Patricio Rocha

Ph.D. Candidate Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Avenue Tampa, Florida 33620-5350 USA procha at mail dot usf dot edu Download CV

Background:

I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering (IMSE) at the University of South Florida (USF). I received my Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from the Department of Systems Engineering at Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco-Chile). I did my undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Dr. Carlos Muñoz and Dr. Jaime Bustos. My current advisor at USF is Dr. Tapas Das.

I am currently teaching Design of Experiments at USF. (Course Syllabus)

Research Interests: 

• Environmental and energy policy.
• Mathematical programming models for energy markets.

Publications 

• Nanduri, V., Das, T. K., and Rocha, P. 2009. Generation Capacity Expansion in Energy Markets using a Two-Level Game Theoretic Model. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol 24, 3, pp 1165-1172.
• Babayigit, C., Rocha, P. and Das, T. K. 2009. A Two-Tier Matrix Game Approach for Obtaining Joint Bidding Strategies in FTR and Energy Markets. Review submitted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

Presentations

• Rocha, P., Nanduri, V., and Das, T. K. Generation Expansion in Restructured Electricity Markets under a CO2 Cap-and-Trade Program. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2009, San Diego, CA.
• Das, T. K., Rocha, P., and Salimi, E. A Two-Tier Matrix Game Approach for Obtaining Joint Bidding Strategies in FTR and Energy Markets. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2009, San Diego, CA.
• Rocha, P., Nanduri, V., and Das, T. K. Generation Expansion in Restructured Electricity Markets under a CO2 Cap-and-Trade Program. IIE Annual Conference, 2009, Miami, FL.
• Nanduri, V., Rocha, P. and Das, T. K. A Decision Support Tool for Generation Capacity Investments in Restructured Markets. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2008, Washington, DC.
• Kong, N. Rocha, P. A Simulation-based Optimization Approach for Maximizing Liver Allocation Efficiency. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Muñoz, C., Bustos, J. and Rocha, P. Integer Programming Methods applied to Diffuse Control Techniques. OPTIMA, 2003, Valparaiso, Chile

Professional Activities

• Co-editor of INFORMS Online Newsletter, ORMS Tomorrow
• INFORMS Student Union Liaison
• Past President INFORMS Student Chapter at USF
• Reviewer for the following Journals:
  • IEEE Transaction on Power Systems
  • Naval Research Logistics