About

Ahmed S. Alahmed is an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Ph.D. candidate (minor in Economics) at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. He is a researcher at the Digital Energy and Power System (DEPS) Group at Cornell, working under the supervision of Professor. Lang Tong, IEEE Fellow. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in ECE from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, KSA, in 2016 and 2019, respectively.

Ahmed is a graduate research assistant in the ECE school at Cornell University, and has worked as a PhD research intern in multiple companies and national labs including the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Golden, CO, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA, The Brattle Group, Boston, MA and Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, KSA. Before starting his Ph.D., Ahmed was a lecturer at KFUPM.

Ahmed is the winner of the best paper award at the IEEE 2024 PES General Meeting, the IEEE Saudi Arabia Smart Grid conference, and the 10th KFUPM Student Scientific Forum in 2024, 2019 and 2018, respectively. In 2022, he received the esteemed MiSK Fellowship Award and was subsequently selected as a member in the Saudi Leadership Society (SLS). In 2024, Ahmed was among the four researchers who won the Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral fellowship award to pursue postdoctoral research.

His research interests include energy systems control and optimization, DER aggregation and adoption dynamics, and efficient market mechanisms for transactive energy. In his research, Ahmed uses tools such as mathematical analysis, optimization, control theory, and dynamic programming. Ahmed’s work on transactive energy systems uses tools such as pricing theory, game theory, and mechanism design.

 In his free time, Ahmed enjoys writing (poems and comic articles), in addition to playing soccer and badminton.