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I am a senior researcher in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University. My research interests are threefold: (1) Integrated Energy Systems Operation and Planning; (2) Energy Markets and Transactive Energy, (3) Energy Systems Integration. Before joining Newcastle University, I have been a faculty member (A/Professor) in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University for 10 years. I was a post-doctoral researcher at the school of Engineering of Newcastle University. I received my PhD degree (with High Distinction) in electrical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology. With >150 research outcomes and publications in top rank journals and conferences and >1100 citations (h-index=17, i10-index=23), I am a research scientist with more than 15 years of experience and have worked with international researchers on various interdisciplinary problems in power and energy systems, economics, operation research, and control theory. I am the recipient of several International, National, and Institutional Prizes. I am the recipient of the Iranian Young Professors Prize of the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology-National Elites Foundation. I was also endorsed as an Exceptional Talent in Electrical Engineering and received the prize from the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology-National Elites Foundation. I have won several other awards and honours, including the Best Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering (as a supervisor) from Iranian Smart Homes Festival, Acknowledged Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering (as a supervisor) from the Iranian Society of Smart Grids, Distinguished Researcher of the Year in electrical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, and placing in the Top 0.1% of the nationwide the universities entrance exam of Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. I am a Senior Member of the IEEE. I am a Member of Editorial Board and Associate Editor of the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution as well as the IET Smart Grid, and also serve on the Steering Committees and Technical Program Committees of several international conferences in power and energy.

NEWS

o July 2020: Our White Paper for EU H2020 inteGRIDy project published.

o MAY 2020: I serve as the Editor of a new Springer book on Active Buildings entitled: Active Building Energy Systems: Operation and Control.

o APRIL 2020: Our paper acknowledged as the Top Downloaded Paper of by WILEY International Journal of Electrical and Energy Systems in 2018-2019.

o JANUARY 2020: I started my collaboration with the Active Buiding Centre (ABC) as a senior researcher.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Academic Positions

2020-present: Senior Research Associate, EPSRC Active Building Centre (ABC), School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

2018-2019: Project Manager and Research Associate, H2020 inteGRIDy project, School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

2019-Present: Member of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

2019-Present: Member of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor, IET Smart Grid

2015- 2018: Founder and Director of SOHA Smart Energy Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran

2010- 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran

Management and Administrative Track Record

2016-2018: Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Vice-President) for Management and Resources Development and Member of Executive Board, Niroo Research Institute (NRI), Tehran, Iran

2014-2016: Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Secretary of the Research Council, Niroo Research Institute (NRI), Tehran, Iran

2012-2014: Director of Education and Secretary of the Education Council, Abbaspour School of Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran

2013-2014: Member of Selected Committee for Promotions, Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran

Industrial and Research Institutes Engagement

2012-2013: Technical Consultant, Strategic Planning and Control Department, MAPNA Group, Iran

2010-2012: Technical Consultant, Energy Research Center, Niroo Research Institute, Iran

2004-2010: Research Assistant, Green Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran

2006-2010: Research Assistant, Energy Research Center, Niroo Research Institute, Iran

2004-2006: Research Assistant, Electricity Research Center, Niroo Research Institute, Iran

EDUCATION

Postdoc

School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, “Integration of Energy Systems”

PhD

Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, September 2006 - February 2010, Thesis title: “Optimal Bidding Strategy of Power Producers in Joint Energy and Spinning Reserve Markets”

MSc

Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, September 2004 - September 2006, Thesis title: “Short Term Electricity Price Forecasting in Power Markets Using Artificial Neural Networks”

BSc

Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU), Tehran, Iran, September 2000 - September 2004.

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

I am a Senior Research Associate in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University. I have been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University (SBU). I obtained the BSc degree from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2004, and the MSc (with High Distinction) and PhD degrees (with High Distinction) from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2006 and 2010, respectively, all in electrical engineering. I was also a postdoctoral researcher at the school of Engineering of Newcastle University. I also founded the SOHA Smart Energy Systems Laboratory at SBU in 2015 and directed it for 3 years. I have demonstrated a consistent track record of attracting external funds and managed several industrial projects and closely worked with several large and complex national/international projects.

