Ahmed S. Alahmed
I am an assistant professor in the electrical engineering department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. I received my Ph.D. degree, supervised by Prof. Lang Tong, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Cornell University. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lab for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT, working with professors Audun Botterud and Saurabh Amin.
My research focuses on accelerating the energy and water transition through the optimization, control, economics, and AI-enabled design of energy and water-power systems. I study the integration of distributed energy resources (DER), such as solar PV, batteries, and electric vehicles, into smart grids, the aggregation and adoption dynamics of DER, and the design of competitive, equitable transactive energy markets. I employ mathematical analysis, optimization, control theory, and AI principles, alongside microeconomics, game theory, and mechanism design, blending theory and practical insights to inform resilient, efficient, and sustainable energy and water system operations.
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Selected summary of blog posts:
08/04/25: Paper accepted at IEEE Allerton 2025.
07/31/25: Together with NREL’s Ben Kroposki, I co-chaired a panel at the IEEE PES General Meeting on “Future Energy Communities: Optimization, Control, and Markets with Human Factors.” I also had 3 accepted posters at the conference.06/30/25: Received MIT Research Mentoring Certificate (link).
05/01/25: Gulai Shen (Harvard) presented our work on DER co-optimization under demand charges at the 2nd Northeastern Systems and Control Workshop, which was held at Columbia University. 04/09/25: Published a manuscript on operating-envelopes-aware mechanism design for energy communities at IEEE TCNS.
03/02/25: Gave a talk at KAPSARC on active prosumerism in distribution networks.
28/02/25: Paper accepted at IEEE PESGM 2025.
01/31/25: Gave a talk at Jones Seminar, Dartmouth College. Thank you Cong Chen and Geoff Parker for hosting me.
01/12/25: Attended & presented at LANL’s Grid Science Winter School. Amazing energy!
12/26/24: Gave a talk at Tsinghua University. Thank you Hongye Guo for hosting me.
12/20/24: Joined the MiSK Saudi Leadership Society (SLS) delegation to China!
12/15/24: Concluded a successful year of organizing the 2024 ACM SIGEnergy seminar. Many thanks to my team: Sanam and Gargya.
10/22/24: Gave a talk at INFORMS 2024 as part of a panel on “Data-Enabled Decision-Making in Energy Systems and Markets.”
10/10/24: Gave a talk at Caltech. Thank you RSRG and FALCON groups for hosting me.
09/19/24: Gave a talk at LIDS MIT, as part of the LIDS Postdoc Nexus meetings.
09/16/24: Presented at NREL’s 7th Autonomous Energy Systems (AES) workshop.
07/25/24: Defended my dissertation! Grateful to the incredible guidance and support from my advisor,Lang Tong, and my committee members Eilyan Bitar and Timothy Mount.
06/19/24: Manuscript accepted at IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.
05/30/24: Attended ARPA-E’s Energy Innovation Summit.
05/10/24: Best paper at IEEE PESGM 2024.
04/19/24: Presented at the Northeast Systems and Control Workshop, which was held at UPenn. 01/11/24: Manuscript accepted at IEEE TEMPR.
Our Paper "Resource Sharing in Energy Communities: A Cooperative Game Approach" (arXiv) has been selected for the Best Paper Award at PESGM 24.
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary”
