Research

Refereed Journal Publications

• Logarithmic resilience risk metrics that address the huge variations in blackout cost
  Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson
  IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 5507-5510, (Nov 2025). doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2025.3612225

• Quantifying distribution system resilience from utility data: large event risk and benefits of investments
  Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson
  IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 19, no. 1, e70179, (2025). doi: 10.1049/gtd2.70179

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

Refereed Conference Publications

• Logarithmic resilience risk metrics that address the huge variations in blackout cost
  Arslan Ahmad, and Ian Dobson
  2026 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in press, (2026).

• Topology and voltage aware fragility and data-driven risk modeling of distribution feeders
  Apsara Adhikari, Charlotte Wertz, Anamika Dubey, Arslan Ahmad, and Ian Dobson
  2026 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in press, (2026).

• The improvement in transmission resilience metrics from reduced outages or faster restoration can be calculated by rerunning historical outage data
  Arslan Ahmad, Ian Dobson, Svetlana Ekisheva, Christopher Claypool, and Mark Lauby
  2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Austin, TX, USA, pp. 1-5, (2025). doi: 10.1109/PESGM52009.2025.11225704

• Resiliency metrics quantifying emergency response in a distribution system
  Shikhar Pandey, Gowtham Kandaperumal, Arslan Ahmad, and Ian Dobson
  2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Austin, TX, USA, pp. 1-5, (2025). doi: 10.1109/PESGM52009.2025.11225484

• Quantifying Power Systems Resilience Using Statistical Analysis and Bayesian Learning
  Apsara Adhikari, Charlotte Wertz, Anamika Dubey, Arslan Ahmad, and Ian Dobson
  2025 57th North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Storrs, CT, USA, pp. 1-6, (2025). doi: 10.1109/NAPS66256.2025.11272288

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

• Quantifying distribution system resilience from utility data: large event risk and benefits of investments
  Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson
  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

• Cost Effective Solution for Minimization of Medical Errors and Acquisition of Vitals By Using Autonomous Nursing Robot
  Danish Arif, Arslan Ahmad, Muhammad Abu Bakar, Muhammad Hamza Ihtisham, and Simon Winberg
  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

Technical Reports

• Data needed for practical resilience metrics
  Arslan Ahmad
  In Power System Resilience Metrics and Evaluation Methods (IEEE Technical Report prepared by Task Force on Power System Resilience Metrics and Evaluation Methods, under the Analytic Methods for Power Systems (AMPS) Committee). IEEE Power & Energy Society.

Publications under Review

• Typical models of the distribution system restoration process
  Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson
  Submitted to 2026 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS)

• Measuring outage resilience in a distribution system with the number of outages in large events
  Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson
  Submitted to 2026 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS)

• Comparing the extreme weather event definitions used to quantify power system resilience
  Daniel L Donaldson, Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson
  Submitted to CIRED 2026 Brussels Workshop

• Extracting resilience events from utility outage data based on overlapping times and locations
  Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson
  Submitted to IEEE Power Engineering Letters

ArXiv Preprints

• Extracting resilience events from utility outage data based on overlapping times and locations
  Arslan Ahmad and Ian Dobson
  arXiv:2511.12685 (2025)

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

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

• Quantifying Power Systems Resilience Using Statistical Analysis and Bayesian Learning
  Apsara Adhikari, Charlotte Wertz, Anamika Dubey, Arslan Ahmad, and Ian Dobson
  arXiv:2511.03043 (2025)

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

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

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

Presentations and Posters

• “Extracting resilience events from utility outage data based on overlapping times and locations”, presented at the December 2025 PSERC IAB Meeting, Virginia, USA (2025).

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

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

• “The improvement in transmission resilience metrics from reduced outages or faster restoration can be calculated by rerunning historical outage data”, presented at the December 2024 PSERC IAB Meeting, Arizona, USA (2024).

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

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

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

Last updated on: 03/2026