Dheepak Krishnamurthy

Research Engineer

Work Experience

EPRI

Technical Leader | May 2024 - Current

Research to address economy wide decarbonization and solving integrated resource planning challenges in countries around the world

ECCC

Senior Economic Advisor | Sep 2022 - May 2024

Modernized macro economic energy model for calculating GreenHouse Gas emissions; transitioned to a more efficient, flexible, and transparent system written in Julia

Increased usability of cutting-edge energy system co-simulations as the lead developer of pyhelics and core team member of HELICS, a Department Of Energy (DOE) funded open-source multi-language cross-platform co-simulation framework; published in Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems.

Advanced computational capabilities of production cost modelling as the co-lead software architect of an open-source Julia ecosystem of packages, including PowerSystems.jl and PowerSimulations.jl; presented at JuliaCon 2019, JuliaCon 2020 and JuliaCon 2021.

Designed 10,000 agent simulation for transactive home energy management systems and electrical grid model running on high performance computing clusters; published in IEEE Electrification Magazine.

Expanded capabilities of power distribution system analysis as author and contributor to of OpenDSSDirect.py, an interface for direct interactions with the OpenDSS engine; and DiTTo, a distribution system model data-format translator.

Author of 20 journal and conference publications in energy system modeling and simulations; presented basic and intermediate tutorials, workshops and conference talks on git, Python, Julia, HELICS and other domain specific technologies.

Awarded NREL Chairperson’s Award for Exceptional Performance (2021), NREL Rising Star Award (2018), NREL Outstanding Mentor Award (2016).