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Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director of Intelligent Power Electronics at Grid Edge (IPEG) Research Laboratory

Email: shadmand@uic.edu

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Mohammad B. Shadmand (S’09–M’15-SM’20) earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, in 2015. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M from 2015 to 2016, and then as a research engineer at the same institution from 2016 to 2017.

From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Shadmand served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University, USA. He then continued his academic career at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2020 to 2024. Since 2024, Dr. Shadmand has been an Associate Professor in the same department at the University of Illinois Chicago. He also serves as the Director of the Intelligent Power Electronics at Grid Edge (IPEG) Research Laboratory.

His current research interests include resilient control of power electronics dominated grids, resilient self-driving grid, collaborative control architecture for network of grid-following and grid-forming inverters, applications of machine learning techniques for inverters dominated power systems, situational awareness and intrusion detection systems for power electronics and smart grid. He has published more than 160 journal and conference papers, 3 book chapters, and has secured research grants and industrial projects totaling more than $16 million from esteemed sources such as the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, and Qatar National Research Fund. Dr. Shadmand has also delivered over 15 invited seminars, talks, and lectures at various universities and conferences on these research topics.

A senior member of the IEEE since 2020, Dr. Shadmand has received several prestigious awards, including the 2024 IEEE J. David Irwin Early Career Award for outstanding contributions to the resiliency and cybersecurity of power electronics dominated grids. Other prestigious awards and recognition of Dr. Shadmand includes Michelle Munson Serban Simu Keystone Research Scholar Award from Kansas State University in 2017 and the 2019 IEEE Myron Zucker Faculty-Student Research Grant and Award. He has been honored with 4 best paper awards at different IEEE conferences and achieved international recognition in 2021 as one of the top 2% researchers in the field, according to the database of more than 100,000 top scientists publicly announced by research publishing company Elsevier.

He is the General Chair of the 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE IECON 2024), Chicago, USA. He is the Technical Program Co-Chair of the 19^th IEEE CPE-POWERENG 2025, Turkey. He is the Technical Program Co-Chair of 2025 IEEE ISIE, Canada. He served as Technical Program Chair of IEEE SGRE, Qatar in 2019, 2022, and 2024. He served as organizing committee member of 12th IEEE PEDG 2021. He served as Topic Chair and Technical Committee Member of 2020 IEEE ECCE. He served as the Program Advisor of the 1st IEEE Kansas Power & Energy Conference (IEEE KPEC 2020) founded and organized by his Ph.D. students at Kansas State University. Dr. Shadmand was faculty advisor and founder of IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) student branch chapter at Kansas State University from 2018-2020. He have served as session chair of many IEEE conferences.

In 2022, he has served as Guest Editor for special section on artificial intelligence & machine learning applications in smart inverters of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. In 2018, he has served as Guest Editor for special issue on Challenges in Future Grid-Interactive Power Converters: Control Strategies, Optimal Operation, and Corrective Actions in IET Renewable Power Generation. He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS on INDUSTRY APPLICATION. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS and IET Renewable Power Generation.

Dr. Shadmand has supervised or is currently supervising as chair 13 Ph.D. students and 8 M.S. students, in addition to guiding more than 20 undergraduate senior design projects, with several of his students having successfully graduated under his mentorship.

Harsha Vardhan Reddy Modugu earned his Bachelor’s of Technology degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from SASTRA Deemed to be University in June 2023. Following his undergraduate studies, he embarked on a journey to pursue advanced research in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in Fall 2023, aiming to contribute significantly to the academic and practical aspects of the field. His research interests lie in the intersection of Power Electronics in Power Systems, Renewable Energy Sources, and Electric Vehicles. He aspires to explore innovative solutions for enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of power systems, particularly focusing on the integration of renewable energy sources and the application of power electronics.

IPEG Research Associate: January 2024 – Present

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Uzair Asif received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with majors in Power Engineering from University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore in 2020. He worked for almost three years as a Design Engineer in the solar industry at Reon Energy Limited and Nexamp. His research interests include Power Electronics for high penetration of renewable energy sources, Smart Grids and Multilevel Inverters.  Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Shadmand starting Spring 2024.

IPEG Research Associate: January 2024 – Present

Reza Behnam received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering in 2017 and 2020 from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran, and Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, respectively. His research interests include cyber security, smart grid issues, microgrid power management, power system operation and planning, optimization, and renewable energies. Since Fall 2023, he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

IPEG Research Associate: August 2023 – Present

Hamideh Alvand received her B.Sc. degree in electrical power engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, in 2017 and her M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Southern University, USA, in June of 2022. She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in Fall 2022 to pursue her Ph.D. degree. Her research interests include Power Systems Operation, Application of Power Electronics in Power Systems, Integration of Renewable Energy Sources, and Machine/ Deep Learning Application in Power Systems.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2022 – Present

