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Oct 30, 2026 Anamika Dubey delivered the 2026 Anjan Bose Lecture, “Engineering Resilient Power Grid: From Understanding Risk to Informing Decisions,” at WSU in Pullman. The lecture explored how outage data, vulnerability models, and optimization can inform decisions about extreme-weather risk and power-grid resilience, including emerging challenges in the Pacific Northwest. Lecture details. ·
Oct 8, 2026 Kunal Shankar presented “Building Thermal Models using Real-World Data: Seasonal Transferability and Setpoint Sensitivity,” coauthored with Ninad Kiran Gaikwad, at the IAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Presentation announcement.
Oct 5, 2026 Anamika Dubey is scheduled to join the panel “AI Infrastructures: It’s Really an Energy Race” at the WTIA AI Summit on October 27, 2026, at Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle. The panel will discuss AI infrastructure growth and its implications for energy and the power grid. Summit details. ·
Sep 30, 2026 Shiva Poudel was invited to present “Increasing Grid Utilization Through Stochastic Operating Envelopes and Asset-Aware Controls” at the WSU–PNNL Advanced Grid Institute seminar on September 30, 2026. The announced talk focused on using stochastic operating envelopes, asset-aware optimal power flow, and large-scale simulation to unlock capacity from existing distribution grids. ·
Aug 19, 2026 Anamika Dubey helped host AGI Day 2026 at WSU Tri-Cities in Richland, Washington. The theme, “Intelligent Grids at Scale: Serving rapid demand growth while preserving reliability and affordability,” brought researchers and industry leaders together to discuss AI, data-center load growth, grid resilience, and research deployment. Event details. ·
Aug 4, 2026 Rabayet Sadnan won the 2026 IEEE PES Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for his research on scalable, privacy-preserving distributed optimal power flow for grid-edge coordination, advised by Anamika Dubey. ·
Jul 19, 2026 Rabayet Sadnan and Anamika Dubey, with colleagues, taught “Advances in Distribution Optimal Power Flow (DOPF): Theory, Implementation, and Applications” at the IEEE PES General Meeting in Montréal, Canada. The tutorial included hands-on distribution-system optimization with open-source tools. Official program · DistOPF tutorial notebook. ·
Jul 8, 2026 Congratulations, Kunal Shankar, on passing your preliminary exam!
Jul 8, 2026 Congratulations, Athul Jose P, on passing your preliminary exam!
Jul 4, 2026 Sajjad Uddin Mahmud announced the acceptance of “A Bayesian Framework for Probabilistic Modeling of Extreme-Winter Gas-Fired Generator Capacity” at PMAPS 2026, the International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems. ·
Jul 2026 Congratulations to Sajjad Uddin Mahmud on joining Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) in Pullman, WA as an Associate Integration and Automation Engineer while he wraps up his PhD at WSU.
Jul 2026 Daniel Glover presented Learning to Optimize: Gaussian Process Surrogates for Battery Energy Storage Coordination at the IEEE PES General Meeting in Montréal, Canada. He also joined a panel on physics-informed learning, presenting research on distribution-power-flow surrogate modeling. ·
Jun 2026 The lab’s work led by Shishir Lamichhane on “Scalable Stochastic Siting and Sizing of Distributed Generators using Separable Approximation” was presented at PSCC 2026 in Limassol, Cyprus. The research develops scalable methods for uncertainty-aware distribution planning. Paper and presentation. ·
Jun 2026 Congratulations to Shishir Lamichhane on joining the Transmission Planning group at Dominion Energy in Richmond, VA as a Senior Engineer, following two summer internships with the same team!
Jun 2026 Kunal Shankar joined the Electricity Infrastructure and Buildings Research team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA for a three-month PhD internship from June to August 2026. He completed the internship in August, contributing to residential energy-flexibility modeling and battery-storage resilience research. ·
Jun 2026 Congratulations to Daniel Glover on joining Eaton Research Labs as a Lead Engineer, working remotely on advanced computational methods for power systems!
2026 Athul Jose P returned to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for a summer internship in 2026. Best of luck, Athul!
