Mingxi Liu
University of Utah, UT·Engineering·Early-career
As more wind and solar power enters the electric grid, supply becomes harder to balance, and grids need more flexibility to stay reliable. Grid-edge resources (GERs) can help provide that flexibility.
- Fields
Engineering
Computer Science
- Topics
power systems
smart grid
grid-edge resources
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jan 2027
What they work on
- Develop optimization, machine learning and statistical tools for a grid-edge resource control framework that scales with device population and network size and works across different device types and grid services.
- Characterize privacy risks in coordinating customer-side grid devices and design cryptology-based and non-cryptology-based privacy-preserving decentralized optimization methods.
- Model stealthy cyberattacks that exploit decentralized grid-edge control algorithms, determine how detectable they are, and develop detection and mitigation strategies.
More about the research
These are devices near customers, such as smart appliances, batteries and rooftop systems, that can adjust their power use. Coordinating millions of different devices, however, raises problems of scale, owner privacy and cyberattacks.
Why it matters
Utilities and grid operators need to absorb growing amounts of renewable energy without losing reliability. A scalable, privacy-preserving and attack-resistant way to coordinate household and other grid-edge devices could make the grid more flexible at lower cost. It could support decarbonization and energy security, protect device owners' data, and inform new electricity market products for industry.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Wencong Su
University of Michigan-Dearborn, MI·Engineering
Build a fundamental understanding of the practical challenges facing low-inertia power grids with high penetration of grid-forming inverter-based energy resources, which set grid voltage and frequency themselves.
Jan Kleissl
University of California-San Diego, CA·Engineering
Build DERConnect, a remote-access testbed that integrates solar panels, battery storage, electric vehicles, wind and solar emulators, and controllable building lighting and HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) systems.
Yuhong Liu
Santa Clara University, CA·Engineering
Gather critical use cases from stakeholders in grid-interactive communities to define research problems that call for multidisciplinary, international collaboration on clean energy.
The school
University of Utah: 58 labs on PI Pages, $789M a year on research, 366 research doctorates a year.
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