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Associate Professor & Banks McLaurin Fellow in Engineering @UTAustin @ut_orie | operations research, systems analysis, economics, energy, environment, policy

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Benjamin Leibowicz
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@Harvard This vanilla statement is late, weak, and cowardly. Today I am embarrassed to be an alumnus of this university. Shameful.
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I'm honored and excited to have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at @UTAustin ! I am grateful to so many people who have helped me reach this point: supportive colleagues in @ut_orie and @utmechengr , mentors throughout the academic community, reference letter
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Welcome to the world: Noah Henry Leibowicz 🎉🎈🎊 Born on Thanksgiving morning and we're so thankful for him!
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I was very honored to receive the 2020 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the #Energy Systems Division (ESD) of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) @iisenet . I also look forward to deepening my involvement in IISE as a new ESD Board Member. #orms
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✨October 9, 2022✨ A perfect day
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@StopAntisemites @ucsantabarbara As a professor, this is infuriating and embarrassing to see. Unabashed anti-Semitism and terrorist sympathizing in academia. God knows what they're teaching in the UCSB Sociology department.
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I am honored to be named the Runner-Up for the Early Career Best Paper Award by the @INFORMS Section on #Energy , Natural Resources, and the #Environment (ENRE). My paper "Urban land use and transportation planning for #climate change mitigation: A theoretical framework" was
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I'm grateful to be chosen as the next President-Elect of the @INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) @ENRE_INFORMS . My term as President will begin in 2024. Big thanks to all who voted and see you in Indianapolis next week @INFORMS2022 !
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I had the pleasure of chairing the @iisenet Energy Systems Division's ( @IISE_ES ) Outstanding Young Investigator Award competition this year. As announced at #IISEAnnual2022 , the Winner is @TheEnergyCraig from @UMSEAS and the Runner-Up is @kyrib from @CUEngineering . 👏👏
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Following our Macro-Energy Systems Workshop @StanfordEnergy last year, we're building a website to continue the strong momentum for the MES research community. @inesliaz @JesseJenkins @emilygrubert @pjlevi @jfdecarolis @SaulehSiddiqui @ValerieThomasB
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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#Hydrogen isn't a zero, low, or high #carbon fuel. Like #electricity , it's an #energy carrier whose #GHG implications depend on how it's produced. Real promise of H2 is it offers a viable #decarbonization pathway for end-uses that are difficult to electrify (e.g. heavy industry).
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Breaking News: Many see hydrogen as the future of clean energy. But the way industry aims to produce it would be worse for the climate than burning natural gas, a new study said.
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I'm delighted to receive a @UTexasGlobal Faculty Research Seed Grant to build new research collaborations between @UTAustin and @IIASAVienna ! I will visit IIASA with a @ut_orie PhD student this summer to begin new research on demand-side #climate change mitigation strategies. We
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Benjamin Leibowicz
3 years
Happy to share my new paper in Energy Policy with @Qianru_z , @busbyj2 , @globalsarang , David Adelman, and @SheilaOlmstead3 : "Enhancing policy realism in energy system optimization models: Politically feasible decarbonization pathways for the United States"
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I'm honored to be appointed as holder of the endowed Banks McLaurin Fellowship in Engineering at @UTAustin @CockrellSchool . I look forward to using its resources to further my research, teaching, and service. #HookEm #WhatStartsHere 🤘
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Benjamin Leibowicz
3 years
Join us next Friday 9/24 for the first event in our #MacroEnergySystems Speaker Series! @JesseJenkins will moderate a panel discussion featuring Carla Frisch ( @ENERGY ), @mclott ( @ColumbiaUEnergy ), and David Victor ( @UCSanDiego ). For Zoom registration link:
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One thing I love about #operationsresearch is that I constantly encounter new application domains where our methods are valuable, and then get to learn all about them! It's a terrific discipline for "generalists" who are intellectually curious about many domains, and one of the
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I'm very proud of Connor Colombe, my @ut_orie PhD student, who won the 2023 Dennis J. O'Brien @USA4EE Best Student Paper Award! Connor presented his paper "The Effects of Policy Uncertainty and Risk Aversion on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Investments" in a special
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I'm so proud of my @ut_orie PhD student Erick Jones for accepting a tenure-track Assistant Professor position @utarlington @utaIMSE . It will be very exciting to see what Prof. Jones accomplishes in the years to come! #orms @INFEWS_UT @CockrellSchool @UTAustin
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Benjamin Leibowicz
3 years
Today is my birthday and my journal paper with @ut_orie PhD graduate Qianru Zhu ( @Qianru_z ) got accepted at Risk Analysis ( @SocRiskAnalysis ). It is a good day! 🎂📖🙂 #orms
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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There's a new Dr. Leibowicz in town! I'm so proud of my wife Talya for completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at @UTAustin . 🎓🤘 #HookEm
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I'm flattered that the students of the @utmechengr Graduate Student Board (MEGSB) chose me to receive their Best Advisor award! Advising and mentoring our outstanding students in the @CockrellSchool @UTAustin is what makes being a professor here so fun and rewarding. #HookEm 🤘
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@BonaguraESPN Nothing is certain except death and taxes ... and Kyle Whittingham outcoaching Lincoln Riley.
