Shrirang “Shri” Abhyankar—formerly at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory—now serves as Grid Transformation Principal at ERCOT. In this episode, Shri explains how grid modeling, simulation, applied mathematics, and AI converge in real operations.

We also explore the open-source tools his work helped shape, including Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), ChatGrid, and Grid coPilot, and what these innovations mean for the future of grid planning and control.

Shrirang Abhyankar

Principal - AI & Optimization | IEEE senior member

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shrirang-abhyankar-59018144/

some project links

https://www.pnnl.gov/publications/grid-modeling-tool-successfully-launches-worlds-fastest-supercomputer

https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/chatgridtm-new-generative-ai-tool-power-grid-visualization

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202504.1464

Nelson is the Supervisor of Substation Design and Drafting at Eversource Energy. He joins Cory and I on this episode to talk about his experience with Revit, the Eversource team, attending the SDSIC and much much more.

Enjoy!

Nelson Antunes

Supervisor of Substation Design and Drafting at Eversource Energy

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelson-antunes-64a46374/

Shabnam has been pushing the envelope of Revit at Power Engineers (now WSP) and sharing that knowledge with the SDSIC members for the past three conferences. We are privileged to have her join our podcast and share her knowledge, experience, and just the pure joy of her personality! Join us and listen in to some of her great advice.

Shabnam Pazooki, Senior Technical Manager at WSP

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shabnampazooki/