Victor M. Zavala Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue, Building 240, Argonne, IL 60439, Phone: 412-728-8375 E-mail: vzavala@mcs.anl.gov, Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~vzavala EDUCATION Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Process Systems Engineering), 2008 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Advisor: Lorenz T. Biegler Thesis Title: Computational Strategies for the Optimal Operation of Large-Scale Chemical Processes B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (Honors), 2003 Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE Mathematical Modeling of Chemical and Energy Systems (Power Grid, Natural Gas, Water, Buildings) Large-scale Numerical Optimization, Real-Time and Stochastic Optimization, Uncertainty Modeling Numerical Solution, Theory, and Applications of Predictive Control and State Estimation APPOINTMENTS Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division Computational Mathematician. November 2014 - Present University of Chicago, Computation Institute Fellow. December 2011 - Present Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division Assistant Computational Mathematician. October 2010 - October 2014 Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne Scholar. October 2008 -October 2010 Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemical Engineering Research and Teaching Assistant. August 2004 - August 2008 ExxonMobil Chemical, Core Engineering and Technology Complex Research Intern. July 2007 - September 2007 and June 2006 - August 2006 Universidad Iberoamericana Research and Teaching Assistant. January 2004 - July 2004 Celanese Corporation, Cangrejera Chemical Complex, Mexico Engineering Intern. May 2003 - July 2003 and May 2001 - July 2001 HONORS and AWARDS Department of Energy-Office of Science Early Career Award. 2012-2017. Best Paper Award. 5th Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud). 2014. Director s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory. 2008-2010. Victor M. Zavala 1
Humboldt Fellowship 2008-2010 (Not Realized). Best Paper Award. IEEE Workshop on Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry. Vancouver, Canada. 2007. Invited Keynote Speaker. International Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control. Pavia, Italy. 2008. Graduate Studies Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University. 2004-2008. Invited Keynote Speaker. 8th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems. Cancun, Mexico. 2007. Graduate Student Travel Awards from the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE and from the Graduate Student Assembly, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. Honorific Mention for Outstanding Academic Performance at Universidad Iberoamericana, 2003. UAEM Fellowship for Academic Excellence, 1996-1999. RESEARCH FUNDING PI, Next-Generation Optimization under Uncertainty: Structure-Oriented Algorithms, Department of Energy, Office of Science Early Career Award, $500K/yr ($2.5M Total), 2012-2017 PI, Development of methodologies for large-scale optimization for electrical transmission planning, DOE-AOP, Office of Electricity, $300K/yr, 2010-2014 Investigator, Novel Power System Operations Methods for Wind-Powered Systems, LDRD Award, Argonne National Laboratory, $350K, 2009-2012 co-pi, Building-Wide, Proactive Energy Management Systems for High-Performance Buildings, DOE-AOP, EERE, $300K, 2010-2012 Subcontract, The Korea-Illinois Smart Building Initiative, Citizens Utility Board of Illinois, $30K, 2012 co-pi, Next-Generation Modeling Tools for the Real-Time Energy Management of Buildings, ISEN, Northwestern University, $35K, 2011 PI, Nonlinear MPC Assessment for Energy Applications, General Electric Company, $50K, 2010 Director s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory, 2008-2010 JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 1. P. Morales-Valdez, A. Flores-Tlacuahuac and V.M. Zavala. Analyzing the Effects of Comfort Relaxation on Energy Demand Flexibility of Buildings: A Multiobjective Optimization Approach, Energy & Buildings, 85, pp. 416 426, 2014. 2. M.C. Burkhart, Y. Heo and V.M. Zavala. Measurement and Verification of Building Systems Under Uncertain Data: A Gaussian Process Modeling Approach, Energy & Buildings, 75, pp. 189 198, 2014. 3. V.M. Zavala. Stochastic Optimal Control Model for Natural Gas Networks, Computers & Chemical Engineering, 64, pp. 103 113, 2014. 4. V.M. Zavala and M. Anitescu. Scalable Nonlinear Programming using Exact Differentiable Penalty Functions and Trust-Region Newton Methods, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 24(1), pp. 528-558, 2014. 5. V.M. Zavala. Inference of Building Occupancy Signals Using Moving Horizon Estimation and Fourier Regularization. Journal of Process Control, 24(6), pp.714-722, 2014. Victor M. Zavala 2
