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Dr Dimitra Apostolopoulou

Lecturer

School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Contact details

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Dr Dimitra Apostolopoulou C119, Tait Building
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

I am a Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at City, University of London.

Prior to my current appointment, I was Postdoctoral Researcher in the Engineering Department and a Lecturer at Christ Church College at University of Oxford. Previously, I worked at the Smart Grid & Technology Department in Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) - a unit of Exelon Corp. (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) that provides service to approximately 3.8 million customers.

I was awarded a Ph.D. and a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014 and 2011, respectively. I received my undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2009.

My research lies on the interface of power and energy systems, decision and control, economics and energy policy.

Qualifications

  1. Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  2. MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
  3. Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Employment

  1. Lecturer, City University of London, Jan 2018 – present
  2. Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford, Christ Church College, Sep 2016 – Jan 2018
  3. Smart Grid and Technology, Commonwealth Edison, Jun 2015 – Sep 2016
  4. Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug 2009 – Jun 2015

Publications

Publications by category

Conference papers and proceedings (20)

  1. Najibi, F., Apostolopoulou, D. and Alonso, E. (2021). Clustering Sensitivity Analysis for Gaussian Process Regression Based Solar Output Forecast. 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech 28 Jun 2021 – 2 Jul 2021.
  2. Apostolopoulou, D., Poudineh, R. and Sen, A. (2021). Distributed Optimal Power Flow for Unbalanced Radial Systems with Time-varying Communication. IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting 2021 25-29 June, Virtual.
  3. Rozada, S., Apostolopoulou, D. and Alonso, E. (2020). Load Frequency Control: A Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach. 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) 2-6 August.
  4. de A. F. Mello, F.R., Apostolopoulou, D. and Alonso, E. (2020). Cost Efficient Distributed Load Frequency Control in Power Systems.
  5. Deakin, M., Crozier, C., Apostolopoulou, D., Morstyn, T. and McCulloch, M. (2019). Stochastic Hosting Capacity in LV Distribution Networks. 2019 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) 4-8 August.
  6. Crozier, C., Apostolopoulou, D. and McCulloch, M. (2018). Clustering of Usage Profiles for Electric Vehicle Behaviour Analysis. 2018 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe) 21-25 October.
  7. Najibi, F., Alonso, E. and Apostolopoulou, D. (2018). Optimal Dispatch of Pumped Storage Hydro Cascade Under Uncertainty. 2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) 5-7 September.
  8. Deakin, M., Morstyn, T., Apostolopoulou, D. and McCulloch, M. (2018). The Value of Reactive Power for Voltage Control in Lossy Networks. 2018 IEEE PES General Meeting 5-10 August, Portland, USA.
  9. Apostolopoulou, D., Anastasopoulos, K. and Bahramirad, S. (2016). Effects of solar and wind generation integration on feeder hosting capacity. 2016 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D) 3-5 May.
  10. Apostolopoulou, D., Sauer, P.W. and Dominguez-Garcia, A.D. (2015). Distributed optimal load frequency control and balancing authority area coordination. 2015 North American Power Symposium (NAPS) 4-6 October.
  11. Apostolopoulou, D., Sauer, P.W. and Dominguez-Garcia, A.D. (2015). Balancing authority area coordination with limited exchange of information. 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting 26-30 July.
  12. Apostolopoulou, D., Dominguez-Garcia, A.D. and Sauer, P.W. (2014). Online estimation of power system actual frequency response characteristic. 2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting 27-31 July.
  13. Apostolopoulou, D., Sauer, P.W. and Dominguez-Garcia, A.D. (2014). Automatic Generation Control and Its Implementation in Real Time. 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 6-9 January.
  14. Apostolopoulou, D., Chen, Y.C., Zhang, J., Dominguez-Garcia, A.D. and Sauer, P.W. (2013). Closure of ‘effects of various uncertainty sources on automatic generation control systems’. 2013 IREP Symposium - Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control - IX Optimization, Security and Control of the Emerging Power Grid (IREP) 25-30 August.
  15. Apostolopoulou, D., Chen, Y.C., Zhang, J., Dominguez-Garcia, A.D. and Sauer, P.W. (2013). Effects of various uncertainty sources on automatic generation control systems. 2013 IREP Symposium - Bulk Power System Dynamics and Control - IX Optimization, Security and Control of the Emerging Power Grid (IREP) 25-30 August.
  16. Van Horn, K.E. and Apostolopoulou, D. (2012). Assessing Demand Response Resource locational impacts on system-wide carbon emissions reductions. 2012 North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2012) 9-11 September.
  17. Crozier, C., Apostolopoulou, D. and McCulloch, M. Numerical Analysis of National Travel Data to Assess the Impact of UK
    Fleet Electrification.     20th Power Systems Computation Conference.
  18. Deakin, M., Morstyn, T., Apostolopoulou, D. and McCulloch, M. Loss Induced Maximum Power Transfer in Distribution Networks.
  19. Elombo, A.I., Morstyn, T., Apostolopoulou, D. and McCulloch, M.D. Residential load variability and diversity at different sampling time and aggregation scales.
  20. Apostolopoulou, D. and McCulloch, M. Cascade Hydroelectric Power System Model and its Application to an Optimal Dispatch Design. IREP’2017 - 10th Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control Symposium.

