Greetings from Vermont!

My name is Sam Chevalier. I am an assistant professor of electrical engineering and an affiliate of the Complex Systems Institutue at the University of Vermont (my Alma Mater!) where I run the Grid Verification Lab. We focus on problems at the intersection power grid optimization and machine learning verification. Until fall of 2023, I was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with Spyros Chatzivasileiadis. Prior to DTU, I recieved my PhD (‘21) from the mechanical engineering department at MIT. For more information, download my CV.

I presently chair the Power and Energy Society (PES) chapter of the IEEE Green Mountain Section (mainly Vermont). Join us!

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Lab News!
  • 11/17/25: Will and Eren both submitted papers to the 2026 PESGM. Will’s paper focuses on designing distribution transformer upgrade schedules; Eren’s paper uses interval bound propagation to bound security-constrained OPF solutions.
  • 11/13/25: Will and Sam were invited to present their recent work at the EIMC2 seminar series at MIT. It was a tag-team presentation. Very fun!
  • 10/27/25: Sam was highlighted in a UVM CEMS news story about his NSF CAREER grant
  • 10/15/25: Omid submitted his work on GPU-accelerated 3-phase network reduction to PSCC’26
  • 10/15/25: Duncan, Sam, and LANL submitted their work on load shedding verification to PSCC’26

★ Lab Recruitment ★

In the fall of 2023, I launched my lab at UVM. I’m looking to build and maintain a strong team of fully funded mathematical innovators who are passionate about solving real-world (i) power grid, (ii) network optimization, and (iii) ML verification problems. If these topics excite you, reach out to me at schevali [at] uvm.edu.

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