Staff information

Research Interests

• Power & Energy Systems
• Smart Grid
• Statistical & Mathematical Modeling
• Optimization
• Software Engineering

Education and Credentials

• M.Sc., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University, August 2010
• M.Sc., Industrial Engineering (Operations Research), Purdue University, August 2010
• Bachelor in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1st Class Honors), University of Sheffield (U.K.), May 2006

Affiliations and Professional Service

• Member of the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
• Founding Chair of IEEE Richland Section Women in Engineering (WIE) affinity group
• Vice-Chair of IEEE Richland Section Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) affinity group
• Member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society
• Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
• Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Member of the Society of Women in Engineering (SWE)
• Member of Greenpeace Greece

Awards and Recognitions

• Awarded First Class Honors on completing undergraduate degree, June 2006
• Finalist for Ford Women in Science & Engineering Award, Oct 2005
• Runner-up for Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, June 2005
• Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Aug 2003 to July 2004

PNNL Publications

2013

• Gorton I, J Yin, BA Akyol, S Ciraci, T Critchlow, Y Liu, TD Gibson, S Purohit, P Sharma, and M Vlachopoulou. 2013. "GridOPTICS(TM) A Novel Software Framework for Integrating Power Grid Data Storage, Management and Analysis." In Proceedings of the 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-46), January 7-10, 2013, Maui, Hawaii, ed. RH Sprague, Jr., pp. 2167 -2176.  IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA.  doi:10.1109/HICSS.2013.243

2012

• Elbert ST, K Kalsi, M Vlachopoulou, MJ Rice, KR Glaesemann, and N Zhou. 2012. "Advanced Computational Methods for Security Constrained Financial Transmission Rights: Structure and Parallelism." In 8th Power Plant and Power Systems Control Symposium, September 2-5, 2012, Toulouse, France, vol. 8, ed. M Fadel and S Caux, pp. 506-511.  International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Winterthur, Switzerland.  doi:10.3182/20120902-4-FR-2032.00089
• Ferryman TA, DJ Haglin, M Vlachopoulou, J Yin, C Shen, FK Tuffner, G Lin, N Zhou, and J Tong. 2012. "Net Interchange Schedule Forecasting of Electric Power Exchange for RTO/ISOs ." In IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, July 22-26, 2012, San Diego, California.  Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Piscataway, NJ.  doi:10.1109/PESGM.2012.6344738