Emerging CPS at the Nexus of Energy Engineering & Social Behavior

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Modern electrical energy systems operate at the intersection of technological advances in microelectronics, communications, and control. These enable extraordinary level of sensing of our physical spaces and inferencing of human comfort for energy use optimization with various co-generation and distributed storage resources in the new emerging 'microgrids'. Using the prototype of a microgrid at the campus of the University of California at San Diego, we present energy data that points to promising methods for operation of various types of buildings that leverage coordinated use of sensing, information processing, and building HVAC systems. We examine the emerging computer science problems arising from energy arbitration, alternative energy sourcing and capacity provisioning for computational resources through dynamic deferral of energy loads.

This talk is a reflection of how Computer Science research is rapidly evolving beyond computing machines and methods to directly address societal infrastructures affecting how we can live healthier lives and what it portends for future of academic research.

 

About the panel speaker:

Rajesh Gupta is a professor and holder of the QUALCOMM endowed chair in Embedded Microsystems in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego, California. He received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India in 1984, MS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1986 and a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1994.

Earlier he worked as a circuit designer at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California as a member of three successful processor design teams; and on the Computer Science faculty at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and UC Irvine.

His research focus is on energy efficiency from algorithms, devices to systems that scale from IC chips, data centers to commercial buildings. His past contributions include SystemC modeling and SPARK parallelizing high-level synthesis, both of which have been incorporated into industrial practice. His publications and patents cover various aspects of embedded systems design, design automation, clock design, data-path synthesis, system-on-chip modeling and dynamic power management.

Dr. Gupta is a Fellow of the IEEE.  He serves as chair of Computer Science and as associate director of the Qualcomm Institute at UCSD.