Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz, Ph.D.

Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in the CCEE Department at NCSU. Adjunct Professor at NCCU. Interested in data-driven optimization, analytics, and sustainable systems.

Let me tell you how research ideas connect things and people towards the achievement of goals and development of science

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Back in 2012, after my Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin, I joined research projects on Analytics applied to energy systems in Brazil. One of those was related to efficiency analysis of electricity Distribution companies (DISCOs) and methods such the data envelopment analysis. On that topic I started to work with an undergraduate student Giulia Medeiros at Universidade Federal de Itajubá in a collaboration with professors José Wanderley Marangon Lima and Luana Medeiros Marangon Lima. In November of the same year I went back to the US for the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix AZ where I had a talk about Stochastic Optimization and Energy. After the conference I had the opportunity to go back to Austin and discuss ideas with my former Ph.D. advisor David Morton. At that same week I was able to watch the weekly OR seminar (I remember so many of those as student), where professor Ahti Salo as a guest speaker was talking about a new method that he developed the Ratio-based efficiency analysis (REA). The talk caught my attention and at the end I was deeply interested in the method, I asked a few questions and mentioned the efficiency analysis of electricity DISCOs that we were working on (thinking we potentially could apply). Professor J. Eric Bickel, which was coordinating the seminar series that semester, replied at the time as well and said that this could be a nice way to rank the electric utilities, that helped to increase the brightness of the light bulb :) I came back to Brazil and started to explain the idea to my colleagues and Giulia Medeiros, who quickly accepted the research challenge and started to attempt making the new application of the REA a reality. After lots of time spending studying, training in scientific programming and algebraic modeling in Python and Pyomo, she was able to create efficiency analysis optimization models and extrapolate the analysis of DISCOs for the whole Brazilian power grid. Many things happened along the process, Giulia finished her degree in electrical engineering and her masters in the same field and started to pursue her Ph.D. Recently she achieved her first journal publication in the topic with others manuscripts in preparation. I need to say that I am extremely proud of her, for the hard work, knowledge developed and her courage to explore complex problems. I need to thank each people named here for the things that happened, for the opportunity to interact with them during this process and for sharing knowledge. We thank also CPFL Energia who funded this ANEEL R&D grant. Research is fascinating to me and I hope to develop this feeling and spark lights in the lives of my students as my professors did and still do. imgpaperdea

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NCSU students present work on Assessing the Risk of Hurricane Damage to Marine Hydrokinetic Devices at the Ocean Renewable Energy Conference in Portland

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Victor de Faria and Neda Jamaleddin, Ph.D. students at NCSU, presented yesterday our work on Assessing the Risk of Hurricane Damage to Marine Hydrokinetic Devices at Ocean Renewable Energy Conference in Portland. This conferences was sponsored by the University Marine Energy Research Community (UMERC) and the The Marine Energy Technology Symposium (METS). This work shows the developments of the research project led by professor Mo Gabr from NCSU and myself and has been sponsored by the NC Reneable Ocean Energy Program (NCROEP). We used Bayesian analysis and mechanical model simulations in Ansys-Aqwa to create fragility curve estimates for ocean current devices. The picture below shows Victor and Neda meeting with George Bonner (NCROEP program director).

Neda Jamaleddin, George Bonner and Victor de Faria at the Ocean Renewable Energy Conference in Portland

First report of the Open Energy Outlook for the United States is available

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The first report of the Open Energy Outlook (OEO) has been published. I am very happy to see this project milestone been accomplished. Congratulations to the co-PIs Paulina Jaramillo, Joseph DeCarolis (former co-PI now at EIA), Jeremiah Johnson and the whole OEO core team. The OEO is an initiative of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and NC State University that aims to examine U.S. energy futures to inform energy and climate policy efforts by applying policy-focused academic modeling. One of the main goals of the OEO is to maximize transparency, and build a networked community. The project has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The modeling effort is based on Tools for Energy Model Optimization and Analysis developed at NC State University in previous grants. The technical report can be accessed at the CMU website linked here.

Congratulations to Dr. Neha Patankar who joins Binghamton University as Tenure-track Assistant Professor

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One of the best and most bright students that I have worked with during my career was recently hired by the prestigious Binghamton University. Neha Patankar, who I had the privilege to co-mentor with professor Joseph DeCarolis at the Operations Research Graduate program at NC State University, was offered a position to be a tenure-track assistant professor of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering. After her Ph.D. at NC State, Neha work a postdoc for a few years at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University working with professor Jesse Jenkings. An excerpt from Binghamton University webpage: “Neha Patankar’s expertise is in multi-attribute computational modeling and decision-making for energy transition, focusing on the rapidly evolving electricity sector. Her research supports energy policy decisions under deep techno-economic uncertainty, reveals system-wide technology and resource tradeoffs, and evaluates pathways for economy-wide decarbonization.” Dr. Patankar has a bright future ahead of her and Binghamton University and its students are lucky to have her as a faculty that will perform top-notch research and teaching related to decision-making and the energy transition. Congrats again Neha! (click here for Neha’s Linkedin post)

Neha Patankar, Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Binghamton University

Professor Joseph F. DeCarolis named the new EIA Administrator

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Amazing news!!! Professor Joseph F. DeCarolis, NCSU professor at the Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department, is named by the Biden administration the new administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA). EIA could not be in better and more prepared hands. Congratulations again my friend and colleague that will help the country substantially towards a brilliant energy future!