May 22, 2026 Abodh Poudyal, Shishir Lamichhane, and Anamika Dubey, with a collaborator, published Resilience-Driven Planning of Electric Power Systems Against Extreme Weather Events in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution. · Source
May 14, 2026 Anamika Dubey received the Anjan Bose Outstanding Researcher Award at WSU’s Voiland College convocation, recognizing her work on grid resilience, distributed energy resources, and data-driven decision-making. WSU announcement. ·
May 2026 Congratulations to Shishir Lamichhane on receiving the Voiland College Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award and the EECS Outstanding Research Assistant Award at WSU! ·
May 2026 Apsara Adhikari completed a summer internship with the Real Time Operations team at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) in Folsom, CA, running from May to August 2026. Her work deepened her understanding of Area Control Error, NERC reliability standards, and real-time grid operations. ·
Apr 23, 2026 Congratulations, Daniel Glover, on successfully defending your PhD dissertation! I wish you all the best as you embark on the next chapter of your career.
Apr 21, 2026 Anamika Dubey was featured on Seattle’s FOX13 News discussing the impact of data centers on the electric power grid. Interview. ·
Apr 16, 2026 Congratulations, Shishir Lamichhane, on successfully defending your PhD dissertation! I wish you all the best as you embark on the next chapter of your career.
Apr 15, 2026 Charlotte Wertz was featured by the Advanced Grid Institute for her joint WSU–PNNL research on extreme-weather impacts and power-grid resilience, advised by Anamika Dubey and PNNL’s Jason Fuller. The feature highlights her work on quantifying weather-related risks and making resilience analysis useful for utilities and communities. · Source
Mar 30, 2026 Anamika Dubey coauthored a Utility Dive opinion article, “Before we build more gas pipelines, we need better data,” with collaborators. The article argues for improved data access to support gas–electric coordination and more informed infrastructure and resilience planning. · Source
Mar 2, 2026 Charlotte Wertz, Apsara Adhikari, and Arslan Ahmad developed the Weather-Outage Resilience Dataset (WORD), combining public outage and weather data to support power-system resilience analysis. Dataset · Code. ·
Mar 2026 Lusha Wang and Anamika Dubey, with a collaborator, published Linearized Optimal Power Flow for Multi-Phase Meshed Unbalanced Power Distribution Systems in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. The work develops linearized power-flow and optimization models for unbalanced distribution systems with meshed networks and diverse transformer configurations. ·
Mar 2026 Congratulations to Chandra Kant Jat on joining the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Knoxville, TN as a Grid Operations & Planning System Studies Engineer! In his career announcement, he also shared that he would continue his association with WSU as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for the coming year. ·
Feb 25, 2026 Congratulations to Daniel Glover on receiving a Koerner Family Foundation fellowship supporting his doctoral research on safe reinforcement learning for power-grid operations! WSU Insider featured his research on making learning-based grid controls more robust and transparent. · Source
Feb 24, 2026 Dr. Anamika Dubey has been promoted to full Professor at Washington State University. [1] [2] [3]. Yay!
Feb 12, 2026 Anamika Dubey was featured in WSU Insider discussing AI-driven electricity demand, distributed grid coordination, and research toward reliable and resilient power systems. The feature explores both the challenges posed by growing data-center demand and the potential for AI to support grid planning and operations. · Source
Jan 26, 2026 Aryan Ritwajeet Jha completed an internship with the Power Systems team at Tesla Energy in their Palo Alto, CA office, running from January 26 to July 10, 2026.
Dec 8, 2025 Congratulations, Ninad Kiran Gaikwad, on successfully defending your MS thesis in Computer Science!
Nov 21, 2025 Congratulations, Daniel Glover, on passing your preliminary exam!
Nov 5, 2025 Congratulations, Aryan Ritwajeet Jha, on passing your preliminary exam!
Nov 4, 2025 Congratulations, Sajjad Uddin Mahmud, on passing your preliminary exam!
