Energy – Pascal Van Hentenryck

Van Hentenryck’s research in energy systems is concerned with novel optimization and machine learning techniques for a variety of applications in electricity networks, including optimal power flows, unit commitment, transmission expansion planning, line switching, and power restoration. Van Hentenryck also interested in gas networks, the joint optimization of electricity and gas networks, and privacy in energy systems.

Recent Publications

Spatial Network Decomposition for Fast and Scalable AC-OPF Learning. Minas Chatzos, Terrence Mak, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (Early access: 10.1109/TPWRS.2021.3124726).
Combining Deep Learning and Optimization for Preventive Security-Constrained DC Optimal Power Flow. Alexandre Velloso and Pascal Van Hentenryck. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (to appear).
An Exact and Scalable Problem Decomposition for Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow. Alexandre Velloso, Pascal Van Hentenryck, and Emma Johnson. Electric Power Systems Research (to appear).
Privacy-Preserving Obfuscation for Distributed Power Systems. Fernandino Fioretto, Terrence Mak, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. Electric Power Systems Research.
High-Fidelity Machine Learning Approximations of Large-Scale Optimal Power Flow, Minas Chatzos, Ferdinando Fioretto, Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, arXiv:2006.16356, June 2020.
Differentially Private Distributed Optimal Power Flow, Vladimir Dvorkin, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Jalal Kazempour, and Pierre Pinson. arXiv:1910.10136v2 .
Differentially Private Distributed Optimal Power Flow. Vladimir Dvorkin, P. Van Hentenryck, Jalal Kazempour, Pierre Pinson. Proceedings of the 2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC-2020), December 2020.
Communication-Constrained Expansion Planning for Resilient Distribution Systems. Geunyeong Byeon, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Russell Bent, and Harsha Nagarajan. INFORMS Journal on Computing.
PPSM: A Privacy-Preserving Stackelberg Mechanism. Ferdinando Fioretto, Lesia Mitridati, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. In the Proceedings of 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-20), Tokyo, Japan 2020.
An Exact and Scalable Problem Decomposition for Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow. Alexandre Velloso, Pascal Van~Hentenryck, and Emma Johnson. In the Proceedings of the XXI Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC-2020), Porto, Portugal, June 2020.
Privacy-Preserving Obfuscation for Distributed Power Systems. Fernandino Fioretto, Terrence Mak, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. In the Proceedings of the XXI Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC-2020), Porto, Portugal, June 2020.
Unit Commitment with Gas Network Awareness. Geunyeong Byeon and Pascal Van Hentenryck. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 1327-1339, March 2020.
Privacy-Preserving Power System Obfuscation: A Bilevel Optimization Approach. Terrence Mak, Fernandino Fioretto, Lyndon Shi, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 35(2), 1627–1637, March 2020.
Differential Privacy for Power Grid Obfuscation. Fernandino Fioretto, Terrence Mak, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, 11(2), 1356–1366, March 2020.
Predicting AC Optimal Power Flows: Combining Deep Learning and Lagrangian Dual Methods. Ferdinando Fioretto, Terrence W.K. Mak, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. Proceeding of The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), February, 2020.
Benders Decomposition for a Class of Mathematical Programs with Constraints on Dual Variables, Geunyeong Byeon and Pascal Van Hentenryck, arXiv:1902.04375 [math.OC], February 2019.
Constrained-based Differential Privacy: Releasing Optimal Power Flow Benchmarks Privately, Ferdinando Fioretto and Pascal Van Hentenryck. 15th International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research, Delft, The Netherlands, June 26-29, 2018.
Dynamic Compressor Optimization in Natural Gas Pipeline Systems. Terrence Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Anatoly Zlotnik, and Russell Bent. INFORMS Journal on Computing.
Dynamic Compressor Optimization in Natural Gas Pipeline Systems. Terrence Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Anatoly Zlotnik, and Russell Bent. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 31(1):40-65 January (2019).
Joint Expansion Planning for Natural Gas and Electric Transmission with Endogenous Market Feedbacks. Conrado Borraz-Sanchez, Russell Bent, Seth Blumsack, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. In the Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS-51), Waikoloa Village, January, 2018.
Strengthening the SDP Relaxation of AC Power Flows with Convex Envelopes, Bound Tightening, and Valid Inequalities.Carleton Coffrin, Hassan Hijazi, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 32(5), 3549–3558, 2017.
A Nonlinear Optimization Model for Transient Stable Line Switching. Terrence Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, and Ian Hiskens. In the Proceedings of the 2017 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, May 24–26, 2017.
