Research

Refereed Journal Publications

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Towards using utility data to quantify how investments would have increased the wind resilience of distribution systems”. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 5956-5968, (July 2024). doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2023.3342729

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Logarithmic resilience risk metrics that address the huge variations in blackout cost”. Submitted to IEEE Power Engineering Letters

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Quantifying distribution system resilience from utility data: large event risk and benefits of investments”. Submitted to IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

Refereed Conference Publications

• Arslan Ahmad, Swaroop Guggilam, and Alberto Del Rosso. “Assessing the Strategic Applications and Risks of Dynamic Line Rating in Long-Term Planning” Submitted to IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference-Latin America (ISGT Latin America)

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Quantifying distribution system resilience from utility data: large event risk and benefits of investments” in IET Conference Proceedings CP882, vol. 2024, no. 27, pp. 118-122. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Stevenage, UK. (2024). doi: 10.1049/icp.2024.2578

• Danish Arif, Arslan Ahmad, Muhammad Abu Bakar, Muhammad Hamza Ihtisham, and Simon Winberg. “Cost Effective Solution for Minimization of Medical Errors and Acquisition of Vitals By Using Autonomous Nursing Robot” in Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Information System and Data Mining (ICISDM ‘17), pp. 134–138. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA (2017). doi: 10.1145/3077584.3077598

ArXiv Preprints

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Logarithmic resilience risk metrics that address the huge variations in blackout cost” (2025). arXiv:2505.12016

• Arslan Ahmad, Ian Dobson, Svetlana Ekisheva, Christopher Claypool, and Mark Lauby. “The improvement in transmission resilience metrics from reduced outages or faster restoration can be calculated by rerunning historical outage data” (2025). arXiv:2501.06042

• Shikhar Pandey, Gowtham Kandaperumal, Arslan Ahmad, and Ian Dobson. “Resiliency metrics quantifying emergency response in a distribution system” (2025). arXiv:2501.06030

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Quantifying distribution system resilience from utility data: large event risk and benefits of investments” (2024). arXiv:2407.10773

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Towards using utility data to quantify how investments would have increased the wind resilience of distribution systems” (2023). arXiv:2306.06526

Posters

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “The improvement in transmission resilience metrics from reduced outages or faster restoration can be calculated by rerunning historical outage data”. Poster presented at the 2025 PES General Meeting, Austin USA (2025).

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Logarithmic resilience risk metrics that address the huge variations in blackout cost”. Poster presented at the May 2025 EPRC Conference, Ames USA (2025).

• Arslan Ahmad, Ian Dobson, Svetlana Ekisheva, Christopher Claypool, and Mark Lauby. “The improvement in transmission resilience metrics from reduced outages or faster restoration can be calculated by rerunning historical outage data”. Poster presented at the December 2024 PSERC IAB Meeting, Arizona USA (2024).

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Quantifying distribution system resilience from utility data: large event risk and benefits of investments”. Poster presented at the December 2024 PSERC IAB Meeting, Arizona USA (2024).

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Quantifying distribution system resilience from utility data: large event risk and benefits of investments”. Poster presented at the CIRED 2024 Chicago Workshop, Chicago USA (2024).

• Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson. “Quantifying the Benefits of Undergrounding a Circuit with Utility Data”. Poster presented at the May 2024 EPRC Conference, Ames USA (2024).

Last updated on: 06/2025