Since 2018 I am with the School of Engineering at Newcastle University and manage the inteGRIDy as an EU Horizon 2020 project. I am also a senior researcher of the Active Building Centre (ABC) as a national centre of excellence, where, I lead activities in the area of control and optimisation of active buildings. The objective is to adapt and implement state of the art control and optimisation methods to optimise the profitability of energy-positive buildings through coordinating energy scheduling, including electric vehicle charging while meeting internal comfort requirements.

I am also the recipient of several International, National and Institutional Prizes. I am the recipient of the Iranian Young Professors Prize of the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology-National Elites Foundation. I was also endorsed as an Exceptional Talent in Electrical Engineering and received the prize from the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology-National Elites Foundation. I have won several other awards and honours, including the Best Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering (as a supervisor) from Iran Smart Homes Festival, Acknowledged Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering (as a supervisor) from Iranian Society of Smart Grids, Distinguished Researcher of the Year in electrical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, and placing in the Top 0.1% of the nationwide universities entrance exam of Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.

I was considered as one of the Outstanding Reviewers of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy in 2019. I am also the winner of the Publons Top Peer Reviewer Award in two consecutive years of 2018 and 2019 and have been placed in Top 1% Reviewers of engineering in 2018 and engineering and cross-field in 2019. I am also the Publons Top-Handling Editor of the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution as well as the IET Smart Grid.

My research interests are threefold: (1) Integrated Energy Systems Operation and Planning; (2) Energy Markets and Transactive Energy, (3) Energy Systems Integration. More specifically, I have worked on the smart grids, microgrids, and active buildings design, operation and economics, and what I have been most interested in over the last years is the application of advanced optimisation and machine learning algorithms in these studies. Today, I work with the focus on the whole system approach to energy and work on a broader research portfolio with the aim of clean energy systems integration into the power systems, by considering flexibility and transactive energy as key elements. I have worked with international researchers on various interdisciplinary problems in power and energy systems, economics, optimization theory, and control theory.

I am a research scientist with more than 16 years of experience in sustainable power and energy studies, 150 publications in top rank and peer-reviewed journals and conferences and 1100 citations. I have served as a Thesis Supervisor/Advisor of 77 students in the Electric Power Engineering (including 11 PhD, 40 MSc and 26 BSc students).

I am a senior member of the IEEE, member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) as well as IEEE Smart Grid Society. I am a Member of the Editorial Board and Associate Editor of IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution as well as the IET Smart Grid, Editor of Springer’s book on Active Building Energy Systems, and also serve on the Steering Committees and Technical Program Committees of several international conferences in power and energy.

Besides my research and education experiences, I have more than six years of management experience in research and higher education institutes including Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Management and Resources Development and Member of Executive Board, Niroo Research Institute (NRI), Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (NRI) and Secretary of Research Council, and Director of Education Office and Secretary of Education Council of ASE at SBU. I also served as a Board Member and Head of Research and Education Committee of the Iranian Society of Smart Grids.

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Outstanding Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2019.

  • Author of the Top Downloaded Paper in 2018-2019, International Journal of Electrical and Energy Systems, WILEY, 2020.

  • Top Handling Editor, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Publons, 2019 & 2020.

  • Top Handling Editor, IET Smart Grid, Publons, 2019 and 2020.

  • Placing in the Top 1% reviewers in Engineering, Publons Peer Review Awards 2019.

  • Placing in the Top 1% reviewers in Cross-Field, Publons Peer Review Awards 2019.

  • Outstanding reviewer, Applied Energy, 2018.

  • Outstanding reviewer, International Journal of Electrical and Energy Systems, 2018.

  • Outstanding reviewer, Energy Conversion and Management, 2018.

  • Placing in the Top 1% reviewers in Engineering, Publons Peer Review Awards 2018.

  • Placing in the Top 8 Reviewers of the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Publons (based on the manuscripts reviewed in last 12 months), May 2019.

  • Placing in the Top 8 Reviewers of the IET Renewable Power Generation, Publons (based on the manuscripts reviewed in last 12 months), May 2019.

  • IEEE Senior member, 2017.

  • Finalist and Acknowledged BSc Thesis in Electrical Engineering (as a supervisor), Iranian Society of Smart Grids, 2015.

  • Best BSc Thesis in Electrical Engineering (as a supervisor), Iranian Smart Home Festival, 2014.

  • Recipient of the Iranian Young Professors Prize, Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology-National Elites Foundation, 2011.

