When are Lossy Energy Storage Optimization Models Convex?
F. Al Taha & E. Bitar
Under Review, 2024.

An Efficient Method for Quantifying the Aggregate Flexibility of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Populations
F. Al Taha, T. Vincent, & E. Bitar
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2024.



2023

A Distributionally Robust Approach to Regret Optimal Control using the Wasserstein Distance
F. Al Taha, S. Yan, & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023.
Recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CDC 2023.

Prediction for Dynamic Systems using Impulse Response Representation
T. Vincent, S. Yan, & E. Bitar
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023.

A Multi-Battery Model for the Aggregate Flexibility of Heterogeneous Electric Vehicles
F. Al Taha, T. Vincent, & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), 2023.



2022

Achieving Reliable Coordination of Plug-in Residential EV Charging: A Pilot Study
P. Alexeenko & E. Bitar
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2022.

Data-Driven Approximations of Chance Constrained Programs in Nonstationary Environments
S. Yan, F. Parise, & E. Bitar
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022.



2021

Transparency and Control in Platforms for Networked Markets
J. Pang, W. Lin, H. Fu, J. Kleeman, E. Bitar & A. Wierman
Operations Research, 2021.

Design of Robust Decentralized Controllers via Assume-Guarantee Contracts
W. Lin & E. Bitar
Preprint, 2021.

Exploring Adversarial Robustness of Multi-Sensor Perception Systems in Self Driving
J. Tu, H. Li, X. Yan, M. Ren, Y. Chen, M. Liang, E. Bitar, E. Yumer, R. Urtasun
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), London, UK, Nov 8-11, 2021.



2020

Nonparametric Estimation of Uncertainty Sets for Robust Optimization
P. Alexeenko & E. Bitar
59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Jeju, South Korea, Dec 14-18, 2020.

Safe Linear Stochastic Bandits
K. Khezeli & E. Bitar
34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, NY, Feb. 7-12, 2020.

Decentralized Control of Constrained Linear Systems via Assume-Guarantee Contracts
W. Lin & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, July 1-3, 2020.



2019

A Structural Characterization of Market Power in Electric Power Networks
W. Lin & E. Bitar
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2019.

A Convex Information Relaxation for Constrained Decentralized Control Design Problems
W. Lin & E. Bitar
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019.



2018

Robust AC Optimal Power Flow
R. Louca & E. Bitar
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2018.

On the Marginal Value of Electricity Storage
E. Bitar, P.P. Khargonekar & K. Poolla
Systems and Control Letters, 2018.

Decentralized Stochastic Control of Distributed Energy Resources
W. Lin & E. Bitar
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2018.

Real-time Voltage Regulation in Distribution Systems via Decentralized PV Inverter Control
W. Lin, R. Thomas & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Hawaiian International Conference on System Science (HICSS), Hawaii, 2018.



2017

Financial Storage Rights in Electric Power Networks
D. Munoz-Alvarez & E. Bitar
Journal of Regulatory Economics (JRE), 2017.

Risk-Sensitive Learning and Pricing for Demand Response
K. Khezeli & E. Bitar
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2017.

Networked Cournot Competition in Platform Markets: Access Control and Efficiency Loss
W. Lin, J. Pang, E. Bitar & A. Wierman
56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Accepted (Extended Version), 2017.

Learning to Buy (and Sell) Demand Response
K. Khezeli, W. Lin & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, 2017.

Virtual Bidding: Equilibrium, Learning, and Wisdom of the Crowds
J. Mather, E. Bitar & K. Poolla.
Proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, 2017.

An Online Learning Approach to Buying and Selling Demand Response
K. Khezeli & E. Bitar
Technical Report, 2017.



2016

Deadline Differentiated Pricing of Deferrable Electric Loads
E. Bitar & Y. Xu
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2016.

The Marginal Value of Networked Energy Storage
S. Bose & E. Bitar
IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, Technical Report, 2016.

