I hold a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. During my Ph.D., I also worked for the Canadian Solar and Hatch Ltd. I joined BluWave-ai in May 2018 as the first employee and technical leader, scaling up the company's technology stack to Series A. In July 2022, I joined the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary.
I have received several prestigious awards and was selected by the Royal Society of Canada among the 21 early-career scientists representing Canada at the 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference. I am a Senior Member of IEEE, an Ontario Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), and a distinguished Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, among several other top-tier professional and service appointments.
I am the PI of the Distribution Grids Research & Innovation (DGRI) Lab. The moniker "DGRI" is pronounced similarly to "degree," signifying the group's commitment to climate change mitigation. The name also serves as a tribute to its location, aligning phonetically with "Calgary.”
I am a co-PI of the U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid (WIRED), co-leading the power grid and innovation ecosystem activities of the Center.
- 12/2024: Will present at the NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning.
- 05/2024: Delivered the keynote of "AI in Energy and Environment" theme at Amii Upper Bound 2024 .
- 11/2023: Selected among the University of Calgary's Delegates to the formal section of the UNFCCC COP28.
- 03/2023: Received the ESE Department Annual Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Calgary Engineering Students’ Society.