I am a postdoctoral researcher with expertise at the intersection of energy systems and optimization, including electricity markets and power system planning problems. In my recent and ongoing work, I am developing optimization models and algorithms for power grid expansion planning, including its software implementation in high-performance computing platforms.

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC Berkeley, Berkely, California

Ms.C Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC Berkeley, Berkely, California

MSc Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

BSc Mechatronics Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

T. Valencia Zuluaga and S.S. Oren, “Stable and fair uniform price allocations of community choice aggregation gains in retail electricity markets”. Energy Syst (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12667-025-00737-4

T. Valencia Zuluaga, “Optimization of Electricity Systems under Uncertainty”, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at Berkeley (2024)

T Valencia Zuluaga, A. Musselman, J.P. Watson and S.S. Oren, “Parallel computing for power system climate resiliency: Solving a large-scale stochastic capacity expansion problem with mpi-sppy”. Electr. Power Syst. Res. 235, 110720 (2024). doi:10.1016/j.epsr.2024.110720

T. Valencia Zuluaga and S.S. Oren, “Data-Driven Sizing of Co-Located Storage for Uncertain Renewable Energy”, Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation (2023)https://doi.org/10.1109/TEMPR.2023.3277844

• UC Berkeley IEOR Faculty Fellowship Award (2023)
• UC Berkeley IEOR Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2022)
• Fulbright-Colciencias Scholarship Grantee (2019-2023)
• Ponce de León Award, Colombian Society of Engineers (2015)
• Young Engineers Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (2012)