Parameterized Supply Function Equilibrium in Power Networks
W. Lin & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, 2016.

Random Convex Approximations of Ambiguous Chance Constrained Programs
S.H. Tseng, E. Bitar & A. Tang
Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, 2016.

Stochastic AC Optimal Power Flow with Affine Recourse
R. Louca & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, 2016.

A Hierarchy of Polyhedral Approximations of Robust Semidefinite Programs
R. Louca & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, 2016.

Decentralized Control of Distributed Energy Resources in Radial Distribution Systems
W. Lin & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Sydney, AU, 2016.

Data-driven Pricing of Demand Response
K. Khezeli & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Sydney, AU, 2016.

Performance Bounds for Robust Decentralized Control
W. Lin & E. Bitar
Proceedings of 34th IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, 2016.

A Bound on the Minimum Rank of Solutions to Sparse Linear Matrix Equations
R. Louca, S. Bose & E. Bitar
Proceedings of 34th IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, 2016.

Stability Guarantees for Frequency Regulation with Randomized Flexible Loads
T. Vincent, K. Poolla, S. Mohagheghi & E. Bitar
Proceedings of 34th IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Invited Paper, Boston, MA, 2016.

Dynamic Model for Estimating the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram
H. Nguyen, B. Fishbain, E. Bitar, D. Mahalel & P. Gutman
Proceedings of 14th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS), Istanbul, Turkey, 2016.



2015

Acyclic Semidefinite Approximations of Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs
R. Louca & E. Bitar
Proceedings of 33rd IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Chicago, IL, 2015.



2014

Financial Storage Rights: Basic Definition and Properties
D. Munoz-Alvarez & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Pullman, WA, 2014.

Forward Electricity Markets with Uncertain Supply: Cost Sharing and Efficiency Loss
W. Lin & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Los Angeles, CA, 2014.

Variability and the Locational Marginal Value of Energy Storage
S. Bose & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Los Angeles, CA, 2014.

Piecewise Affine Policies for Multi-Period Economic Dispatch Under Uncertainty
D. Munoz-Alvarez, J. Wang, E. Bitar & L. Tong
Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, Washington D.C., 2014.

An Abrupt Change Detection Heuristic with Applications to Cyber Data Attacks on Power Systems
B. Sanandaji, E. Bitar, K. Poolla & T.L. Vincent
Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Portland, OR, 2014.

Coordinated Aggregation of Distributed Demand-Side Resources
E. Bitar, K. Poolla & P. Varaiya
Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC), Project Report, S-52, 2014.

Nondegeneracy and Inexactness of Semidefinite Relaxations of Optimal Power Flow
R. Louca, P. Seiler & E. Bitar
Technical Report, 2014.



2013

Coalitional Aggregation of Wind Power
E. Baeyens, E. Bitar, P.P. Khargonekar & K. Poolla
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 3774-3784, May 2013.

Risk Limiting Dispatch for Integrating Renewable Power
R. Rajagopal, E. Bitar, P. Varaiya & F. Wu
International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 615-628, January 2013.

Smart Grid Data Integrity Attacks
A. Giani, E. Bitar, M. Garcia, M. McQueen, P. Khargonekar & K. Poolla
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 1244-1253, Sept. 2013.

On Incentive Compatibility of Deadline Differentiated Pricing for Deferrable Demand
E. Bitar & Y. Xu
Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Invited Paper, Florence, Italy, 2013.

A Rank Minimization Algorithm to Enhance Semidefinite Relaxations of Optimal Power Flow
R. Louca, P. Seiler & E. Bitar
Proceedings of the 51st Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Invited Paper, Allerton, Illinois, 2013.

Coordinated Control of a Wind Turbine Array for Power Maximization
E. Bitar & P. Seiler
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Invited Paper, Washington D.C., 2013.