6. V.M. Zavala. Real-Time Optimization Strategies for Building Systems. Ind.Eng.Chem.Res. 52(9), pp. 3137-3150, 2013. 7. J.M. Salazar, U. Diwekar, E.M. Constantinescu, and V.M. Zavala. A Stochastic Optimization Approach to Water Management in Cooling-Constrained Power Plants. Applied Energy, 112, pp.12-22, 2013. 8. V.M. Zavala and A. Flores-Tlacuahuac. Stability of Multiobjective Predictive Control: A Utopia-Tracking Approach. Automatica, 48(10), pp. 2627-2632, 2012. 9. Y. Heo and V.M. Zavala. Gaussian Process Modeling for Measurement and Verification. Energy and Buildings, 53, pp. 7-18, 2012. 10. V.M. Zavala and M. Anitescu. Real-Time Nonlinear Optimization as a Generalized Equation. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 48, pp. 5444-5454, 2010. 11. E. M. Constantinescu, V. M. Zavala, M. Rocklin, S. Lee and M. Anitescu. A Computational Framework for Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Optimization in Unit Commitment with Wind Power Generation. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 26(1), pp. 431-441, 2010. 12. V. M. Zavala. Stability Analysis of an Approximate Scheme for Moving Horizon Estimation. Comp. Chem. Eng., 34(10), pp. 1662-1670, 2010. 13. V.M. Zavala, E.M. Constantinescu, T. Krause, and M. Anitescu. Exploiting Weather Forecast Information in the Operation of Integrated Energy Systems. Journal of Process Control. 19(10), pp. 1725-1736, 2009. 14. L.T. Biegler and V.M. Zavala. Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming with IPOPT: An Integrated Framework for Enterprise-Wide Optimization. Comp.Chem.Eng. 33(3), pp. 575-582, 2009. 15. V.M. Zavala, and L.T. Biegler. A Fast Moving Horizon Estimation Algorithm Based on Nonlinear Programming Sensitivity. Journal of Process Control. 18(9), pp. 876-884, 2008. 16. V.M. Zavala and L.T. Biegler. The Advanced-Step NMPC Controller: Optimality, Stability and Robustness. Automatica. 45(1), pp. 86-93, 2009. 17. V.M. Zavala and L.T. Biegler. Optimization-Based Strategies for the Operation of Low- Density Polyethylene Tubular Reactors: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control. Comp.Chem.Eng., 33(10), pp. 1735-1746, 2009. 18. V.M. Zavala and L.T. Biegler. Optimization-Based Strategies for the Operation of Low- Density Polyethylene Tubular Reactors: Moving Horizon Estimation. Comp.Chem.Eng. 33(1), pp. 379-390, 2009. 19. R. Huang, V.M. Zavala, and L.T. Biegler. Advanced Step Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Air Separation Units. Journal of Process Control, 19(4), pp. 678-685, 2009. 20. V.M. Zavala, C.D. Laird and L.T. Biegler. Interior-Point Decomposition Approaches for Parallel Solution of Large-Scale Nonlinear Parameter Estimation Problems. Chem. Eng. Sci. Chem. Eng. Sci. 63(19), pp. 4834-4845, 2008. 21. V.M. Zavala, C.D. Laird and L.T. Biegler. Fast Implementations and Rigorous Models: Can Both be Accommodated in NMPC?. Int. J. Robust Nonlinear Control. 18(8), pp.800-815, 2008. 22. V.M. Zavala and L.T. Biegler. Large-Scale Parameter Estimation in Low-Density Polyethylene Tubular Reactors. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 45 (23), pp. 7867-7881, 2006. 23. V.M. Zavala, A. Flores-Tlacuahuac and E. Vivaldo-Lima. The Bifurcation Behavior of a Polyurethane Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor. Chem. Eng. Sci. 61 (22), pp. 7368-7385, 2006. 24. V.M. Zavala, A. Flores-Tlacuahuac and E. Vivaldo-Lima. Dynamic Optimization of a Semi-Batch Reactor for Polyurethane Production. Chem. Eng. Sci. 60 (11), pp. 3061-3079, 2005. Victor M. Zavala 3
25. A. Flores-Tlacuahuac, V.M. Zavala and E. Saldivar-Guerra. Complex Nonlinear Behavior in the Full-Scale High-Impact Polystyrene Process. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 44 (8), pp. 2802-2814, 2005. CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS (PEER-REVIEWED) 1. N. Chiang, C. Petra and V. M. Zavala. Structured Nonconvex Optimization of Large-Scale Energy Systems using PIPS-NLP. 18th Power Systems Computation Conference, 2014. 2. K. Maheshwari, J. Wozniak, H. Yang, D. Katz. M. Ripeanu, V. M. Zavala, and M. Wilde. Evaluating Storage Systems for Scientific Data in the Cloud. ScienceCloud, 2014. 3. Y. Heo, Graziano, D., Zavala, V.M.; Dickinson, P.; Kamrath, M. and Kirshenbaum, M. Cost-effective Measurement and Verification Method for Determining Energy Savings under Uncertainty. ASHRAE Annual Conference, 2013. 4. V. M. Zavala. Real-Time Resolution of Conflicting Objectives in Building Energy Management: A Utopia-Tracking Approach. SimBuild, 2012. 5. V. M. Zavala. Proactive Energy Management for High-Performance Buildings: Exploiting and Motivating Sensor Technologies. Future of Instrumentation International Workshop, 2011. 6. V. M. Zavala and B. Robbins. Convergence Analysis of a Parallel Newton Scheme for Dynamic Power Grid Simulations. 