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20242026
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5 papers

eess.SY2026

Power Grid Infrastructure for AI Data Centers

Amir Sajadi, Muhy Eddin Za'ter, Maria Vabson +2

This article addresses recent advances in artificial intelligence, which have set off an astounding race among technology frontiers to build large data centers. It provides insight…

eess.SY2026

A Multi-Stage Warm-Start Deep Learning Framework for Unit Commitment

Muhy Eddin Za'ter, Anna Van Boven, Bri-Mathias Hodge +1

Maintaining instantaneous balance between electricity supply and demand is critical for reliability and grid instability. System operators achieve this through solving the task of…

eess.SY2026

Optimal County-Level Siting of Data Centers in the United States

Maria Vabson, Muhy Eddin Zater, Amir Sajadi +2

Data centers are growing rapidly, creating the pressing need for the development of critical infrastructure build out to support these resource-intensive large loads. Their immense…

cs.LG2025

Residual Correction Models for AC Optimal Power Flow Using DC Optimal Power Flow Solutions

Muhy Eddin Za'ter, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Kyri Baker

Solving the nonlinear AC optimal power flow (AC OPF) problem remains a major computational bottleneck for real-time grid operations. In this paper, we propose a residual learning p…

eess.SY2024

A New Definition of Demand Response in the Distributed Energy Resource Era

Johanna L. Mathieu, Gregor Verbič, Thomas Morstyn +10

Demand response is a concept that has been around since the very first electric power systems. However, we have seen an explosion of research on demand response and demand-side tec…