Contact Information: Office: Olsson 102A Phone: 434-982-2191 Email: ag7s@virginia.edu Personal Homepage Degree: Ph.D., University of Michigan D.E.A., Université de Toulouse III

Alfredo Garcia received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) in 1991, a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies DEA in Control Systems in 1992 from Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) in 1992 and Ph.D. in Operations Research from University of Michigan. During 1996-99, he worked for the Colombian Government (Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission CREG) and Fundesarrollo, a think tank, in a number of public policy issues including the deregulation of electricity & natural gas industries and taught courses in Game Theory, Optimization and Stochastic Processes at Universidad de los Andes (Bogota) and Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla).

Research Interests:

• Theoretical issues in dynamic programming and dynamic games
• The economic regulation of network industries (electricity, gas, telecom)
• The analysis of decentralized algorithms for complex network optimization
• Systems coordination

Sponsored Research:

• Modeling Strategic Equilibrium Prices for Virginia's Electricity Market
  (funded by The Bankard Fund for Political Economy)


• Economic regulation of network industries (electricity, gas, telecom)
  (PI) NSF-0224747 "Security of Supply and Strategic Learning in Restructured Power Markets"


• Decentralized algorithms for complex network optimization
  (PI) NSF-0217371 "Complex Networks Optimization"
  (Co-PI) NSF-0414727 "Dynamic Coordination for Distributed Planning with Limited Communication"