Updates
2023
June
Had a fantastic time at ACM e-Energy 2023. Thanks to the organizers for a great conference! You can see my slides presenting "Phase Retrieval via Model-Free Power Flow Jacobian Recovery" here.
May
New work on "Phase Retrieval via Model-Free Power Flow Jacobian Recovery" was accepted for publication at the 14th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy '23). Excited to present this work in Orlando this summer!
April
Our paper "A Measurement-Based Approach to Voltage-Constrained Hosting Capacity Analysis With Controllable Reactive Power Behind-the-Meter" was accepted for publication in Electric Power Systems Research.
January
Congratualations to my mentee, first year PhD student Richard Asiamah for winning a 2023 GEM Fellowsip and the Georgia Tech President's Fellowsip!
2022
December
Our paper "Conditions for Estimation of Sensitivities of Voltage Magnitudes to Complex Power Injections", was accepted for publication.
November
Our paper "Calculating PV Hosting Capacity in Low-Voltage Secondary Networks Using Only Smart Meter Data" was accepted to ISGT 2023.
September
An updated edition of "The IMoFi - Intelligent Model Fidelity: Physics-Based Data-Driven Grid Modeling to Accelerate Accurate PV Integration Final Report" was released, containing several new results for model-free hosting capacity analysis (HCA).
June
Excited to be working as a Research Intern with Colin Ponce in the Mathematical Algorithms and Computing Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory this summer.
"Improving Behind-the-Meter PV Impact Studies with Data-Driven Modeling and Analysis" was selected for an Oral Presentation at the 2022 IEEE Photovoltaic Specialistics Conference. Congrats to Joe!
April
Samuel Talkington featured in the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Graduate Research Spotlight and The Bridge Magazine (Thank you so much to Katelyn and IEEE-HKN!)
"Sparse Time Series Sampling for Recovery of Behind-the-Meter Inverter Control Models" will be presented at the 2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference 04/23-04/28. (Ping me if you'll be there!)
I am humbled and honored to be a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
January
The IMoFi - Intelligent Model Fidelity: Physics-Based Data-Driven Grid Modeling to Accelerate Accurate PV Integration Final Report is now available online (Congrats to our awesome team)
2021
August
Samuel Talkington Receives the Georgia Tech SEI and Energy Policy Innovation Center Spark Award (Thank you, SEI and EPICenter.)
April
Georgia Tech's Team places second in the 2021 US Department of Energy Solar District Cup (Congrats to our awesome team)
Joint work by Samuel Talkington and Santiago Grijalva selected for the PECI 2021 best paper award (Thank you PECI organizers and Prof. Grijalva)
January
2020
April
West Virginia University's Team places second at the 2020 US Department of Energy Solar District Cup (Congrats to our awesome team)
February
02/2020 Joint work by Samuel Talkington and Natalia Schmid selected for 2020 West Virginia Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol (Thank you URDC organizers and Prof. Schmid)
2019
April
West Virginia University's Team presents as finalists at the 2019 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge (Congrats to our awesome team)