Professional Activities
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            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)
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            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