1st International Workshop on High Performance Computing, Networking and Analytics for the Power Grid, 2011. 7. A. Cioaca, Zavala, V. M. and E. M. Constantinescu. Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis for Numerical Weather Prediction: Applications to Power Grid Optimization. 1st International Workshop on High Performance Computing, Networking and Analytics for the Power Grid, 2011. 8. M. Lubin, Petra, C. Zavala, V. M. and M. Anitescu. Scalable Stochastic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems. Supercomputing, 2011. 9. V. M. Zavala and M. Anitescu. New Insights into the Dynamic Stability of Wholesale Electricity Markets. IEEE MSC, 2011. 10. V. M. Zavala, A. Botterud, E.M. Constantinescu, and J. Wang. Computational and Economic Limitations of Dispatch Operations in the Next-Generation Power Grid. IEEE Conference on Innovative Technologies for and Efficient and Reliable Power Supply, 2010. 11. V. M. Zavala and M. Anitescu. Achieving Higher Frequencies in Large-Scale Nonlinear Model Predictive Control. 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control-CDC, 2010. 12. A. Alessandri, M. Baglietto, G. Battistelli, and V. M. Zavala. Advances in Moving Horizon Estimation for Nonlinear Systems. 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control-CDC, 2010. 13. V. M. Zavala, J. Wang, S. Leyffer, E. M. Constantinescu, M. Anitescu, and G. Conzelmann. Proactive Energy Management for Next-Generation Building Systems. SimBuild, 2010. 14. V. M. Zavala and E. M. Constantinescu and M. Anitescu. Economic Impacts of Advanced Weather Forecasting on Energy System Operations. IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, 2010. 15. V.M. Zavala, M. Anitescu, and T. Krause. On the Optimal On-Line Management of Photovoltaic- Hydrogen Hybrid Energy Systems. 10th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, 2009. 16. V.M. Zavala and L.T. Biegler. Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming Strategies for the Operation of Low-Density Polyethylene Tubular Reactors. Proceedings of ESCAPE-18, 2008. 17. V.M. Zavala and L.T. Biegler. The Advanced Step NMPC Controller. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry. Vancouver, Canada, 2007. Victor M. Zavala 4
18. V.M. Zavala, C.D. Laird and L.T. Biegler. A Fast Computational Framework for Large-Scale Moving Horizon Estimation. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, DYCOPS. Cancun, Mexico, 2007. 19. V.M. Zavala, C.D. Laird and L.T. Biegler. Fast Solvers and Rigorous Models: Can Both be Accommodated in NMPC? Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Fast Systems. Grenoble, France, 2006. STUDENT SUPERVISION Postdoctoral (Former Institution-Department) Kibaek Kim (Northwestern-Industrial & Systems Engineering), 2014-Present Naiyuan Chiang (Edinburgh-Mathematics), 2013-Present Yeonsook Heo (Georgia Tech-Architecture), 2011-2013 Current Position: Lecturer at University of Cambridge Doctoral - Summer Internship (Institution-Department) Yankai Cao (Texas A&M, Purdue-Chemical Engineering), 2013, 2014 Diana Lopez-Cardenas (Technical University of Berlin-Chemical Engineering), 2014 Bethany Nicholson (Carnegie Mellon-Chemical Engineering), 2014 Francisco Trespalacios (Carnegie Mellon-Chemical Engineering), 2014 Yankai Cao (Purdue-Chemical Engineering), 2013, 2014 Yueling Loh (Johns Hopkins-Mathematics), 2013 Jie Liu (SUNY Buffalo-Mathematics), 2012 Michael Burkhart (Rutgers-Mathematics), 2012 Dane Schiro (UIUC-Industrial & Systems Engineering), 2011 Brett Robbins (UIUC-Electrical Engineering), 2011 Jia Kang (Texas A&M-Chemical Engineering), 2011 Abir Chaterjee (Ohio State-Electrical Engineering), 2011 Sangmin Lee (New York University-Statistics), 2010 Aswin Kannan (UIUC-Industrial & Systems Engineering), 2010 Shankar Sastry (Penn State-Mechanical Engineering), 2010 SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES DOE-Office of Electricity representative in the Advanced Computing Tech Team (ACTT). ACTT aims to develop a new $100M/yr research program in computing in the applied DOE offices. Co-author of the report A Multifaceted Mathematical Approach for Complex Systems and a facilitator in the preceding workshop. This report informed a $9M/yr DOE program out of which Argonne won one of the 3 awarded projects. Session Organizer Stochastic Optimization of Complex Systems, SIAM Conference on Optimization, 2014 Session Organizer Uncertainty Modeling in Complex Energy Systems, SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, 2014 Session Orgnizer Emerging Applications of Large-Scale Optimization, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2013 Track Organizer Scientific and Engineering Applications of Optimization, ICCOPT, 2013 Victor M. Zavala 5
