Selected Talks and Presentations

Oral Presentations

  • "Cost-Optimization of process-scale desalination systems incorporating surrogate-based water chemistry models", Speaker, 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference , Houston, Texas, USA, March 2024.

  • "Cost optimization of desalination systems using WaterTAP incorporating detailed water chemistry models", Speaker, 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, USA, October 2022.

  • "Data-driven models for equation-oriented optimization”, Berkeley Lab Postdoctoral Symposium, 2021.

  • "Assessing the impact of renewables intermittency on the sizing of standalone hybrid energy systems incorporating storage", Keynote Speaker, 2nd Renewable Energy Sources - Research and Business conference (RESRB 2017), Wroclaw, Poland, June 2017.

  • "On the design of standalone renewable energy systems: Accounting for Inter-year Variability in Systems Sizing", Speaker, Workshop on complexity and risk in the energy sector, London, UK, October 2016.

  • "Multi-objective design of standalone renewables-based hybrid energy systems for off-grid Mining", Speaker, EGL 2016 workshop on numerical mathematics, London, UK, June 2016.

  • "Reliable energy systems design for continuous processes incorporating renewables generation", Paper Presentation, 26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Portoroz, Slovenia, June 2016.

  • "Optimal integrated energy Systems design incorporating Variable Renewable Energy Sources", Speaker, 3rd PRO-TEM Network Conference: Sustainable Thermal Energy Management in the Process Industries (SusTEM2015), Newcastle, UK, July 2015.

  • "System design of renewable energy generation and storage alternatives for large scale continuous processes", Paper Presentation, 12th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2015.

Poster Presentations

  • " Cost-optimal Selection of pH Control for Mineral Scaling Prevention in High Recovery Reverse Osmosis Desalination", 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD), Colorado, USA, July 2024.

  • "Neural Networks for Prediction of Complex Chemistry in Water Treatment Process Optimization", 10th International Conference on the Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD), Colorado, USA, July 2024.

  • "PySMO: An easy-to-use computational tool for surrogate model generation and surrogate-assisted optimization", CAPD Annual Review Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA, March 2020.

  • "idaes.surrogates: A Pyomo-based framework for surrogate model generation", 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD), Colorado, USA, July 2019.

  • "Power quality management for off-grid hybrid renewable energy systems", UCL Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) meeting , London, UK, February 2017.

  • Renewable energy storage for continuous processes: A case study of mining", UK Energy Storage (UKES) conference, Warwick, UK, 2014.