Ehsan Farmahini Farahani (2015 – 2021)

Thesis title:
Design, Simulation, Optimization, and Prototyping of an Innovative Switched Reluctance Motor for an In-Wheel EV Application

Ehsan Farmahini Farahani was born in Tehran, Iran. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2012 and 2014, respectively.

Ehsan Ghaemi (2010 – 2017)

Thesis title:
Design and Prototyping of a New Flywheel Energy Storage System

Ehsan Ghaemi received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2005 and his M.S. degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2007.

Hamid Reza Baghaee (2011 – 2017)

Thesis title:
Control of Smart Microgrids to Respond to Large-Signal Disturbances and Nonlinearities and its Real-time Implementation

Hamid Reza Baghaee (Member, IEEE) was born in Kashan, Iran, in June 1984. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, in 2017. From 2007 to 2017, he was a Teacer and a Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical Engineering, AUT. In Aug.2019, he joined AUT, as an Associate Research Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering. He was a short-term Scientist with CERN and ABB, Switzerland. He is the Author of two books, three published book chapters, 80 ISI-ranked journal papers (mostly in IEEE, IET, and Elsevier journals), 55 conference papers, and the owner of a registered patent. He has many HIGHLY-CITED papers among his journal papers, based on SciVal and Web of Science statistics. His research interests include micro and smart grids, cyber-physical systems, application of power electronics in power systems, distributed generation and renewable energy resources, FACTS CUSTOM Power devices, and HVDC systems, power system operation and control, real-time simulation of power systems, microgrids, and power electronic converters, and application of artificial intelligence in power systems. Dr. Baghaee is also the winner of four national and international prizes, as the Best Dissertation Award, from the Iranian scientific organization of smart grids (ISOSG) in Dec. 2017, Iranian energy association (IEA) in Feb. 2018, AUT in December 2018, and IEEE Iran Section in May 2019 for his Ph.D. dissertation. He is the Project Coordinator of the AUT Pilot Microgrid Project as one of the sub-projects of the Iran Grand (National) Smart Grid Project. He has been a Co-Supervisor of multiple Ph.D. and M.Sc. students since 2017. He was selected as the top 1% reviewer of engineering in Sep. 2018 and the top 1% reviewer of engineering and cross-field in September 2019. Dr. Baghaee is a Member and Secretary Chair at the IEEE Iran Section Communication Committee and a Member of IEEE Smart Grid Community, IEEE Internet of Things Technical Community, IEEE Big Data Community, and IEEE Sensors Council. Since Aug. 2021, he has been elected as the Member of the Board and Chairman of the Committee on Publications and Conferences at the Iran Scientific Organization of Smart Grids (ISOSG). He is also the Reviewer of several IEEE and IET journals and Guest Editor of several special issues in IEEE, IET, Elsevier, MDPI, and scientific program committees of several IEEE conferences. From Dec. 2020, he has served as an Associate Editor for the IET Journal of Engineering. He has also been selected as the best and outstanding review of several journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Power System (Top 0.66% of reviewers, in 2020), Elsevier Control Engineering Practice (in 2018, 2019, and 2020), and Wiley International Transaction on Electrical Energy Systems in 2020, and the Pablon Best Reviewer in Engineering (in 2018), and both engineering and cross-field (in 2019). He has been selected as the Star Reviewer of IEEE JESTPE and IEEE Power Electronics Society in 2020, commemorated, and presented during the IEEE ECCE 2021 conference, 10-14 Oct. in Vancouver, Canada.

Reza Nasiri Zarandi (2010 – 2015)

Thesis title:
Modeling, Design, and Prototyping of a Hysteresis Motor with Novel and Optimum Structure

Reza Nasiri-Zarandi (Member, IEEE) was born in Khodabandeh, Iran, 1985. He received the B.S. degree from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2008, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tafresh University, Tafresh, Iran, in 2010, the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and the double Ph.D. degree from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2015. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Electrical Machines and Transformers Research Laboratory (EMTRL), Electrical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). He is currently a Faculty Member, and the Head of the Electrical Machine Research Department and Electrical Machine Research Lab, Niroo Research Institute, Tehran, Iran. His research interests include design, modeling, FEA, optimization, prototyping, control, and drive of rotating electric machines and power electronics.

Reza Yazdanpanah (2009 – 2014)

Thesis title:
Analysis, Design, and Prototyping of a Hybrid Eddy Current/Regenerative Brake

Reza Yazdanpanah received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, in 2003, his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 2006, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2014., He is currently with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Larestan, Lar, Iran. His current research interests include the design of electric machines, DSP-based nonlinear control and drives, and power electronics.

Milad NiazAzari (2009 – 2014)

Thesis title:
Line-Start Permanent-Magnet Motor Synchronization Capability Improvement Using Slotted Solid Rotor

Sadegh Shamlou (2006 – 2013)

Thesis title:
Modeling, Design, and Prototyping of New Single-Phase Induction Motor

Aliakbar Damaki (2008 – 2013)

Thesis title:
Design, Analysis and Prototyping of a Line-Start Permanent Magnet Motor for Improvement of Starting Torque and Synchronization Capability

Aliakbar Damaki Aliabad received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2005, 2007, and 2012, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran. His main interests include design, analysis, and manufacturing of electrical machines, fault current limiters, and power system dynamics.

Saeid Javadi (Graduated in 2010)

Thesis title:
Design, Analysis, and Prototyping of a Novel High-Efficiency Brushless Disc Synchronous Machine

Saeid Javadi was born in Aran and Bidgol, Iran, on March 21, 1969. He received the B.S. degree in communication engineering and the M.S. degree in electrical power engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1992 and 1999, respectively.

Mohammad Mardane (Graduated in 2009)

Thesis title:
Modeling, Design, and Prototyping of Flux Switching Motor

Hamid Zabet-Khosousi (Graduated in 2002)

Thesis title:
Design & Determination of a Dynamic Model for a Single-Phase Written-Pole Motor

Aref Doroudi (Graduated in 2000)

Thesis title:
A Generalized Model for Linear Induction Motors with the Consideration of Saturation, and the Edge and the End Effects

Aref Doroudi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1968. He received his B.Sc. degree from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1992, his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran, in 1994, and his Ph.D. degree from Amirkabir University of Technology in 2000. He is an Associate Professor at Shahed University, Tehran, Iran. His research interests include power quality, electric machine design, and power systems dynamics.