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 am a Senior Member of IEEE, an Ontario Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), and a Senior Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, among several other professional and service appointments.
I am the PI of the Data-driven 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.”
- 10/2026: The call for papers for the AAAI 2027 Workshop on Physics-Governed AI for Energy is out.
- 08/2026: Delivered an invited talk on “Machine Learning for Power Systems” at the National AI Summit in Calgary.
- 08/2026: DGRI Lab’s MSc student Masoud Hajian Foroushani defended his thesis on “Stochastic Planning and Data-driven Benchmarking of Degradation-aware Operation of Campus Microgrids”.
- 05/2026: The IEEE EPEC 2026 call for papers is out.
- 05/2026: Developed a live Emission-Aware Arbitrage prototype.
- 05/2026: DGRI Lab’s MSc student Irtaza Sohail defended his thesis on “Estimating the Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Distributed Solar PV Performance”.
- 04/2026: Released SIIB-Time, a 47.7 GB dataset containing 3,000 paired electromagnetic transient (EMT) and root mean square (RMS) simulations of a single-inverter infinite-bus system.
- 02/2026: Selected by CIFAR to participate in the Forum on Radical Interdisciplinarity: Arctic Horizons.
- 01/2026: Co-founded the University of Calgary’s Transdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Hub (TAIH).
- 01/2026: Our paper on Emission-Aware Operation of Electrical Energy Storage Systems was nominated for the best paper award at HICSS 2026.
- 12/2025: Presented at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning.
- 12/2025: PMAPS 2026 Call for Participation is out.
- 11/2025: Delivered an invited talk on marginal utility of complexity in grid-edge applications at UCalgary Math CS Climate Day.
- 10/2025: Presented two papers and delivered a workshop on ML applications to power systems at the IEEE EPEC 2025.
- 10/2025: Delivered invited talk on ML applications to power systesm at Carleton University Department of Electronics.
- 09/2025: Presented about online convex learnign for energy arbitrage as an invited panelist at the IEEE SmartGridComm 2025.
- 08/2025: Led the development of the NSF WIRED Global Center Data Hub.
- 08/2025: Appointed as the Senior Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
- 07/2025: Punsara Samrakkody, DGRI Lab's MSc graduate student, defended her thesis on "Exploring Simplicity Limits in Electrical Distribution Systems Modeling for Voltage Sensitivity Estimation".
- 05/2025: Inaugurating the new course, "Machine Learning for Electrical Energy Systems" in the ESE Department (W2026).
- 02/2025: Received the Schulich School of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award.
- 12/2024: Presented 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.
- 04/2023: Participated in the CIFAR AI for Energy & Environment Symposium.
- 03/2023: Received the ESE Department Annual Teaching Excellence Award from the UofC Engineering Students’ Society.
- 02/2021: Selected by the Royal Society of Canada to be among the 21 early-career Canadian scientists attending the Commonwealth Science Conference 2021.