Dr Waqquas Bukhsh
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
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.
Qualifications
- PhD in Operations Research and Optimization, The University of Edinburgh, 2014.
- BS in Mathematics, COMSATS University, 2008
Publications
- A review of evolving challenges in transmission expansion planning problems
- Cao Shengming, Bukhsh Waqquas
- IEEE Access Vol 13, pp. 39964-39981 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3547115
- Wind Curtailment Tool
- Hodges Sam, Nayer Richard, Bukhsh Waqquas
- (2024)
- Designing a Wind Power Curtailment Tool : Modelling and Development
- Nayer Richard, Hodges Sam, Bukhsh Waqquas
- (2024)
- Balancing the great British electricity system — Bulk dispatch optimisation
- Bukhsh Waqquas, Bejan Andrei
- Electric Power Systems Research Vol 234 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110714
- Operational Scenarios to Assess Future System Needs for UHV Transmission Technology
- Bukhsh Waqquas
- (2024)
- RES Curtailment Analysis : Network Data Review
- Nayer Richard, Hodges Sam, Bukhsh Waqquas
- (2024)
Teaching
- EE313/EM301: Engineering Analysis
- EM270: Programming Design
- EE707: Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Grid Operation
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
- 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
- Opening up balancing to batteries
- Recipient
- 5/3/2024
- Innovative electricity system balancing tool helps keep Britain’s lights on
- Recipient
- 5/3/2024
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
Contact
Dr
Waqquas
Bukhsh
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: waqquas.bukhsh@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7233