December 11, 2012
ECE Ph.D. student Yang Weng earned best paper honors at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications for his paper, "A Search Method for Obtaining Initial Guesses for Smart Grid State Estimation." The paper, co-authored with ECE Professors Maria Ilic and Rohit Negi, proposes utilizing historical data and the fast-growing computational power of the Energy Management System to efficiently obtain a good initial state for highly accurate smart grid state estimation with a nonlinear model. Specifically, the authors explore using kernel ridge regression in a Bayesian framework based on Nearest Neighbor search.
