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Mukesh Gautam is a Research Engineer with the Optimization and Control group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He received the B.E. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Tribhuvan University, Pulchowk Campus, Nepal, in 2013 and 2017, respectively, the M.A. degree in economics from Tribhuvan University, Patan Campus, Nepal, in 2019, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, in 2022. Prior to joining PNNL, he was a Power and Energy Systems Researcher at the Idaho National Laboratory for one year, an Electrical Engineer at the Budhi Ganga Hydropower Project under the Department of Electricity Development, Ministry of Energy, Water Resources, and Irrigation of Nepal, for four years, and a Lecturer at the Kathmandu Engineering College, Nepal, for two years. During the final year of the Ph.D. degree, he worked as a National Science Foundation-Funded Collaborative Researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, for six months. His research interests include power system optimization and control, power system resilience, the application of machine/deep learning in power systems, and renewable energy integration.

• Energy Storage Modeling, Optimization, and Control
• Power Systems Operation and Control
• Distribution System Modeling and Optimization
• Machine Learning/Reinforcement Learning Applications in Power Systems
• Power System Resilience
• Integrated Energy Systems

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (specialization in power systems), University of Nevada, Reno
• M.A. Economics, Tribhuvan University, Patan Campus
• M.Sc. Electrical Engineering (power systems), Tribhuvan University, Pulchowk Campus
• B.E. Electrical Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Pulchowk Campus

2025

• Hossain R., M. Gautam, D. Wu, P. Chen, and H. Fang. 2025. "Data-Driven State of Health Estimation for Second-Life Batteries Using Interpolated Synthetic Data and Feature Selection." In IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC 2025), April 24-25, Manhattan, KS, 1-5. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-208353. doi:10.1109/KPEC65465.2025.11045019

2024

• Gautam M., D. Wu, and M. Ben-Idris. 2024. "Utility-Scale Shared Energy Storage Deployment: Challenges, Research Gaps, and Opportunities." In Resilience Week (RWS 2024), December 3-5, 2024, Austin, TX, 1-6. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-199804. doi:10.1109/RWS62797.2024.10799274
• Gautam M., T. Mcjunkin, and R. Hruska. 2024. "A Resilient Integrated Resource Planning Framework for Transmission Systems: Analysis and Optimization." Sustainability 16, no. 6:Art. No. 2449. PNNL-SA-195566. doi:10.3390/su16062449
• Hossain R., M. Gautam, J. Olowolaju, H. Livani, and M. Ben-Idris. 2024. "Multi-Agent Voltage Control in Distribution Systems using GAN-DRL-based Approach." Electric Power Systems Research 234, no. _:Art No. 110528. PNNL-SA-195602. doi:10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110528