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1 Xu (Andy) Sun Assistant Professor H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering I. EARNED DEGREES Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA o Ph.D. in Operations Research Dissertation title: Advances in Electric Power Systems: Robustness Adaptability, and Fairness Adviser: Professor Dimitris Bertsimas Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA o M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences. Media Laboratory Tsinghua University. Beijing, China o B.E. in Electronic Engineering, July 2003 II. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Assistant Professor. Georgia Institute of Technology. H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Atlanta, GA. Aug Present Postdoctoral Associate. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Yorktown Heights, NY. Aug Aug Research Internship. ISO New England, Inc. Holyoke, MA. June 2010 Aug Visiting Researcher. ISO New England, Inc. Holyoke, MA. June 2009 Aug Analytics Operations Engineering, Boston, MA. June 2007 Aug III. HONORS AND AWARDS A. International and National Awards IEEE Senior Member, Nov Finalist in INFORMS ENRE Student Paper Award, for the paper entitled Adaptive robust multi-period AC optimal power flow, for doctoral student Alvaro Lorca Second Place in INFORMS ENRE Energy Best Paper Award 2015, for the paper entitled Adaptive robust optimization for the security-constrained unit commitment problem Finalist in INFORMS Data Mining Society Student Best Paper Award 2015, for the paper entitled Sensor-driven condition based generator maintenance scheduling, doctoral student Murat Yildirim Third Place in INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition 2014, for the paper entitled Multistage robust optimization for Electric Power Systems Operation with Ph.D. student A. Lorca Award won by students: Hongfan Chen, Winner of INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize 2014, for the paper entitled Robust demand response portfolio management under operational uncertainty by H. Chen, S. Deng, A. Sun Second Place in INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2011

2 IV. RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP, AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES A. PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS 1. Sun and D. Phan. Modern optimization methods and techniques for electric power system operation. Invited and refereed chapter. Accepted at Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, A. Sun. Robust optimization in electric power systems. Invited and refereed chapter in Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications, edited by T. Terklaky, M. Anjos, and S. Ahmed, in SIAM Press, under review, A. Sun and A. Lorca. Advances of robust optimization in electric power system operations. Invited and refereed chapter in Integration of Large Scale Renewable Energy into Bulk Power System: From Planning to Operation. Springer Science, B. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS AND SUBMITTED ARITICLES B1. Published and Accepted Journal Articles *Students supervised by Dr. Sun are in bold. 1. J. Zou, S. Ahmed, and X. A. Sun. Partially adaptive stochastic optimization for generation capacity expansion problem. Accepted for publication in INFORMS Journal on Computing, J. Feizollahi, S. Ahmed, and X. A. Sun. Exact augmented Lagrangian duality for mixed integer linear programming. Mathematical Programming, Vol. 161, No. 1, , A. Lorca and X. A. Sun. Multistage robust unit commitment with dynamic uncertainty sets and storage devices. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol 32, No. 3, , M. Yildirim, N. Gebraeel, and X. A. Sun. Integrated predictive analytics and optimization for wind farm maintenance and operations. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, B. Kocuk, S. Dey, and X. A. Sun. New formulation and strong MISOCP relaxation for AC optimal transmission switching problem. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, B. Kocuk, S. Dey, and X. A. Sun. Strong SOCP relaxations for the optimal power flow problem. Operations Research, Vol. 64, No. 6, , B. Kocuk, H. Jeon, S. Dey, J. Linderoth, J. Luedtke, and X. A. Sun. A cyclebased formulation and valid inequalities for DC power transmission problems with switching. Operations Research, Vol. 64, No. 4, , A. Lorca, X. A. Sun, E. Litvinov, and T. Zheng. Multistage robust unit commitment with affine policy and improved constraint generation. Operations Research, Vol. 64, No. 1, 32-51, Murat Yildirim, A. Sun, N. Gebraeel. Sensor-driven condition based generator maintenance scheduling, Part II: Incorporating Operations. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 31, No. 6, , Murat Yildirim, A. Sun, N. Gebraeel. Sensor-driven condition based generator maintenance scheduling, Part I: Maintenance problem. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 31, No. 6, , 2016.

