Ilyès Mezghani
Optimization/Power Systems analyst at Engie Impact.
Contact: ilyes (dot) mezghani (at) gmail (dot) com
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Bio
I am an Optimization and Power Systems analyst at Engie Impact in the Advanced Analytics segment. I am currently working on the NEMO project. I hold a PhD in Operations Research from Université catholique de Louvain. My doctoral work focuses on the optimization and operations research with applications in electrical power systems. I worked under the supervision of Professor Anthony Papavasiliou.
PhD Public Defense
I defended my PhD on May 28, 2021. The recording of the defense is avaible here: https://youtu.be/34Ogc6ykcBE
Event
I was happy to co-organize the Energy Days 2020 with Gilles Bertrand, Yuting Mou and Anthony Papavasiliou. The event took place on December 7 & 8, 2020 online. The programme, slides and video recordings are available at the following link: https://ap-rg.eu/events/energydays2020/.
News
May 2021: I started working at Engie Impact, in the Advanced Analytics team.
March 2021: Our paper 'A Penalty Method Based on a Gauss-Newton Scheme for AC-OPF' with Quoc Tran-Dinh, Ion Necoara and Anthony Papavasiliou has been accepted to IEEE PES PowerTech Madrid 2021.
December 2020: I chaired the session 'Algorithmic and Market Design Topics in T&D Coordination and Local Energy Markets' at the Energy Days 2020; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EVxc_uOfD8.
November 2020: I will chair the session 'Topics in Optimal Power Flow and T&D Coordination' at INFORMS 2020 Annual Meeting.
February 2020: Our paper 'Stochastic AC-OPF: A Data-Driven Approach' with Deepjyoti Deka and Sidhant Misra has been accepted to PSCC 2020.
Summer 2019: From June 3 to September 13, I will be interning at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with Sidhant Misra and Deepjyoti Deka.
June 2019: IEEE PES PowerTech Milano, presenting 'A Mixed Integer Second Order Cone Program for Transmission-Distribution System Co-Optimization'.