Tom Van Acker
Senior Expert And Team Lead at KU Leuven
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolTom Van Acker is a Senior Expert and Team Lead at Elia with eight years of experience bridging academic research and industry practice in power systems and operational analytics. He holds a Ph.D. from KU Leuven and leads a team focused on cost–benefit analysis of new interconnections, bringing rigorous stochastic optimization to real-world market and adequacy decisions. As a voluntary researcher and guest lecturer at KU Leuven he has produced multiple open-source Julia tools (HPM.jl, SPM.jl, TFT.jl, PMDSE.jl, MSS.jl) and numerous first-author peer-reviewed papers, underlining a strong commitment to reproducible research. His background includes industry projects at BASF and consulting work for BCG, applying optimization under uncertainty to electrification and multi-vector energy investment problems. Comfortable moving between mixed-integer optimization, harmonic and stochastic optimal power flow, and teaching, he blends deep technical modeling skills with practical delivery in cross-sector collaborations. Colleagues value him for translating complex stochastic methods into tools and decisions that materially impact energy transition investments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronic Engineering at KU Leuven
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (81)
stochastic10
quantile10
opcodes10
nonlinear10
statistics10
integer10
julia10
probability10
distributions10
mixed-integer-programming10
linear-optimization9
mathematical9
optimization9
linear-programming9
harmonic9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
timmyfaraday/AdditionalUnits.jl
Jan 2021 - Jul 2024
This is a Julia package defining some additional units on top of Unitful.jl
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
julia-packagejulia-languageadditionalunitsunitful
Electa-Git/StochasticPowerModels.jl
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
An extension package of PowerModels.jl for Stochastic (Optimal) Power Flow
Contributions:2 reviews, 101 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 3 months
power-flowquantileoptimal-power-flowstochasticopcodes
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