| Aug 2026 | Sungho will present "GPU Acceleration in Optimization and Optimal Control," a half-day pre-congress workshop at the 23rd IFAC World Congress (BEXCO, Busan, 23 August 2026), covering GPU-accelerated nonlinear optimization and optimal control with ExaModels.jl and MadNLP.jl.
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| Jul 2026 | Our preprint "Revisiting simultaneous methods for dynamic optimization in the GPU era" (with Joseph Choi) is available on arXiv (2607.12201).
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| Jul 2026 | Our preprint "Design of Carbon Capture Processes Under Part-load Operating Conditions" (with David Shu, Boxun Huang, Yurim Kim, Randall Field, and Rahul Gandhi) is available on arXiv (2607.13232).
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| Jul 2026 | Our paper "Condensed Interior-Point Methods for Scalable Nonlinear Programming" (with François Pacaud, Alexis Montoison, Michel Schanen, and Mihai Anitescu) was accepted in Mathematical Programming Computation.
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| Jul 2026 | Sungho received a MIT-GE Vernova grant for "GPU Solver Engine for Grid Orchestration at Scale," with co-PI Haihao Lu (MIT Sloan).
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| Jun 2026 | Sungho presented "Can ExaModels power JuMP on GPUs?" at JuMP-dev 2026.
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| Jun 2026 | Sungho presented "The state of ExaModels" at the SIAM Conference on Optimization.
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| Jun 2026 | Sungho received a Future of Energy Systems Center (FESC) grant for "Can Long-Duration Energy Storage Better Protect the Grid from Extreme Events?," with co-PIs Deepjyoti Deka and Dirk Lauinger.
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| Jun 2026 | Sungho is a co-PI on a Future of Energy Systems Center (FESC) grant, led by Deepjyoti Deka, for "Multi-scale data-center load model and forecast for enabling grid analysis."
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| Jun 2026 | Sungho presented "ExaModelsPower.jl: A GPU-compatible modeling library for nonlinear power system optimization" at PSCC 2026.
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| Jun 2026 | Sungho organized a session at the GridFM workshop.
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| Jun 2026 | Rishi Balaji joined the group as a HIP-SAT intern.
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| May 2026 | Yifan Xu joined the group as an intern.
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| May 2026 | Sungho presented "AC OPF on GPUs: A compute engine for AI-era power systems" at the Harvard Power & AI Initiative Research Summit.
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| May 2026 | Our paper "Improved approximation bounds for Moore-Penrose inverses of banded matrices" (with Wallace Tan Gian Yion and Mihai Anitescu) was accepted in the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.
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| May 2026 | Sungho received a MIT Climate Project grant for "Sub-Minute Flexibility Market for Data Center Load Fluctuations," with co-PIs Deepjyoti Deka, Audun Botterud, and Dirk Lauinger.
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| May 2026 | Dirk Lauinger presented "The value of storage in electricity distribution: The role of markets" at the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Victoria, BC, Canada.
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| Apr 2026 | Dirk Lauinger presented "On electricity storage, robust optimization, and the law: Reliable multi-market bidding" at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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| Apr 2026 | Dirk Lauinger presented "Optimization for policy analysis of reliable resource-efficient energy systems" at the Colorado School of Mines.
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| Mar 2026 | Our preprint "Approximate dynamic programming for degradation-aware market participation of battery energy storage systems" (with Flemming Holtorf) is available on arXiv (2603.21089).
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| Mar 2026 | Sungho presented "GPU implementation of second-order linear and nonlinear programming solvers" at the IOS 2026 Meeting.
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| Mar 2026 | Dirk Lauinger presented "On electricity storage, robust optimization and the law: Reliable multi-market bidding" at INFORMS IOS.
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| Feb 2026 | Jonggeol Na joined the group as a Visiting Professor.
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| Feb 2026 | Dirk Lauinger presented "Optimization for policy analysis of reliable resource-efficient energy systems" at UC Berkeley.
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| Jan 2026 | Amiya Kumar Jana joined the group as a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Scholar from IIT Kharagpur.
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| Jan 2026 | Our paper "ExaModelsPower.jl: A GPU-compatible modeling library for nonlinear power system optimization" (with Sanjay Johnson, Dirk Lauinger, and François Pacaud) was accepted at PSCC 2026.
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| Jan 2026 | Our paper "An augmented Lagrangian method on GPU for security-constrained AC optimal power flow" (with François Pacaud, Armin Nurkanović, Anton Pozharskiy, and Alexis Montoison) was accepted at PSCC 2026.
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| Dec 2025 | Sungho presented "GPU implementation of second-order linear and nonlinear programming solvers" at the NeurIPS 2025 ScaleOPT Workshop.
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| Dec 2025 | Sungho received a Future of Energy Systems Center (FESC) grant for "Co-design of gas turbine and carbon capture for affordable low-carbon power."
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| Dec 2025 | Sungho is a co-PI on a Future of Energy Systems Center (FESC) grant, led by Deepjyoti Deka, for "Watts v/s Bytes: Energy Storage Impact Analysis on Flexible Computing Loads."
