Uzi (Yury) Dvorkin

Uzi (Yury) Dvorkin is an associate professor in the departments of Civil and Systems Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Ralph S. O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI). He is the U.S. director of the NSF Global Climate Center on Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society(EPICS), serves on ROSEI’s Leadership Council, and is part of the Department of Energy Center of Excellence, also known as ARROW.

Using multi-disciplinary methods in engineering, operations research, economics, and policy analysis, Dvorkin develops models and algorithms to assist society in accommodating challenges posed by emerging smart grid technologies, such as intermittent power generation, demand response, storage, smart appliances, and cyber-infrastructure. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Energy Innovation LLC, the Electric Power Research Institute, the Maryland Energy Administration, the Maryland Department of the Environment, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Previously, Dvorkin was an assistant professor and Goddard Junior Faculty Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, with an affiliated appointment at NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress.

Dvorkin received an NSF CAREER Award to investigate small-scale electricity trading. He earned a “Best Reviewer” award for work on IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, and IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids. Dvorkin also serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

After being a graduate student researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Center for Nonlinear Studies, Dvorkin received his PhD from the University of Washington. His dissertation, “Operations and Planning in Sustainable Power Systems,” won the University of Washington Clean Energy Institute’s inaugural Scientific Achievement Award.