About Me
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Berkeley
Since April 2024, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, hosted my Michael I. Jordan. Previously, I was a PhD student at ETH Zurich in Florian Dörfler's research group. My recent research focuses on developing the foundations of distributionally robust optimization, estimation, and control, as well as on deploying novel distributionally robust trading strategies in renewable energy markets. At the beginning of my PhD, I was mainly working on voltage and transient stability assessment of renewable-integrated power systems.
Research Interests
Distributionally Robust Optimization, Stochastic Control, Optimal Transport, High-Dimensional Statistics, Power Systems, Renewable Energy Markets.
Selected Recent Works
[1] L. Aolaritei, N. Lanzetti, H. Chen, F. Dörfler. “Distributional Uncertainty Propagation via Optimal Transport”. Conditionally Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2205.00343 (2023).
[2] S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh, L. Aolaritei, F. Dörfler, D. Kuhn. “New Perspectives on Regularization and Computation in Optimal Transport-Based Distributionally Robust Optimization”. Major Revision in Operations Research. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03900 (2023).
[3] L. Aolaritei, S. Shafieezadeh Abadeh, F. Dörfler. “Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Estimation in High Dimensions: Performance Analysis and Optimal Hyperparameter Tuning”. Under Review in Mathematical Programming. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2206.13269 (2023).
Selected Recent Presentations
Distributional_Uncertainty.pdfWasserstein_Estimation.pdfBlack_Swans.pdfContact: liviu.aolaritei@berkeley.edu