Session Organizer Modeling, Optimization, and Simulation for Power Grid, SIAM CSE, 2013 International Programming Committee, International Workshop on NMPC, 2012 Session Organizer, Real-Time Optimization, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, 2012 Organizing Committee Mathematics for the Analysis, Simulation, and Optimization of Complex Systems, DOE-ASCR, 2011 Session Chair, Applied Mathematics Principal Research Investigators Meeting, DOE-ASCR, 2011 Session Organizer Electricity Markets, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2011 Panelist Computational Issues and Needs for the Future Smart Grid Electric Power System, DOE- OE 2011 Session Organizer Optimization in Electric Power Systems, SIAM CSE 2011 Session Chair Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, IEEE CDC 2010 Session Chair, US-Mexico Workshop on Optimization and its Applications, Mexico 2010 REVIEWING ACTIVITIES Agencies: DOE Office of Science, Iowa Energy Center Chemical Engineering: AIChE Journal, Chemical Engineering Science, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Computers and Chemical Engineering Control: Automatica, Journal of Process Control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Optimization: Optimization and Engineering, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, SIAM Journal on Optimization Energy: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Fuel, International Journal on Hydrogen Energy INVITED TALKS 2014 - University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin-Madison, INFORMS Optimization Society, Illinois Institute of Technology, SIAM Conference on Optimization, Power Systems Computation Conference, Los Alamos National Laboratory, European Control Conference 2013 - AICHE-CAST Plenary, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea), Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia (Portugal), Queen s University (Canada), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (Chile), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, SIAM CSE, INFORMS ICS, Purdue University, International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP), International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), DOE Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Committee (ASCAC), Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) 2012 - ABB Corporate Research, Universidad Iberoamericana, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, INFORMS Annual, Singapore Workshop on Optimization, Texas A&M 2011 - Sandia National Laboratories, Ohio State University, University of Illinois-UChampaign, Carnegie Mellon, INFORMS Annual, INFORMS Regional, Future of Instrumentation International Workshop 2010 - Northwestern University, University of Illinois-Chicago, ICiS Workshop on Energy 2009 - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Universidad Iberoamericana 2008 - Technical University of Eindhoven, Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Victor M. Zavala 6
SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2008-Present Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), 2008-Present American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2006-Present International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), 2008-Present Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2008-Present SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Decomposition for Stochastic Programming (DSP), 2014-Present Toolkit for Advanced Optimization (TAO), 2012-Present Parallel Interior Point Solver (PIPS), 2011-Present Measurement and Verification with Gaussian Process Modeling (EnergyM&V), 2011-2013 Predictive Control System for Buildings (with BuildingIQ), 2011-2012 Real-Time Occupancy Estimation System for Buildings (FourierCO 2 ), 2012 ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS Mihai Anitescu, Emil Constantinescu, Sven Leyffer (MCS-Argonne), Michael Wilde (MCS-Argonne), Jianhui Wang, Audun Botterud, Guenter Conzelmann (DIS-Argonne), Jean-Paul Watson, John Siirola (Sandia), Carl Laird (Texas A&M-Purdue), Jong-Shi Pang (UIUC), Suvrajeet Sen (USC), Andreas Waechter and Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University), John Birge (University of Chicago), Antonio Flores (Universidad Iberoamericana-Mexico), Dane Skow, Charlie Catlett (CIS-Argonne), Lorenz T. Biegler (Carnegie Mellon University), Fernando D Amato (General Electric), Peter Dickinson (BuildingIQ), Urmila Diwekar (UIC), Theodore Krause, Dave Carter (CSE-Argonne), Angelo Alessandri and Marco Baglietto (University of Genoa-Italy), Giorgio Batistelli (Universita degli Studi di Firenze-Italy), Chris Thomas (Citizens Utlity Board of Illinois), Andy Ott (PJM). INDUSTRIAL COLLABORATIONS BuidingIQ (Building Controls), 2010-2013 Citizen s Utility Board of Illinois, 2012 General Electric Company (Automation and Control), 2008-2010 ExxonMobil Chemical (Automation and Control), 2004-2008 Victor M. Zavala 7