  • Endorsed as an Exceptional Talent in Electrical Engineering and received the prize from the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology-National Elites Foundation, 2010.

  • Scholarship for PhD program from the Ministry of Science, research and Technology, 2006.

  • First rank Student of MSc Degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2006.

  • Distinguished Researcher in Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2005.

  • Distinguished Student in Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2005.

  • Scholarship for MSc program from the Ministry of Science, research and Technology, 2004.

  • Scholarship for BEng program from the Ministry of Science, research and Technology, 2000.

  • Placing in the Top 0.1% of the nationwide universities entrance exam of Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, 2000.

FUNDING AND INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

Funding

Qazvin DNO: Scenario Development of Lines and Substations Maneuver in Qazvin Electric Distribution Network by Considering Reliability and Load Uncertainty, Qazvin Electric Power Distribution Company. PI, 2017-2018.

National Elites Foundation: An Environmental Techno-Economic Assessment of Microgrids, National Elites Foundation, Shahid Beheshti University, PI, 2011.

Tehran GENCO: Software Design and Development for Optimal Bidding Strategy of Tehran Electricity Generation Company in Iran Electricity Market, CoI, 2008-2010.

Gilan GENCO: Software Design and Development for Optimal Bidding Strategy of Gilan Electricity Generation Company in Iran Electricity Market, CoI, 2008-2010.

Industrial Projects

2020-present: Senior Research Associate of the EPSRC Active Building Centre at the School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

1) EPSRC Active Building Centre, National centre of excellence with the vision of transforming the UK construction and energy sectors through the deployment of active buildings contributing to more efficient energy use and decarbonisation.

2018-present: Project Manager and Research Associate of the inteGRIDy project at the School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

2) inteGRIDy is an EU Horizon 2020 project being financed by the European Commission under Grant agreement 731268.

2014-2018: Principal Investigator (PI) of the following industrial research projects:

3) An Environmental Techno-Economic Assessment of Microgrids, National Elites Foundation, Shahid Beheshti University

4) Scenario Development of Lines and Substations Maneuver in Qazvin Electric Distribution Network by Considering Reliability and Load Uncertainty, Qazvin Electric Power Distribution Company

2012-2013: Technical Consultant for MAPNA Group

MAPNA Group is an Iranian enterprise, which operates in the area of construction and development of thermal power plants under EPC scheme, independent power plants (IPP), oil and gas as well as rail traction projects.

5) Analysis of new businesses opportunities in smart grids and distributed generation manufacturing.

2010-2014: Co-I of the following projects at Energy Research Center, Niroo Research Institute (NRI) in unit commitment of generation companies as well as price forecasting issues and in the following practical research projects for two realistic case studies:

NRI is the only Electric Power Research Institute of IRAN Ministry of Energy with the yearly budget of $60m which is responsible for managing the research and technology of Iranian power industry. NRI’s research covers different aspects of electric power including generation, delivery, renewables integration, electricity markets and grid modernization.

6) Software Design and Development for Optimal Bidding Strategy of Tehran Regional Electric Company in Iran Electricity Market

7) Software Design and Development for Optimal Bidding Strategy of Gilan Regional Electric Company in Iran Electricity Market

2004-2010: Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in the following international project for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO):

8) Energy Management for Energy Intensive Industries of Iran

2006-2010: Research Assistant, Energy Research Center, Niroo Research Institute (NRI) in the application of neural networks in time series prediction and in the following practical research project:

9) Software Design and Development for Electric Price Forecasting of the Azarbaijan Regional Electric Company

2004-2006: Research Assistant, Electricity Research Center, Niroo Research Institute (NRI) in the application of neural networks and fuzzy systems in time series prediction and in the following practical research projects:

10) Software Design and Development for Electric Load Forecasting of the Iran National Grid

11) Software Design and Development for Electric Load Forecasting of the Khoozestan Regional Electric Company

12) Software Design and Development for Electric Load Forecasting of the Bakhtar Regional Electric Company

SUPERVISION

Number of Thesis Supervision: 77 Number of PhD Students: 11 Number of MSc Students: 40 Number of BSc Students: 26

