Adil Khurram

Current position: Graduate research assistant - UVM (2017 - present)
Expected graduation: Summer 2021
Updated CV: Adil_Khurram_CV.pdf

Recent publications (full list):

• A. Khurram, R. Malhame ́, L. A. Duffaut-Espinosa, and M. Almassalkhi, "Identification of hot water end-use process of electric water heaters from energy measurements,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 189, p. 106625, 2020.

• L. A. Duffaut Espinosa, A. Khurram, and M. Almassalkhi, “A virtual battery model for Packetized Energy Management,” in CDC 2020.

• A. Khurram, L. A. Duffaut-Espinosa, and M. Almassalkhi, "A Methodology for Quantifying Flexibility in a fleet of Diverse DERs", under review PowerTech 2021.

• L. A. Duffaut Espinosa, A. Khurram, and M. Almassalkhi, “Reference- tracking control policies for packetized coordination of heterogeneous der populations,” in print, IEEE Trans. on Control Syst. Technol., 2020.

Current Research:

My current research focus is on coordination of large populations of distributed energy resources (DERs) for providing services to the electric grid. Coordination is achieved through an asynchronous and randomized load coordination scheme called packetized energy management (PEM) which is a device-driven scheme that uses a unique request-response mechanism.

Key outcomes of this research work for DERs under are:

• Population based Markovian models for the distribution evolution of DER fleets,

• Low order virtual battery models for state-of-charge based aggregation,

• Modeling and identification of end-use consumption using Markov renewal processes.

Education

• University of Vermont, USA (2017-)

  • Modeling and Control for Packetized Energy Management

  • Advisors: Dr. Mads Almassalkhi, Dr. Luis Augusto Duffaut Espinosa

• American University of Sharjah, UAE (2014-2016)

  • Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering (fully funded), CGPA = 3.91

  • Thesis: Performance Enhancement of Field Oriented Induction Motor Drive System

  • Advisors: Dr. Habibur Rehman, Dr. Shayok Mukhopadhyay

• National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan (2009-2013)

  • Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, CGPA = 3.68

  • Thesis: Formal Reliability Analysis of Protective Relays in Power Distribution Systems