Amrit Pandey is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Biomedical department at the University of Vermont with a courtesy appointment in the Electric and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy departments at Carnegie Mellon University. His overarching research goal is to develop electric energy system technologies to help combat climate change while modernizing the underlying system. In the past, he and his team developed a novel circuit-theoretic simulation and optimization framework for power grids. The project culminated in a new grid analytics tool: Simulation of Unified Grid Analysis and Renewables (SUGAR), which Pearl Street Technologies, Inc. has since commercialized. This work has won several best paper awards, including two best-of-the-best paper awards at IEEE PES General Meeting in 2017 and 2021. His current research focuses on developing computational methods that address problems in the space of large-scale grid simulation and optimization, grid cybersecurity, and energy inequity.