Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) faculty Dr. Suzanne J. Matthews, former EECS faculty, MAJ Jason Hussey, and Spencer Drakontaidis ’18 traveled to Waltham, MA to attend the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 22nd Annual High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC ’18). At the conference, Spencer presented the paper, "Toward Energy-Proportional Anomaly Detection in the Smart Grid," which was co-authored by former students Spencer Drakontaidis, Michael Stanchi, Gabriel Glazer, and faculty advisors MAJ Jason Hussey, Dr. Aaron St. Leger and Dr. Suzanne J. Matthews. The paper represents the culmination of the former cadets’ senior capstone project and argues for the need to reduce the total power consumption costs of anomaly detection in the smart grid.
It is a huge achievement for an undergraduate team to have a paper accepted through the peer review process, let alone an IEEE venue. The paper will appear in the proceedings of the 2018 HPEC conference, which will be posted to IEEE Xplore in the coming months. HPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. Highlights of the conference include talks by Ms. Barbara Helland (Associate Director of the DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research), Dr. Scott Yockel (of Harvard Research Computing), and others.