Masood Parvania, Ph.D.

Director, Utah Smart Energy Laboratory (U-Smart)
Presidential Scholar and Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Jairo Giraldo, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Mohammad Amin Mirzaei, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Kyle Goodrick, Ph.D.

Senior Power Systems Research Engineer, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Desaree (Des) Sandoval

Marketing, Community Engagement, and Events Manager
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Erin Meyer, Ph.D.

Senior Research Development Associate
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Graduate Students

Sevda Zeinalkheiri

M.S., University of Tabriz
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Alex Farley

B.S., University of Utah
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Hollis Belnap

B.S., Brigham Young University
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Maryam Baghkar Vasef

B.S., University of Tabriz
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Seyedmahdi Kazemirazi

M.Sc., Amirkabir University of Technology
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Adrian Sucahyo

Undergraduate Researcher, University of Utah
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Saleh Sadeghi Gougheri

M.Sc., K. N. Toosi University of Technology
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Zahra MoshaverShoja

M.Sc., University of Tabriz
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Sangshin Park

M.Sc., Pukyong National University, South Korea
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Alumni

  • Postdoctoral Scholars
    • Ali Hassan, 2021-2022 ( joined as Portfolio Optimization and Trading at Portland General Electric)
    • Mohamad El Hariri, 2019-2021 (joined as Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines)
    • Hieu Trung Nguyen, 2018-2019 (joined as Assistant Professor, North Carolina A&T State University)
    • Pratyush Chakraborty, 2019-2020 (joined as Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani)
    • Mostafa Gilanifar, 2019-2020 (joined as Senior Data Scientist, Duke Energy)
    • Bosong Li, 2019-2020 (joined as Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington)
  • Ph.D. Graduates
    • Majid Majidi, Ph.D., 2019-2023 (now with Energy Authority)
    • Luis Fernando Rodríguez García, Ph.D., 2019-2023 (now with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    • Mehdi Ganjkhani, Ph.D., 2019-2023 (now with Energy Authority)
    • Mohammed Masum Siraj Khan, Ph.D., 2018-2022 (now with NYISO)
    • Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini, Ph.D., 2018-2022 (now with Beyond Limits)
    • Alejandro Palomino, Ph.D., 2017-2022 (now with Energy Strategies)
    • Avishan Bagheri, Ph.D., 2017-2022 (now with Wärtsilä)
    • Roohallah Khatami, Ph.D., 2015-2019 (now with Southern Illinois University)
    • Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ph.D., 2015-2019 (now with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
  • M.Sc. Graduates
    • Alex Farley, 2021-2023 (started Ph.D. program at the University of Utah)
    • Andrew Campbell, 2020-2022 (started Ph.D. program at Cornell University)
    • John Muhs, 2017-2019 (now with Energy Strategies, LLC)
    • Alejandro Palomino, 2017-2019 (started Ph.D. program at University of Utah)
    • Amarachi Umunnakwe, 2017-2019 (started Ph.D. program at Texas A&M University)