Organizers
Chair: Dr. Reza Arghandeh is a Professor in the Department of Computing, Mathematics, and Physics at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. He has been an Assistant Professor in ECE Dept, Florida State University, USA 2015-2018, and a postdoctoral scholar at EECS Dept, University of California, Berkeley 2013-2015. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in power systems at Virginia Tech, 2013. He holds MS degrees in Industrial and System Engineering from Virginia Tech 2013 and in Energy Systems from the University of Manchester 2008. He was a power system software designer at Electrical Distribution Design Inc. in Virginia, USA, 2011-2013. He won the IBM Faculty Award in 2018 in Big Data Analytics Applications for Smart Buildings. Dr. Arghandeh research interests include data analysis and decision support for smart grids and smart cities. He is senior member of IEEE and the chair of the IEEE Task Force on Big Data Application for Power Distribution Network.
Contributors
Dr. Hamed Mohsenian-Rad is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, an Associate Director of the Winston Chung Global Energy Center, Director of the UC-National Lab Center for Power Distribution Cyber Security, and Director of the Smart Grid Research Lab at the University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. His research interests include modeling, data analytics, and optimization of power systems and smart grids. He has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, and a Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications. Two of his papers are currently ranked as the two most cited journal articles in the field of smart grids. Dr. Mohsenian-Rad received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 2008. He currently serves as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, an Editor of the IEEE Power Engineering Letters, a Vice-Chair of the IEEE Smart Grid Communications Emerging Technical Subcommittee, and a co-Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society Working Group on Big Data Access and Research Integration.
Dr. Omid Ardakanian is an Assistant Professor in Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 2015. He was subsequently an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of British Columbia, and was affiliated with the California Institute for Energy and Environment. He has received best paper awards at IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, ACM BuildSys, and ACM e-Energy. His research interests include large-scale data analysis, ubiquitous computing, and optimization and control of smart infrastructure systems.
Dr. Mario Paolone received the M.Sc. (with honors) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 2005, he was appointed assistant professor in power systems at the University of Bologna where he was with the Power Systems laboratory until 2011. Since 2011 he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is now Full Professor, Chair of the Distributed Electrical Systems laboratory and Head of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER) FURIES (Future Swiss Electrical infrastructure). In 2013, he was the recipient of the IEEE EMC Society Technical Achievement Award. He was co-author of several papers that received the following awards: best IEEE Transactions on EMC paper award for the year 2017, in 2014 best paper award at the 13th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, Durham, UK, in 2013 Basil Papadias best paper award at the 2013 IEEE PowerTech, Grenoble, France, in 2008 best paper award at the International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC).He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. His research interests are in power systems with particular reference to real-time monitoring and operation, power system protections, power systems dynamics and power system transients.