Ashwini BHARATKUMAR

Ashwini BHARATKUMAR

Academic Background:

• 2015 - present • MIT, ESD: PhD student in Engineering Systems
• 2012 - 2015 • MIT, ESD & EECS: SM in Technology & Policy, SM in Electrical Engineering
• 2008 - 2012 • University of Wisconsin-Madison, BS in Operations Research & Information Systems

Work Experience:

• 2012 - Present • MIT Energy Initiative • Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Research Assistant, MITEI Utility of the Future Study
• 2014 - Present • IHS CERA • Cambridge, MA, USA,
  • Associate, CERA Week Energy Innovation Pioneers Program
• 2015 - 2015 • National Renewable Energy Laboratory • Golden, CO, USA
  • Research Intern, Distributed Energy Systems Integration Group, Power Systems Engineering Center
• 2011 - 2011 • Argonne National Laboratory • Argonne, IL, USA
  • Research intern, Energy Systems Division, Transportation Research Group

Research Domain:

electric power systems operations and planning, electricity pricing, power sector regulation and market design

Research Methodology:

optimization, systems science and control, regulatory economics

Research Description:

Ash's research focuses on the design and use of price signals as effective control signals for distributed decision-making in power systems operations and planning. Her core research interests include exploring tradeoffs between the computational complexity and granularity of price signals, and their effectiveness in incentivizing efficient system outcomes. Her work seeks to combine development and novel application of theory and computational tools to inform the pricing of electricity services, the design of electricity markets, and the regulation of transmission and distribution networks in a manner best-suited to the integration of decentralized and centralized resources in a decarbonized power sector.

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