Dennice Gayme Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. I was previously a Postdoc in Computing and Mathmatical Sciences at Caltech, working with Steven Low and John Doyle. I received my Ph.D in Control and Dynamical Systems in June of 2010 under the supervision of John Doyle and Beverley McKeon and my M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley with Prof. Homayoon Kazerooni . In January of 2012 I will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Research Interests My research interests are in the study of large-scale networked and interconnected systems with an emphasis on renewable and efficient energy systems. My two focus areas are: (1) Using a robust control approach to better understand shear flow turbulence in order to inform flow control aimed at improving aerodynamic efficiency through drag reduction. (2) The integration of renewable power generation sources into a ``smart'' electric power system.

Recent Activities

Education

Ph.D Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, June 2010
M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, Dec. 1998
B.Engineering and Society. Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University , Ontario,Canada, 1997

Publications

Submitted or in preparation:

1. D. F. Gayme and A. Chakrabortty, Impact of Wind Farm Placement on Inter-area Oscillations in Large Power Systems, submitted to the 2012 American Control Conf.
2. A. E. Sjödin, D. F. Gayme and U. Topcu, Risk Mitigated Optimal Power Flow with High Wind Penetration, submitted to the 2012 American Control Conf.
3. D. Gayme and U. Topcu, Optimal Power Flow with Large-Scale Energy Storage integration, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, in revision
4. D. Gayme, J. Doyle, M. Fazel, A. Papachristodoulou, S. Prajna. Optimization Based Methods for Determining Basins of Attraction in the Logistic Map and Set Membership in the Mandelbrot Set. In preparation.

1. F. Chandra, D. F. Gayme , L. Chen and J. C. Doyle, Robustness, Optimization, and Architectures, European Journal of Control Vol. 17, N. 5-6, 2011.
2. H. Yeh, D. F . Gayme and S. Low, Adaptive VAR Control for Distribution Circuits with Photovoltaic Generators, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems , to appear.
3. D. Gayme, B. McKeon, J. C. Doyle and B. Bamieh, Amplification and Nonlinear Mechanisms in Plane Couette Flow. Physics of Fluids, vol 23, Issue 6, page 065108, 2011
4. D. Gayme , B. J. McKeon, A. Papachristodoulou, B. Bamieh and J. C. Doyle, A Streamwise Constant Model of Turbulence in Plane Couette Flow. Journal of Fluid Mech., vol. 665, pp. 99-119, 2010.

1. S. Bose, D. F. Gayme , S. Low and K. M. Chandy, Optimal Power Flow over Tree Networks , Proc. of the Allerton Conf. on Comm., Control, & Computing, 2011.
2. D. Gayme and U. Topcu, Optimal Power Flow with Distributed Energy Storage Dynamics, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, June 2011.
3. D. Gayme, B. J. McKeon, A. Papachristodoulou, and J.C. Doyle, 2D/3C Model of Large Scale Structures in Turbulence in Plane Couette Flow, Proc. of the 6th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomenon , Seoul, Korea, June 2009.
4. D. Gayme , M. Fazel, J. Doyle, Complexity in Automation of SOS Proofs: An Illustrative Example. Proc. Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, Dec 2006.
5. M. Fazel, D. Gayme, M. Chiang, Transient Analysis for Wireless Power Control. Proc. Globecom Conference, San Francisco, California, Nov 2006.
6. L. Shi, C. Ko, Z. Jin, D. Gayme, V. Gupta, S. Waydo, L. Schulman and R. Murray, Decentralized Control across Bit-Limited Communication Channels: An Example, Proc. of the American Control Conference, Portland, June 2005.
7. D. Gayme, S. Menon, C. Ball, D. Mukavetz and E. Nwadiogbu, Fault diagnosis in gas turbine engines using fuzzy logic, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Washington, DC, Oct. 2003.
8. D. Gayme, S. Menon, C. Ball, D. Mukavetz and E. Nwadiogbu, Fault detection and diagnosis in turbine engines using fuzzy logic, Proc. of the 22nd International Conf. of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, Chicago, July 2003.

Patents

1. M. Elgersma, D. Gayme, T. Jenne and K. Stalsberg, Simultaneous Injection Method and System for a Self-Balancing Rotatable Apparatus, United States Patent No. 6532422, Mar. 11, 2003.
2. D. Gayme, Resonance Identification Extension for a Self-Balancing Rotatable Apparatus, United States Patent No. 6546354, April 8, 2003.
3. K. Stalsberg and D. Gayme, Supervisory Method and System for Improved Control Model Updates Applied to Dynamic Balancing, United States Patent No. 6687572, Feb. 3, 2004.
4. D. Gayme and K. Stalsberg, Data Manipulation Method and System for a Self-Balancing Rotatable Apparatus, United States Patent No. 6775870, Aug. 17, 2004.
5. M. Elgersma, D. Johnson, G. Stein, B. Morton, D. Gayme and M. Peck, A Method and System for Determining a Singularity Free Momentum Path, US Patent No. 7464899, Dec. 16, 2008.
6. D. Gayme, S. Menon, E. Nwadiogbu, D. Mukavetz and C. Ball, Fault Detection System and Method Using Augmented Data and Fuzzy Logic, United States Patent No. 7734400, June 8, 2010.

Address:

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210
Phone: (410) 516-5784
Office: 229 Latrobe Hall

E-mail: dennice (at) jhu(dot)edu

URL:

http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~dennice