Muhammad Faizan Tahir
Postdoctoral Associate
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD South China University of Technology
Research Areas: Renewable energy integration, demand response, load management, power system optimization, integrated energy system planning, exergy analysis, PV power forecasting and machine learning applications
Muhammad Faizan Tahir received his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan, in 2011, his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Lahore, Pakistan, in 2015, and his PhD in Power System and Automation from the South China University of Technology, China, in 2020. His research interests include renewable energy integration, demand response, load management, power system optimization, integrated energy system planning, exergy analysis, PV power forecasting, and machine learning applications.
Tahir has published over 50 research articles, with an h-index of 20, in leading journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Conversion and Management, and Energy Journal. He also actively reviews for several high-tier journals and has served as guest editor for Frontiers in Energy Research and Energies.
From 2012 to 2016, Tahir was a Lecturer at the University of Lahore, and from 2020 to 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the South China University of Technology. Since 2023, he has been a postdoctoral associate at New York University Abu Dhabi, working on a VRI project in collaboration with Khalifa University
Research Summary
VRI Project
Committing to sustainability, Abu Dhabi aspires to be an international hub for renewable energy and sustainable technologies. The proposed VRI aims to partner with industry, academia, and government, to develop advanced renewable energy and sustainable technologies that can pave the way to modernize Abu Dhabi’s electrical power infrastructure, ensuring its stability, preserving reliability, and meeting economic objectives with a high level of flexibility. The core R&D efforts of the proposed “VRI for Sustainable Energy Production, Storage, and Utilization” cover cutting-edge technologies spanning areas of sustainable power generation, energy storage, renewable energy integration, smart grid, and demand-side energy efficiency that are important to Abu Dhabi’s sustainable development. In collaboration with VRI’s partners, a renewable integrated, sustainable power infrastructure for Abu Dhabi has been envisioned