Dr. Yury Dvorkin, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Tandon, will be joining a team of researchers from Columbia University and one faculty member from the University of Arizona in a project to enable independent system operators (ISOs) of the electrical grid and market participants to more effectively measure and mitigate engineering and financial risks. As reported in Highways Today, on July 16, the team will design and utilize “risk dashboards” that can track conditions of the electrical grid, such as energy loads and the output of renewable and non-renewable energy, and use this data to help independent system operators make sound decisions quickly. Such information can help these operations dispatch available energy to the places most in need of it at any given moment. More information on the project, which is underwritten by a $2.06 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency, can be found in the article here.