Event Schedule:
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
7:30 am to 8:00 am - Continental Breakfast
8:00 am to 8:40 am - Opening Ceremonies - Chair: Joe Qin
- USC Provost and Senior Vice President Beth Garrett Opening Remark
- Viterbi School of Engineering Dean Yannis Yortsos Welcome Address
- THU School of Information Science and Technology Deputy Dean Zhisheng Niu Opening Address
8:40 am to 9:25 am - Keynote: Qiang Yao (THU), Energy Technologies cooperation between China and USA: Challenge and Opportunity, Professor and Executive Director, Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy, Tsinghua University
9:25 am to 10:10 am - Keynote: Viktor Prasanna (USC), Research in Energy Informatics, Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Center for Energy Informatics, USC
10:10 am to 10:30 am -Break
10:30 am to 12:00 pm - Chair: Zhisheng Niu Hai Wang (USC), One-step Processing of Mesoporous Titania Film for Chemical Sensor and Solar Cell Applications
- Hai Zhang (THU), NOx Reduction Technologies for Coal-fired Power Plants
- Massoud Pedram (USC), Design and Optimization of Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage Systems
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm - LUNCH
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm - Chair: Murali Annavaram (USC) Jun Li (THU), Fast and Smoothed Packet Classification
- Jay Kuo (USC), Design of Energy Efficient Video Sharing Servers in Cloud Data Center
- Junwei CAO (THU), IoT for Smart Grid
3:30 pm to 3:50 pm - Break
3:50 pm to 5:50 pm - Chair: Jun Li (THU), Shi-Shang Jang (NTHU), Plant Wide Control Strategies for Flexible Operation of Power Plant with CO2 Capture Plant and Multi-stage Compressor
- Cyrus Shahabi (USC), "An Introduction to Integrated Media Systems Center"
- Zhisheng Niu (THU), A Novel Hyper-Cellular Architecture for Globally Resource-optimized and Energy-Efficient Networks (GREEN)
- Steven Nutt (USC), Next–generation power lines with increased efficiency, reduced line losses, lower power plant emissions
Thursday, May 03, 2012
7:30 am to 8:00 am - Continental Breakfast
8:00 am to 10:00 am - Chair: Samuel Qingshan Jia (THU), Xiaohong GUAN (THU), Analyzing Aggregated Generation Characteristics of Geographically Distributed Wind Farms
- Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC), "Green Wireless Networks".
- Burcin Becerik (USC), "Behavior driven building energy management: adaptive and interactive cyber-social-physical systems for building energy efficiency
- Qianchuan ZHAO (THU), Energy Efficient Building Control Research in Tsinghua University with Comfort and Security Constraints
10:00 am to 10:20 am - Break
10:20 am to 11:50 am Chair: Qiang Huang (USC), Fred Aminzadeh (USC), New Advances in Reservoir Monitoring
- Samuel Qingshan Jia (THU), Smart Building Facilitated by Integrated Terminal Control and Wireless Sensor Network
- Xi Chen (THU), Optimal planning of hydropower system with water consumption constraints
11:50 am to 12:00 PM - Closing
Posters;
Tayeb A. Tafti [Presenter] and Fred Aminzadeh, State of the art of passive seismic monitoring in geothermal reservoirs, University of Southern California, Petroleum Engineering Program and USC Center for Geothermal Studies
Debotyam Maity [Presenter] & Fred Aminzadeh, Framework for time lapse fracture characterization in a geothermal development, University of Southern California, Petroleum Engineering Program and USC Center for Geothermal Studies
Ning Liu [Presenter] and Fokion Egolfopoulos, Ignition characteristics of Jet fuel components, USC Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Okjoo Park [Presenter], Christodoulos Xiouris, and Fokion Egolfopoulos. Combustion Characteristics of Alternative Gas Fuels, USC Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Jingran Ma [Presenter] and S. Joe Qin, Real-time economic model predictive control for building HVAC systems, USC Mork Familiy Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Jingran Ma, Juncheng Liu [Presenter], and S. Joe Qin, An optimal operating strategy for energy storage in the presence of renewable generations, USC Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Huy Pham [Presenter] and Cyrus Shahabi "Towards Integrating Spatio-Temporal Data with Social Networks". USC Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering
Leyla Kazemi [Presenter] and Cyrus Shahabi, TAPAS: Trustworthy Privacy-Aware Participatory Sensing, USC Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering
Yinghui Hu [Presenter] and Steven Nutt, Transverse compression of unidirectional carbon fiber/epoxy and glass fiber/epoxy composites. USC M.C. Gill Composites Center, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Lessa K. Grunenfelder [Presenter], Steven R. Nutt, Sustainable manufacturing of composites with out-of-autoclave processing, USC M.C. Gill Composites Center, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Daniel Wong [Presenter] and Murali Annavaram, Enhancing Server Energy Efficiency by Shifting Light Burden to an Assistant, USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Lijuan Xu [Presenter] and Qiang Huang, EM Estimation of Nanostructure Interactions with Incomplete Feature Measurement and Its Tailored Space Filling Designs, USC Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Li Wang [Presenter] and Qiang Huang, Cross-Domain Model Building and Validation to Reinforce Understanding of Nanowire Weight Kinetics, USC Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Farrokh Jazizadeh [Presenter], Geoffrey Kavulya, Nan Li, and Burcin Becerik-Gerber, "Behavioral driven energy management", USC Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bo Li [Presenter], Runhua Zhao, and Fokion Egolfopoulos, Flame propagation and extinction characteristics of heavy hydrocarbons, USC Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering