I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, jointly hosted by the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Business School, where I work with Prof. Le Xie and Prof. Christian Kaps. I received my Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Engineering from Columbia University, advised by Prof. Bolun Xu.
My research lies at the intersection of operations research, energy systems, and market design, with an emphasis on demand-side flexibility and electricity markets. I study how decision makers, from households and aggregators to data centers and system operators, behave under uncertainty and emerging market mechanisms. Building on this, I design pricing, aggregation, and infrastructure solutions that are efficient, fair, and reliable. My recent work examines how fast-growing data center demand should be integrated with the power grid.
Latest News
- Sep. 2026I joined Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Business School.
- Aug. 2026I completed my Ph.D. at Columbia University.
- Jun. 2026I presented The Limitations of Proxy Bus Models in Coordinated Transaction Scheduling at ACM e-Energy 2026 and my thesis research at the e-Energy PhD Forum in Banff, Canada, along with a poster at ACM Sustainability Week.
- May 2026I presented our work on risk-awareness in demand response at the Northeast Systems and Control Workshop at Princeton.
- Apr. 2026Our paper Fair Aggregation in Virtual Power Plants is out on arXiv and was accepted as a non-archival paper at ACM FAccT 2026.
- Dec. 2025I gave seminar talks on behavior modeling and analysis in energy systems at the Purdue University and New York University power groups.
- Oct. 2025Our paper A Prudent Framework for Understanding Risk-Awareness in Demand Response has been accepted by the European Journal of Operational Research. I also chaired the session "Human-Centric Energy Markets" at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
- Sep. 2025I gave a talk at the Caltech RSRG/FALCON Seminar.
- May 2025I started a summer internship at ISO New England, working on the efficiency evaluation and improvement of coordinated transaction scheduling between regional markets.
Earlier news
- Oct. 2024Our work on coincident peak shaving was accepted for presentation at the 2025 Grid Science Winter School and Conference at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), with travel funding from LANL.
- Sep. 2024Our paper A Prudent Framework for Understanding Risk-Awareness in Demand Response was accepted for presentation at the 7th Workshop on Autonomous Energy Systems at NREL, with travel support from NREL.
- Feb. 2024I presented our work on Demand Side Flexibility Envelope Quantification at the poster session of IEEE ISGT NA 2024.
- Sep. 2023Our paper Saturation Effects in Equitable Demand Response Tariff Design was accepted for presentation at the 6th Workshop on Autonomous Energy Systems at NREL.
- May 2023I started a summer internship at NREL, working on optimal offering curve design for virtual power plants and demand-side flexibility quantification.