Sanskriti Joshi
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Sajjad Moazeni Energy consumption of computing is becoming one of the major challenges for environmental sustainability over the next two decades. Optical interconnects will play a vital role in this domain to enable new compute paradigms as well as scaling out datacenters. During the period of this fellowship, I will be working on designing optical interconnects that allow ultra-low power (sub-100fJ/b) and high data rate (Tb/s) communications using micro-ring modulators (MRM) photonic transceivers in silicon photonics. More specifically, I will be leveraging these links for various applications in cryogenic temperatures (sub 70K) for quantum and cryogenic computing, superconducting electronics, and high-energy...
Prasanna Raut
Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering Faculty Advisor: Prof Chaoyue Zhao Research: I'm researching optimal placement of layover charging stations for a fleet of zero-emission buses, aiming to minimize costs and ensure grid stability. Additionally, I plan to develop Reinforcement Learning strategies for managing power distribution in wildfire-prone areas, focusing on preventing ignition risks while maintaining reliable electricity coverage. ...
Amanda Worthy
Department: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Advisor: Dr. Narjes Abbasabadi I am a 4th-year Civil Engineering (data science option) PhD student at the University of Washington and am advised by Dr. Narjes Abbasabadi. I spend the majority of my working time as energy infrastructure researcher, educator, and data scientist. I am particularly interested in making the built environment more sustainable through data-driven, performance-based analysis. My current research assesses the impact of urban climates and microclimates on building energy performance, ultimately aiming to make building energy models more accurate and reliable....
Trager Joswig-Jones
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering Advisor: Baosen Zhang During my CEI Graduate Fellowship, my research will focus on improving how we control and analyze electrical power systems that use inverters with renewable energy sources like solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries. Inverters help convert the power from these resources into a form that works with our electrical power grid. However, inverters have limits on how much electrical current and power they can output, and if not controlled properly, they can cause reliability risks for the grid. My work will develop new control strategies to ensure inverters can support the grid effectively without exceeding the current limits...
Shiqi Ding
Department: Urban Design and Planning Faculty advisor: Dr. Lingzi Wu I am interested in community-engaged clean energy transition through infrastructure planning to make our cities sustainable and equitable. My anticipated research will support policy and planning for Seattle's electric vehicle charging infrastructure expansion at the community level....
Lingzi Wu
Lingzi Wu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Management. Strategically expanding Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (EVCI) is essential to support the electrification of the transportation sector, which is responsible for a significant 27% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. My research interests include assessing and developing an equitable nationwide expansion of EVCI to rectify past injustices rooted in various communities, particularly ones that have been historically underrepresented, environmentally burdened, and economically distressed. Email...
Sajjad Moazeni
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Sajjad Moazeni is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UW. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2018 focusing on large-scale and energy-efficient electronic-photonic integration. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013. Prior to joining UW, he was a postdoctoral research scientist in the Bioelectronic Systems Lab at Columbia University from 2018 to 2020. His research interest lies at the intersection of integrated system design and photonics with applications in computing and communication, sensing and imaging, and life...
Zixiao Ma
Dr. Zixiao Ma is an Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton. As a 2023-24 CEI Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Ma worked with electrical & computer engineering professor Baosen Zhang to develop machine learning-based, safety-critical controls for renewable energy-dominated microgrids. Ma's research has been published widely in top power systems journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, including seven first-author papers. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Iowa State University in spring 2023. At Iowa State, Ma led several innovative studies in power system dynamics and control,...
Jungwon Choi
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Jungwon Choi's research interests include high-frequency power converters, wireless power transfer for battery-powered vehicles, industrial and biomedical applications, magnetic designs, controls at high-frequencies, energy storage, and wide bandgap devices. In 2017, she was selected to the Rising Stars in EECS, received Unlock Idea awards from Lam Research in 2019 and 2020, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2021. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics and a member of several IEEE committees. Email | LinkedIn...
Xinyi Zhao
Department: Industrial & Systems Engineering Faculty Advisor: Chaoyue Zhao I am Xinyi Zhao, now pursuing my Ph.D. in industrial & systems engineering at UW, advised by Prof. Chaoyue Zhao. My research primarily revolves around addressing the power system planning challenge. My goal is to seamlessly integrate green energy solutions, such as energy storage and electric vehicles, into our existing power networks, while enhancing overall energy efficiency....
Rachel Pearson
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Advisor: Rachel Pearson is a doctoral student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to her doctoral studies, Rachel received her B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Virginia and worked as a civil engineer for a land development firm. Her research centers on equitable and resilient water and renewable energy infrastructure systems. Rachel is passionate about understanding climate change’s impacts on vulnerable communities and finding infrastructure solutions to these complex challenges. Her research project uses HOMER software to integrate renewable energy systems into water treatment technology in rural Alaskan communities....
Matthew Motoki
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Advisor: Baosen Zhang I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Professor Baosen Zhang. My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and distributed energy resources. Outside of my academic pursuits, I enjoy participating in machine learning competitions on Kaggle where I am a Competitions Grandmaster. ...