Research Scientist
Research Scientist

Biography

Nawaf Nazir is a staff scientist in the Energy and Environment directorate (EED) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). His work is in the modeling, optimization, and control of energy systems and transportation systems utilizing optimization theory, control and estimation theory, power markets, and power systems engineering. 

Nazir is the principal investigator of several multi-million-dollar Department of Energy and ARPA-E projects related to energy security and resiliency, for which he manages a diverse team of researchers at PNNL in addition to collaborating with academia, government, and industry. He has spearheaded and chaired several workshops and panels at venues such as the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, PES Grid Edge Technologies Conference, American Control Conference, INFORMS, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and Transportation Research Board (TRB). 

Nazir is a senior member of IEEE, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, an associate editor for IEEE Power Engineering Letters, an associate editor of IEEE Control Systems Society, a member of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Council, and a member of the Transportation Energy committee of TRB.

Publications

2024

  • Bornstein M.I., M. Nazir, J. Drgona, S. Kundu, and V.A. Adetola. 2024. "Finding MIDDLE Ground: Scalable and Secure Distributed Learning." In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024), October 21-25, 2024, Boise, ID, 141 - 151. New York, New York:Association for Computing Machinery. PNNL-SA-181607. doi:10.1145/3627673.3679587
  • Nazir M., B. Huang, and S.M. Mahserejian. 2024. "An OpenStreetMaps based tool to study the energy demand and emissions impact of electrification of medium and heavy-duty freight trucks." Electric Power Systems Research 235, no. _:Art. No. 110803. PNNL-SA-191084. doi:10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110803
  • Nazir M., S. Nandanoori, T. Vu, S. Mukherjee, S. Kundu, and V.A. Adetola. 2024. "Advanced Computational Techniques for Improving Resilience of Critical Energy Infrastructure under Cyber-Physical Attacks." In Cyber Physical System 2.0: Communication and Computational Technologies, edited by A.V. Jha and B. Appasani. 302 - 332. Boca Raton, Florida:CRC Press. PNNL-SA-190929. doi:10.1201/9781003559993-13
  • Nazir M., T. Ramachandran, S. Kundu, and V.A. Adetola. 2024. "Improved microgrid resiliency through distributionally robust optimization under a policy-mode framework." In IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM 2024), July 21-25, 2024, Seattle, WA, 1-5. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-178488. doi:10.1109/PESGM51994.2024.10688813

2023

  • Hanif S., R. Sadnan, T. Slay, M. Nazir, S. Poudel, B. Bhatti, and A.P. Reiman, et al. 2023. "On Distribution Grid Optimal Power Flow Development and Integration." In Proceedings of the IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM 2023), July 16-20, 2023, Orlando, FL, 1-5. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-179880. doi:10.1109/PESGM52003.2023.10252964
  • Nazir M., and M. Almassalkhi. 2023. "Guaranteeing a Physically Realizable Battery Dispatch Without Charge-Discharge Complementarity Constraints." IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 14, no. 3:2473 - 2476. PNNL-SA-190918. doi:10.1109/TSG.2021.3109805
  • Upton S.A., G.L. Kidd, S. Kundu, S. Bhattacharya, Y. Lin, V.A. Adetola, and T. Ramachandran, et al. 2023. Introduction to ALERT: A User-Interface Tool for Resilient Optimization: Technical Report. PNNL-35082. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Introduction to ALERT: A User-Interface Tool for Resilient Optimization: Technical Report

2022

  • Nazir M., and M. Almassalkhi. 2022. "Market mechanism to enable grid-aware dispatch of Aggregators in radial distribution networks." In Proceedings of the 11th Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control Symposium (IREP 2022), July 25-30, 2022, Banff, Canada, 1-9. PNNL-SA-170762.
  • Nazir M., C.P. Dowling, S. Choudhury, S. Zoepf, and K. Ma. 2022. "Optimal, centralized dynamic curbside parking space zoning." In IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2022), October 8-12, 2022, Macau, China, 91-98. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-170624. doi:10.1109/ITSC55140.2022.9922247
  • Nazir M., T. Ramachandran, S. Bhattacharya, A. Singhal, S. Kundu, and V.A. Adetola. 2022. "Optimization-Based Resiliency Verification in Microgrids via Maximal Adversarial Set Characterization." In American Control Conference (ACC 2022), June 8-10, 2022, Atlanta, GA, 2214-2220. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-167569. doi:10.23919/ACC53348.2022.9867826