Power Systems Software Engineer, Siemens Industry, Inc.: (Mar 2016 to Present)

Work in the Energy Market Management group and perform the following activities:
  • Design, develop and maintain software solutions related to Day-ahead Market Applications (DAM), Real-time Market Applications (RTM) and Financial and Transmission Rights (FTR).
  • Provide customer assistance and training during FAT, SAT, and Parallel Ops testing phases.
  • Provide on-demand dedicated support for clients on live projects.
  • Draft detailed design specification documents based on business requirements.
  • Develop internal tools to increase software quality and efficiency of software releases.
  • Capable of full stack development of power system software solutions.
Energy Market Intern, Siemens Industry, Inc.: (Jun 2015 to Aug 2015)

I worked in three different projects with the Energy Market group:
  • California Independent System Operator (CAISO): Gain understanding of Siemens software suite delivered to CAISO and perform data analysis on market cases and simulations.
  • Florida Power & Light (FPL): Power flow solution analysis and contingency analysis of a large FPL PSSE case.
  • Distribution System Design: Modern distribution system design with a distribution LMP based approach.
PhD Intern, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: (May 2014 to Aug 2014)

I worked in three different projects with the Demand Response and Distribution Systems group:
  • Future Power Grid Initiative: Wholesale-Retail power market integration with focus on the software framework and LSE demand bid formulation
  • Transactive Market for Ancillary Services: Modify GridLAB-D (distribution system simulation tool) to include transactive market capabilities for regulation services using residential customers
  • GAMS project: Use GAMS to analyse and extend an economic dispatch model to include special capabilities
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Iowa State University (Aug 2010 to March 2016)

  • Graduate Research Assistant
    • ​Integrated Retail/Wholesale (IRW) Power System Operation with Smart-Grid functionality: (Aug 2010 to present)
      • As part of this research (M.S. thesis), I developed an intelligent controller for air-conditioning systems that optimally trades-off thermal comfort and electricity cost for household residents based on their preferences, weather and retail price. Currently, I am using high performance computing (HPC), to aggregate the price-responsive load arising from a collection of distribution feeders and feed it to the wholesale market. The main focus of my study is to analyze the feedback loop that is established wherein the wholesale market prices affect the retail load (through the retail price) that in turn affects the wholesale market price (through Load Serving Entity [LSE] demand bids).
      • The development of the software framework (IRW Test Bed) for this project was also a compelling task. The Test Bed at its completion will comprise the following components: the AMES (Agent-based Modeling of Electrical Systems) platform permitting the simulation of ISO-managed wholesale power markets operating over AC transmission grids; GridLAB-D and own-developed distribution feeders for the detailed representation of power distribution systems encompassing various forms of loads and variable generation; intelligent controllers for the determination of price-responsive demands arising from A/C systems and PEVs; and a MySQL database server to facilitate data storage and transfer among components.
      • This project was funded by the EPRC (Electric Power Research Center) from Aug 2010 to Aug 2013 and by Dr. Leigh Tesfatsion from Sep 2013 to present.
    • Improved Power System Operations Using Advanced Stochastic Optimization (ARPA-E): (Mar 2012 to Feb 2013)
      • ​My main responsibility in this project was to extend the agent based AMES test bed to include a stochastic unit commitment python package developed by Sandia National Laboratories.
      • This project is funded by the ARPA-E from Mar 2012 to present.
  • ​​Graduate Teaching Assistant 
    • ​ EE 452: Electric Machines and Power Electronic Drives  (Jan 2015 to May 2015)
      • ​Basic concepts of electromagnetic energy conversion. DC motors and three-phase induction motors. Basic introduction to power electronics. Adjustable speed drives used for control of DC, induction, and AC motors. Experiments with converter topologies, DC motors, AC motors and adjustable speed drives.
    • ​Physics 111: General Physics (Jan 2014 to May 2014 / Aug 2014 to Dec 2014) 
      • General background in physical concepts, principles, and methods for those who do not plan advanced study in physics or engineering. Mechanics, fluids, heat and thermodynamics, vibrations, waves, sound.
    • EE 303: Energy Systems and Power Electronics (Jan 2014 to May 2014 / Aug 2014 to Dec 2014) 
      • Electrical energy systems, Three-phase circuit analysis, Transformers, Per unit analysis, Synchronous generators, Induction machines, Electric power transmission, Power flow analysis and Power electronics.