SERVICES TO THE PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

Editorial Board Membership

1) IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2019- present

2) IET Smart Grid, 2019- present

Editor/Associate Editor/Guest Editor

1) IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2019- present

2) IET Smart Grid, 2019- present

3) Springer Book, Active Building Energy Systems, 2020-2021

4) Guest Editor of the Special Issue on: "On the Role of Energy Storage in the Grid of The Future", IET Smart Grid, 2020

Reviewer (In total: 34 Journals)

IEEE: (8 Journals)

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems II: Express Brief, IEEE Letters, IEEE ACCESS

IET: (4 Journals)

IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Smart Grid, The Journal of Engineering

ELSEVIER: (10 Journals)

Applied Energy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Electric Power Systems Research, Energy, Energy Conversion & Management, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy System, Applied Soft Computing, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation

Springer: (3 Journals)

Machine Learning Journal, Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy, Iranian Journal of Science & Technology, Transaction of Electrical Engineering

John Wiley & Sons: (1 Journal)

International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems

Taylor & Francis Group: (2 Journals)

Cogent Engineering, Electric Power Components and Systems

Other peer-reviewed journals: (6 Journals)

Scientia Iranica, Tabriz Journal of Electrical Engineering, Iranian Journal of Energy, Iranian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Engineering Management, Journal of Energy Management and Technology

HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS

IEEE Technical Communities

1) Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

2) Member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES)

3) Member of the IEEE Smart Grid Society

Scientific Boards and Societies Membership

1) Board Member and Head of Research and Education Committee of Iranian Society of Smart Grid (2015-2018)

2) Member of Iranian Elites National Foundation

3) Member of Iran Energy Association

4) Member of Steering Committee for Power Systems Operation Studies, Niroo Research Institute

5) Member of Steering Committee for Roadmap Development of Iran Power Grid Reliability, Niroo Research Institute

Organizer

1) Chair for the Smart Buildings Track, The 4th Iranian Conference on Smart Grids, Niroo Research Institute (NRI), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2014.

2) Publicity Chair, The 4th Conference on Thermal Power Plants (Gas, Combined Cycle, Steam), 2012.

3) Member of Steering Committee of the International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST) Series

4) Member of Steering Committee of the Iranian Conference on Smart Grids (SGC) Series

Technical Program Committee Membership at Conferences

1) Member of Technical Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technology SEST-2020, Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 2020.

2) Member of Steering and Technical Program Committee, 9th Iranian Conference on Smart Grids, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2019.

3) PEMD Technical Reviewing Committee, Theme E - Energy systems, IET’s 10th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, Nottingham, UK, Apr. 2020.

4) Member of Technical Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technology SEST-2019, Porto, Portugal, Sep. 2019.

5) Member of Steering and Technical Program Committee, 8th Iranian Conference on Smart Grids, University of Kurdistan, Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran, Dec. 2018.

6) Member of Technical Program Committee, First National Conference on Resilience of Electricity Networks, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran, Dec. 2018.

7) Member of Steering and Technical Program Committee, 7th Iranian Conference on Smart Grids, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2017.

8) Member of Technical Program Committee, 5th International Reliability and Safety Engineering Conference, University of Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran, May. 2018.

9) Member of Steering and Technical Program Committee, 6th Iranian Conference on Smart Grids, Kerman University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran, Dec. 2016.

10) Member of Steering and Technical Program Committee, 5th Iranian Conference on Smart Grids, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2015.

11) Member of Technical Program Committee, 4th Iranian Conference on Smart Grids, Niroo Research Institute (NRI), Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2014.

12) Member of Technical Program Committee, 22nd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2014), Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, May 2014.

13) Member of Technical Program Committee, 3nd Iranian Conference on Smart Grids, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2013.

14) Member of Technical Program Committee, 3rd Conference on Thermal Power Plants (Gas, Combined Cycle, Steam), Abbaspour University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2012.

15) Member of Technical Program Committee, 2nd Iranian Conference on Smart Grids, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 2012.

SOFTWARE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

Technical Software

1) The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS)

2) MATLAB (m-file and Simulink)

3) OpalRT Real-Time Digital Simulator

4) DiGSILENT Power Factory

5) IPSA Power

6) Power World Simulator

7) Python (Elementry)

General Software

1) Microsoft Office

2) LATEX / Overleaf

3) WordPress Web Design

4) EndNote

5) EdrawMax

6) Prezi

7) Adobe Illustrator

8) Adobe Photoshop