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Short Introduction of Participants Dagstuhl Seminar on Smart Buildings and Smart Grids February 23, 2015

Florian Allerding Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany allerding@kit.edu Background: Energy Smart Home Lab at KIT Organic Smart Home : Energy management platform for Smart buildings Energy flow optimization in intelligent buildings Current research interests: Software architectures for Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) focused on optimization and control Looking for: • Discussions on software architectures for BEMS: integration of heterogeneous components (appliances and devices) into a comprehensive system • People interested in research collaborations on BEMS • Industrial research collaboration in the context of BEMS

Birger Becker FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany birger.becker@fzi.de Background: Energy Smart Home Lab at KIT Interactive Building Energy Management FZI Living Lab smartEnergy (in FZI House of Living Labs ) Current research interests: Software architectures for Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) focused on interaction and configuration Looking for: • Discussions on software architectures for BEMS (smart integration of appliances and devices, user interaction, configuration) to identify and use flexibility • People interested in research collaborations on BEMS • Applied research based on development and presentation platform FZI House of Living Labs

Bert Claessens, Vito

Hermann de Meer, Universität Passau

Victor del Razo Technische Universität München, Germany victor.del-razo-sarmina@tum.de Background: Electric and communications engineering, work in telecom industry as project and product manager, since 2012 PhD candidate. Current research interests: Electric vehicle charging in cities and highways, thermal loads as virtual storage Looking for: • Discussion on technology alternatives for facilitating renewable integration • People interested in research collaborations, prototyping or pilots in EV charging (particularly highways) or thermal load management • Feedback on current research work • Possible short term stays with potential collaborators

Christoph Doblander Technische Universität München, Germany christoph.doblander@in.tum.de Background: Computer Science, Information Systems Current research interests: Messaging systems, Publish/Subscribe Simulation infrastructure Looking for: • Computational intensive problems in the smart grid which require low latency processing • Discussions on smart grid simulation; How detailed should we model individual components? in which granularity do we need the results? How much of a concern are communication latencies?

Frank Eliassen University of Oslo, Norway frank@ifi.uio.no Background: Computer Science, in particular Distributed Systems and Middleware, Service-Oriented Computing, Self-Adaptive Software Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks (CPS/IoT) Current research interests: Smart Grid Middleware; Architecture, control and management of smart grids, micro grids, and distributed resources (Smart Grid as a Service) Looking for: • Discussions on flexible, scalable, and adaptive smart grid middleware and services • People interested in research collaborations on the above • Applicants for new professorship in Energy Informatics at University of Oslo, Department of Informatics

Christoph Goebel Technische Universität München, Germany christoph.goebel@tum.de Background: Computer Science, in particular Information Systems and Energy Informatics Current research interests: Distributed energy storage and flexible loads in power systems and electricity markets Looking for: • Discussions on smart infrastructures for achieving higher energy efficiency and integration of renewable energy sources • People interested in research collaborations on grid integration of energy storage • Free datasets and models to share: Electricity demand in various environments, wind and solar power traces, grid data, battery lifetime models, weather data, vehicle traces, etc.

Manuel Görtz AGT International, Germany mgoertz@agtinternational.com Background: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering in particular Information Systems, Computer and Communication Networks Current research interests: Smart City and Smart Energy Analytics Looking for: • Energy disaggregation approaches • Gamification concepts leading to energy savings • Cooperation opportunities around Smart Cities and Smart Energy

Kai Heussen Technical University of Denmark (DTU) kh@elektro.dtu.dk Background: Control & automation; systems engineering; power systems Current research interests: Energy-flexibility models, flexibility services, aggregators; Active Distribution Grids - Requirements modeling and conflict analysis for control systems Looking for: • General Discussions on smart/critical infrastructures and related interdisciplinary research - Smart Grid? Smart Energy? Quo vadis? • Collaboration and sharing - datasets, models, algorithms: Who is interested in domestic energy use, forecasting, control? (we have full- scale labs…) • In-depth exchange on requirements modeling, statistical methods for testing/validation/verification, control-as-a-service, flexibility models & standards, co- simulation techniques, AI (classic planning & machine learning) …

Hanno Hildmann NEC Research Labs Europe, Heidelberg hanno.hildmann@neclab.eu Background: Artificial Intelligence, Nature-Inspired Optimization, Intelligent Infrastructure / Building Management Systems Current research topics: Using simple local mechanisms to control (large) populations of sensor and actuators to make them do interesting stuff Looking for: • Open minds and new ideas • People involved with – or interested in – smart city projects / massive sensor networks / “Internet of Things” / ….

Longbo Huang IIIS @ Tsinghua University, China longbohuang@tsinghua.edu.cn Background: Electrical Engineering, in particular Control and Optimization of Stochastic Networked Systems Current research interests: Energy management for systems with storage, renewable, and flexible loads Looking for: • Discussions on constraints and limitations of practical energy management algorithms for buildings, grid, and vehicular networks • People interested in research collaborations on energy storage for buildings, power grid, and other systems • Free datasets, power system simulator, and state-of-the-art information about battery, e.g., lifetime, charge/discharge limits, vehicle traces, human driving/mobility logs.

MIDDLEWARE SYSTEMS Hans-Arno Jacobsen RESEARCH GROUP MSRG.ORG Application & Middleware Systems Research Group In terms of smart grids, smart buildings, & Distributed Data energy informatics Systems Management 2015: Disaggregation Big Data 2014: Consumption prediction Matching algorithms 2013/4: Use of PEV for load shifting Publish/Subscribe AspeCtC.net … 2009/10: Grad course on “Green Middleware” 1998: RBMO Project @ LBNL (OOPSLA’98)

Randy H. Katz University of California, Berkeley randy@cs.Berkeley.edu http://www.cs.Berkeley.edu/~randy Background: Networking, Operating and Distributed Systems Current Interests : Software-defined Buildings (http://sdb.cs.berkeley.edu), Data Analytics (http://amplab.cs.Berkeley.edu), Smart Cities Looking for : Information technology challenges in Smart infrastructures, such as Grid, Transportation, Buildings, and Cities. System challenges inherent in real-time monitoring, detection, and control of city-scale activities, as well as predictive model extraction for control as well as planning purposes.

S. Keshav University of Waterloo, Canada keshav@uwaterloo.ca Background: Computer Science, in particular Computer Networking, Distributed Systems, and Operating Systems Current research interests: The impact of solar energy, energy storage, and the Internet of Things on energy systems and smart buildings: specific projects are on solar integration, grid defection, electric bicyles, non-cash incentives, and personal thermal comfort Looking for: • Discussions on impact of solar, storage, and IoT on smart infrastructures for achieving higher energy efficiency • Research collaborations on electric bikes (WeBike) and personal thermal comfort (SPOT) • New ideas

Jean-Yves Le Boudec EPFL, I&C, Lausanne, Switzerland jean-yves.leboudec@epfl.ch Background: Communication networks, performance evaluation Current research interests: Real time control of electrical distribution networks to support integration of renewables Looking for: • Discussions on smart infrastructures for achieving integration of renewable energy sources • People interested in research collaborations on : reliability of real-time software; smart grid cyber-security • Free datasets and models to share: high frequency measurements on EPFL campus network on smartgrid.epfl.ch