Javad Lavaei

• Ph.D. in Computing and Mathematical Sciences: 2007 - 2011

California Institute of Technology

Thesis: Large-Scale Complex Systems: From Antenna Circuits to Power Grids

Advisors: John Doyle and Richard Murray

• M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering: 2005 - 2007

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Thesis: High-Performance Robust Decentralized Control of Interconnected Systems

• B.S. in Electronics Engineering: 1999 - 2003

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

• Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research: July 2015 -present

University of California, Berkeley

• Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering: July 2012 - June 2015

Columbia University

• Postdoctoral Scholar in Electrical Engineering & Precourt Institute for Energy: 2011- 2012

Stanford University

Mentors: Abbas El Gamal and Stephen Boyd

Editorial Boards and Committee Members:

1. Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, December 2014-present

2. Guest Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid; Special issue: “Distributed Control and Efficient Optimization Methods for Smart Grid”, 2016

3. Guest Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid; Special issue: 'Theory of Complex Systems with Applications to Smart Grid Operations', 2015

4. Conference Editorial Board (CEB) Associate Editor for IEEE Control Systems Society, July 2013-present

5. Conference Editorial Board (CEB) Associate Editor for European Control Association, June 2013-present

6. Member of the Best Student Paper Award Committee for American Control Conference 2016

7. Associate Editor for 55th Conference on Decision and Control 2016

8. Member of the program committee for INFORMS Optimization Society Conference 2016.

9. Associate Editor for American Control Conference 2016

10. Associate Editor for European Control Conference 2016

11. Member of the Technical Program Committee for ACM e-Energy Conference 20163

12. Member of the program committee for Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control 2015

13. Associate Editor for European Control Conference 2015

14. Associate Editor for American Control Conference 2015

15. Associate Editor for 54th Conference on Decision and Control 2015

16. Member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE SmartGridComm 2015, Symposium: Data Management, Grid Analytics, and Dynamic Pricing.

17. Member of the program committee for Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems 2014

18. Member of the program committee for Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control 2014.

19. Associate Editor for European Control Conference 2014

20. Associate Editor for 53rd Conference on Decision and Control 2014

21. Associate Editor for American Control Conference 2014

22. Member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE SmartGridComm 2013, Symposium: Smart Grid Services and Management Models

23. Member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE SmartGridComm 2013, Symposium: Support for Storage, Renewable Resources and Micro-grids

24. Member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE SmartGridComm 2013, Symposium: The Whole Picture - Sense, Communicate, Compute, Control

25. Member of the International Program Committee of the European Control Conference 2013

26. Member of the International Program Committee of IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control 2013

27. Associate Editor for Systems Science & Control Engineering, November 2012-present

28. Member of the Technical Program Committee of IEEE SmartGridComm 2012

29. Member of the Technical Program Committee of IEEE SmartGridComm 2011

30. Member of the International Program Committee of IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control 2011

Session Chair:

1. Chair of the session 'Large-scale Semidefinite Programs' in INFORMS International Conference 2016

2. Chair of the session 'Stochastic Planning in Energy' in INFORMS International Conference 2016

3. Chair of the session 'Efficient Optimization Methods for Power Systems' in INFORMS International Conference 2016

4. Chair of the session “Tutorial Session: Nonlinear Programming Challenges in the Optimal Power Flow Problem” in INFORMS Optimization Society Conference 2016

5. Chair of the session 'Nonlinear Optimization for Power Systems' in International Symposium on Mathematical Programming 2015

6. Co-chair of the session 'Computational Methods II' in 54th Conference on Decision and Control 2015

7. Co-chair of the session “LMIs” in 53rd Conference on Decision and Control 2014

8. Co-chair of the session “Decentralized and Distributed Control” in 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2014

9. Chair of the session “The Future of Optimal Power Flow” in IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting 2014

10. Chair of the session“Optimization II” in 52nd Conference on Decision and Control 2013

11. Chair of the session “Control and Optimization for Smart Grid” in 52nd Conference on Decision and Control 2013

12. Chair of the session “Support for Storage, Renewable Resources and Micro-grids I” in IEEESmartGridComm 2013

13. Chair of the session 'Distributed control – bringing together the power and control communities' in IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting 2012

14. Co-chair of the session 'Energy Markets' in American Control Conference 2012

15. Chair of the session 'Biologically-Inspired Methods and Applications' in American Control Conference 2011

16. Co-chair of the session 'Power Systems II' in American Control Conference 2011

17. Co-chair of the session 'Stability of Linear Systems' in American Control Conference 2009

18. Chair of the session 'Stochastic Systems III' in 48th Conference on Decision and Control 2009

Reviewer for Journals:

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on PowerSystems, IEEE Transactions onSmart Grid, SIAM Journal on Optimization, SIAM Journal on Control and 5 Optimization,Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, MathematicalProgramming Computation, EuropeanJournal of Operational Research, Journal of Global Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Control ofNetworkSystems, Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Networks,Automatica, International Journal of Control, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, IET Generation Transmission & Distribution, International Journal of Adaptive Control and SignalProcessing,Journal ofSelected Topics in Signal Processing, Systems Man & Cybernetics, Journal ofOptimal Control Applications and Methods,MathematicalReviews, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and DistributedSystems, Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Nonlinear Dynamics, IEEE Power Engineering Letters,and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

Grant Reviewer:

1. National Science Foundation: Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering, March 2013

2. MIT-Skoltech, March 2013

3. National Science Foundation: Cyber-Physical Systems, July 2014

4. National Science Foundation: Energy, Power, Control and Networks, February 2015

5. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada: Discover Program, January 2015

6. France-Berkeley Fund, UC Berkeley, March 2016

7. Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, UC Berkeley, April 2016

1. Donald P. Eckman Award given by American Automatic Control Council, 2016.

2. INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers, 2015.

3. DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2015.

4. Prize paper award of the IEEE PES Power System Analysis Computing and Economics Committee for the paper “zero duality gap in optimal power flow”, 2015.