3 11. B. Kocuk, S. Dey, and X. A. Sun. Inexactness of SDP relaxation for optimal power flow over radial networks and valid inequalities for global optimization. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 31, No. 1, , A. Becker and X. A. Sun. An analytical approach for fantasy football draft and lineup management. Journal for Quantitative Analysis in Sports, Vol. 12, No. 1, 17-30, D. Phan and X. A. Sun. Minimal impact corrective actions in securityconstrained optimal power flow via sparsity regularization. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol 30, No. 4, , A. Lorca and X. A. Sun. Adaptive robust optimization with dynamic uncertainty sets for multi-period economic dispatch under significant wind. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 30, No. 4, , D. Bertsimas, E. Litvinov, X. A. Sun, J. Zhao, and T. Zheng. Two-stage Adaptive Robust Optimization for the Security Constrained Unit Commitment Problem. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 28(1): 52 63, D. Bertsimas, R. M. Freund, and X. A. Sun. An accelerated first-order method for solving unconstrained SOS polynomial optimization problems. Optimization Methods and Software, 28(3): , June D. Bertsimas, V. Goyal, and X. A. Sun. A geometric characterization of the power of finite adaptability in multi-stage stochastic and adaptive optimization. Mathematics of Operations Research, 36(1): 24 54, 2011 B2. Conference Presentation with Proceedings (Refereed) 1. P. Panciatici, M. C. Campi, S. Garatti, S. H. Low, D. Molzahn, X. A. Sun, and L. Wehenkel. Advanced optimization methods for power systems. Invited paper at the 18 th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) in Wroclaw, Poland, X. A. Sun and A. Lorca. Adaptive robust optimization for daily power system operations. Invited paper at the 18 th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) in Wroclaw, Poland, X. A. Sun and A. Lorca. Adaptive robust optimization and dynamic uncertainty sets for multi-period economic dispatch under significant wind. Accepted at Proceedings of INFORMS Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), A. Thattle, X. A. Sun, and L. Xie. Robust optimization based economic dispatch for managing system ramp capability. Accepted at 47 th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), , Jan X. A. Sun, Robust optimization for energy systems scheduling. Invited paper at the IEEE Symposium on Information Processing in the Smart Grid, X. A. Sun and B. Zhang. Robust optimal stopping. Accepted at Proceedings of INFORMS Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), 2013

4 7. X. A. Sun, S. Ghosh, and D. Phan. Fully decentralized optimal power flow algorithms. Accepted at IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, J. Wang, W. Liu, X. A. Sun, Y. Jiang. Learning to hash with listwise supervision. Accepted at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, D. Bertsimas and X. A. Sun. A Fairness-based proposal for electricity market design. Proceedings of INFORMS Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), S. Ghosh, X. A. Sun, and X. Zhang. Customer profiling for demand response programs in smart grids. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Asia (ISGT Asia), A. Becker and X. A. Sun. An analytical approach for fantasy football draft and lineup management. Abstract accepted at MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, 2011 B3. Submitted Journal Articles 1. B. Kocuk, S. Dey, and X. A. Sun. Matrix minor reformulation and SOCPbased spatial branch-and-cut method for the AC optimal power flow problem. Submitted to Mathematical Programming Computation, J. Zou, S. Ahmed, and X. A. Sun. Stochastic dual dynamic integer programming. Submitted to Mathematical Programming, A. Lorca and X. A. Sun. Adaptive robust multi-period AC optimal power flow. Under second round review at IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, J. Zou, S. Ahmed, and X. A. Sun. Multistage stochastic unit commitment using stochastic dual dynamic integer programming. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, B. Cui and X. A. Sun. A new voltage stability-constrained optimal power flow model: Necessary condition, SOCP representation, and relaxation. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, C. OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE PRODUCTS C1. Patents C.1.a. Patents Awarded 1. Reducing corrective actions in security-constrained optimal power flow via sparsity regularization, US Patent A1, with D. Phan, Dec. 31, Distributed control of electric power grids, US Patent , with D. Phan and S. Ghosh, Dec. 31, Ranking supervised hashing, US Patent B2, with J. Wang, April 28, C.1.b. Invention Disclosure 1. Target-setting for asset performance against benchmark, (IBM Invention Disclosure No. YOR , with R. Lederman and C. Dorai), filed in Nov