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| Dec 2025 | Sungho received an INM seed grant for "Towards End-to-End Process Intelligence: GPU-Accelerated Parameter Optimization."
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| Dec 2025 | Dirk Lauinger presented "Optimization for policy analysis of reliable resource-efficient energy systems" at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
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| Dec 2025 | Dirk Lauinger presented "Optimization for policy analysis of reliable resource-efficient energy systems" at Columbia Business School.
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| Nov 2025 | Sungho gave a plenary talk, "GPU-accelerated solution of block-tridiagonal systems for large-scale optimization," in the CAST Division plenary session at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2025.
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| Nov 2025 | Boxun Huang presented "Optimal carbon capture process design under variable operating conditions" at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2025.
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| Nov 2025 | Xiaomian Yang presented "Non-Asymptotic Sample Complexity Analysis of Linear System Identification with Heavy Tail Distributions" at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2025.
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| Oct 2025 | Our preprint "MadNCL: A GPU implementation of algorithm NCL for large-scale, degenerate nonlinear programs" (with Alexis Montoison, François Pacaud, Michael Saunders, and Dominique Orban) is available on arXiv (2510.05885).
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| Oct 2025 | Our preprint "The value of storage in electricity distribution: The role of markets" (with Dirk Lauinger and Deepjyoti Deka) is available on arXiv (2510.12435).
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| Oct 2025 | Sungho presented "Solving large-scale, sparse, constrained nonlinear optimization problems on GPUs" at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025.
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| Oct 2025 | Sungho gave an invited talk, "Large-scale nonlinear optimization on GPUs: State of the art and future prospects," at the GE Vernova AI Edge Symposium.
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| Oct 2025 | Dirk Lauinger presented "On electricity storage, robust optimization and the law: Reliable multi-market bidding" at the University of Vermont.
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| Sep 2025 | Jeongdong Kim joined the group as a Visiting Scholar from Yonsei University.
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| Sep 2025 | Yurim Kim joined the group as a Visiting Scholar from Yonsei University.
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| Sep 2025 | Our preprint "Harnessing batched BLAS/LAPACK kernels on GPUs for parallel solutions of block tridiagonal systems" (with David Jin and Alexis Montoison) is available on arXiv (2509.03015).
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| Aug 2025 | Our preprint "GPU implementation of second-order linear and nonlinear programming solvers" (with Alexis Montoison, François Pacaud, and Mihai Anitescu) is available on arXiv (2508.16094).
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| Jul 2025 | Our paper "Near-Optimal Performance of Stochastic Model Predictive Control" is accepted for publication in Mathematics of Operations Research
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| Jul 2025 | Dirk Lauinger presented "The value of storage in electricity distribution: The role of markets" at ICCOPT.
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| Jul 2025 | Dirk Lauinger presented "Optimization for sustainable and reliable energy and mobility" at the University of Calgary.
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| Jun 2025 | Archim Jhunjhunwala joined the group as a HIP-SAT visiting student.
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| Jun 2025 | Sungho gave an invited talk, "Solving AC optimal power flow problems on GPUs: State of the art and future prospects," at the Korea Power Exchange 1st Global AI Grid Optimization Workshop.
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| May 2025 | Sungho received the James W. Swan Outstanding Faculty Award from MIT Chemical Engineering.
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| May 2025 | Dirk Lauinger presented "The value of storage in electricity distribution: The role of markets" at CMU.
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| Jan 2025 | Dirk Lauinger presented "Optimization for sustainable and reliable energy and mobility" at KIT.
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| Dec 2024 | Dirk Lauinger presented "Optimization for sustainable and reliable energy and mobility" at DTU.
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| Dec 2024 | Dirk Lauinger presented "On robust optimization, blackouts, and the law" at TUM.
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| Nov 2024 | Our recent work on solving AC optimal power flow on GPUs has been highlighted in NVIDIA's technical blog. This posting highlights how our team has exploited the capabilities of NVIDIA's new sparse direct solver, cuDSS, to solve challenging power system optimization problems. [ Link ] | |
| Jul 2024 | Joshua Pulsipher received the best presentation prize at JuMP-dev 2024 for the talk "InfiniteExaModels.jl: Accelerating Infinite-Dimensional Optimization Problems on CPU & GPU", based on collaborative work with Sungho Shin, François Pacaud, and Mihai Anitescu.
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| Feb 2024 | Our paper "A graph-based modeling abstraction for optimization: Concepts and implementation in Plasmo.jl" has received the 2022 Outstanding Paper Award of the Mathematical Programming Computation.
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| Jan 2024 | Our paper "Accelerating optimal power flow with GPUs: SIMD abstraction of nonlinear programs and condensed-space interior-point methods" with F. Pacaud and M. Anitescu has been accepted for publication in PSCC 2024.
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| Jan 2024 | Our paper "Parallel interior-point solver for block-structured nonlinear programs on SIMD/GPU architectures" with F. Pacaud, M. Schanen, D. A. Maldonado, and M. Anitescu has been accepted for publication in Optimization Methods and Software.
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