Assistant Professor
Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology
Old Dominion University
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Grid Transients & Advanced Modeling Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2025-2026
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2025
B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, 2016
My path into power systems research started in the field — three years as a planning and design engineer at Power Grid Company of Bangladesh, working on substation and transmission line design — before I returned to graduate study to work on the optimization problems, industry could not yet solve in real time. My PhD at UNC Charlotte, under Dr. Sukumar Kamalasadan (IEEE Fellow), focused on distributed and centralized optimal power flow approaches. During that time I also led the power system modeling on a Siemens Energy-funded Digital Twin project, developing a unified grid-forming/grid-following controller and frequency-compensation loop for a hybrid model combining both legacy and power electronics components.
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, I worked on a national-scale Grid Electromagnetic Transient (EMT) Initiative, developing EMT models to simulate large-scale power systems in near real time. I was also part of the DOE-funded EMT Training project to develop a multi-module EMT training curriculum delivered to students and industry practitioners to increase the EMT "Know-How". In addition, I contributed to a feasibility study of hybrid quantum-classical optimization for large-scale power systems.
At the GRiDx Lab, I'm building a research program on a single question: as the grid's physical inertia disappears, what replaces it, and how do we react fast enough to reduce electricity interruptions.
The lab is actively recruiting graduate students for Spring and Fall 2027 in power system EMT simulation, stability and control, and quantum-classical optimization.