Nov 2025 Shishir Lamichhane presented “Integrated Automation Toolset for Grid-Enhancing and Greenfield Projects: A GUI-Based Approach to Planning and Impact Analysis” at the CIGRE conference in Denver, Colorado. ·
Oct 2025 Shishir Lamichhane presented two papers at NAPS 2025 in Hartford, Connecticut: Comparison of Static, Dynamic, and Stochastic Economic Dispatch Models and Stochastic Economic Dispatch with Battery Energy Storage considering Wind and Load Uncertainty. ·
Oct 2025 Kunal Shankar presented “House Thermal Model Estimation: Robustness Across Seasons and Setpoints” at the 57th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) in Hartford, Connecticut. ·
Oct 2025 Apsara Adhikari presented “Quantifying Power Systems Resilience Using Statistical Analysis and Bayesian Learning” at the 57th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) in Hartford, Connecticut. ·
Sep 26, 2025 Daniel Glover, Gayathri Krishnamoorthy, and Anamika Dubey, with collaborators, had their paper “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Distribution System Operations: A Tutorial and Survey” accepted in Proceedings of the IEEE. The work provides a practical guide to reinforcement-learning formulations and simulation environments for distribution-grid operations. Paper. ·
Sep 2025 Anamika Dubey presented the lab’s work on optimization and learning for grid-edge orchestration to GE Vernova’s Grid Software team in Bellevue, Washington. ·
Aug 20, 2025 Anamika Dubey helped host AGI Day 2025 at WSU Tri-Cities, focused on building and operating an affordable, reliable, and secure regional grid. Discussions covered transmission planning, wildfire resilience, flexible demand, distributed energy resources, and AI for the grid. Recordings and presentations. ·
Aug 2025 Congratulations to Shishir Lamichhane on receiving Dominion Energy’s 2025 Intern Excellence Scholarship Award during his summer internship! ·
Jul 27, 2025 “An Open-Source Simulation and Data Management Tool for EnergyPlus Building Models,” coauthored by Ninad Kiran Gaikwad, Casey Dettlaff, and Athul Jose P with Anamika Dubey, was accepted for poster presentation at IEEE PESGM 2025 in Austin, Texas, with Casey scheduled to present on July 28. ·
Jul 23, 2025 Congratulations, Ninad Kiran Gaikwad, on passing your preliminary exam!
Jul 23, 2025 Congratulations, Charlotte Wertz, on passing your preliminary exam!
Jul 16, 2025 Congratulations, Shishir Lamichhane, on passing your preliminary exam!
Jul 2025 Subho Paul presented Analyzing the Performance of Linear and Nonlinear Multi-Period Optimal Power Flow Models for Active Distribution Networks at IEEE NE-IECCE 2025 in Silchar, Assam, India, held July 4–6, 2025. · Source
Jul 2025 Kunal Shankar presented “Comparing Building Thermal Dynamics Models and Estimation Methods for Grid-Edge Applications” as a poster at the 2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting in Austin, Texas. ·
Jul 2025 Daniel Glover presented Power Flow Approximations for Multiphase Distribution Networks using Gaussian Processes at the IEEE PES General Meeting in Austin, Texas. ·
Jul 2025 Charlotte Wertz and Apsara Adhikari presented posters on preliminary outage and fragility modeling using the Eagle-I dataset at the 2025 IEEE PES General Meeting, in collaboration with Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. ·
Jul 2025 Athul Jose P began a six-month PhD internship with Advanced Computing at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA, running from July to December 2025. Best of luck, Athul!
Jul 2025 Anamika Dubey spoke on two panels at the 2025 IEEE PES General Meeting in Austin, Texas: “Resilience in Energy Ecosystems: Challenges and Lessons Learned” and “Recent Advances in Optimization and Control for Increasing Resiliency in Distribution Systems.” ·
Jun 2025 Ninad Kiran Gaikwad began a summer internship as a Power Systems Intern with GE Vernova’s Digital Technology team in Bellevue, WA, running from June to August 2025. Best of luck, Ninad!
May 19, 2025 Aryan Ritwajeet Jha completed an internship with the Electrical Systems team at GE Vernova Advanced Research Center in Niskayuna, NY, running from May 19 to August 15, 2025.
May 2025 Congratulations to Shishir Lamichhane on receiving the Edmund O. Schweitzer III Scholarship from WSU’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science! ·
May 2025 Shishir Lamichhane returned to the Transmission Planning group at Dominion Energy in Virginia for a second summer internship. He completed the internship in August 2025, working on automation tools for evaluating grid-enhancing technologies. Internship retrospective.
May 2025 Sajjad Uddin Mahmud began a remote summer internship as a Student Employee at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), running from May to August 2025 and working on the integration of grid-enhancing technologies. Best of luck, Sajjad!
May 2025 Charlotte Wertz won a Best Student Poster Award at the PSERC May 2025 Industry Advisory Board meeting for “Data Driven Resilience, Modeling, Prediction, and Enhancement.” ·
Apr 29, 2025 Anamika Dubey joined a multidisciplinary WSU team awarded a $1 million NSF grant to develop community-centered planning tools for wildfire-related power outages. Led by Ji Yun Lee, the project combines community engagement, wildfire simulation, and power-grid resilience planning. WSU story. ·
Apr 27, 2025 Sajjad Uddin Mahmud presented “Enhancing Grid Resilience: Probabilistic Modeling of Gas-Fired Generator Capacity during Extreme Winter Weather” virtually at the Climate Change AI workshop at ICLR 2025 in Singapore. ·
Apr 27, 2025 Sajjad Uddin Mahmud won first prize in the Engineering and Environmental Sciences category at the WSU GPSA Research Expo 2025 for his research on power-grid resilience under extreme weather. ·
Jan 2025 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Casey Dettlaff!