5 D. PRESENTATIONS D1. Invited Conference and Workshop Presentations 1. DC and AC optimal transmission switching problems: New formulation and strong relaxation. Invited speaker at Optimization and Inference of Physical Flows on Networks Workshop, Banff, Canada, Mar Strong convex relaxations and global optimization for AC optimal power flow. Invited speaker at Grid Science Winter School & Conference, Santa Fe, NM, Jan, New optimization models and algorithms for power grid operations. Sandia National Labs and Georgia Tech Alliance Workshop, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Apr Solving large-scale optimization problems under uncertainty and nonconvexity. Invited speaker in CORE 50 th Anniversary Workshop, Belgium, May New operation tools for improving flexibility and reliability of systems with variable resources and storage devices. PSERC Industry-University Meeting, GE Research Center, NY, June Solving fundamental optimization problems for renewable integration, maintenance, and optimal power flow. North America Chinese Power Professional Association (NACPPA) Webinar Series, June Robust and decentralized operations for managing renewable generation and demand response in large-scale distribution systems. PSERC Industry-University Meeting. College Station, TX. Dec Adaptive robust optimization for electric power system operations. ISO New England, Holyoke, MA. Aug Advanced optimization for power systems. Southern Company, Birmingham, AL, May Adaptive robust optimization for daily power system operations (co- Author: A. Lorca). Power Systems Computation Conference, Aug Adaptive robust economic dispatch with dynamic uncertainty sets for significant wind (co-author: A. Lorca). IEEE Power System Society General Meeting, Panel Session. June Multistage robust unit commitment (co-author: A. Lorca), Technical Conference: Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead Market Efficiency through Improved Software, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), June Robust optimization in electric power systems (co-author: A. Lorca). IEEE Power & Energy Systems Roundtable Meeting, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Apr Two-stage robust optimization for security constrained unit commitment problems, George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Presentation, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, Nov D2. Conference and Workshop Presentations 1. Adaptive robust optimization for AC optimal power flow. INFORMS ICS Conference, Austin, TX, Jan

6 2. Solving large-scale optimal power flow problems in electric power systems. International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Tokyo, Japan, Aug Robust and decentralized operations for managing renewable generation and demand response in large-scale distribution systems. PSERC Industry-University Meeting, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Dec SOCP relaxations for the optimal power flow problem (co-author: B. Kocuk, S. Dey). International Symposium on Optimization (ISMP), Jul Strong SOCP relaxations for the optimal power flow problem (co-author: B. Kocuk, S. Dey). FERC Annual Conference, Jun Adaptive robust optimization for electric power system operations (co- Author: A. Lorca). SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, Mar Adaptive robust economic dispatch with dynamic uncertainty sets for significant wind (co-author: A. Lorca), IEEE Power System Society General Meeting, Panel Session. June Multistage robust unit commitment (co-author: A. Lorca), IEEE Power System Society General Meeting, Panel Session. June Adaptive robust economic dispatch with dynamic uncertainty sets for significant wind (co-author: A. Lorca), INFORMS Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Conference (MSOM), June Security-constrained OPF with sparse regularization (co-author: D. Phan), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis MN, Nov Adaptive robust optimization and dynamic uncertainty sets for economic dispatch (co-author: A. Lorca), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis MN, Nov Security-constrained OPF with sparse regularization (co-author: D. Phan), Technical Conference: Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead Market Efficiency through Improved Software, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), June Adaptive robust optimization for security constrained unit commitment problem (co-author: D. Bertsimas, E. Litvinov, J. Zhao, T. Zheng), International Symposium of Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Berlin, Germany Robust optimal stopping problem (co-author: B. Zhang), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Fully distributed optimal power flow (co-author: D. Phan, S. Ghosh), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, A fairness-based proposal for electricity market design (co-author: D. Bertsimas), INFORMS Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Conference (MSOM), New York, NY, Jul Adaptive robust optimization for electric energy system operation (co- Author: D. Bertsimas, E. Litvinov, J. Zhao, T. Zheng), Optimization Days, HEC Montreal, Canada, May 2011

