Alfredo Garcia

Associate Professor,

Department of Systems & Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904.


Education:

Ph.D. Operations Research (1997);
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

M.Sc. Industrial and Operations Engineering (1995); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

D.E.A Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies, Automatique et Informatique Industrielle (1992);

Université de Toulouse III, Toulouse, France.

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (1991); Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

 

Recent Publications:

 

· “Equilibrium Pricing of Interference in Cognitive Radio Networks” (with Mingyi Hong), forthcoming, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (online appendix available here).

 

· “Averaged Iterative Water Filling: Robustness and Convergence” (with Mingyi Hong),  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , Vol. 59 No. 5 (2011) pp. 2448-2454

 

· Investment Dynamics in Electricity Markets” (with Ennio Stacchetti) Economic Theory, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2011), pp. 149-187

 

· A Bio-Inspired Scheme for Coordinated Online Search” (with Chenyang Li and Fernan Pedraza), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control , Vol. 55 No. (2010) pp. 2142-2148

 

· Equilibrium Capacity Expansion under Stochastic Demand Growth” (with Joseph Shen) Operations Research,Vol. 58 (2010) pp. 30-42.

· Empirical Effects of Cyber Security Incidents” (with Ginger Davis and Weide Zhang) Risk Analysis, Vol 29 No. 9 (2009) pp. 1304-1316

· A Game Theoretic Approach to Efficient Power Management in Sensor Networks” (with Enrique Campos and Chenyang Li) Operations Research Vol. 56, No. 3 (2008), pp. 552—561

 

Working Papers & Demos:

· Joint Distributed Access Point Selection and Power Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks” (with Mingyi Hong)

· "Rational Swarms for Distributed On-line Bayesian Search" (with Chenyang Li and Fernan Pedraza) note: you may see a physical demo of the "rational swarm" scheme with Lego NXT robots by clicking here

· "A Distributed, Adaptive Protocol For Handling Interference in Wireless Communications"  note: you may see a physical demo with SunSPOT devices by clicking here

 

Research Interests:

· Dynamic programming and dynamic games

· Economic regulation of network industries (electricity, gas, telecom).

· (PI) NSF- 0224747 "Security of Supply and Strategic Learning in Restructured Power Markets"

· "Economics of Internet Security"

· Decentralized algorithms for complex network optimization.

· (PI) NSF- 0217371 "Complex Networks Optimization"

· (Co-PI) NSF-0414727  "Dynamic Coordination for Distributed Planning with Limited Communication"

 

Other stuff:

· Pictures of my beloved hometown, Cartagena de Indias (courtesy of Steve Patek)

· Un Cuento Corto: "Barista"