Best Paper Award, “Resource Sharing in Energy Communities: A Cooperative Game Approach,” IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Seattle, WA, 2024.

Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Fellowship, a fully-funded fellowship by KAUST to pursue postdoctoral research at MIT (4 winners), 2024. (KAUST LinkedIn post)

NSF innovation corps (I-Corps) ($5000), ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, Dallas, TX, 2024.

Cornell NextGen Professors, selected alongside 29 Ph.D. and Postdocs from Cornell as Fellows, 2023.

MiSK Fellowship, Awarded by the MiSK Foundation for 55 fellows out of a 5500 pool, Saudi Arabia.

SACM Ph.D. scholarship, A fully-funded scholarship by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education for pursuing doctoral studies, 2019.

Prize poster award, “Modeling of Microgrid Demands and Load Composition for Highly Reliable Systems,” IEEE Saudi Arabia Smart Grid (SASG) Conference, 2018, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Prize paper award, “Intelligent Flexible Priority List for Reconfiguration of Microgrid Demands Using Deep Neural Network,” Scientific Research Track,10th KFUPM Students Forum, April 2019, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

A. S. Alahmed “Active Prosumerism in Distribution Networks: Decisions, Impacts, and Policy Considerations,” KAPSARC Econ Talks, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, February 2025, Riyadh, KSA.

A. S. Alahmed “Distributed Energy Resources Under Net Energy Metering—Optimal Decisions and Adoption Dynamics,” Jones Seminar, College of Engineering, Dartmouth College, January 2025, Hanover, NH.

A. S. Alahmed “Mechanism Design for Autonomous Energy Systems,” Electrical Engineering Department at Tsinghua University, December 2024, Beijing, China.

A. S. Alahmed “Dynamic Net Metering for Energy Communities,” Data-Enabled Decision-Making in Energy Systems and Markets, INFORMS, October 2024, Seattle, WA.

A. S. Alahmed “Two-Part Dynamic Pricing for Energy Communities under Operating Envelopes,” FALCON and RSRG groups, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), October 2024, Pasadena, CA. [slides]

A. S. Alahmed “Decentralized Mechanism Design,” Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), September 2024, Boston, MA.

A. S. Alahmed, Guido Cavraro, Andrey Bernstein, and Lang Tong, “Decentralized Optimization and Market Mechanism for Energy Communities under Operating Envelopes,” IHPC’s Workshop of Power and Energy Systems of the (near) Future, ASTAR, December 2023, Singapore.

A. S. Alahmed, L. Tong,“On Net Energy Metering X: Optimal Prosumer Decisions, Social Welfare, and Cross-subsidies,” transaction paper session presentation, Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Orlando, FL, 2023

A. S. Alahmed, “Analysis of Optimal Prosumer and Regulator Decisions under Net Metering,” ACM SIGEnergy Graduate Seminar Series, Jan. 25, 2023.

A. S. Alahmed, L. Tong,“Behind-the-Meter Distributed Energy Resources under Net Energy Metering”, Caltech Rigorous System Research Group (RSRG), Jun., 2022.

A. S. Alahmed, L. Tong,“Behind-the-Meter DER under Net Energy Metering X: Optimal Prosumer Decisions, Social Welfare, Cross-subsidies, and Market Potential”, PSERC, Nov. 2021.

A. S. Alahmed, “An intelligent load priority list–based integrated energy management system in microgrids", INFORMS annual meeting, Nov 09, 2020. [Link]

Los Alamos National Lab Scholarship, a full scholarship covering travel, accommodation, and registration costs of attending the 2025 Grid Science Winter School & Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 2025.

IEEE CSS travel support, travel grant by the IEEE’s Control Systems Society (CSS) to attend the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milano, Italy, 2024.

Yajing Liu Student Fellowship, travel grant to attend and present at the NREL 7th Workshop on Autonomous Energy Systems (AES), Golden, CO, 2024.

ARPA-E student program, travel grant to attend the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, Dallas, TX, 2024.

NREL travel grant, Travel grant to attend and present at the NREL 6th Workshop on Autonomous Energy Systems (AES), 2023.

KAUST AI conference travel grant, Travel grant to attend and present at the KAUST AI for Energy Research Conference, 2023.

NSF conference travel grant, NSF travel grant to attend and present at the Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, Texas, 2023.

A. S. Alahmed and Lang Tong, “Resource Sharing in Energy Communities: A Cooperative Game Approach” 2025 Grid Science Winter School and Conference, Los Alamos National Laboratory, January 2025, Santa Fe, NM.

A. S. Alahmed and Lang Tong, “Resource Sharing in Energy Communities: A Cooperative Game Approach,” NREL 7th Workshop on Autonomous Energy Systems (AES), September 2024, Golden, CO.

A. S. Alahmed and Lang Tong, “Decentralized Welfare Optimization for Energy Communities,” 2024 Northeast Systems and Control Workshop, May 2024, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Poster)

Cong Chen, A. S. Alahmed, Subhonmesh Bose, Timothy Mount, and Lang Tong “Wholesale Market Participation of DERA: DSO-DERA Coordination and Competitive DER Aggregation,” NREL 6th Workshop on Autonomous Energy Systems (AES), September 2023, Golden, Colorado.

A. S. Alahmed, Guido Cavraro, Andrey Bernstein, and Lang Tong, “Grid-Aware Market Mechanism for Efficient Energy Communities,” NREL 6th Workshop on Autonomous Energy Systems (AES), September 2023, Golden, CO. (NREL travel grant)

A. S. Alahmed, “Co-optimizing Distributed Energy Resources for AI-Enabled Prosumers,” KAUST AI for Energy Research Conference, Mar., 2023. (KAUST full travel grant)

A. S. Alahmed, M. Almuhaini, “Modelling of Microgrid Demands and Load Composition for Highly Reliable Systems”, IEEE Saudi Arabia Smart Grid (SASG) Conference 2018 , Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Winner of Best Poster Award).

A. S. Alahmed, S. O. Taiwo and M. A. Abido, “Implementation and Evaluation of Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm on Power System stability Enhancement”, IEEE Saudi Arabia Smart Grid (SASG) Conference 2018 , Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.