Liyan Jia

Education

2009.8 - Present

• School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
• PhD candidate, advised by Prof. Lang Tong
• GPA: 4.147/4

2005.8 - 2009.7

• Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China
• Bachelor of Science
• GPA: Overall: 93.6/100, Major: 93.7/100, Rank: 1/165

2002.9 - 2005.7

• Handan No.1 High School, Hebei, China
  

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Awards

• 2010 Cornell Intel Fellowship
• 2009 Cornell Jacobs Fellowship
• 2009 Beijing Excellent Undergradate Student Award
• 2008 First-class Comprehensive Student Scholarship of Tsinghua University (Top 1 of 165).
• 2007 First-class Study Scholarship of Tsinghua University
• 2005 Heibei Excellent High School Student Award

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Research Area

• Power Systems and Smart Grid
• Demand Response and Home Energy Management

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Publications

• Liyan Jia and Lang Tong
  "Optimal Pricing for Residential Demand Response: A Stochastic Optimization Approach "
  2012 Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Oct., 2012.
  
  
• Liyan Jia, Robert J. Thomas, and Lang Tong
  "On the Nonlinearity Effects on Malicious Data Attack on Power System"
  2012 Power and Energy Society general meeting, July, 2012.
  
  
• Liyan Jia, Robert J. Thomas, and Lang Tong
  "Impacts of Malicious Data on Real-time Price of Electricity Market Operations"
  Hawaii Intl. Conf. on System Sciences, Jan, 2012.
  
  
• Liyan Jia, Zhe Yu, Mary C. Murphy-Hoye, Ellen G. Piccioli, Annabelle Pratt, and Lang Tong
  "Multi-Scale Stochastic Optimization for Home Energy Management "
  IEEE CAMSAP'11, Dec., 2011.
  
  
• Oliver Kosut, Liyan Jia, Robert J. Thomas, and Lang Tong
  "Malicious Data Attacks on the Smart Grid"
  IEEE Trans. Smart Grid Special Issue on Cyber, Physical, and System Security for Smart Grid, 2011
  
  
• Liyan Jia, Robert J. Thomas, and Lang Tong
  "Malicious Data Attack on Real-time Electricity Market"
  in Proc. 2011 ICASSP, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.
  
  
• O. Kosut, L. Jia, R. J. Thomas, and L. Tong
  "Malicious Data Attacks on Smart Grid State Estimation: Attack Strategies and Countermeasures"
  in Proc IEEE 2010 SmartGridComm October, 2010
  
  

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Courses

• Power System Operations (ECE 5990)
• Stability Analysis of Electric Power System (ECE 5960)
• Detection and Estimation (ECE5640)
• Information Theory (ECE 5620)
• Microeconomics (ECON 6090)
• Econometrics II (AEM 7110)
• Advanced Stochastic Processes (ORIE 6540)
• Probability (ORIE 6510)
• Non-linear Programming (ORIE 6320)
• Applied Stochastic Process (ORIE 6500)
• Real Analysis (Math 4130)

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Internship Experience

• 2012.6-2012.8, Research Intern, Business Architecture & Technology Group, ISO New England, Holyoke, MA
• 2009.2-2009.7, Research Intern, Internet Media Group, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
• 2008.7-2008.8, Research Intern, Media Communication Lab, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, CA

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Teaching Experience

• Fall 2012, Teaching Assistant for "Random Signals in Communications and Signal Processing" (ECE 4110)
• Spring 2011, Teaching Assistant for "Power Networks: Operation, Estimation, and Control" (ECE 4520)
• Spring 2010, Teaching Assistant for "Computer Organization" (ECE 3140)

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Links

• Prof. Lang Tong's group website, ACSP

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