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@StopAntisemites "Dismal failure of @Harvard 's leadership" is 100% correct. Thank you to the Wexner Foundation for calling it out like this.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
I saw a license plate in my neighborhood that began with the letters KKT. I thought, wow, an #orms #optimization expert, how clever! But then I remembered that most people are normal. #academia
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Benjamin Leibowicz
3 years
This weekend marks 5 years since my #PhD graduation @StanfordEng @Stanford . Here I am with my advisor, John Weyant, after the hooding ceremony. Such a fun and memorable event!
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@yashar Finally someone with a backbone! Bravo to University of California Regent Jay Sures for writing with moral clarity and conviction, and standing up to the terrorism apologist fringe in academia. 👏
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I'm delighted to be at @IIASAVienna this week and next with @ut_orie PhD student @RachelMoglen , thanks to a seed grant from @UTexasGlobal 🤘🌍🇦🇹 We are researching the full, economy-wide #decarbonization potential of changes at the consumer demand level, including upstream
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Benjamin Leibowicz
3 years
Two new #postdoc positions @EnergyUT @UTAustin ! We are seeking two outstanding researchers to explore scale-bridging challenges in micro-to-macro systems modeling, with applications in #energy . Job postings are now live: 1) 2)
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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@HarvardChabad @BillAckman @Harvard Harvard alum here and I am with you 100%. We will continue to pressure the administration to do more to combat antisemitism and support Jewish students because so far their behavior has been cowardly, hypocritical, and unacceptable.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
4 years
Today I'm moderating a panel on "Critiques of Macro-Energy Systems Research and Our Responses as a Field" as part of the @StanfordEnergy Macro-Energy Systems Workshop. It's been fantastic organizing this event with @pjlevi , @JesseJenkins , @emilygrubert , @inesliaz , and others!
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
I've visited many #cities and #Austin 's Hike and Bike Trail is one of the absolute best urban trails anywhere. 10+ uninterrupted miles of shoreline on both sides of Lady Bird Lake with beautiful trees and skyline views. What a gift from leaders with foresight, incl. Lady Bird!
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Tuesday @INFORMS2021 I'll speak on the panel "Getting Started in Public Sector #OperationsResearch " (TB05) sponsored by @INFORMS_PSOR . Join live (CC Ballroom E) or virtually (Theater 5) at 7:45am Pacific time for a fascinating discussion! Here's a preview of my remarks. @INFORMS
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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My @ut_orie PhD graduate Qianru Zhu has accepted a job at the Electric Power Research Institute ( @EPRINews ), where she will join their #Energy Systems and #Climate Analysis program research staff. I'm very proud of Qianru and can't wait to see what she accomplishes! 🤘 @INFEWS_UT
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
I'm pleased to share this pair of new papers in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure that I wrote with my former @ut_orie PhD student @Qianru_z and collaborators from @BerkeleyLabEMP . In these papers we: - Survey the available information on the costs of extreme weather ...