Journal articles (12)

  1. Najibi, F., Apostolopoulou, D. and Alonso, E. (2021). Enhanced performance Gaussian process regression for probabilistic short-term solar output forecast. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 130, pp. 106916–106916. doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.106916.
  2. Najibi, F., Apostolopoulou, D. and Alonso, E. (2021). Enhanced performance Gaussian process regression for probabilistic short-term solar output forecast. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 130. doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2021.106916.
  3. Rozada, S., Apostolopoulou, D. and Alonso, E. (2021). Deep multi‐agent Reinforcement Learning for cost‐efficient distributed load frequency control. IET Energy Systems Integration, 3(3), pp. 327–343. doi:10.1049/esi2.12030.
  4. Toubeau, J.-.F., Morstyn, T., Bottieau, J., Zheng, K., Apostolopoulou, D., De Greve, Z. … Vallee, F. (2021). Capturing Spatio-Temporal Dependencies in the Probabilistic Forecasting of Distribution Locational Marginal Prices. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 12(3), pp. 2663–2674. doi:10.1109/tsg.2020.3047863.
  5. Apostolopoulou, D., Poudineh, R. and Sen, A. (2020). Distributed Vehicle Grid Integration Over Communication and Physical
    Networks.     .
  6. Apostolopoulou, D. and McCulloch, M. (2019). Optimal Short-Term Operation of a Cascaded Hydro-Solar Hybrid System: A Case Study in Kenya. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 10(4), pp. 1878–1889. doi:10.1109/tste.2018.2874810.
  7. Crozier, C., Apostolopoulou, D. and McCulloch, M. (2018). Mitigating the impact of personal vehicle electrification: A power generation perspective. Energy Policy, 118, pp. 474–481. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.03.056.
  8. Apostolopoulou, D., De Greve, Z. and McCulloch, M. (2018). Robust Optimization for Hydroelectric System Operation Under Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 33(3), pp. 3337–3348. doi:10.1109/tpwrs.2018.2807794.
  9. Apostolopoulou, D., Sauer, P.W. and Dominguez-Garcia, A.D. (2016). Balancing authority area model and its application to the design of adaptive AGC systems. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 31(5), pp. 3756–3764. doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2015.2506181.
  10. Apostolopoulou, D., Dominguez-Garcia, A.D. and Sauer, P.W. (2016). An Assessment of the Impact of Uncertainty on Automatic Generation Control Systems. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 31(4), pp. 2657–2665. doi:10.1109/tpwrs.2015.2475415.
  11. Apostolopoulou, D., Bahramirad, S. and Khodaei, A. (2016). The Interface of Power: Moving Toward Distribution System Operators. IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, 14(3), pp. 46–51. doi:10.1109/mpe.2016.2524960.
  12. Apostolopoulou, D., Gross, G. and Guler, T. (2013). Optimized FTR Portfolio Construction Based on the Identification of Congested Network Elements. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 28(4), pp. 4968–4978. doi:10.1109/tpwrs.2013.2261097.