Publications

See also Dr. Haider's Google Scholar page. 

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Papers

Journals

1. A second-order dual update approach for the decentralized optimal scheduling of polygenerative microgrids
   Giulio Ferro, Michela Robba, Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
   IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2025) [paper]

2. SiPhyR: An end-to-end learning-based optimization framework for dynamic grid reconfiguration 
   Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Biswadip Dey, Amit Chakraborty
   Transactions on Smart Grids (2024) [paper] [data] [slides]

3. Behind-the-meter distributed energy resources: Estimation, uncertainty quantification, and control
   A. Srivastava, J. Zhao, H. Zhu, F. Ding, S. Lei, I. Zografopoulos, R. Haider, S. Vahedi, W. Wang, G. Valverde, A.G. Exposito, A. Dubey, C. Konstantinou, N. Yu, S. Brahma, M. Ben-Idris, B. Liu, A.M. Annaswamy, Z. Wang, A. Srivastava
   IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2024), companion to IEEE PES Technical Report (TR111) [paper]

4. Voltage regulation in distribution grids: A survey
   Priyank Srivastava, Rabab Haider, Vineet J. Nair, Venkatesh Venkataramanan, Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Anurag K. Srivastava
   Annual Reviews in Control (2023) [paper]

5. Reactive power markets for the future grid
   Adam Potter, Rabab Haider, Giulio Ferro, Michela Robba, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
   Advances in Applied Energy (2023) [paper]

6. A hybrid architecture for volt-var control in active distribution grids
   Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
   Applied Energy (2022) [paper]

7. A distributed-optimization-based architecture for management of interconnected energy hubs
   Giulio Ferro, Michela Robba, Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
   Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2022) [paper]

8. A hierarchical local electricity market for a DER-rich grid edge
   Vineet J. Nair, Venkatesh Venkataramanan, Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
   Transactions on Smart Grids (2022) [paper]

9. Reinventing the Utility for Distributed Energy Resources: A proposal for retail electricity markets
   Rabab Haider, David D'Achiardi, Venkatesh Venkataramanan, Anurag K. Srivastava, Anjan Bose, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
   Advances in Applied Energy (2021) [paper] [1-pager]

10. A distributed proximal atomic coordination algorithm
    Jordan J. Romvary, Giulio Ferro, Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
    Transactions on Automatic Control (2021) [paper]

11. Towards a retail market for distribution grids
    Rabab Haider, Stefanos Baros, Yasuaki Wasa, Jordan J. Romvary, Kenko Uchida, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
    Transactions on Smart Grids (2020) [paper]

Conferences

12. A community impact-centered network reduction method for power systems resilience planning
    Jiarui Gao, Abigail Beck, Rabab Haider
    Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2027) [to appear]

13. Modeling joint Optimal Transmission Switching and Bus Splitting via reduced bus–branch and bus–breaker representations
    Jiajun Han, Rabab Haider
    PowerUp Conference (2026) [paper]

14. Trust-Region Benders for Scalable Multiperiod Expansion Planning for Transmission and Storage
    Kevin Wu, Rabab Haider, Pascal Van Hentenryck
    PowerUp Conference (2026) [paper]

15. High-Resolution PTDF-Based Planning of Storage and Transmission Under High Renewables
    Kevin Wu, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Rabab Haider
    Power Systems Computational Conference (2026) [paper]

16. Performance assessment of data sampling strategies for neural network-based voltage approximations
    Richard Asiamah, Rahul Gupta, Rabab Haider, Daniel Molzahn
    North American Power Symposium (2024) [paper]

17. Locational marginal burden: Quantifying the equity of optimal power flow solutions

    Samuel Talkington, Amanda West, Rabab Haider
    ACM e-Energy (2024) [paper][slides]

18. Physics-Informed graph neural network for dynamic reconfiguration of power systems
    Jules Authier, Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Florian  Dörfler
    Power Systems Computational Conference (2024)  [paper] [data] [slides]

19. A comparative study of centralized, distributed and local volt-var control algorithms on a practical distribution system
    Ben McCornack, Rabab Haider, Subir Majumder, Sanjeev Pannala, Noel N. Schulz, Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Anurag K. Srivastava
    IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) (2024) [paper]

20. A hierarchical coordination approach for voltage regulation in a DER-rich grid edge
    Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
    7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (2023) [paper]

21. Distributed operational management of microgrids: a second order dual update approach
    Giulio Ferro, Michela Robba, Federico Delfino, Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
    22nd IFAC World Congress (2023) [paper]

22. Flattening the duck curve: A case for distributed decision making
    Rabab Haider, Giulio Ferro, Michela Robba, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
    IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) (2022) [paper] [1-pager]

23. Distributed Backward/Forward Sweep algorithm for economic dispatch in modern distribution grids
    Rabab Haider, Rupamathi Jaddivada, Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Marija Ilic
    North American Power Symposium (2021) [paper]

24. Towards a Service-Oriented Broker architecture for the distribution grid
    Mohamadou Bella Bah, Rabab Haider, Venkatesh Venkataramanan, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
    IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (2020) [paper]

25. Optimal coordination of distributed energy resources in smart grids enabled by distributed optimization
    Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
    MIT A+B Applied Energy Symposium (2020) [paper]

26. A distributed approach to the optimal power flow problem for unbalanced and mesh networks
    Giulio Ferro, Michela Robba, David D'Achiardi, Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
    21st IFAC World Congress (2020) [paper]

Workshops

27. Towards closing the data gap: A project-driven distributed energy resource dataset for the U.S. grid
    Rabab Haider, Yixing Xu, Weiwei Yang
    4th International Workshop on Energy Data and Analytics at 14th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy) (2023) [paper] [data] [slides] 

Preprints

28. Data center cooling choices shift water impacts across the grid: An integrated water-energy model for sustainable data center development
    Garrett Alston, Nancy Love, Rabab Haider
    arXiv (2026) [paper]

29. Flow-Aware GNN for transmission network reconfiguration via substation breaker optimization
    Dekang Meng, Rabab Haider, Pascal Van Hentenryck
    arXiv (2025) [paper]

30. High-spatial resolution transmission and storage expansion planning for high renewable grids: A case study
    Kevin Wu, Rabab Haider, Pascal Van Hentenryck
    arXiv (2024) [paper]

Technical Reports

Behind-the-meter distributed energy resources: Estimation, uncertainty quantification, and control (TR111)
IEEE PES Resource Center, June (2023) [report]

Articles

FERC Order 2222 – What does it mean for DERs?
Swochchhanda Shrestha, Rabab Haider, Anuradha M. Annaswamy
IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter, October (2021) [article]