Sauleh Siddiqui Professor CAS | Environmental Science
- Degrees
- A.B. in Mathematics and Public Policy (2007) from Franklin & Marshall College
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation (2011) from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. - Bio
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Sauleh Siddiqui is a Professor of Environmental Science with an affiliation with the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at American University and a Research Fellow at the German Economic Research Institute (DIW Berlin). He has served as Chief Energy Modeler with the U.S. Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy, where he provided leadership for the Annual Energy Outlook and International Energy Outlook and oversaw major methodological improvements to the agency’s modeling systems. In that role, he also led Project BlueSky, the development of the next-generation energy model to capture the impacts of electrification, decarbonization policies, and rapidly evolving energy markets.
He is the inaugural PI and Director of the Multiscale RECIPES for Sustainable Food Systems Research Network, a $15M cooperative agreement with NSF funding over 15 institutions, 40 faculty, 45 graduate students, and 14 staff. His primary area of research is mathematical optimization and operations research applied to environmental systems, including energy infrastructure, food systems, and human health. His algorithms for systems optimization incorporate infrastructure function, game theory and markets, and energy and environmental policies to enable optimal decision-making.
He has also engaged directly with local governance and policy as an elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) in Cleveland Park, Washington, DC. In this role, he has worked on community issues at the intersection of research and practice, including sustainability planning, transportation, and neighborhood development, further bridging academic insight with civic engagement and policy implementation.
He is the recipient of the Young Researcher Prize from the INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment (ENRE) section, where he has served as the Secretary/Treasurer and past Chair of the Energy Cluster. He has also served as Vice Chair for Linear and Conic Optimization for the INFORMS Optimization Society and is currently an Associate Editor for the journals Optimization & Engineering and Energy Systems.
- See Also
- Multiscale RECIPES for Sustainable Food Systems Research Network
- Google Scholar Profile
- Department of Environmental Science
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Teaching
Spring 2025
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ENVS-505 Energy
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ENVS-596 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Food Systems