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I am excited to begin a two-year term on the Board of the @INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment @ENRE_INFORMS as its Secretary-Treasurer. We have nearly 400 members and are sponsoring 77 sessions at @INFORMS2020 going on now. Check them out this week!
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
In our new @MacroEnergySys perspective piece in @iScience_CP we (1) review common critiques of macro-energy systems models, (2) highlight some recent and ongoing work to address them, and (3) identify high-priority research directions. Open access paper:
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I was very flattered to receive this gem of a student comment from my @utmechengr Engineering Finance class: "Favorite class I have taken at UT- hands down best professor as well. Leibowicz is the GOAT."
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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My new Energy Policy paper reveals a consistent pattern in the diffusion of transport systems, and discusses what it means for the future. We need to understand the past before we can make good choices about where we go from here.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Missed our @StanfordEnergy Seminar panel on Macro-Energy Systems last month? Good news: we recorded it! Watch the video on YouTube for an overview of Macro-Energy Systems by @pjlevi and a conversation with @JesseJenkins , @emilygrubert , @inesliaz , and more.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Earlier this week, my @ut_orie PhD student Nan Zhang successfully defended his dissertation titled " #Optimization Tools for Emerging Challenges in Power Systems." Nan has done a lot of fantastic work on #algorithms for #battery storage operation under uncertainty, coordinating
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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It felt great to be back lecturing in the classroom for the first time since March 2020! I'm proud that 100% of my Applied #Probability students @ut_orie are choosing to wear masks to protect themselves and each other. 🤘 #HookEm #ProtectTexasTogether
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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@AvivaKlompas @Harvard I'm a @Harvard alum and am totally disgusted by the current administration. They condone anti-Semitism on campus while coddling the students who are openly pro-Hamas. Beyond parody.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Congratulations to @ut_orie PhD student @baturaycalci on successfully defending his dissertation! Prof. Jon Bard and I co-supervised his dissertation titled " #NaturalGas Market Applications of Multi-Agent #Optimization ," which used complementarity-based equilibrium modeling and
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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We had a mini Leibowicz group reunion at last week's @INFORMS2021 conference! My current @ut_orie PhD students @RachelMoglen , @helenlulele , and @baturaycalci and I had fun catching up with my former student Erick Jones, who is now an Assistant Professor @utarlington . 🤘 #HookEm
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@StopAntisemites I am a @Stanford alum and this behavior by a faculty member is appalling, unacceptable, and embarrassing. David is clearly an antisemitic bigot who should have no place at the university.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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It was wonderful having such a packed house at our @INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) section Business Meeting and Reception last night @INFORMS2023 . Congratulations to all of our Best Paper Award winners and thanks to the committee chairs + members!👏
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I'm very excited to explore the economics of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) with @SheilaOlmstead3 and @RewWax ( @TheLBJSchool ), and Chuck Mason ( @UWyonews ), through our new $850K grant from the @SloanFoundation ! #energytransition @ut_orie @CockrellSchool @EnergyUT
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Sheila Olmstead
3 years
Very excited about this new research project with @RewWax , @BDLeibowicz , and Chuck Mason on the economics of carbon capture, utilization and storage. Thanks @SloanFoundation for this great opportunity!
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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The @utmechengr department @UTAustin seeks applicants for multiple tenure-track faculty positions. #HookEm 🤘 Areas of interest: 1) Advanced #Manufacturing 2) Sustainable #Energy Systems 3) #Nuclear and Radiation 4) #Robotics 5) #Thermal -Fluid More info:
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I'm pleased to share my new publication with @ut_orie PhD graduates Gopika Jayadev and @baturaycalci , and Prof. Jonathan Bard: "Risk-averse stochastic bilevel programming: An application to natural gas markets" @EnergyUT #Optimization #NaturalGas #LNG
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Starting today, 4 of my @ut_orie PhD students are defending their dissertations in 1 week! First up is Milad Naeini, whose dissertation "Uncertainty in Cost-Benefit Analysis of #Climate Policy: Climate-Economy Model Evaluation and Extension" I co-supervised with Prof. @EBickel .
