Terrence W.K. MAK (麥偉強)

Terrence W.K. Mak is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the H. Milton Steward School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Tech. He obtained his PhD from the Research School of Computer Science, The Australian National University (ANU) in July 2018, and finished his Research Associate position in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan at the same time.

His PhD and post-doc supervisor is Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck, currently the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in the ISyE Department at Georgia Tech. He is an interdisciplinary researcher primarily working on intersections between Machine Learning, Optimization, and the energy/smart grid domain.

He first started his research journey in 2009 on the area of constraint programming, under his undergraduate and Master supervisor Prof. Jimmy Lee at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He worked primarily on the area of weighted constraint satisfaction (WCSPs) and quantified constraint satisfaction (QCSPs). He then later worked as a Research Assistant in the same department and gaining experience in distributed constraint satisfaction (DisCSPs/DCOPs).

In 2013 March, he started his PhD with Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck in the Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne and primarily working in the NICTA Victoria Lab. In his second year of study, he followed his supervisor and switched to the Australian National University in Canberra and affiliated with the NICTA Canberra Lab. In 2015, his supervisor decided to return to the U.S. and became the Seth Bonder Collegiate Professor in the University of Michigan. He continues working with his supervisor, and had become a visiting scholar in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering in Nov 2015 - Aug 2016. After finishing the first draft of his thesis, he decided to move back to Ann Arbor in Feb 2017 and had become a Research Associate in the same department with his supervisor. In Aug 2018, his supervisor moved to the H. Milton Steward School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Tech and became the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor. He followed his supervisor and moved to the city of Peach (Atlanta) in mid-Aug 2018. He is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the same department with his supervisor.

His general research interest lies in mathematical modeling, optimization, and AI applications on energy problems. He had experience in both Operations Research (Math/OR) and Artifical Intelligence (CS/AI), as well as energy domains, including power transmission systems and natural gas transmission systems. He had programming experience in constraint programming (CP), mixed-integer programming (MIP), and nonlinear programming (NLP).

Sept 2018 - now: Postdoctoral Fellow, H. Milton Steward School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) in Georgia Tech

Feb 2017 - Aug 2018: Research Associate, Industrial & Operations Engineering in University of Michigan

Nov 2015 - Aug 2016: Visiting Research Scholar, Industrial & Operations Engineering in University of Michigan

October 2014 - July 2018: Doctor of Philosophy, NICTA Canberra Lab/Data61 & The Australian National University

Mar 2013 - Sept 2014: PhD candidate, NICTA Victoria Lab & The University of Melbourne

Aug 2011 - July 2013: Research Assistant, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Aug 2009 - Aug 2011: M.Phil, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Aug 2006 - July 2009: B.Sc (1^st hon), Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sept 1999 - July 2006: Secondary school (includes high school), St. Joseph's College, 7 Kennedy Road, Hong Kong

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Terrence W.K. Mak, Minas Chatzos, Mathieu Tanneau, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. Learning Regionally Distributed AC Optimal Power Flows with ADMM, IEEE Trans on Smart Grid, working draft, Feb, 2022.

Terrence W.K. Mak, Ferdinando Fioretto, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Load Encoding for Predicting AC Optimal Power Flow, KDD 2022, submitted, Feb, 2022.

Minas Chatzos, Ferdinando Fioretto, Terrence W.K. Mak, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. High-Fidelity Machine Learning Approximations of Large-Scale Optimal Power Flow, arXiv, pre-print, Jan, 2021. arXiv link

Minas Chatzos, Terrence W.K. Mak, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. Spatial Network Decomposition for Fast and Scalable AC-OPF Learning, IEEE Trans on Power Systems, accepted, Jan, 2021.

Terrence W.K. Mak, Ferdinando Fioretto, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Bilevel Optimization for Differentially Private Optimization in Energy Systems, arXiv, preprint, Jan, 2021 arXiv link

Terrence W.K. Mak, Ferdinando Fioretto, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Privacy-Preserving Obfuscation for Distributed Power Systems, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol 189, Dec 2020, 106718. Elsevier
Conference version: PSCC'20, Porto, Portugal, June, 2020.

Ferdinando Fioretto, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Terrence W.K. Mak, Cuong Tran, Federico Baldo, Michele Lombardi. Lagrangian Duality for Constrained Deep Learning, ECML PKDD'20, Ghent, Belgium, Sept, 2020 arXiv link

Terrence W.K. Mak, Ferdinando Fioretto, Lyndon Shi, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Privacy-Preserving Power System Obfuscation: A Bilevel Optimization Approach, IEEE Trans on Power Systems, Volume 35, No. 2, 1627-1637, 2020.

Ferdinando Fioretto, Terrence W.K. Mak, and Pascal Van Hentenryck. Differential Privacy for Power Grid Obfuscation, IEEE Trans on Smart Grid, Volume 11, No. 2, 1356-1366, 2020.

