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Roles and Tasks

This is a place for team members to identify themselves and describe what they are working on. That way, others will be able to figure who to talk to when they need to know details about areas related to their work.

Each entry should give name, location, role, and tasks they have committed to. Please sort by last name.

Jurica Babic

  • Location: Zagreb, Croatia (University of Zagreb)
  • Roles: Student under Vedran Podobnik
  • Participating: Fall 2011 -
  • Responsibilities: Visualizer development

Govert Buijs

  • Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands (Erasmus University)
  • Roles: Professional developer
  • Participating: Summer 2011 -
  • Responsibilities: Project web presence, Tournament Scheduler, Support

Antonios Chrysopoulos

  • Location: Thessaloniki, Greece at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
  • Roles: PhD Candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH).Part of the implementation team.
  • Participating: Fall 2010 -
  • Responsibilities:
    • Implementation of the household simulation agents.
    • Implementation of the consumers simulation agents.

John Collins

  • Location: Minneapolis, USA (Minnesota)
  • Roles: Co-founder of the project, with Carsten Block and Wolf Ketter; Lecturer, University of Minnesota
  • Participating: from the beginning
  • Responsibilities:
    • Overall architecture (with help from many others)
    • Project management (with Wolf)
    • Leader of the Minnesota Power TAC group

Wolf Ketter

  • Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands (RSM/Erasmus)
  • Roles: Co-founder of the project, with Carsten Block and John Collins; Associate Professor, RSM
  • Responsibilities: Project leadership, funding, publicity

Shashank Pande

  • Location: Minneapolis, USA
  • Roles: Interested professional with energy-system experience
  • Participating: Fall 2011 -
  • Responsibilities: Wind-park genco model

Vedran Podobnik

  • Location: Zagreb, Croatia (University of Zagreb)
  • Roles: Assistant professor at Department of Telecommunications, working on multi-agent systems, electronic markets and social networks.
  • Participating: Fall 2009 -
  • Responsibilities: Visualizer design and implementation

Prashant Reddy

  • Location: Pittsburgh, USA (Carnegie Mellon)
  • Roles: PhD student in the Machine Learning department working with Manuela Veloso
  • Participating: Fall 2010 -
  • Responsibilities
    • Factored customer model
    • Tariff and customer preference modelling
    • Heuristics for matching tariff customers and brokers

Andreas Symeonidis

  • Location: Thessaloniki, Greece at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
  • Roles: Lecturer in Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). Part of the implementation team.
  • Participating: Fall 2010 -
  • Responsibilities:
    • Implementation of the household simulation agents.
    • Implementation of the consumers simulation agents.

Alumni

Mehdi Benyebka

  • Location: Minneapolis
  • Roles: MSSE Alum
  • Participating: Spring 2012 -
  • Responsibilities: Admin web-app for research deployment

Carsten Block

  • Location: Freiburg, Germany
  • Roles: Co-founder of the project, with John Collins and Wolf Ketter.
  • Participating: Spring 2009 - Spring 2011
  • Responsibilities:
    • Initial design and development of the Grails prototype server

Zoheb Borbora

  • Location: Minneapolis, USA (Minnesota)
  • Roles: PhD Candidate in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota.
  • Participating: Fall 2011
  • Responsibilities:
    • Evaluation and implementation of trust and reputation metrics in the PowerTAC system

Joseph D'Costa

  • Location: Minneapolis, USA (Minnesota)
  • Roles:
  • Participating: Fall 2010 - Summer 2011
  • Responsibilities:
    • ISO in relation to Broker-Wholesale Market operation and procedural modeling (will expand on responsibilities as they become evident in the weekly meetings.
    • Testing (particularly, the feature set directed to facilitate the participation of non-programmer, domain experts in the competition)
    • Some documentation

###Travis Daudelin

  • Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota (University of Minnesota)
  • Roles: Undergraduate working on Power TAC
  • Participating: Spring - Fall 2011
  • Responsibilities:
    • DU implementation, Scenario 1

David Dauer

  • Location: Karlsruhe, Germany (KIT)
  • Roles: Grad Student
  • Participating: Fall 2009 - Spring 2011
  • Responsibilities:
    • Overall and server architecture (Grails version) and development
    • Demo broker agent

Josh Edeen

  • Location: Minneapolis, USA (Minnesota)
  • Roles: UofM undergrad student, working with Erik Onarheim
  • Participating: Fall 2010 -
  • Responsibilities:
    • Weather model
    • Tournament manager

Ryan Finneman

  • Location: Minneapolis, USA (Minnesota)
  • Roles: UofM grad student working on Power TAC
  • Participating: Fall 2010 -
  • Responsibilities: Physical Environment Model

Christoph Flath

  • Location: Karlsruhe, Germany (KIT, FZI)
  • Roles: PhD student
  • Participating: Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
  • Responsibilities:
    • Overall architecture (Grails version, with help from many others)
    • Technical architecture and lead development of Grails-based prototype server
    • Project management (with Carsten, John, and Wolf)
    • Leader of the Karlsruhe Power TAC group

Adis Mustedanagic

  • Location: Zagreb, Croatia (University of Zagreb)
  • Roles: MSc student at Department of Telecommunications working on Power TAC.
  • Participating: Fall 2010 - Summer 2011
  • Responsibilities: Visualizer design and implementation

Nguyen Nguyen

  • Location: Minneapolis
  • Roles: MSSE Alum
  • Participating: Spring 2011 -
  • Responsibilities: JMS communication, serialization, logfile management

Erik Onarheim

  • Location: Minneapolis, USA (Minnesota)
  • Roles: UofM student working on Power TAC.
  • Participating: Fall 2010 -
  • Responsibilities:
    • Weather Model
    • Tournament Manager

Kailash Ramanathan

  • Location: University of Minnesota
  • Roles: Masters student
  • Participating: Spring 2012 -
  • Responsibilities: Tournament scheduling

Daniel Schnurr

  • Location: Karlsruhe, Germany (KIT)
  • Roles: Student at KIT working on the wholesale market
  • Participating: Spring 2010 - Spring 2011
  • Responsibilities:
    • Implementation a period market clearing auctioneer-plugin
    • Bachelor thesis about "Electronic Negotiation in a Multi-Agent Energy Trading Competition"