JU Chengquan

鞠 澄泉

I am currently working as Data Scientist in OCBC, Singapore.

  • I am a coffeeholic with interdisciplinary knowledge.
  • I build distributed/robust/hierarchical optimization applications in power systems and micro grids.
  • I do all kinds of OR/AI/ML related stuff as generative AI practitioner with no BS.


Education

2013 - 2018

Ph.D. in Sustainable Earth (Power Systems and Smart Grids), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2012 - 2013

M.Sc. in Power Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2008 - 2012

B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Wuhan University, China


Work Experience

OCBC, Singapore

Feb 2024 - Current

Data Scientist (Vice President), AI Lab, Group Data Office

Nov 2022 - Feb 2024

Data Scientist (Assistant Vice President), AI Lab, Group Data Office

Shopee Pte Ltd, Singapore

Nov 2021 - Nov 2022

Expert Data Scientist, Map Department

Jun 2020 - Nov 2021

Senior Data Scientist, Map Department

Envision Digital, Singapore

Aug 2019 - Jun 2020

Optimization Engineer

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sep 2017 - Aug 2019

Research Fellow




Past Projects

Technical leader of in SG map department.
We mainly focused on: address point-of-interest (POI) related services (autocomplete search, address standardization, geocoding and division autocomplete); and NLP/ranking projects on search query pre-processing and post-processing.

  • POI search related API service development, maintenance and operation, including address autocomplete search, address stan-dardization, geocoding and division autocomplete, to extend empowerment with business units such as express delivery and local life service providers.
  • Modularized algorithm packages for query pre-processing (name entity recognition, query correction/expansion/understanding) and post-processing(address match, deduplication and retrieval ranking).
  • Conceptualized the technical design of query correction and established the entire processing pipeline (corpus, tokenization, candidate detection and correction) at the development stage.
  • Boosted the total recall ratio from 62% to 77% by re-designing database schema and utilizing multiple queries.

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Project owner and core developer of routing service, an infrastructure to provide geographic services.

  • New Features Development: Launched two new APIs in Aug 2021, and integrated routing services with more operational modes and adjustable target-oriented objectives to support downstream users on business cases such as live routing, navigation, car hailing and service region selection.
  • Quality of Service Improvement: Significantly improved API robustness and capacity by new format support and re-write of web framework with NodeJS. The maximum QPS has been increased by 200% to 400% on different service APIs, respectively.
  • Accuracy Improvement on ETA: Employed GPS trajectory data and machine learning models to improve of ETA accuracy, by 35%-50% compared with leading commercial APIs in various countries.
  • Economic Benefits: Our service has brought about 51K USD cost saving daily for the average usage of 3.5M calls, compared with leading commercial APIs.

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Project owner and core developer.

  • Defined project scopes and methodologies and provided analytical applications with trackable business insights.
  • Explored trajectory data to transpose time-series GPS trace-points into hierarchical speed settings to support routing engine, including admin-division based, road-type based, and way segment based.
  • Actual time of arrival ground truth exploration with proposed clustering algorithms (TS-DBSCAN, density peak clustering).

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Project owner and core developer of various stack assignment and order grouping projects for food/parcel deliveries in multiple countries.

  • Engaged with business units, identified opportunities and developed strategies for driver resource utilization, service commitment and cost-saving.
  • Designed and developed dispatch/grouping algorithms with the online API service to push KPIs and requirements with business partners.
  • Economic Benefits: The daily operational cost in selected countries decreased by 30%.

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Core developer of optimization engine for power grid energy management, affiliated with $11M grand call and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications in Europe.

Optimization Engine for Power Grid Energy Management
  • Developed comprehensive modeling of electrical units and loads and conducted optimization with MIP models.
  • Developed web service with RESTful APIs to host optimization as a service.
  • Utilized advanced modeling strategies and optimization techniques in electrical energy sectors to formulate specific business cases into optimization problems.

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Academic Projects

Developed a scale-down DESS scheme in HDB blocks for intermittency management and frequency support, and integrated latest control algorithms, including ramp-rate based, frequency and SoC regulation to hierarchical controllers.

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Developed a triple-layer distributed optimization framework for microgrid clusters, to effectively reduce the operational cost and address robust operations against volatile uncertainties by 10\% on average.

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Proposed a temporal decentralized algorithm for the optimal stochastic energy scheduling.

  • Achieved the fast convergence of the proposed algorithm advantages on optimal results and computation time.

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Distributed and robust optimization for energy scheduling in the regional multi-microgrid community.

  • Stochastic/robust/dynamic optimal power flow (OPF) under uncertainties of loads and renewables including energy storages.
  • Energy management system with parameterized degradation costs. .

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Arxiv Papers

  C. Ju, “Hierarchically Coordinated Energy Management for A Regional Multi-microgrid Community", arXiv, 2021.


Journal Papers

  C. Ju, P. Wang, L. Goel, and Y. Xu, “A two-layer energy management system for microgrids with hybrid energy storage considering degradation costs", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, pp. 6047-6057, 2018.

  Y. Wang, T. Zhao, C. Ju, Y. Xu, and P. Wang, “Two-level distributed voltage /var control using aggregated pv inverters in distribution networks", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, pp. 1–1, 2019.


Conference Papers

  C. Ju, Y. Tang, Y. Wang, and Y. Xu, “A temporal decentralized algorithm for optimal stochastic energy scheduling in microgrids", in 2019 IEEE Power Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2019, pp. 1–5.

  C. Ju, Y. Tang, and Y. Wang, “Robust frequency regulation with hybrid energy storage systems in islanded microgrids", in Asian Conference on Energy, Power and Transportation Electrification (ACEPT 2018), Oct. 2018, pp. 1–6.

  C. Ju, S. Yao, and P. Wang, “Resilient post-disaster system reconfiguration for multiple energy service restoration", in 1st IEEE Conference on Energy lnternet and Energy System lntegration, Nov. 2017, pp. 1–6.

  C. Ju and P. Wang, “Two-stage energy management of residential microgrid community using pairing strategy", in 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting, Jul. 2017, pp. 1–5.

  C. Ju and P. Wang, “Optimal power flow with worstcase scenarios considering uncertainties of loads and renewables", in 2016 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), 2016, pp. 1–7.

  C. Ju and P. Wang, “Energy management system for microgrids including batteries with degradation costs", in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON), Sep. 2016, pp. 1–6.

  C. Ju and P. Wang, “Dynamic optimal power flow including energy storage with adaptive operation costs", in IECON 2015 - 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2015, pp. 561–566.

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