Convex Quadratic Relaxations for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs. Hassan Hijazi, Carleton Coffrin, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Mathematical Programming Computation, 9(3), 321-367, September 2017.
Graphical Models for Optimal Power Flow. Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, Michael Chertkov, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Marc Vuffray, Sidhant Misra. Constraints, 22(1), 24–49, 2017.
Convex Relaxations for Gas Expansion Planning. Conrado Borraz-Sanchez, Russell Bent, Scott Backhaus, Hassan Hijazi, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. INFORMS Journal on Computing. Vol. 28, No. 4, Fall 2016, pp. 645–656.
Graphical Models for Optimal Power Flow. Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, Michael Chertkov, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Marc Vuffray, Sidhant Misra. 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Toulouse, France, September 5-9, 2016. (best paper award)
Efficient Dynamic Compressor Optimization in Natural Gas Transmission Systems. Terrence W. K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Anatoly Zlotnik, Hassan Hijazi, and Russell Bent. 2016 American Control Conference, Boston, USA. July 6-8, 2016.
Polynomial SDP Cuts for Optimal Power Flow. Hassan Hijazi, Carleton Coffrin, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. Proceedings of the 19th Power Systems Computation Conference, Genoa, Italy, June 20-24 2016.
Network Flow and Copper Plate Relaxations for AC Transmission Systems.
Carleton Coffrin, Hassan Hijazi, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. Proceedings of the 19th Power Systems Computation Conference, Genoa, Italy, June 20-24 2016.
Optimal Resilient Grid Design for Transmission Systems. Harsha Nagarajan, Emre Yamangil, Russell Bent, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Scott Backhaus. Proceedings of the 19th Power Systems Computation Conference, Genoa, Italy, June 20-24 2016.
Convex Optimization for Joint Expansion Planning of Natural Gas and Power Systems. C. Borraz-Sanchez, R. Bent, S. Backhaus, S. Blumsack, H. Hijazi, and P. van Hentenryck. Proceedings of the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-49), Jan. 2016.
Strengthening the SDP Relaxation of AC Power Flows with Convex Envelopes, Bound Tightening, and Lifted Nonlinear Cuts. Carleton Coffrin, Hassan Hijazi, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. Eprint arXiv:1512.0464v1, December 2015.
The QC Relaxation: Theoretical and Computational Results on Optimal Power Flow Carleton Coffrin, Hassan Hijazi, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 99, 1-11, 2015.
Strengthening Convex Relaxations with Bound Tightening for Power Network Optimization Carleton Coffrin, Hassan Hijazi, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Cork, Ireland, September, 2015.
Transmission System Repair and Restoration. Pascal Van Hentenryck and Carleton Coffrin
Mathematical Programming B, 151(1), 347-373, June 2015.
Transmission System Restoration: Co-optimization of Repairs, Load Pickups, and Generation Dispatch. Carleton Coffrin and Pascal Van Hentenryck. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 72, 144-154, November 2015. (best papers from PSCC’14).
AC-Feasibility on Tree Networks is NP-Hard Karsten Lehmann, Alban Grastien, Pascal Van Hentenryck. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, pp. 1-4, March, 2015, 10.1109/TPWRS.2015.2407363.
Power System Restoration With Transient Stability Hassan Hijazi, Terrence Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Austin, Texas, USA, pp. 658-664, January, 2015.
The Complexity of DC-Switching Problems Karsten Lehmann, Alban Grastien, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Technical report, arxiv, November, 2014.
Power System Restoration Planning with Standing Phase Angle and Voltage Difference Constraints Terrence Mak, Carleton Coffrin, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Ian A. Hiskens, David Hill. Proceedings of the Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Wroclaw, Poland, pp. 8, August, 2014.
Transmission System Restoration: Co-optimization of Repairs, Load Pickups, and Generation Dispatch Carleton Coffrin, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Proceedings of the Power Systems Computation Conference, Wroclaw , Poland, pp. 7, August, 2014.
Transmission Network Expansion Planning: Bridging the Gap between AC Heuristics and DC Approximations Russell Bent, Carleton Coffrin, Rodrigo Gumucio, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Proceedings of the Power Systems Computation Conference, Wroclaw , Poland, pp. 7, August, 2014.
Primal and Dual Bounds for Optimal Transmission Switching Carleton Coffrin, Hassan Hijazi, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Karsten Lehmann. Proceedings of the Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Poland, August, 2014.
A Linear-Programming Approximation of AC Power Flows Carleton Coffrin, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Informs Journal on Computing, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 718-734, May, 2014, 1833-9646-6662.
Residential Demand Response under Uncertainty Paul Scott, Sylvie Thiebaux, Menkes van den Briel, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Proceedings of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), Sweden, pp. 645-660, September, 2013. (© Copyright Springer)