Event Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
Time: 8:30 am – 5:30 pm EST
Location: Computing and Data Sciences (CDS) building at 665 Commonwealth Ave, 17th Floor
CISE Fall Workshop: A Roadmap for Intelligence and Resilience in Power Grids

Co-sponsored by the Center for Information & Systems Engineering and BU Division of Systems Engineering, this workshop seeks to foster a convergent research discussion with the goal of outlining a roadmap for resolving critical socio-technical challenges in modern power systems. By bringing together experts from academia, industry, national labs, government agencies, the goal is to explore transformative strategies for modernizing power grids to meet today’s needs and anticipate future demands. The event seeks to identify current technological gaps and potential solution approaches for low-inertia systems, reliability in the face of emerging loads, resilience to severe weather, efficiency, and resource adequacy. Discussions will also examine new energy and service markets tailored to the unpredictable nature of renewable resources and emergent loads, empowering active participation from energy users and producers to strengthen system resilience. The workshop aims to promote collaborations between Boston University, other academic institutions, national labs, grid operators, and industry, that can lead to large-scale projects, initiatives, and consortia.
View the workshop presentation slides here.
View the workshop agenda here.
Workshop Organizers:

Emiliano Dall’Anese, Boston University

Christos Cassandras, Boston University

Ayse Coskun, Boston University

Elli Ntakou, Eversource Energy
Opening Remarks:

Elise Morgan, Boston University
Speakers:

Fatih Acun, Boston University

Mads Rønne Almassalkhi, University of Vermont

Panagiotis Andrianesis, Mines Paris/BU

Digaunto Chatterjee, Eversource Energy

Sairaj Dhople, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Florian Dörfler, ETH Zürich

Dominic Groß, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Philip Hart, General Electric

William Hogan, Harvard University

Melissa Lavinson, MA Office of Energy Transformation

Federico Milano, University College Dublin

Elli Ntakou, Eversource Energy

Ciaran Roberts, Emerald AI

Marianne Perben, ISO New England Inc.

Pablo Ruiz, New Grid Inc./Boston University

Benjamin Sovacool, Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability

Bruce Tsuchida, The Brattle Group

Nicholas Watson, National Grid
Moderators:

Selin Yanikara, Newton Energy Group

Anna Whitney, Sustainability Roundtable, Inc.
