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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
LinkedIn
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Erin Meyer, Ph.D.
Senior Research Development Associate
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Graduate Students
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Sevda Zeinalkheiri
M.S., University of Tabriz
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Alex Farley
B.S., University of Utah
LinkedIn
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Hollis Belnap
B.S., Brigham Young University
LinkedIn
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Maryam Baghkar Vasef
B.S., University of Tabriz
LinkedIn
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Seyedmahdi Kazemirazi
M.Sc., Amirkabir University of Technology
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Adrian Sucahyo
Undergraduate Researcher, University of Utah
LinkedIn
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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
LinkedIn
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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)