Jan 2025 Ninad Kiran Gaikwad began a remote internship with the Advanced System Analytics and Modeling (ASAM) team at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). Best of luck, Ninad!
Dec 28, 2024 Subho Paul and Anamika Dubey, with collaborators, published Robustness Assessment of Distributed Optimal Power Flow Under Communication Non-Idealities in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. ·
Dec 23, 2024 Subho Paul and Anamika Dubey, with a collaborator, announced the SMART special session, “Stationary and Mobile Battery Storage for Advancing Grid Resilience and Flexibility,” at IEEE NE-IECCE 2025. ·
Dec 2024 Anamika Dubey participated in a Climate Change AI workshop panel at NeurIPS 2024, discussing small and large machine-learning models and the role of physics in models for power and energy systems. ·
Oct 14, 2024 Aryan Ritwajeet Jha presented Spatially Distributed Multi-Period Optimal Power Flow with Battery Energy Storage Systems at NAPS 2024 in El Paso, Texas, held October 13–15, 2024. ·
Oct 2024 Shishir Lamichhane presented Model Predictive Control Based Energy Management System for Home Energy Resiliency at NAPS 2024 in El Paso, Texas. ·
Sep 5, 2024 Abodh Poudyal and Anamika Dubey’s paper Multi-Resource Trade-Offs in Resilience Planning Decisions for Power Distribution Systems became available in early access in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. ·
Aug 28, 2024 Anamika Dubey co-organized AGI Day 2024 with Wei Du at WSU Tri-Cities in Richland, Washington. The event explored the nexus of power systems engineering and advanced analytics for a resilient, decarbonized grid, bringing together researchers, industry partners, and students for talks, an industry panel, and a student poster session. Event recap. ·
Aug 2024 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Yashvardhan Singh Raghuwanshi!
Aug 2024 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Apsara Adhikari!
Aug 2024 Ninad Kiran Gaikwad presented four posters on buildings as a grid-edge resource at Advanced Grid Institute Day 2024 at Washington State University’s Tri-Cities campus in Richland, Washington. ·
Jul 2024 Shishir Lamichhane presented ongoing research on scalable stochastic siting and sizing of distributed generators at the IEEE PES General Meeting in Seattle, Washington, in collaboration with Abodh Poudyal and advised by Anamika Dubey. ·
Jul 2024 Athul Jose P presented “An Open-Source GUI-Based Application for EnergyPlus Data Analysis” at the 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting in Seattle, Washington, developed with Casey Dettlaff and Ninad Kiran Gaikwad. ·
Jul 2024 Anup Parajuli presented a student poster at the 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on collaborative research with Subho Paul and Anamika Dubey. ·
Jun 2024 Sajjad Uddin Mahmud began a summer internship as an Engineering Intern at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) in Pullman, WA, running from June to August 2024. Best of luck, Sajjad!
May 13, 2024 Aryan Ritwajeet Jha completed a remote internship with the Advanced System Analytics and Modeling (ASAM) team at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), running from May 13 to August 16, 2024.
May 2024 Shishir Lamichhane began a summer internship with the Transmission Planning group at Dominion Energy in Richmond, VA. He completed the internship in August 2024, developing a GUI-based automation tool for transfer-capability planning. He subsequently presented his internship work at the CIGRE Grid of the Future Symposium in Raleigh, North Carolina, in November 2024. Internship retrospective.
May 1, 2024 Daniel Glover and Sajjad Uddin Mahmud have been awarded 2024 Clean Edge Scholarship and 2024 William Kamkwamba Scholarship respectively from Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation for their research work and contributions towards renewable energy.
