dr. T (Tarek) Alskaif

I am an Associate Professor of Energy Informatics in the Information Technology group (INF). My research addresses the challenges of the sustainable energy transition through the digitalization of energy systems. Bridging computer science and energy systems, I combine modeling, optimization, data science and AI to address the increasing complexity of modern energy systems. My research spans electricity markets, energy forecasting and analytics, the integration of distributed energy resources and local energy communities, and digital twins and energy data spaces.

I received my Ph.D. (Cum Laude) in Computer Science from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), Spain, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University (2016–2020).

I lead interdisciplinary Dutch and European research projects with academic, industrial and public-sector partners. These include Sharing the Warmth(PI, NWO KIC), developing trustworthy approaches to data sharing and decision-making, alongside energy data-space architectures for urban heat-transition planning; HighLO Energy Markets  (PI), collaborating with CERN, energy regulators and exchanges on electricity market analytics and market manipulation detection; and MESSM(PI, TKI Urban Energy), developing methods for behind-the-meter solar PV power disaggregation from smart-meter data. Previous projects include Energy Intranets (NWO), PARENT (EU), B-DER (TKI), AI ELSA Lab (NWO), Smart EV Solar Charging (EU) and GO-P2P (IEA).

I serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and previously served IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. I have contributed to the technical program committees of IEEE SmartGridComm, PSCC, IEEE SEST, IEEE ISGT and the Energy Informatics Academy Conference. I am an IEEE Senior Member and serve on the Management Team of 4TU.NIRICT.

Throughout my career, I have supervised dozens of MSc and BSc students, along with multiple PhDs and postdocs. I teach and coordinate the Programming in Python and Big Data courses, and I am also the coordinator of the BSc Data Science Minor at WUR.