Professional Activities
-
Professional Service
- Technical-Chair of 2019 Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference (ESTAC)
- Technical-Chair of 2018 Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference (ESTAC)
- Technical Advisory Committee member for the Southern California Edison project on Electric Access System Enhancement (EASE)
- Technical Advisory Committee member for the SLAC project
- Co-Chair of Energy Storage and Electric Vehicles - Smart Grid Communications Emerging Technical Subcommittee
- Principal Editor of Balkan Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Committee member of Data-driven DER operations and economics- IEEE PES Subcommittee
- Review for:
- Louisiana Board of Regents’ Research Competitiveness subprogram (State research funding program)
- IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
- IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- Automatica
- Applied Sciences
- Energies
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Series on Green Communications and Networking
- Springer Journal on Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy
- Springer Journal on Electrical Engineering (ELEN)
- Springer International Journal of Automation and Computing
- Springer Journal on Modern Power Systems and Clear Energy (MPCE)
- Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC)
- IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PES GM)
- IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT)
- Iranian Student Conference on Electrical Engineering (ISCEE)
- Assistant Editor for Smart Grid Journal DE GRUYTER OPEN
- Vice Chair of IEEE Power and Energy Society, San Fernando Valley, CA
- Technical-Chair of 2019 Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference (ESTAC)
-
Invited Talk and Presentation
- Panel Chair and speaker: Energy Storage Technologies & Applications Conference, "Improving Power System Resilience by Employing Energy Storage", April 2019
- Invited speaker: talk at CE CERT Solar Conference, "Energy Research at the University of California", March 2018.
- Invited speaker: talk at UCLA Extension, “Smart Grid Reginal Demonstration Program”, July, 2017.
- Oral presentation at conference: “Univariate Time Series Prediction of Solar Power Using a Hybrid Wavelet-ARMA-NARX Prediction Method”, IEEE PES T&D, Dallas, Texas, 2-5 May 2016.
- Oral presentation at workshop: “Real time operation of battery energy storage systems”, Innovation Thought Leadership Forum: Advancing the Electric Grid for the 21st Century Energy Needs, Washington D.C, April 13, 2016.
- Invited speaker: talk at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), “PV Integration challenges”, Sept, 2015
- Invited speaker: talk at ITT technical institute, “Renewables Integration to the Power Grid”, Sept, 2015
- Oral presentation at conference: “Optimal Sizing and Placement of Battery Energy Storage in Distribution Systems Based on Solar Size for Voltage Regulation”, IEEE PES General Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 26-30 July 2015
- Poster presentation at conference: “Vehicle-to-Grid Automatic Load Sharing with Driver Preference in Micro-Grids”, IEEE PES General Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 26-30 July 2015
- Poster presentation at conference: “Optimal PMU Placement for Fault Observability in Distributed Power System by Using Simultaneous Voltage and Current Measurements” IEEE PES T&D, Chicago, Illinois, 14-17 April 2014
- Oral presentation at conference: “Control of UPFC Using Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman Formulation Based Neural Network”. Proceedings of the 2012 Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), San Diego, California USA, July 2012
- Oral presentation at conference: “Control of Parallel Three-phase Inverters Using Optimal Control and SVPWM Technique”, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2009), Seoul Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea, July 2009
- Oral presentation at conference: “Improved Optimal Control Technique for Control of Parallel Three- phase Inverters”, Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS 2009), Sharjah, UAE, November 2009
- Panel Chair and speaker: Energy Storage Technologies & Applications Conference, "Improving Power System Resilience by Employing Energy Storage", April 2019