Apr 8, 2024 Congratulations Abodh Poudyal for successfully defending your Ph.D. I wish you all the best as you embark on the next chapter of your career. ·
Apr 2024 Anamika Dubey delivered a keynote at the IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), discussing controllable grid-edge resources and the computational and analytics challenges they create for grid planning and operations. ·
Apr 1, 2024 WSU featured the lab’s work on planning tools that help power grids prepare for climate extremes, highlighting Abodh Poudyal and Anamika Dubey’s research on resilience metrics, outage risk, and investment trade-offs. · Source
Mar 4, 2024 Congratulations Abodh Poudyal for starting a full-time position as a Power Systems Research Engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). ·
Feb 2, 2024 Subho Paul and Anamika Dubey, with collaborators, announced the publication of Robustness Assessment of Distributed OPF Under Communication Non-Idealities Using Cyber-Physical Co-Simulation Framework in the proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting. ·
Jan 3, 2024 Anamika Dubey began serving as co-director of the WSU–PNNL Advanced Grid Institute, supporting research partnerships and advanced grid modeling for power-system planning and operations. WSU announcement. ·
Jan 2024 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Kunal Shankar!
Dec 2023 Congratulations to Subho Paul on joining the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi as an Assistant Professor in Varanasi, India! ·
Nov 11, 2023 Congratulations Surendra Bajagain for starting a full-time position as a Power Systems Research Engineer at Dominion Energy. ·
Nov 6, 2023 Abodh Poudyal, Shiva Poudel, and Anamika Dubey, with collaborators, published Resilience assessment and planning in power distribution systems: Past and future considerations in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. ·
Oct 27, 2023 Congratulations Surendra Bajagain for successfully defending your Ph.D. I wish you all the best for your future career.
Oct 15, 2023 Anamika Dubey spoke on the “Computing and Optimization in Electric Grid Applications” panel at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, discussing optimization challenges associated with controllable grid-edge assets. ·
Oct 10, 2023 Srayashi Konar and Anamika Dubey, with a collaborator, published Distributed Optimization for Autonomous Restoration in DER-Rich Distribution System in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.
Oct 6, 2023 Anamika presented an invited talk on “Grid-edge Modeling and Optimization to Support Decarbonization and Resilience” at Florida International University.
Oct 5, 2023 Anamika presented an invited talk “Preparing the Power Grid for Extreme Weather Events: Resilience Modeling and Optimization”, WIRES October Talk, PNNL.
Sep 15, 2023 Anamika spoke at the WSU Power Professorship Program 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Sep 10, 2023 Surendra Bajagain and Anamika Dubey, with collaborators, announced their paper Integrating Solar Resources and Topology Estimation Modules in Industrial ADMS Environment in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
Aug 30, 2023 Anamika spoke at the AGI Day 2023 AGI Day 2023.
Aug 2023 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Charlotte Wertz!
Aug 2023 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Athul Jose P!
Aug 2023 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Anup Parajuli!
Jul 2023 Surendra Bajagain began a PhD internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, working with the Transactive Energy Simulation platform and HELICS. ·
May 8, 2023 Anamika Dubey received the 2023 IEEE PES Outstanding Young Engineer Award for contributions to optimization and control of electric power distribution systems. ·
May 2023 Ninad Kiran Gaikwad began a summer internship as a Machine Learning Intern with the Research and Development group at Edo Energy in Spokane, WA, running from May to August 2023. Best of luck, Ninad!
May 2023 Abodh Poudyal began a research internship at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, working on community-level outage preparedness and autonomous restoration to improve resilience against extreme weather events. ·
Jan 9, 2023 Anamika Dubey is leading a DOE-supported project to improve power-grid resilience for communities affected by extreme weather, combining community input with infrastructure planning and automated restoration. WSU story. ·
Jan 2023 Anamika Dubey co-taught “Grid-edge Optimization in Active Power Distribution Systems” at IEEE ISGT North America 2023 with Sumit Paudyal and Sukumar Kamalasadan, using hands-on examples of distribution-system modeling and optimization. ·
Nov 9, 2022 The paper “Risk-Based Active Distribution System Planning for Resilience Against Extreme Weather Events,” by Abodh Poudyal, Shiva Poudel, and Anamika Dubey, became available in early access in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. ·
Aug 16, 2022 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Aryan Ritwajeet Jha!
Aug 2022 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Subho Paul! Subho joined as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. ·
Aug 2022 Congratulations to Dr. Anamika Dubey on earning tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Washington State University! [1].
May 16, 2022 The lab’s paper Spatiotemporal Impact Assessment of Hurricanes on Electric Power Systems received a Best Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE PES General Meeting, recognizing it among the conference’s selected best papers. ·
Jan 2022 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Sajjad Uddin Mahmud!
Jan 2022 Welcome to SCALE Lab, Ninad Kiran Gaikwad!