Surour Alaraifi received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical engineering from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013 and 2018 respectively. In 2018 he joined Abu Dhabi Transmission and Dispatch Company, TRANSCO as a senior transmission planning engineer. In 2021 he joined the Emirates Water and Electricity company (EWEC), Abu Dhabi, as a senior network studies engineer. His industrial experience includes integration studies, testing and operation for PV, nuclear, and combined cycle power plants, and leading transmission system studies such as optimal dispatch studies, emergency response studies, and blackout restoration plans. In 2022 he joined Cornell University, NY, as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department working on advanced stability assessment methods of renewable energy sources. In December 2024, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering department at Khalifa University as an assistant professor.
His current research focuses on stability assessment of inverter based power plants, dynamics of renewable energy systems, and AI applications to large scale networks.
Post-doctoral Fellow:
Candidates must have a PhD in Electrical Engineering, a minimum of 3 Q1 publications, and a strong background in: power system stability, modeling of inverter-based renewable energy resources, and control theory.
