Ahmed S. Alahmed

I am an Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. candidate (minor in Economics) at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. I am also a researcher at the Digital Energy and Power System (DEPS) Group at Cornell, working under the supervision of Professor. Lang Tong. I am co-advised by Prof. Eilyan Bitar and Prof. Timothy D. Mount.

This website was created to share my latest work, thoughts and activities.

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  • Selected summary of blog posts.

    07/25/25: Together with NREL’s Ben Kroposki, I will be co-chairing a panel at the IEEE PES General Meeting on “Future Energy Communities: Optimization, Control, and Markets with Human Factors.
    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 of 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 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
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