Dr Waqquas Bukhsh
Lecturer In Ad Opt & D S Power Systems
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
- Electrified heat and transport : energy demand futures, their impacts on power networks and what it means for system flexibility
- McGarry Connor, Dixon James, Flower Jack, Bukhsh Waqquas, Brand Christian, Bell Keith, Galloway Stuart
- Applied Energy Vol 360 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.122836
- The significance of time constraints in unit commitment problems
- Bukhsh Waqquas
- IEEE Access Vol 12, pp. 31515-31522 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3369484
- Electricity System Development Process in Pakistan : A review of the state-of-the-art, needs and recommendations
- Bukhsh Waqquas
- (2023)
- Course correction : An internal project report summarising the concept, methodology and implementation
- Tsioumpri Eleni, Bukhsh Waqquas, Stephen Bruce, Bell Keith
- (2023)
- Application of Convex Optimisation to Enhance National Grid’s NOA Process
- Bukhsh Waqquas
- (2023)
- Vehicle to grid : driver plug-in patterns, their impact on the cost and carbon of charging, and implications for system flexibility
- Dixon James, Bukhsh Waqquas, Bell Keith, Brand Christian
- eTransportation Vol 13 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etran.2022.100180
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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
- Integrated Planning of Generation and Transmission Investment in Pakistan
- Participant
- 19/12/2023
- Balancing Programme: Future of the Control Centre
- Speaker
- 19/6/2023
- Calculating capability: powering the future
- Recipient
- 1/4/2020
- National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO)
- Visiting researcher
- 25/2/2020
- Supergen Energy Networks Hub - Markets & Regulation Working Group (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/1/2020
- Windfarms2017
- Participant
- 31/5/2017
Projects
- 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
- Potential benefits of Synchronous Compensators in reducing curtailment costs due to RoCoF considerations
- Bukhsh, Waqquas (Principal Investigator) MacIver, Callum (Co-investigator) Nedd, Marcel (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2019
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Contact
Dr
Waqquas
Bukhsh
Lecturer In Ad Opt & D S Power Systems
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: waqquas.bukhsh@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 7233