Muhammad Saud Zahir
Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
Colorado State University
Saud Zahir is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Energy Institute, working in the Grid Modernization Initiative with Dr. Zongjie Wang. Saud's research is on data center and electric grid resilience.
Broader interests include Power Systems, Optimization Algorithms, Machine Learning, Modeling, and Simulations.
Research Focus
- Electric power systems
- Data centers as large electrical loads
- Load flexibility and demand-side management
- Electric grid resilience
- Extreme weather events
- Power system modeling and simulation
- Optimization and numerical methods
- Large-scale and HPC simulation
- Resilient operation of data centers and the electric grid