5. One of the 2 nominees of Columbia University for Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering, 2015.

6. Finalist (as an advisor) for the best student paper award at the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2014.

7. Invited to participate in National Academy of Engineering's 2014 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 2014.

8. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2014.

9. NSF CAREER Award, 2014.2

10. Resonate Award, 2014 (selected by Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute and Fortune Magazine as one of the five innovators worldwide with breakthrough achievements in the field of sustainability).

11. Google Faculty Research Award, 2013.

12. Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize (best university-wide Ph.D. thesis at Caltech), 2011.

13. New Face of Engineering, named by the National Engineers Week Foundation in the United States, 2011.

14. Senior Member of IEEE, since July 2010.

15. Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Master's Thesis Award (best master's thesis in the category of Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering written in 2007-2009 in more than 120 participating universities including Cornell, Harvard, Yale, McGill, and University of Toronto), 2010.

16. Governor General of Canada’s Gold Medal (best campus-wide master's/Ph.D. thesis at Concordia University), 2008.

17. F. A. Gerard Prize (best master's thesis in the school of engineering at Concordia University), 2008.

18. Postgraduate Scholarship of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2008-2010.

19. Several scholarships including Power Corporation Fellowship and Engineering Graduate Scholarship.

20. Best paper in session in CDC 2006, ACC 2007, ACC 2008, ACC 2010 (twice).

21. Silver Medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad, Romania, 1999.

22. Gold Medal in the National Mathematical Olympiad, Iran, 1998.

Submitted Papers: (PDF copies are available at http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~lavaei/)

1. Ramtin Madani, Javad Lavaei and Ross Baldick, “Power System State Estimation with a Limited Number of Measurements,” under review for Operations Research, 2016.

2. Somayeh Sojoudi, Salar Fattahi and Javad Lavaei, “Convexification of Generalized Network Flow Problem,” under review for Mathematical Programming, 2016.

3. Yu Zhang, Ramtin Madani and Javad Lavaei, “Power System State Estimation with Line Measurements,” under review for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2016.

4. Ramtin Madani, Javad Lavaei and Ross Baldick, “Constraint Screening for Security Analysis of Power Networks,” under review for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2016.

5. Ramtin Madani, Ghazal Fazelnia, Somayeh Sojoudi and Javad Lavaei, “Finding Lowrank Solutions of Sparse Linear Matrix Inequalities using Convex Optimization,” under review for SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2015.

Journal Papers:14

1. Somayeh Sojoudi and Javad Lavaei, “Semidefinite Relaxations for Nonlinear Optimization Problems,” INFORMS Optimization Society Newsletter, pp. 20-29, 2016.

2. Ghazal Fazelnia, Ramtin Madani, Abdulrahman Kalbat and Javad Lavaei, “Convex Relaxation for Optimal Distributed Control Problems,” to paper in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, pp.1-16, 2016.

3. Ramtin Madani, Morteza Ashraphijuo and Javad Lavaei, “Promises of Conic Relaxation for Contingency-Constrained Optimal Power Flow Problem,” vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 1297- 1307, Mar. 2016.

4. Ramtin Madani, Somayeh Sojoudi and Javad Lavaei, Convex Relaxation for Optimal Power Flow Problem: Mesh Networks, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no.1, pp. 199-211, Jan. 2015.

5. Somayeh Sojoudi and Javad Lavaei, Exactness of Semidefinite Relaxations for Nonlinear Optimization Problems with Underlying Graph Structure, SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol.24, no. 4, pp. 1746–1778, Oct. 2014.

6. Javad Lavaei, David Tse and Baosen Zhang, Geometry of Power Flows and Optimization in Distribution Networks, IEEE Transactions on Power System, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 572-583, Mar. 2014.

7. Matt Kraning, Eric Chu, Javad Lavaei and Stephen Boyd, Message Passing for Dynamic Network Energy Management, Foundations and Trends in Optimization, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 73-126, Jan. 2014.

8. Javad Lavaei, Decentralized Implementation of Centralized Controllers for Interconnected Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 1860-1865, Jul. 2012.

9. Javad Lavaei and Steven Low, Zero Duality Gap in Optimal Power Flow Problem, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 92-107, Feb. 2012.

10. Javad Lavaei and Richard M. Murray, Quantized Consensus by Means of Gossip Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 19-32, Jan. 2012.

11. Javad Lavaei, Aydin Babakhani, Ali Hajimiri and John C. Doyle, Solving Large-Scale Hybrid Circuit-Antenna Problems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 374-387, Feb. 2011.

12. Javad Lavaei and Somayeh Sojoudi, “Time Complexity of Decentralized Fixed Mode Verification,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 971-976, Apr. 2010.

13. Javad Lavaei, Somayeh Sojoudi and Amir G. Aghdam, “Pole Assignment with Improved Control Performance by Means of Periodic Feedback,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 248-252, Jan. 2010.

14. Javad Lavaei and Amir G. Aghdam, “Performance Improvement of Robust Controllers for Polynomially Uncertain Systems,” Automatica, vol. 46, vol. 1, pp. 110-115, Jan. 2010.