The Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) is hosting its fourth in-person summit on January 14 from 9 AM – 5:30 PM. Like 2025’s iteration, the event will take place on the Homewood campus in Hodson Hall and the Glass Pavilion, with free lunch for attendees and speakers being served. You must register in advance by January 7 to attend, and all are welcome!

The ROSEI Summit provides a technical sharing of all sustainable energy and related research being conducted at Johns Hopkins University. It will be an overview of ROSEI activities and technical sessions organized around the active topics of our scholars. The Summit provides a unique means to understand the breadth and depth of JHU research in sustainable energy as well as develop collaborations and new networks for future research.

Areas of focus for breakout sessions at this year’s Summit will include critical minerals, data centers, wind energy, policy and advocacy, insights into diversifying energy funding, and much more. There will also be a poster competition that is open to all postdoctoral researchers and graduate students doing energy-related research at Hopkins, which presenters must register for by January 7.

Poster Submissions

• Omotayo Adenugba, Anand Pandian “Before the Transition: Oil Cleanup, Responsibility, and Sustainable Energy Futures”
• Nathan Agarwal, Julie Lundquist “Up and Out: Navigating atmospheric stability in the Perdigão valley for wind energy applications”
• Damir Akchurin, Fidence Cyizere Rukundo, Ben Schafer “Torsional-Flexural Response of Intermediately Stiffened Lipped Channels Cold-Formed from 100 ksi (690 MPa) Steel”
• Stephen Ampleman, Dennice Gayme “From Cut-In to Rated: Multi-Region Floating Offshore Wind Farm Control for Secondary Frequency Regulation”
• Natalie Armstrong, Roni Neff, Natalie Exum “Understanding the Direct and Indirect Public Health Impacts of Data Centers”
• Ellen Berry, James B. Spicer “Exploration of Molten Salt Simulant-Graphite Interfaces Using Laser Based Ultrasonic Techniques”
• Yi Cao, Victor Wu, Paulette Clancy “Atomic-to-Device Simulation Framework: Machine Learning-Accelerated Dopant Migration Modeling for 2D Electronics”
• Yago del Barrio Álvarez, Ben Hobbs “How Effective Can Green Procurement for Large C&I Loads Be? A Market and Game-Theoretic Perspective”
• Sai Dinesh Devineni, Alina Hasan, Anthony Kearsley “Real-Time Energy Market Intelligence & Anomaly Detection System for the Texas ERCOT Grid”
• Hongang Du, Ruggero Rossi “Zero-gap microbial electrolysis cells for efficient hydrogen production from real liquid waste streams”
• Nathan Houchens, Yuki Osumi, Sara Thoi “Stabilizing Lithium Metal Batteries with Gel Metal-Organic Frameworks”
• Fei Hu, Yuting Luo “Unveiling key parameters of promising alloyable metals affecting Li deposition in Li battery”
• Ziting Huang, Scot Miller, Ben Hobbs “Tracking Recent Methane Emissions from China using Satellite Data”
• Serene Kamal, Susanna Thon “Silicon Nitride Metasurfaces for Optical Enhancement”
• Saroj Khanal, Boyu Yao, Marisel Villafañe-Delgado, Yury Dvorkin “The ICARUS-PJM Dataset: An Infrastructure-Centric, Open Dataset for Capacity Expansion, Resource Adequacy, and Data Center Integration”
• Danbee Kim, Ruggero Rossi “Toward Electrochemically Robust Scale-Up of Microbial Electrolysis Cells: Insights from Reference Electrode Stability and Placement”
• Dianna Kitt, Shilva Shrestha “Advancing waste derived platform chemical production using bottom-up microbiome engineering approaches”
• Jacob Lombardo, Hoon Jeong Lee, Jill Cleveland, Susanna Thon “Solar-Powered Carbon Capture and Release Using a Photoelectrochemical Cell”
• Anmol Mathur, Yayuan Liu “Electrochemical Direct Air Capture By Local Alkalinity Generation at Three-Dimensional Interfaces”
• Sasikumar Mayarambakam, Howard Katz “Side-Chain and Counter-Anion Engineering of Poly(vinyl pyridinium) Polymers for Ionic Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting”
• Brady Mediavilla, Zihao Rei Gao, Rebekka Klausen, Michael Tsapatsis “Depolymerization of Silicones by Heterogenous Catalysis”
• Mujaheed Nuhu, Shilva Shrestha “Support Material-Mediated Microbial Production of Medium Chain Carboxylic Acids”
• Xi Peng, Ben Schafer “Collapse analysis of Full-scale tower with measured imperfections under load combination”
• Başak Rakıcı, Yury Dvorkin, Dennice Gayme “Probabilistic AEP Estimation Using Joint Wind Speed–Direction Distributions and Seasonal Variability”
• Bhathiya Rathnayake, Sijia Geng “Droop-Based Grid-Forming Control with Disturbance Suppression and Over-Current Limiting”
• Eshagh Safarzadeh Ravajiri, Ben Hobbs “Self-Supervised Learning for Battery Scheduling under Nonlinear Degradation”
• Hunter Saylor, Serene Kamal, Sasha Wi, Susanna Thon “Exfoliation and Characterization of Thin-Film Ferroelectric, CuInP2S6”
• Tomás Tapia, Enrique Mallada, Yury Dvorkin “Learning Reachability of Energy Storage Arbitrage”
• Valeria Vasquez-Barros, Julie Lundquist “Assessing the prevalence of atmospheric stability decoupling using barge data in WFIP-3”
• Xi Xi, Dan Kammen “Reducing Power System Costs through Grid-Connected Green Hydrogen: Evidence from Kenya”
• Jiatong Xu, Phoebe Williams, Sara Thoi “Zirconium Metal-Organic Cages as a Cathode Additive for High Performance Li-S Batteries”
• Kai Yang, Daniel Moreno Jimenez, Ruggero Rossi “Sustainable Marine Power Source: Ocean Microbial Fuel Cell”
• Boyu Yao, Yury Dvorkin “When the Supply Chain Shapes Long-Term Grid Planning”
• Nakyeong Yun, Ruggero Rossi “Utilizing machine learning to enhance electrochemical CO2 capture from wastewater sector”
• Pietro Zanotta, Ján Drgoňa “Multi-Agent Differentiable Predictive Control for Zero-Shot PDE Scalability”
• Yijun Zhang, Susanna Thon “Patterned Colloidal Quantum Dot Films for Spectrally-Optimized Multi-Junction Solar Cells”
• Yishu Zhang, Dennice Gayme, Charles Meneveau “A Large Eddy Simulation Study of Turbine Pitch Motion Effects on Fully Developed Floating Wind Farm Boundary Layers”
• Honghui Zheng, Ján Drgoňa, Yury Dvorkin “Accelerating Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Scheduling with Decision-Focused Learning”
• Zhiyi Zhou, Yury Dvorkin “Unlocking Transmission Flexibility under Uncertainty: Getting Dynamic Line Ratings into Electricity Markets”