2012

Bringing Wind Energy to Market
E. Bitar, R. Rajagopal, P.P. Khargonekar, K. Poolla &P. Varaiya
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 1225-1235, Aug. 2012.

Deadline-Differentiated Pricing of Deferrable Electric Power Service
E. Bitar & S. Low
Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Invited Paper, Hawaii, 2012.

Energy Management for Wireless Sensor Networks
E. Bitar, E. Baeyens & K. Poolla
Developments in Control Theory Towards Glocal Control, Chapter 14, Pages 131-144, 2012.

Optimal Power and Reserve Capacity Procurement Policies with Deferrable Loads
A. Subramanian, J. A. Taylor, E. Bitar, D. Callaway, K. Poolla & P. Varaiya.
Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Invited Paper, Hawaii, 2012.

Integrating Distributed Energy Resource Pricing and Control
P. de Martini, A. Wierman, S. Meyn & E. Bitar
Proceedings of CIGRE USNC Grid of the Future Symposium, 2012.

Optimal Sharing of Quantity Risk for a Coalition of Wind Power Producers Facing Nodal Prices
E. Bitar, E. Baeyens, P.P. Khargonekar, K. Poolla & P. Varaiya
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Montreal, Canada, 2012.

Selling Wind Power in Electricity Markets: The Status Today, the Opportunities Tomorrow
E. Bitar & K. Poolla
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Montreal, Canada, 2012.

Risk Limiting Dispatch of Wind Power
R. Rajagopal, E. Bitar, F. Wu & P. Varaiya
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Montreal, Canada, 2012.

Selling Random Wind
E. Bitar, P. Khargonekar, K. Poolla, R. Rajagopal, P. Varaiya & F. Wu
Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Hawaiian International Conference on System Science (HICSS), Hawaii, 2012.

Market Induced Curtailment of Wind Power
A. Subramanian, E. Bitar, P.P. Khargonekar & K. Poolla
Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2012.



2011

The Filter Design From Data (FD2) Problem: Parametric-Statistical Approach
C. Novara, M. Milanese, E. Bitar & K. Poolla
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2011.

Smart Grid Data Integrity Attacks: Characterizations and Countermeasures
A. Giani, E. Bitar, M. Garcia, M. McQueen, P. Khargonekar & K. Poolla
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2011.

Wind Energy Aggregation: A Coalitional Game Approach
E. Baeyens, E.Y. Bitar, P.P. Khargonekar & K. Poolla
Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Invited Paper, Orlando, FL, 2011.

Systems and Control Opportunities in the Integration of Renewable Energy into the Smart Grid
E. Bitar, P.P. Khargonekar & K. Poolla
Proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, Invited Paper, Milan, Italy, 2011.

The Role of Co-located Storage for Wind Power Producers in Conventional Electricity Markets
E. Bitar, R. Rajagopal, P.P. Khargonekar & K. Poolla
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), San Francisco, CA, 2011.



2010

Optimal Contracts for Wind Power Producers in Electricity Markets
E. Bitar, A. Giani, R. Rajagopal, D. Varagnolo, P.P. Khargonekar, K. Poolla & P. Varaiya
Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Atlanta, GA, 2010.

Linear Minimax Estimation for Random Vectors with Parametric Uncertainty
E. Bitar, E. Baeyens, A. Packard & K. Poolla
Proceedings of the 29th Proceedings of the 29th IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Baltimore, MD, 2010.



2009

Energy-Aware Sensor Selection and Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
E. Bitar, E. Baeyens & K. Poolla
Proceedings of the 1st IFAC Workshop on Networked Control Systems (NecSys), Venice, Italy, 2009.



2006

Model for Control of Combustion in a Piston Engine
E. Bitar, H.J. Schock & A.K. Oppenheim
Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers, 2006.



2005

Dynamic Model of Combustion in a Piston Engine
E. Bitar, H.J. Schock & A.K. Oppenheim
Proceedings of the 20th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS), Montreal, CAN, 2005.