Yi Ju
Hi there! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard SEAS, working with Prof. Le Xie. I am also affiliated with the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.
My research focuses on sustainable energy and infrastructure systems, with recent interests in demand flexibility from distributed energy resources. I strive to develop scalable optimization algorithms, market mechanisms, and learning-based approaches for the large-scale, tightly coupled systems of heterogeneous resources and decision-makers that I study.
I completed my PhD in Systems Engineering at UC Berkeley in Oct 2026, where I was fortunately advised by Prof. Scott Moura. I received my bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University. Please find a formal bio here.
I founded the weekly eMERGE seminar to empower early-career researchers.
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| Pinned: Excited to present our new work, “MAC+: Mobility-Aware Co-Expansion Planning for Distribution Grid and Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure”, at the 3rd Economics of EV Charging Workshop on Oct 22 add to GCal and INFORMS 2026 on Nov 3 add to GCal. Come say hi! | |
| Pinned: Thrilled to have completed my PhD at UC Berkeley and started my postdoc at Harvard! Huge thanks to my committee. I also shared my PhD work at the Harvard PAI seminar on Oct 9. | |
| Pinned: An updated version of MAC: “Scalable Optimization for Mobility-Aware Coordinated Electric Vehicle Charging in Distribution Power Networks” is now on arXiv! A preliminary version presented at ACC 2026 (New Orleans, LA) won the ASME Energy Systems Technical Committee Best Paper Award. We also shared this work at INFORMS TSL 2026 at MIT on Jul 29. | |
| May 13, 2026 | Our paper “Trajectory-integrated accessibility analysis of public electric vehicle charging stations” (TI-acs) is now published in Sustainable Cities and Society! |
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| Mar 20, 2026 | Honored to receive the 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (OGSI) Award for my GSI work in E7 (Fall 2025) and CE295 (Spring 2025)! Thank you to my wonderful students, and to Dr. Hallal and Dr. Arnold. |