Juan Carlos Oviedo Cepeda

"Scientific co-direction of Alejandro Parrado's PhD research. Focused on pricing policies robust to demand forecast uncertainties."

"Comprehensive review of commercial grid services offered by demand response aggregators in European markets."

"Analysis of AddEnergie EV charging data to aggregate consumer profiles and evaluate the impact of EV penetration on baseline estimation for the Quebec grid."

"Developed a methodology to evaluate if customers at one substation can serve as a control group for others, enabling localized demand-response (GDP) measurement."

"Analysis and proposal of an Azure-based architecture to integrate Virtual Power Plant (VPP) optimization formulations with the existing Hilo platform."

"Co-authored comparison of ancillary services between European and US markets."

"Leading four researchers focused on baseline consumption estimation and client-side asset identification."

"Development of a multimodal AI agent to model HVAC systems compliant with Ashrae 223P Ontology."

"Development of a multimodal AI agent to model HVAC systems compliant with Ashrae 223P Ontology."

"Developing agentic orchestration for real-time HVAC and renewable asset control."

"Integrated solar photovoltaic panels, BESS storage, and electric vehicles into the Home Energy Management System (HEMS)."

"Lead the development of a simulation platform to measure the impact of transactive energy deployment in Quebec."

"Assessed energy flexibility of a solar net-zero building in Varennes by optimizing BIPV capacity, heat pumps, and radiant floors. Implemented Machine Learning for thermal dynamics and Model Predictive Control (MPC) with varied horizons (Fixed, Rolling, Receding), achieving up to 48.6% peak demand reduction."

"Comprehensive review of global transactive energy deployments and international initiatives to inform Hydro-Québec's market design strategy."

"Managed the implementation of the Transactive Energy laboratory, including Raspberry Pi test benches, server infrastructure, and CI/CD deployment pipelines for the simulation platform."

"Wrote a technical assessment on external technologies for transactive energy, including Energy Web Foundation, Exaion, and more."

"Led a researcher in deploying blockchain functionality using Quorum and Energy Web Chain for settlement of energy transactions."

"Led a researcher in reviewing the state-of-the-art of blockchain applications for power systems."

"Supervised research on automated demand response and heat pump evaluation for commercial building energy management."

"Directed research on integrating electrical asset lifecycle costs and degradation into nodal pricing formulations."

"Led the development of ORFLEX, an open-source platform for rapid testing and deployment of local flexibility markets. Leverages cloud/edge infrastructure to enable scalable, hierarchical market-clearing algorithms."

"Lead the development of a quasi-static Generic Time-Series Power Flow (GTSPF) tool integrated into the ETSim platform using Python and OpenDSS. Validated the decentralized physics-based architecture using the IEEE 13 node test feeder to analyze the economic and technical impacts of multi-agent transactive energy exchanges."

"Comprehensive risk analysis for transactive energy forward contracts."

"Official presentation of the ETSim platform for multi-agent simulation in transactive environments."

"Top 10 globally for blockchain applications in energy markets."

"Open Source Edge DERMS."

"The Open Grid-Client Laboratory for the Electric Energy Transition."

"Advanced course on design thinking methodologies and human-centered design."