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June 9, 2023

Vellex Computing Co-Founder Named Cohort 2023 Fellow in Activate Berkeley

Dr. Palak Jain, CEO and co-founder of Vellex Computing, was announced as a Cohort 2023 Activate Fellow in the Activate Berkeley Community at Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road. Founded in 2015, the two-year Activate Fellowship provides support for entrepreneurial scientists to move their breakthrough technologies from ideas to scalable solutions.
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December 9, 2022

Vellex Computing Named as Semifinalist in the American-Made Solar Prize

The American-Made Solar Prize, a multimillion-dollar competition funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has selected 20 teams to advance as semifinalists in Round 6 of the prize, including Vellex Computing. Each team won $50,000 in cash prizes and is eligible to continue to the next phase of the competition, which is designed to energize U.S. solar innovation.
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OUR BLOGS

April 2, 2025

Solving DCOPF Optimization Problem on AWS EC2 Instances

Ajay Jain
This series of articles explore solutions to the DCOPF (Direct Current Optimal Power Flow) optimization problem using various hardware configurations. We will focus on solving the approximate Linear version of the problem using solvers the open-source GLPK and the commercial FICO.
March 4, 2025

Navigating California’s Grid Interconnection Maze: Costs, Timelines, and the Future of Renewable Energy

Lani Nguyen
As California pushes toward its ambitious clean energy targets, developers face a major roadblock: interconnection delays and skyrocketing costs. Whether it’s a solar farm, wind project, or battery storage system, getting connected to the grid under interconnection processes like PG&E’s Rule 21, Wholesale Distribution Tariff (WDT), or CAISO’s GIDAP is more complex than ever.

OUR PUBLICATIONS

December, 2024

A hybrid-computing solution to nonlinear optimization problems

K. Sawant, D. Nguyen, A. Liu, J. Poon, S. Dhople
Published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I - Regular Papers, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 6555-6568, Dec. 2024
May, 2022

Real-time selective harmonic minimization using a hybrid analog/digital computing method

J. Poon, M. Sinha, S. V. Dhople, J. M. Rivas
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 5078-5088, May 2022
December, 2021

Decentralized Carrier Phase Shifting for Optimal Harmonic Minimization in Asymmetric Parallel-Connected Inverters

Jason Poon; Brian Johnson; Sairaj V. Dhople; Juan Rivas-Davila
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics ( Volume: 36, Issue: 5, May 2021)