Ferdinando Fioretto, Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Predicting AC Optimal Power Flows: Combining Deep Learning and Lagrangian Dual Methods, AAAI'20, 630-637, New York, USA, Feb, 2020 AAAI Link

Ferdinando Fioretto, Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Privacy-Preserving Obfuscation of Critical Infrastructure Networks, IJCAI'19, 1086-1092, Macau, China, Aug, 2019 IJCAI Link

Terrence W.K. Mak, Lyndon Shi, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Phase Transitions for Optimality Gaps in Optimal Power Flows: A Study on the French Transmission Network, arXiv, pre-print, July, 2018.
>Presented at: PES 2018, HKU (Dept of EEE) seminar.

Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Anatoly Zlotnik, and Russell Bent. Dynamic Compressor Optimization in Natural Gas Transmission Systems, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Volume 31, No. 1, 40-65, 2019.
>Runner-Up, 2016 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Prize.
>Presented at: INFORMS 2016, IFORS 2017.

Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Ian A. Hiskens. A Nonlinear Optimization Model for Transient Stable Line Switching, ACC'17, 2085-2092, Seattle, WA, U.S., May, 2017

Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Anatoly Zlotnik, Hassan Hijazi, and Russell Bent. Efficient Dynamic Compressor Optimization in Natural Gas Transmission Systems, ACC'16, 7484-7491, Boston, MA, U.S., July, 2016

Hassan Hijazi, Terrence W.K. Mak, Pascal Van Hentenryck. Power System Restoration With Transient Stability, AAAI'15, 658-664, Austin, Texas, U.S., January, 2015

Arnaud Lallouet, Jimmy H.M. Lee, Terrence W.K. Mak, Justin Yip. Ultra-Weak Solutions and Consistency Enforcement in Minimax Weighted Constraint Satisfaction, Constraints, Volume 20, Issue 2, 109-154, April, 2015.

Terrence W.K. Mak, Carleton Coffrin, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Ian A. Hiskens, and David Hill. Power System Restoration Planning with Standing Phase Angle and Voltage Difference Constraints, PSCC'14, Wroclaw, Poland, August, 2014

Jimmy H.M. Lee, Terrence W.K. Mak, and Yuxiang Shi. A General Privacy Loss Aggregation Framework for Distributed Constraint Reasoning, ICTAI'13, 979-986 , Washington DC, USA, November, 2013

Patricia Gutierrez, Jimmy H.M. Lee, Ka Man Lei, Terrence W.K. Mak, and Pedro Meseguer. Maintaining Soft Arc Consistencies in BnB-ADOPT+ During Search, CP'13, pages 365-380, Uppsala, Sweden, September, 2013

Jimmy H.M. Lee, and Terrence W.K. Mak. A Value Ordering Heuristic for Solving Ultra-Weak Solutions in Minimax Weighted CSPs, ICTAI'12, pages 17-24, Athens, Greece, November, 2012

Arnaud Lallouet, Jimmy H.M. Lee, and Terrence W.K. Mak. Consistencies for Ultra-Weak Solutions in Minimax Weighted CSPs Using the Duality Principle, CP'12, pages 373-389, Québec City, Canada, October, 2012

Jimmy H.M. Lee, Terrence W.K. Mak, and Justin Yip. Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Min-Max Quantifiers, ICTAI'11, pages 769-776, Florida, USA, November, 2011

Program/Conference committee:
IJCAI 2022 (PC), PPAI 2022 (PC), IJCAI 2021 (Senior PC), PPAI 2021 (PC)

Journal/Transaction reviewer:
INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, Artificial Intelligence Review, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

Conference reviewer:
CP 2013, AAAI 2015, IJCAI 2015, PSCC 2016, PSCC 2018, ACC 2020, PSCC 2020

Seth Bonder Summer Camp (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)

[A picture of me (the standing guy) checking students' labs in 2019]

Terrence W.K. Mak. Optimizing Nonlinear Dynamics in Energy System Planning and Control, PhD thesis, Australian National University

Terrence W.K. Mak. Quantified Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Master thesis, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Grid Science Winter School 2015, by Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS), Los Alamos National Laboratory, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Jan, 2015; Mar, 2016. Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS), Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Sept, 2014; June, 2015; Nov, 2016; July 2018. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong.

Object-oriented Programming (MITE6102):
Fall 2012

Principles of Programming Languages (CSCI3180):
Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011

Combinatorial Search and Optimization with Constraints (CSC5240):
Fall 2009

(INFORMS CS Society) Runner-Up, 2016 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Prize.

(NICTA Canberra, PhD) NICTA award (APA & top-up): 2014 Oct - now

(University of Melbourne) Melbourne International Research Scholarship: 2013 Oct - 2014 Sept

(University of Melbourne) Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship: 2013 Mar - 2014 Sept

(NICTA Victoria, PhD) NICTA top-up award: 2013 Oct - 2014 Sept

(NICTA Victoria, PhD) NICTA award: 2013 Mar - 2013 Oct

(CUHK Master) Best TA Award: 2010-2011

(CUHK Bachelor) Dean's List: 2007-2008,2008-2009

(CUHK Bachelor) HK Computer Society Scholarship 2008-2009

(CUHK Bachelor) Mr. & Mrs. Chin F. Foin Memorial Scholarships

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Australian National Botanic Garden Best

Lake around Governor House