E-mail: jalal@dtu.dk
Phone: +45 26359955
Technical University of Denmark, Elektrovej, Building 325, room 142, Kgs. Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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Hi and welcome!
I am an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Wind and Energy Systems, where currently heading the section "Energy Markets and Analytics" (EMA) with 15+ research staff. I am also the head of studies for the MSc program "Sustainable Energy Systems" of DTU.
I am interested in data-driven and market-oriented approaches to power system operation and planning, also in coordination with other energy systems (hydrogen, gas, heat, etc). My focus area is the intersection of multiple fields, including optimization, game theory, control, and machine learning for energy applications. I am currently serving as an Associate Editor for INFORMS Operations Research.
Further details are available in my CV.
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News
April 9, 2024: Accepted! Our paper "Learning to bid in forward electricity markets using a no-regret algorithm" by Arega Getaneh Abate, Dorsa Majdi, JK, and Maryam Kamgarpour has been accepted for presentation at the Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2024). See you in Paris in June! The paper will also be published in Electric Power Systems Research [ arXiv | GitHub ].
April 9, 2024: Accepted! Our paper "Feature-driven strategies for trading wind power and hydrogen" by Emil Helgren, JK, and Lesia Mitridati has been accepted for presentation at the Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC 2024). See you in Paris in June! The paper will also be published in Electric Power Systems Research [ arXiv | GitHub ].
April 3, 2024: Accepted! Our paper "Load shifting versus manual frequency reserve: Which one is more appealing to thermostatically controlled loads in Denmark?" by Peter A. V. Gade, Trygve Skjøtskift, Charalampos Ziras, Henrik W. Bindner, and JK has been accepted for publication in Electric Power Systems Research [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].
March 6, 2024: Yannick Werner successfully defended his PhD thesis “Modeling electrolyzers and gas networks for integration with power systems” [ Manuscript ]. Congrats Yannick! Thanks Ruud Egging (NTNU) for the co-supervision, and thanks the examination committee, Victor Zavala (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Stein-Erik Fleten (NTNU), and Bissan Ghaddar (DTU).
February 6, 2024: I gave a talk as an invited speaker at the 3rd Champéry Power Conference on "Electric vehicles bidding in Nordic flexibility markets: A distributionally robust chance-constrained program" [ slides ]. Thanks Florian Dörfler and Philippe Jacquod for the invitation.
February 4, 2024: Accepted! Our paper "On the efficiency of energy markets with non-merchant storage" by Linde Frölke, Eléa Prat, Pierre Pinson, Richard M. Lusby, and JK has been accepted for publication in Energy Systems [ link | arXiv | GitHub ].
February 1, 2024: Read my interview with TU Delft on priorities for the energy transition, barriers, and modelling [ here ].
January 9, 2024: Enrica Raheli successfully defended her PhD thesis “Physics-Aware Operation of Power-to-X and Natural Gas Systems” [ Manuscript | slides | video ]. Congrats Enrica! Thanks to the three examiners, Line Roald, Josh Taylor, and Chresten Traeholt, and the chairperson at defense, Lesia Mitridati.
January 1, 2024: Appointed as an Associate Editor for the Operations Research journal in the Energy and Environment Area. It is the flagship journal for the INFORMS community.
January 1, 2024: Torine Reed Herstad [ DTU | LinkedIn ] joined the EMA section as a PhD student. She received her MSc degree in Mathemathical Modeling and Computing in 2022 from DTU, Denmark. Before joining EMA, she was a statistician at Novo Nordisk. During her PhD, she will be working on "probabilistic dimensioning and market design of ancillary services" under supervision of Lesia Mitridati (DTU), Bert Zwart (TU Eindhoven), and myself.