I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Riverside, advised by Prof. Maziar Raissi. I have worked in close collaboration with Prof. Hamed Mohsenian-Rad and Prof. Fabio Pasqualetti. My research interest lies at the intersection of online optimization, agentic AI, physics-informed ML, scientific ML, and smart grids. More about me.

I expect to complete my PhD in June 2027.

Education

  • University of California, Riverside

    2022 – 2027

    Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

  • Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

    2020 – 2022

    M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, Cyber Physical Systems.

  • National Institute of Technology Srinagar

    2016 – 2020

    B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering.

Experience

  • National Laboratory of the Rockies

    Jun – Sep 2026

    Graduate research intern with Dr. Fei Ding in Golden, CO, on foundation models and AI agents for power systems.

  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    Nov 2025 – Mar 2026

    Graduate research intern with Dr. Kaveri Mahapatra in Richland, WA, developing AI agents for power systems.

  • Department of Telecommunications

    May – Aug 2022

    Research associate, Department of Telecommunications, Government of India.

News

  • “Hybrid-time PINNs: Discontinuity-Aware Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Learning Hybrid Dynamical Systems” was submitted to IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) — see the project page.

  • “Exact Distributed Attitude Alignment on SO(3) for Robot Teams with Conflicting Local Objectives” was submitted to the American Control Conference (ACC).

  • “VeraGrid-Agent: Tool-Augmented LLMs for Distribution Optimal Power Flow at the Grid Edge” was accepted to IEEE PES Grid Edge — read the preprint.

  • “Online Optimization with Unknown Time-Varying Parameters using Noisy Gradient Measurements” was accepted to IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) — read the preprint.

  • Attended ICHQP in Dresden, Germany, to present our physics-informed synchro-waveform paper.

  • Our critical review of AI and machine learning methods for data-center load forecasting is out in Energies — read the paper.

  • Posted two grid-edge papers on arXiv: VeraGrid-Agent, a tool-augmented LLM for distribution optimal power flow, and a spectrogram-based detector for events in continuously recorded IBR waveforms.

  • Started a graduate research internship at NLR (National Laboratory of the Rockies) in Golden, CO, building foundation models and AI agents for power systems with Dr. Fei Ding.

  • “Test-Driven Agentic Framework for Reliable Robot Controller” was accepted to ICCAS (International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems) — read the preprint or see the project page.

  • “Data-Efficient Physics-Informed Learning for Synchro-Waveform Analytics of Grid-Integrated Inverter-Based Resources” was accepted to ICHQP (IEEE International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power) — read the preprint.

  • Presented our NSF-supported work on physics-informed learning at Rutgers University.

  • Advanced to PhD candidacy after passing the qualifying examination.

  • Joined PNNL (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) as a graduate research intern, developing AI agents for power systems with Dr. Kaveri Mahapatra.

  • “Online Optimization with Unknown Time-Varying Parameters” was published in IEEE Control Systems Letters — read the paper.

Selected Publications

All publications
  1. Hybrid-time PINNs: Discontinuity-Aware Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Learning Hybrid Dynamical Systems

    Shivanshu Tripathi, Maziar Raissi

    2026

  2. Online Optimization with Unknown Time-Varying Parameters using Noisy Gradient Measurements

    Shivanshu Tripathi, Fabio Pasqualetti, Maziar Raissi

    IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2026

  3. Online Optimization with Unknown Time-Varying Parameters

    Shivanshu Tripathi, Abed AlRahman Al Makdah, Fabio Pasqualetti

    IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 1610–1615, 2025

  4. Data-Efficient Physics-Informed Learning for Synchro-Waveform Analytics of Grid-Integrated Inverter-Based Resources

    Shivanshu Tripathi, Maziar Raissi, Hamed Mohsenian-Rad

    IEEE International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power (ICHQP), 2026

  5. A Partially Distributed Fixed-Time Economic Dispatch Algorithm with Kron’s Modeled Power Transmission Losses

    Shivanshu Tripathi, Anoop Jain, Abhisek K. Behera

    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2023

Honors & Awards

  • Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship, University of California, Riverside
  • Gold medal for outstanding student in academics, IIT Jodhpur
  • Best B.Tech. undergraduate thesis in the department, NIT Srinagar