australia

Iman Shames is the Professor of Mechatronics and the Mechatronics lead as well as the CIICADA Lab director at the School of Engineering, the Australian National University. Previously, he had been an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Melbourne from 2014 to 2020 and a Senior Lecturer and a McKenzie fellow at the same department from 2012 to 2014, and before that he was an ACCESS Postdoctoral Researcher at the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Shiraz University in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 2011. His current research interests include, but are not limited to, decision making for dynamical systems under uncertainty, optimisation theory and its application in control and estimation, and mathematical systems theory of cyber–physical systems.

Professor Jean Mahseredjian, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Jean Mahseredjian is IEEE Life Fellow for his contributions to the computation and modeling of power systems transients. He received the Ph.D. degree from Polytechnique Montreal, in 1991. From 1987 to 2004, he was with IREQ (Hydro-Quebec), working on research and development activities related to the simulation and analysis of electromagnetic transients. In December 2004, he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, where he is currently a professor in the Energy section.

Professor Johana Matthieu, University of Michigan, USA

Johanna Mathieu is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Director of the Institute for Energy Solutions at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on ways to reduce the environmental impact, cost, and inefficiency of electric power systems via new operational and control strategies. She is particularly focused on developing new methods to actively engage distributed flexible resources such as energy storage, electric loads, and distributed renewable resources in power system operation. Her PhD and MS are from the University of California, Berkeley and her BS is from MIT. Prior to joining Michigan, she was a postdoc at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Pascal Van Hentenryck is the director of Tech AI (the AI Hub at Georgia Tech), the director of the NSF AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT), and the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor at Georgia Tech. He was a professor at Computer Science at Brown University for over 20 years and led the optimization research group at the National ICT Research, Australia. His current research focuses on Responsible AI for Engineering with applications in energy systems, supply chains, manufacturing, health care, and mobility. Van Hentenryck is a pioneer of constraint programming, and he designed and implemented several innovative optimization systems that have been in commercial use for over 20 years, including the CHIP and OPL systems. He is a fellow of AAAI and INFORMS and the recipient of numerous research and teaching awards.