Marco Levorato, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Information and Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Speech Title:

Consumer in-the-Loop: Consumers as Part of Residential Smart Energy Systems

Abstract:

The consumer is the engine that drives the behavior of residential smart energy systems. Surprisingly, this fundamental component is often neglected in stochastic models capturing the temporal evolution of the overall system. In this talk, I will discuss the construction and the properties of Finite State Machine models capturing the complex interaction between the "human" and the technological components of the systems. I will also discuss how this modeling paradigms enables novel applications based on machine learning tools.

Bio:

Marco Levorato joined the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, Computer Science department in August 2013. Between 2010-2012, He was a post-doctoral researcher with a joint affiliation at Stanford and the University of Southern California working with prof. Andrea Goldsmith and prof. Urbashi Mitra. He is a member of the IEEE and of the IEEE Comsoc society. His research interests are focused on the design and analysis of protocols and algorithms for the next generation wireless networks, mobile heath care networks and smart energy grids. He has co-authored over 70 technical articles on these topics, including the paper that has received the best paper award at IEEE GLOBECOM (2012). He completed the PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy, in 2009. He obtained the B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering summa cum laude at the University of Ferrara, Italy in 2005 and 2003, respectively