Milad Latifi
Milad Latifi, MSc
PhD candidate
- Department: Data Analytics, ILUSTRE Lab
- Research profile: Demand-Side Energy Management in Smart Grids and Microgrids
- Keywords: Smart Grids, Microgrids, Demand-Side Management, Demand Response, Power Grid Balancing, Statistical Signal Processing, Cooperative Machine Learning, Optimization, Recommender Systems.
Biography
Milad Latifi is a PhD candidate at the Data Analytics Department within the ILUSTRE Lab, focusing on AI-driven solutions for demand-side energy management in smart grids and microgrids. His research project, “AI for Power Grid Balancing Using Recommendation-Enhanced Demand Response (DR),” seeks to enhance grid stability by using AI-based recommender systems to provide personalized energy consumption advice. These systems empower consumers to become active participants in balancing power grids, particularly with high renewable energy integration.
Milad holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, specializing in power systems. His current work at ILUSTRE Lab leverages Curacao island as a living lab to develop AI-driven energy management strategies. The lab is part of the ROBUST program within the Netherlands Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), a human-centered AI initiative focused on sustainable growth, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Research Projects
JADS also participates in several (international) projects, which contribute to grand societal challenges like health, food security, smart transport and secure societies. Together with companies, government, NGO’s and other knowledge institutions, JADS works on solutions by using data.