Yousef Al-Qattan

Yousef S. Al-Qattan is a graduate student at Columbia University pursuing an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He was inducted into the MS Honors Program in Spring 2025. Yousef graduated Magna Cum Laude with a dual B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2018.
Prior to joining Columbia, he was a research associate at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), where he collaborated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to analyze Kuwait’s energy system, develop data-driven demand forecasting models, and create optimization models to assess long-term energy infrastructure expansion pathways.
Outside of the lab, Yousef is interested in history, geopolitics, social and economic systems, and the larger forces shaping energy transitions.
At MPlab, his primary research interests are power electronics, renewable energy, and controls, specifically focusing on multi-grid power converters with decentralized per-phase control.