7 18. Adaptive robust optimization for security constrained unit commitment problems (co-author: D. Bertsimas, E. Litvinov, J. Zhao, T. Zheng), Seventh Annual Carnegie Mellon Conference on the Electricity Industry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, March A geometric characterization of the power of finite adaptability in multistage stochastic and adaptive optimization (co-author: D. Bertsimas, V. Goyol). Modern Trends in Optimization and Its Applications - Workshop IV Robust Optimization, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, Apr A Fairness-based proposal for electricity market design (co-author: D. Bertsimas), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, An analytical approach for fantasy football draft and lineup management (co-author: A. Becker), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, Oct Accelerated First-Order Algorithms for Polynomial Optimization (co- Author: D. Bertsimas, R. Freund), INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Oct D3. Invited Seminar Presentations 1. Solving the computational challenges in electrical power systems, Departmental Seminar, Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Michigan, Sept Solving large-scale optimization problems under uncertainty and nonconvexity in electric power systems. Departmental Seminar, Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec Recent advances in solving AC OPF and multistage robust unit commitment. Departmental Seminar, Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec Solving AC OPF in electric power systems. Departmental Seminar, Industrial Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Apr Solving large-scale optimization problems under uncertainty and nonconvexity in electric power systems. ISE Seminar, Lehigh University. Sep Robust dispatch and dynamic uncertainty sets for power systems with significant wind (co-author: A. Lorca). Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA, Nov Adaptive robust optimization in power system operations (co-author: A. Lorca). Colloquium of Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, Sept Two-stage and multistage robust optimization in power systems (co- Author: A. Lorca). Seminar, Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May Robust optimization in power systems (co-author: A. Lorca). GERAD- ONDI seminar, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada, Mar

8 10. Robust optimization in power systems (co-author: A. Lorca). Tsinghua University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Beijing, June Adaptive robust optimization for unit commitment Problem (co-author: A. Lorca). Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, Mar Recent Advances in Electric Power Systems. School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Nov E. OTHER SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center. Aug Aug o Developed mathematical models for business analysis, which helped the sales team pass $10Million impact threshold. Awarded Research Accomplishment of the year 2012 (Group leader Dr. Chitra Dorai) ISO New England Inc. June 2009 Aug. 2009, June 2010 Aug o Developed the first robust optimization model and software for large-scale power system operations. Won financial support for the last year of Ph.D ($60K). V. SERVICE A. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS A1. Editorial Board Membership o IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, special issue Emerging optimization techniques in renewable energy system planning, design, operation, and control 2016 (Impact Factor: 3.727) o IET Generation Transmission & Distribution, special issue on "Distributed & autonomous dispatch and control for active distribution networks/microgrids potential scheme to realize plug & play of DER" 2016 (Impact Factor: 1.576, 5-year Impact Factor: 2.011) A2. Society Membership o Members of Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and IEEE Power & Energy Society (IEEE PES) A3. Chairmanship of Technical Sessions and Conferences o Cluster Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting, ENRE Electricity Track, o Cluster Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting, ENRE Electricity Track, o Cluster Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting, ENRE Electricity Track, o Panel Chair for IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting Robust optimization in power systems, July 2014

9 o Co-Chair, Award Committee for the Best Student Paper Award for INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment (ENRE) Sector, 2014 A4. Technical Journal or Conference Referee Activities A4.a. Referee for Journals Operations Research Mathematical Programming A & B European Journal of Operations Research Operations Research Letters Optimization Methods and Software IIE Transactions Naval Research Logistics Computational Management Science Mathematical Methods of Operations Research IEEE Transactions on Power Systems IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems A4.b. Referee for Conferences and others Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), 2015 Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) IEEE Symposium on Information Processing in Smart Grid 2013 A5. Proposal Panels and Reviews External reviewer for Army Research Lab, External reviewer for National Council for Research and Technology of Greece, ARISTEIA program, 2013

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