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Russell Bent is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of engineering, with significant contributions to electrical and electronic engineering, control and systems engineering, civil and structural engineering, safety, risk, reliability and quality, as well as management science and operations research.

Their work covers several topics related to power systems and energy management, including:

  • Optimal Power Flow Distribution
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Electric Power System Optimization
  • Power System Reliability and Maintenance
  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

Bent has published extensively in multiple venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Electric Power Systems Research
  • INFORMS Journal on Computing
  • Energies
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Some recent papers authored by Bent cover topics such as interdependent infrastructure restoration, optimal power flow, and resilient distribution systems. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Last-Mile Restoration for Multiple Interdependent Infrastructures," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Proving global optimality of ACOPF solutions," 2020, Electric Power Systems Research
  • "Learning to accelerate globally optimal solutions to the AC Optimal Power Flow problem," 2022, Electric Power Systems Research
  • "Communication-Constrained Expansion Planning for Resilient Distribution Systems," 2020, INFORMS Journal on Computing
  • "Optimal Microgrid Networking for Maximal Load Delivery in Phase Unbalanced Distribution Grids: A Declarative Modeling Approach," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Kaarthik Sundar
  • Byron Tasseff
  • Carleton Coffrin
  • Ádám Máté
  • Pascal Van Hentenryck

Best Publications

  • Scenario-Based Planning for Partially Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Customers

    Russell W. Bent;Pascal Van Hentenryck

  • A Two-Stage Hybrid Local Search for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

    Russell Bent;Pascal Van Hentenryck

  • A two-stage hybrid algorithm for pickup and delivery vehicle routing problems with time windows

    Russell Bent;Pascal Van Hentenryck

  • PowerModels.J1: An Open-Source Framework for Exploring Power Flow Formulations

    Carleton Coffrin;Russell Bent;Kaarthik Sundar;Yeesian Ng

  • Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization

    Pascal Van Hentenryck;Russell Bent

  • Battle of the Water Networks II

    Angela Marchi;Elad Salomons;Avi Ostfeld;Zoran Kapelan

  • Convex Relaxations for Gas Expansion Planning

    Conrado Borraz-Sanchez;Russell Whitford Bent;Scott N. Backhaus;Hassan Hijazi

  • Strategic planning for disaster recovery with stochastic last mile distribution

    Pascal Van Hentenryck;Russell Bent;Carleton Coffrin

  • Security-Constrained Design of Isolated Multi-Energy Microgrids

    Salman Mashayekh;Michael Stadler;Goncalo Cardoso;Miguel Heleno

  • Locating PHEV Exchange Stations in V2G

    Feng Pan;Russell Bent;Alan Berscheid;David Izraelevitz

  • Optimal Compression in Natural Gas Networks: A Geometric Programming Approach

    Sidhant Misra;Michael W. Fisher;Scott Backhaus;Russell Bent

  • Waiting and relocation strategies in online stochastic vehicle routing

    Russell Bent;Pascal Van Hentenryck

  • Regrets only! online stochastic optimization under time constraints

    Russell Bent;Pascal Van Hentenryck

  • Cyber-Physical Security: A Game Theory Model of Humans Interacting Over Control Systems

    Scott Backhaus;Russell Bent;James Bono;Ritchie Lee

  • Approximating line losses and apparent power in AC power flow linearizations

    C. Coffrin;P. Van Hentenryck;R. Bent

  • Vehicle routing for the last mile of power system restoration

    Pascal Van Hentenryck;Carleton Coffrin;Russell Bent

  • Polyhedral approximation in mixed-integer convex optimization

    Miles Lubin;Emre Yamangil;Russell Bent;Juan Pablo Vielma

  • Convex Optimization for Joint Expansion Planning of Natural Gas and Power Systems

    Conrado Borraz Sanchez;Russell Bent;Scott Backhaus;Seth Blumsack

  • Transmission Network Expansion Planning With Complex Power Flow Models

    R. Bent;G. L. Toole;A. Berscheid

  • Extended Formulations in Mixed-Integer Convex Programming

    Miles Lubin;Emre Yamangil;Russell Bent;Juan Pablo Vielma

  • The value of consensus in online stochastic scheduling

    Russell Bent;Pascal Van Hentenryck

  • An adaptive, multivariate partitioning algorithm for global optimization of nonconvex programs

    Harsha Nagarajan;Mowen Lu;Site Wang;Russell Bent

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Van Hentenryck
Pascal Van Hentenryck Georgia Institute of Technology
Scott Backhaus
Scott Backhaus Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michael Chertkov
Michael Chertkov University of Arizona
Daniel Bienstock
Daniel Bienstock Columbia University
David H. Wolpert
David H. Wolpert Santa Fe Institute
Avi Ostfeld
Avi Ostfeld Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Kameshwar Poolla
Kameshwar Poolla University of California, Berkeley
Aaron C. Zecchin
Aaron C. Zecchin University of Adelaide
Pramod P. Khargonekar
Pramod P. Khargonekar University of California, Irvine
Xiaonan Lu
Xiaonan Lu Purdue University West Lafayette

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