Justin Luke

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Ph.D. Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Justin is a PhD candidate in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, working in the Sustainable Systems Lab and Autonomous Systems Lab. He is co-advised by Professor Ram Rajagopal and Professor Marco Pavone. His research focuses on the integration of autonomous electric vehicle fleets with the power grid, in particular identifying synergies with renewable energy resources integration. His current projects include (1) joint optimization of charging station siting and sizing, vehicle design, and fleet operations for electric autonomous mobility-on-demand (E-AMoD), (2) real-time operations of E-AMoD via graph reinforcement learning, and (3) a digital twin framework for optimizing dispatch of electric bus fleets and battery storage to achieve a 24/7 carbon-free electrified fleet. Justin has obtained a MS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford in 2020 and a BS in Energy Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018.