Waqquas Bukhsh is a National Grid ESO Lecturer in Advanced Optimisation and Decision Support. His research is focused on problems at the interface of optimisation and power systems, typically involving high degrees of risk and uncertainty. He is a lead developer of OATS, which is an open-source power system simulation toolbox.

Before joining Strathclyde, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark in the Department of Electrical Engineering and served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. 

Waqquas's research interests lie in the areas of optimisation, networks, algorithm design and analysis, and applications of optimisation to electricty networks.

The decision-support tools created by Dr Bukhsh are actively used in the electricity industry. Notable examples include a reactive power planning model for National Grid ESO, a planning model for the Belgian Transmission System Operator Elia, a long-term generation-transmission coordinated electricity investment planning model for Pakistan's electricity system operator NTDC, and a Bulk Dispatch Optimization model in the Electricity National Control Centre of National Grid ESO.

• PhD in Operations Research and Optimization, The University of Edinburgh, 2014.
• BS in Mathematics, COMSATS University, 2008

• EE313/EM301: Engineering Analysis
• EM270: Programming Design
• EE707: Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Grid Operation