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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My new paper in Risk Analysis ( @SocRiskAnalysis ) with @Qianru_z ( @ut_orie / @EPRINews ) proposes a Markov decision process model for cost-benefit analysis 💰 of infrastructure #resilience upgrades, and applies it to #electricgrid 🔌 hardening case studies:
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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One of my favorite activities as a #professor is writing recommendation letters to help talented, hard-working people achieve their goals. Whether it's for #gradschool , a new job, or a promotion, I find writing letters such a cool and rewarding way to help people achieve success.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
This is fantastic from @USPS 📭🚚🔌 Delivering mail with #ElectricVehicles just makes so much sense. Lower #GHG emissions, less #AirPollution , less noise. Lower maintenance costs. And large fleets can coordinate charging schedules to lower #electricity costs and emissions.
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U.S. Postal Service
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BREAKING NEWS: USPS Intends To Deploy Over 66,000 Electric Vehicles by 2028, Making One of the Largest Electric Vehicle Fleets in the Nation.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Cool #highereducation fact: #Texas now leads the U.S. in number of R1 #research universities with 11 (tied with California). Remarkably, Texas had only 4 of them as recently as 2010. 📈🤯 The ascent of Texas #universities is a crucial driver of our rapid economic growth.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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80 degrees with some fall colors for final exams @UTAustin 😎🍂
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I'm excited to be organizing the ORIE Seminar for the Spring 2023 semester. It'll feature great talks on #orms and #optimization with #energy as a big theme and several @ut_orie alumni in our lineup. I look forward to seeing all of the speakers over the next few months!
@ut_orie
UT Austin ORIE
2 years
Welcome back, @ut_orie Longhorns! We hope to see you on Friday afternoons for another semester of the ORIE Seminar. Here is our exciting Spring 2023 lineup featuring leading experts from academia, national labs, and private industry. #orms #HookEm 🤘
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Great to be back at @Harvard for a visit. So many special memories. #Harvard #College #AlmaMater
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I was on @NPR @Marketplace yesterday talking about the costs and benefits of #electricity resilience investments in the aftermath of #HurricaneIda . Segment starts ~4:30 in Sept. 1 episode. Thanks to @andy_uhler for having me on! @ut_orie @CockrellSchool
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Benjamin Leibowicz
4 years
On Monday, I'll be reflecting on our recent Macro-Energy Systems Workshop in a @StanfordEnergy Seminar panel with @pjlevi , @JesseJenkins , @emilygrubert , @inesliaz , and others. Free and open to the public! Register at this link to attend:
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Patricia Levi, PhD
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1/ Last week, I helped host a workshop on Macro-Energy Systems, building on ideas we laid out in a paper published last summer - here's a thread about that paper and my hopes for the field.
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Evening walk meeting with my @ut_orie PhD student Batu Calci. Great and safe way to meet up during these strange times - nothing technical, just catching up and talking about #orms and energy. Plus, we do our most creative thinking on the move! #MaskOn #ProtectTexasTogether
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
This afternoon I will give a guest lecture to Public Affairs students in Prof. @raivarun81 's class at @TheLBJSchool , titled "Operations Research Methods for Energy Policy and Strategy Decision-Making." I'm looking forward to meeting these students and sharing @ut_orie work! 🤘
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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We got a behind-the-scenes tour of #agriculture cargo inspections @flyLAXairport 🛬 and @portoflongbeach 🚢 as part of our research project sponsored by @DHSgov and @CBTS_TAMU . Global food #supplychains are really remarkable in their scale and complexity! #orms
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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It was such a joy to celebrate @UTAustin @CockrellSchool #UTGrad22 in person with five of my @ut_orie PhD graduates (three from '21, two from '22)! #HookEm 🤘🎊🎓 They are all moving on to do incredible things: Dr. Erick Jones ( @engineer_living ) - Assistant Professor @utarlington
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Benjamin Leibowicz
4 years
The empty @UTAustin campus called for a beautiful Longhorn run 🤘
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
Closed out the year in Kyoto 🎆🎊 Grateful for all the special moments we had in 2022 and excited for 2023.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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After two virtual/hybrid @INFORMS Annual Meetings, it was so great to see my fellow @ENRE_INFORMS board members in person at @INFORMS2022 ! Thanks to our outgoing President Miguel Anjos for leading us these past two years, and welcome to our new board member Luce Brotcorne.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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We kicked off the spring semester with a research group outing to the bowling alley 🎳 at Union Underground @UTAustin . #HookEm @ut_orie 🤘
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Growing up in #NewYork , we were taught far too little about the city's formative years as the Dutch colonial capital of New Netherland 🇳🇱. This book was great! It highlights New Amsterdam's legacy in setting #NYC on course to be the world's great commercial, multicultural hub.🗽
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Downtowns with direct rail connections to the airport are the best conference locations. Taking @SoundTransit light rail from @flySEA to @iisenet #IISEAnnual2022 in Seattle is fast, good for the environment, and super cheap ($3). ✈🚉🏙
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Benjamin Leibowicz
5 years
The power sector is the easiest sector to decarbonize and where emissions are already falling rapidly, yet a disproportionate fraction of mitigation modeling work focuses on it. We urgently need more demand-side research on transportation, buildings, and industry.
