Sixth USC-Tsinghua Symposium on Green Technology and Energy Informatics

A trilateral event between USC-THU-NTHU on green technology.

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