Keynote Speakers

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Keynote Speaker I

Prof. M. Fotuhi-Firuzabad, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

(Fellow of the IEEE )

M. Fotuhi-Firuzabad (IEEE Fellow, 2014) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran in 1986 and 1989, respectively and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1993 and 1997, respectively, where he worked as the postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor from 1998-2001 and 2001-2002, respectively. Currently, he is a professor of Electrical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is a member of center of excellence in power system control and management in the same department. He was the president of Sharif University of Technology (2014-2021) and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering (2005-2014). His current research interests include operation and planning of electric power systems, power system reliability, distributed renewable generation, demand response and smart grid technologies. His technical contributions in the field include more than 700 papers, and supervising more than 130 masters theses and doctoral dissertations. These publications have been well recognized in the scientific community with more than 26,000 citations with an h-index of 85. He is the recipient of several national and international awards including World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Gold Medal for the outstanding inventor award, 2003, PMAPS International Society Merit Award for contributions of probabilistic methods applied to power Systems in 2016, Outstanding Researcher Award in the Iranian Power Industry (Iran-2017), Nationwide Outstanding Research Award (Iran-2012), Sixteen Khwarizmi International Award, and 2014 Allameh Tabatabaei Award. He has received the IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Award for the publication “Optimal PMU Placement Based on Probabilistic Cost/Benefit Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2013”. He has been the PI of more than 40 industrial projects, and a keynote speaker in a number of national and international conferences. He has also offered a number of short courses in power systems reliability at academic institutions and industries in Iran and abroad. Dr. Fotuhi-Firuzabad has been a visiting professor in several internationally renowned institutions and universities (Finland-Aalto University, Denmark-Aalborg University, Malaysia- Universiti Teknologi MARA, China-North China Electric Power University). He served as the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Power Engineering Letters from 2017 to 2022. He also served as the Guest Associate Editor, Special Issue on “Electric Vehicle Charging Impacts on Power Systems”, ”Reliability and Resilience Modelling, Assessment, and Enhancement of Modern Power Systems with Proliferation of Grid-Edge Resources”, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, and Special Issue on ”Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Electrical Power and Energy Systems”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. Dr. Fotuhi-Firuzabad is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Associate Fellow of the Iran National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to the application of probabilistic techniques in power systems reliability assessment. Dr. Fotuhi-Firuzabad is currently Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

 

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. M. S. Muyeen, Qatar University, Qatar

 ( Senior member of the IEEE, Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust),  Charted Professional Engineer (CPEng) of Engineers Australia)

M. Fotuhi-Firuzabad (IEEE Fellow, 2014) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran in 1986 and 1989, respectively and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1993 and 1997, respectively, where he worked as the postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor from 1998-2001 and 2001-2002, respectively. Currently, he is a professor of Electrical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is a member of center of excellence in power system control and management in the same department. He was the president of Sharif University of Technology (2014-2021) and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering (2005-2014). His current research interests include operation and planning of electric power systems, power system reliability, distributed renewable generation, demand response and smart grid technologies. His technical contributions in the field include more than 700 papers, and supervising more than 130 masters theses and doctoral dissertations. These publications have been well recognized in the scientific community with more than 26,000 citations with an h-index of 85. He is the recipient of several national and international awards including World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Gold Medal for the outstanding inventor award, 2003, PMAPS International Society Merit Award for contributions of probabilistic methods applied to power Systems in 2016, Outstanding Researcher Award in the Iranian Power Industry (Iran-2017), Nationwide Outstanding Research Award (Iran-2012), Sixteen Khwarizmi International Award, and 2014 Allameh Tabatabaei Award. He has received the IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Award for the publication “Optimal PMU Placement Based on Probabilistic Cost/Benefit Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2013”. He has been the PI of more than 40 industrial projects, and a keynote speaker in a number of national and international conferences. He has also offered a number of short courses in power systems reliability at academic institutions and industries in Iran and abroad. Dr. Fotuhi-Firuzabad has been a visiting professor in several internationally renowned institutions and universities (Finland-Aalto University, Denmark-Aalborg University, Malaysia- Universiti Teknologi MARA, China-North China Electric Power University). He served as the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Power Engineering Letters from 2017 to 2022. He also served as the Guest Associate Editor, Special Issue on “Electric Vehicle Charging Impacts on Power Systems”, ”Reliability and Resilience Modelling, Assessment, and Enhancement of Modern Power Systems with Proliferation of Grid-Edge Resources”, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, and Special Issue on ”Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Electrical Power and Energy Systems”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. Dr. Fotuhi-Firuzabad is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Associate Fellow of the Iran National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to the application of probabilistic techniques in power systems reliability assessment. Dr. Fotuhi-Firuzabad is currently Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.