Dr. Cerrai's research spans from fundamental investigation of precipitation microphysics to applied research related to weather impact modeling, resilience, renewable energy, and energy justice. Dr Cerrai is PI or Co-PI in several research and development projects funded by private companies and federal agencies, including Eversource Energy, Avangrid, Exelon, Dominion Energy, ISO-New England, NYCHA, NASA, NSF, EPA, and DoE. Specific projects include:

• Power outage prediction modeling for electric transmission and distribution systems,
• Power outage restoration modeling and optimization,
• Grid resilience assessment,
• Wildfire ignition modeling,
• Electricity demand prediction,
• Renewable energy integration forecasting,
• Vegetation uprooting prediction,
• NASA GPM Ground validation of wintry precipitation measurements,
• Support to Environmental Justice (EJ) communities.