Alireza Soroudi

I lead optimization and operations research projects at EirGrid. Before that, I spent nearly a decade on the faculty of University College Dublin, working on power system and supply chain optimization. My work sits where mathematical modeling meets real operational decisions: models that have to respect every rule of the system and still give an answer in time to be useful.

I am the author of Power System Optimization Modeling in GAMS (Springer, 2017). I also founded optexpert.org, a Persian-language platform where engineers and graduate students learn optimization with OR-Tools, Pyomo and Python.

Background

• PhD in electrical engineering, Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), France
• BSc and MSc in electrical engineering, Sharif University of Technology
• Nearly a decade on the faculty of University College Dublin

Recognition

• INFORMS ENRE Young Researcher Prize (2013)
• Science Foundation Ireland Industry Fellowship (2016)
• IEEE Senior Member

Areas of expertise

Power system optimization, mathematical programming, constraint programming, vehicle routing, production and workforce scheduling, supply chain optimization and modeling under uncertainty. I work mainly in Python with Pyomo and Google OR-Tools, and in GAMS.