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Optimal sizing of solar and battery assets in decentralized micro-grids with demand-side management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Solar-based community micro-grids and individual home systems have been recognized as key enablers of electricity provision to the over one billion people living without energy access to-date. Despite significant cost ...
Design and validation of mobile kit and machine learning algorithms for pulmonary disease screening and diagnosis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Pulmonary diseases are responsible for more than 15% of deaths worldwide. Much of this burden is concentrated in the developing world, where these diseases cause 19% of deaths. In much of the developing world, pulmonary ...
Electricity market integration of stochastic renewable resources : efficiency and risk tradeoffs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Electricity generation from renewable sources is growing rapidly, but the variability and uncertainty of renewable resources like wind and solar energy can increase the costs of supplying reliable electricity. Competitive ...
Adaptive electricity access planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
About 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to electricity and an additional 1 billion have unreliable access. The social ramifications of this problem are noteworthy because access to electric power has the potential ...
Transfer learning for predictive models in MOOCs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are crucial in enabling the personalization of student experiences in Massive Open Online Courses. For successful real-time interventions, these models must be transferable - that is, they must perform ...
Valuing energy storage in electricity grids : a machine learning approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Meeting climate change mitigation targets likely requires the integration of large amounts of renewable energy generation, as well as energy storage systems, into the electric grid. However, the deployment of energy storage ...
FairML : ToolBox for diagnosing bias in predictive modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these ...
Manufacturing variability; effects and characterization through text-mining
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Researchers and developers of new materials and processes often underestimate or neglect the effects of manufacturing variability and, as a result, make overly optimistic assumptions about their technologies. In this thesis, ...
The economics of cryptographic trust : understanding certificate authorities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Certificate Authorities (CAs) play a crucial role in HTTPS, the mechanism that secures all of the web's most important communication; if it has a log-in page, it must use HTTPS. However, recent history is littered with ...
Enabling malware remediation in expanding home networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
As the Internet of Things (IoT) grows, malware will increasingly threaten Internet security and stability. Many actors, from individuals installing antivirus on their personal computers to law enforcement conducting botnet ...