@rhodium_group
Rhodium Group
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US electric power sector emissions decreased by ~10% in 2019, a big change from a 1.2% increase in 2018. Unfortunately there was little progress in transportation, industry, buildings, or other sectors. Our new estimates for total US GHG emissions in 2019
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I recommend this paper from the Journal of Economic Perspectives on new electricity #transmission in the United States: Building long-distance transmission is expensive and difficult. I am not as discouraged by this fact as others. The paper wisely ...
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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I'm so proud of my @ut_orie PhD student Max Brozynski for successfully defending his dissertation today! Thank you to his other committee members Profs. @EBickel , @jhasenbein , @MichaelEWebber , and Sheila Olmstead. Congratulations Max! 👏🎓🤘
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
Getting outside for a run 🏃‍♂️ is a great break from all the hours indoors at a big conference. I loved the gorgeous fall colors 🍁🍂 along the White River Trail right near @INFORMS2022 in Indianapolis!
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In my Systems Modeling course @ut_orie , grad students develop and analyze creative #orms models to address pressing societal challenges. Their fantastic projects this semester yielded fresh insights on #vaccination , offshore #windpower , #EnergyStorage , and disaster #resilience .
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We finally decided to do the Texas summer thing and escape to #Colorado ! Really enjoying all the beautiful and diverse scenery in the Centennial State. 🏞️🌲🏔️
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Researchers who primarily focus on #Climate often treat #AirQuality as a secondary problem and motivation for the #EnergyTransition . This is a mistake, as @WeiPeng_Pton describes in this paper. The social costs of #AirPollution are very large, and people feel them immediately and
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Wei Peng
2 years
🎉Newly accepted paper!🎉 How to integrate air quality + health considerations into power sector decarbonization strategies? We identified 4 priorities based on our own modeling insights + great work from others. @YangOu363 Paper link: 1/6
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Connor Colombe, my @ut_orie PhD student, has been named a Finalist for the 2023 Dennis J. O'Brien @USA4EE / @IA4EE Best Student Paper Award! He will present his research on the #economics of scaling up #carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) in a special session at the ...
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
Weekend getaway: 1850s log cabin in the Texas Hill Country 🪵🔥
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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My new paper in Computers & Operations Research with @ut_orie PhD graduate Gopika Jayadev, Prof. Jonathan Bard, and student @baturaycalci uses bilevel #optimization to model the strategic interactions between #LNG exports and domestic #naturalgas markets.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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A family of beavers suddenly moved into our #Austin neighborhood last month. Nature's #engineers . I photographed one yesterday, and we think he should be named Beavo to go along with Bevo XV @TexasMascot .
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
Students often come talk to me about whether they should do a #PhD . The first question I always ask is, "Do you think it would be FUN?" This is the key. If a PhD program is fully funded (should be), could only boost your career, and you'll ENJOY it, then go for it! #gradschool
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Benjamin Leibowicz
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Benjamin Leibowicz
4 years
New paper with @ut_orie PhD candidate and @INFEWS_UT fellow Erick Jones @engineer_living is now out! We modeled the energy-water nexus at distributed scales and assessed the benefits of community-scale investment and systems integration.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
6 years
I'm excited to share that we've received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish an NSF Research Traineeship on food-energy-water systems at UT Austin! Read more about our new project here:
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Benjamin Leibowicz
3 years
As an alumnus of the #YoungScientists Summer Program @IIASAVienna , I highly recommend it to any PhD student doing #research on global change 🌍. The three summers I spent at IIASA helped me grow as a researcher and were an all-around great time (the castle 🏰 is cool too)!
