Speakers

Dr. Diego Cerrai is Assistant Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut, and Associate Director for Storm Preparedness and Emergency Response at the UConn Eversource Energy Center. He is leading the UConn Outage Prediction Modeling (OPM) team, focusing on the prediction of weather-related power outages using machine learning and statistical models. He developed the current version of the OPM, in collaboration with Eversource Energy, Avangrid, Dominion Energy and Exelon. He is also leading projects related to grid resilience assessment, renewable energy resources integration in the electric grid, wildfire ignition prediction and storm tree damage prediction, and energy justice.