Nawaf Nazir is a Staff Research Scientist in the Energy and Environment directorate (EED) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA. His work is at the intersection of optimization, control systems and machine learning with applications to interconnected energy and transportation systems . He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million dollar Department of Energy and ARPA-E projects related to energy efficiency and resiliency, in which he has managed a diverse team of researchers at PNNL in addition to collaborating with academia, government, and industry. He uses his knowledge in convex and non- convex optimization to solve large-scale optimization problems in energy systems in a scalable manner with the goal of improving system resiliency, reliability and efficiency. He has spearheaded and chaired several workshops and panels at venues such as Transportation Research Board (TRB), Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, PES Grid-edge conference, American Control Conference, INFORMS and SIAM. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (TPWRS), an Associate Editor of IEEE Control Systems Society, a member of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Council, and a member of the Transportation Energy committee of TRB. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont. ​