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IIASA
3 years
📢to #PhD students interested in working in a castle in Europe alongside IIASA #researchers and students from all over the 🌎. ✅Applications are open for the 3-month IIASA #YoungScientists Summer Program ( #YSSP ). 👉Please share with your networks:
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Benjamin Leibowicz
4 years
Congratulations to Dr. Arkasama Bandyopadhyay on finishing her PhD @utmechengr ! 🎓🎉🤘 Arkasama was co-supervised by Prof. @MichaelEWebber and me, and worked on research for @austinenergy . She is moving on to a Research Assistant Professor role @TAMU @TAMUEngineering .
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Benjamin Leibowicz
6 years
Cities are increasingly important climate policy actors, but few models have been applied to study mitigation pathways on this scale. Check out our new journal article on Austin's ambitious plan to reach net-zero GHG emissions by 2050:
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Benjamin Leibowicz
1 year
I love the new @INFORMS tagline: "Smarter Decisions for a Better World." It perfectly encapsulates what we do as operations researchers and why we do it. 💯 #operationsresearch #managementscience #orms
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INFORMS
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Smarter Decisions for a Better World 🌐
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Benjamin Leibowicz
3 years
I'm already excited for our second #MacroEnergySystems Workshop - the first one we'll get to hold in person ( @Stanford )!
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Erin Baker
3 years
Save the date for the 2022 Macro Energy Systems Workshop June 20-21 in person at Stanford University. Abstracts will be due ~March 15. Stay tuned for more info!
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Benjamin Leibowicz
1 year
My new report on #electricity resource adequacy with @BerkeleyLabEMP and my former @ut_orie PhD student Nan Zhang has now been released! Link to the full report: @BerkeleyLab @EnergyUT @CockrellSchool
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
What a time of year to be on the @UTAustin campus! Happy spring break, Longhorns🤘
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
Stunning Colorado - pictured here near Aspen 🏔
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Benjamin Leibowicz
3 years
I'm thrilled to welcome Dr. Bala Sambasivam to my research group as a new Postdoctoral Researcher! Bala will be co-supervised by Prof. @jhasenbein and me @ut_orie , and also be part of @EnergyUT 's Micro-to-Macro (m2M) Systems Modeling initiative with @CareyWKing and a great team.
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Benjamin Leibowicz
4 years
Social cost of #carbon estimates have risen in recent years. In our new paper, @ut_orie PhD student Milad Naeini, Prof. @EBickel , and I investigate (1) the reasons for the increase and (2) how surprised we should be by its magnitude. Check it out here:
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Benjamin Leibowicz
2 years
Today I'm giving a guest lecture in Prof. Kishore Mohanty's @UT_PGE #CarbonCapture & Storage course. I'll talk about the economics and systems aspects of CCS and provide an overview of our @SloanFoundation project with @SheilaOlmstead3 + @andrewrwaxman . @EnergyUT @CockrellSchool
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Benjamin Leibowicz
4 years
PhD defense doubleheader in my research group @ut_orie today! -Qianru Zhu: Operations Research Models of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies at Diverse Scales -Erick Jones: Multi-Systems Optimization: Intermittent Generation, Flexible Demand, Emerging Technologies
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Benjamin Leibowicz
4 years
With these cool @UTAustin @zoom_us backgrounds, it looks like I'll finally get to lecture in the EERC building this semester. Made it to the big time! 🤘 @CockrellSchool
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Benjamin Leibowicz
4 years
For our new paper in Applied Energy, @ut_orie PhD student Nan Zhang and I teamed up with researchers from @BerkeleyLabEMP to evaluate the economic benefits that could be realized through better coordination of utility-scale and distributed #Electricity .
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