- Johns Hopkins - Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute

See below for the schedule for the 2024 ROSEI Summit. Any questions about the schedule can be directed to [email protected].

Hodson 210

Campus Outreach, Sustainability and Education + Part 1: Carbon Capture, Reuse and CO2 Based Fuels

Moderator: Ben Link

Stacy Villegas, Campus as Living Lab
Fernando Lopez Vega, Youth Dreamworlds in the Orinoco River: “Green” Energy, Plantations, and Education in Rural Colombia
Rose Weeks, Up in the air: Innovative strategies to address air travel emissions among elite US universities
Victoria Ding, Teaching Experience from ROSEI’s Sustainable Energy Engineering Class
Noah Zecher-Freeman, Chemical Upcycling of Plastic Waste to Valuable Commodity Chemicals
Andong Liu, Non-aqueous alkoxide-mediated electrochemical carbon capture

Hodson 211

AI for Sustainability + Renewable Energy Generation

Moderator: Susanna Thon

Hasib-Al Rashid, TinyM^2Net: Memory-Aware Compressed Multimodal Deep Neural Networks for Sustainable Edge Deployment
William Shiber, Creating a Federated Materials Data Infrastructure
Yue Shen, Model-free Learning of Regions of Attraction via Recurrent Sets
Sreyas Chintapalli, Tailoring Absorption Spectra of Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Lulin Li, Solution-phase Optoelectronic Materials for Photovoltaic Applications
Nan (Louise) Chen, Enhancing Electrical Conductivity and Thermoelectric Power Factor in Oligoethylene Glycol Side Chain bearing Polythiophene through Tris (pentafluorophenyl) borane Doping

Hodson 213

Envision the Future of Power Grids

Moderator: Yury Dvorkin

Ziting Huang, Decarbonization Strategy for Aging Coal Power and Associated Repurposing Opportunities in China
Jared Markowitz, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safe and Efficient Energy Management
Zhirui Liang, Optimal Incentive Design for Grid-Edge Services Through Profit-Maximizing DER Aggregators
Zudika Siahaan, Decentralized Stability Criteria for Grid-Forming Inverters in Multi-Machine Power Systems
Hasan Giray Oral, Validation of Renewable-Interfaced Power Converters
Sushobhan Chatterjee, Nonlinear Phenomena in the Voltage Stability of Inverter-based Resources

Hodson 210

Part 2: Carbon Capture, Reuse and CO2 Based Fuels

Moderator: Jonah Erlebacher

Herbert Wakefield IV, Chemically Recyclable Carbon-Silicon Plastics
Marissa Coschigano, Poly(cyclosilane) Postpolymerization Hydrosilylation
Xing Li, Rational Design of Redox-Active Materials for Electrochemically Mediated Carbon Capture
Hadas Elazar-Mittelman, Exploring the Utility of Magnesiothermic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Towards Carbon-MgO Composite Materials
William MacLeod, A Financial Model of Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Removal from Seawater for Geological Sequestration
George Jiang, Enhancement of Non-Aqueous CO2 Electroreduction through Interface Optimization
Weiye Qu, Cutting-Edge Research in Ammonia Synthesis and Decomposition Techniques

Hodson 213

Chemical and Structural Battery Properties for Storage

Moderator: Sara Thoi

Kyle Barcus, Combining MOFs and Quantum Dots for Photo-Rechargeable Batteries
Ian Dillingham, Investigation of Polymer and Metal-Organic Framework Composites for Energy Storage
Tianyao (Ty) Gong, Structure and electrocatalytic performance correlation study using nano-sized intermetallic materials as a platform
Kevin Bennett, Ligand Stablized Growth of Fe-based Metal Organic Framework around PbS Quantum Dots for Photo-enhancement
Arleth Ortiz Villa, Investigation of Internal vs. External Surface Area in MOF Integrated Cathodes for Lithium Sulfur Batteries
Jacob Wade, Generating Nitroxyl (HNO) from a Novel {FeNO}7 Species: How Small Synthetic Changes Affect Reactivity
Sophia Mac, Mechanistic insights of interfacial proton donation in surfactant systems for co2rr

Hodson 216

Wind, Decarbonization of Structural Materials and Topology

Moderator: Dennice Gayme

Shuolin Xiao, Effects of heterogeneous surface heat flux on wind turbine wakes in LES over a diurnal cycle
Xi Peng, Thin-walled Structure Group
Victoria Ding, Determining Fabrication Quality of Wind Turbine Towers for Strength Predictions
Yakov Zelickman, Minimizing concrete consumption in buildings thorough structural optimization
Ardalan Nejat, Efficient Thermal Design: Exploring Multi-Physics Topology Optimization for Heat Sinks
Yudong Yin, Houses as Virtual Batteries: Modeling the Potential of Residential HVAC Systems to Provide Demand Flexibility to Accommodate Renewable Energy Variations
Chengao Zhou, Continuous Gas-to-Liquid Conversion for Carbon-Efficient Electroreduction of CO2