Jiayi Yao

Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Advisor: Vasileios Charisopoulos and Baosen Zhang

My research focuses on developing multi-agent frameworks for real-time coordination in power systems. As wind and solar generation grows, I study how AI agents can coordinate diverse flexible loads, such as electric vehicles and data centers, to balance supply and demand under grid stress and uncertainty. By combining LLM-based reasoning with power systems operations and physical constraints, my work aims to enable fair and reliable demand response, helping integrate renewable energy more effectively and build a more flexible and resilient grid for a scalable and equitable clean energy future.