Dr Waqquas Bukhsh
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
Personal statement
Waqquas Bukhsh is a National Grid ESO Lecturer in Advanced Optimisation and Decision Support. His research is focused on problems at the interface of optimisation and power systems, typically involving high degrees of risk and uncertainty. He is a lead developer of OATS, which is an open-source power system simulation toolbox.
Before joining Strathclyde, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark in the Department of Electrical Engineering and served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Copenhagen.
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Qualifications
- PhD in Operations Research and Optimization, The University of Edinburgh, 2014.
- BS in Mathematics, COMSATS University, 2008
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Publications
- Strategic Transmission Planning for Great Britain Using Future Operational Scenarios : A new methodology to evaluate and plan UHV links for a clean, secure, and affordable electricity system
- Bukhsh Waqquas
- (2025)
- Stochastic transmission expansion planning for the GB grid : modeling future energy scenarios and budget constraints
- Cao Shengming, Bukhsh Waqquas, He Runsheng
- 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (2025)
- A machine learning approach to solve the DC optimal power flow problem
- He Runsheng, Bukhsh Waqquas, Cao Shengming, Stephen Bruce
- 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (2025)
- An ACDC Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow for Great Britain HVDC Integration
- Hodges Sam, Bukhsh Waqquas, Bell Keith, Grothey Andreas, McKinnon Ken, Tian Shangen
- IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2025 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe 2025 (2025)
- Learning of wide-area dynamics in power systems with physics informed neural networks
- Kilembe Alinane B, Bukhsh Waqquas, Papadopoulos Panagiotis N
- IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (2025)
- Linear constraints with critical region refinement for frequency stability-constrained optimisation
- Brown Alinane, Papadopoulos Panagiotis, Bukhsh Waqquas
- IEEE eGrid Concference (2025)
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Teaching
- EE313/EM301: Engineering Analysis
- EM270: Programming Design
- EE707: Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Grid Operation
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Research Interests
Waqquas's research interests lie in the areas of optimisation, networks, algorithm design and analysis, and applications of optimisation to electricty networks.
Professional Activities
- Optimising real-time decisions in a changing electricity system
- Speaker
- 19/5/2025
- Achieving a carbon-free grid: why optimisation must lead the way
- Speaker
- 4/11/2024
- Tough going: Pakistan's LNG imports recover but long-term supply hurdles persist
- Recipient
- 3/5/2024
- Transforming electricity balancing: bulk dispatch optimisation, from proof-of-concept to implementation
- Speaker
- 12/3/2024
- TechXplore - Innovative electricity system balancing tool helps keep Britain's lights on
- Recipient
- 6/3/2024
- Energy Magazine - Innovative electricity system balancing tool helps keep Britain’s lights on
- Recipient
- 6/3/2024
Projects
- Renewable Energy Systems (RES) - Innovation Centre Project - Grid Constraints
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator) Stephen, Bruce (Co-investigator)
- 17-Jan-2024 - 25-Jan-2024
- Assessing the Potential for Hydrogen to Reduce Curtailment of Renewable Electricity in Scotland
- Hawker, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Bukhsh, Waqquas (Co-investigator)
- 18-Jan-2021 - 14-Jan-2022
- OATS Training Course for National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) Pakistan
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator)
- A day-long training workshop for the control engineers of the National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) of Pakistan. The workshop provides hands-on experience of solving power flow and optimal power flow problems using Strathclyde's power systems simulation tool OATS.
- 21-Jan-2021 - 21-Jan-2021
- Rethinking the Design of Great Britain’s Capacity Market
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
- IAA Balancing the Electricity System – Bulk Despatch
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- NIA Project: Application of convex optimisation to enhance National Grid's NOA process
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator) Bell, Keith (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2019 - 15-Jan-2021
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Contact
Dr
Waqquas
Bukhsh
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: waqquas.bukhsh@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7233