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Amirhosein Gohari Nazari received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in electrical engineering and power electronics from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran in 2015 and 2018 respectively, both with “first-rank student” honor. From 2018, he was a research assistant with the faculty of electrical engineering at Shahid Beheshti University. During his career, he acquired valuable experience in designing and implementing power electronics converters. His research interests include power electronics, multilevel inverters, and soft switching. Since Fall 2022, he is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is currently working as an intern at TESLA Inc., USA.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2022 – Present

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Alireza Zare received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering with a focus on power engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, in 2017. From 2018 to 2020, he was pursuing his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering at Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA. From Jun. 2020 to Aug. 2020, Alireza worked as an intern with a focus on variable frequency drive (VFD) and micro inverters for PV applications at the R&D of Phase Technologies LLC, Rapid City, SD. He joined the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Illinois at Chicago as a Ph.D. student starting fall 2021. His research interests include Power Electronics Hardware Design, Wireless Power Transfer, Application of Power Electronics in Power Systems, and Integration of Renewable Energy Sources.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2021 – Present

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Silvanus D’silva received his Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Mumbai, India (MU) in 2014. After graduating, he served as a Systems Engineer for Larsen and Toubro Technology Services, Mumbai, India and Rockwell Automation Inc., Milwaukee, WI, USA until 2017. In 2020, he obtained his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA . During his M.Sc. degree, Silvanus worked as a Graduate intern at Typhoon HIL, Inc and later on as a Graduate Researcher at the Smart Grid Centre Qatar in Texas A&M University at Qatar. In August 2021, went on to pursue his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois Chicago. Currently he is interning at the Argonne National Laboratories, Lemont, IL, USA. He joined the IPEG Research Group in August 2021.

His research interests include Power Electronics for renewable power systems and their applications in future smart grid, power distribution systems, resiliency and cybersecurity of future power grids, etc.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2021- Present

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Asef Zadehgol-Mohammadi received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2003, and his M.Sc. degree in power electronics and electrical machinery from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2006. He researched on batteries and fuel-cells characterization and lifetime estimation for wireless sensor networks in Cork, Ireland from 2008 to 2011. Asef is a licensed Professional Engineer and has provided consulting engineering services for various industrial, educational, and healthcare clients in the US. He is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, US, since Fall 2019, and has been Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in several electronics and signal processing research projects and courses. His research interests include Power Electronics, Renewable Energies, and Power Distribution Systems.

IPEG Research Associate: February 2021 – Present

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Amin Y. Fard received the M.Sc. degree with Honors from the University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran in 2014 in Electrical Engineering. From 2014 to 2018, he was with the Roshdiyeh Higher Education Institute, Tabriz, Iran as an Electrical Engineering lecturer, the supervisor of Electrical Machinery and High Voltage Laboratories, and the educational manager of the Engineering Faculty. He was a Ph.D. student at Kansas State University from 2018-2020. Since 2020, he is pursuing his Ph.D. studies in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), Chicago, USA. His research interests include power electronics design and control. He worked as a graduate intern at Intel Corporation during the Summer and Fall semesters of 2022.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2018 – Present

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Aasritha Kareti was born in Andhra Pradesh, India, in 2001. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India (VIT) in May 2022. She worked as a Research Assistant during her undergraduate studies on BLDC motors for automotive applications. During the period from 2022 to 2023, she gained experience as a Graduate Engineer Trainee-Electrical Engineer at Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel (AMNS), India. She joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in Fall 2023 to pursue her master’s under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Shadmand. Her research interests include power electronics in the applications of Electric Vehicles (EV) and charging EV using Renewable Energy Sources (RES).

IPEG Research Associate: January 2024 – Present

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Michael Lteif was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 2000. He received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mechanical Engineering from Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) in May of 2023. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Shadmand in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). His research interests include power electronics and control as well as its application in renewable energy.

IPEG Research Associate: November 2023 – Present

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Farid Elbouakhri received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from University Of Illinois Chicago. He also won the first prize in senior design  for his project on Solar Cell Battery Charger in May 2019. He was a member of the EDT Robotics Team that won the second place at Midwestern Robotics Design Competition in April, 2019. He is currently working on pursuing his M.Sc. degree under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Shadmand in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).

IPEG Research Associate: January 2023 – Present

Dr. Matt Baker was born in St. Peters, Missouri in 1996. He earned his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Rockhurst University in May of 2018. He was a Ph.D. student at Kansas State University from 2018-2020. Since 2020, he is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois in Chicago, USA. He was a Graduate Research Intern at Sandia National Lab during the Summers of 2021 and 2022, as well as the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Spring 2022. His research interests include wide bandgap power electronics and neural networks utilization for the detection and correction of anomalies in power electronic systems.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2018 – July 2024

Title of his Ph.D. Dissertation: Real-time AI-based Anomaly Detection and Classification in Modern Power Systems

Current position:  Assistant Professor at Rockhurst University, USA

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Dr. Muhammad Farooq Umar (Ph.D. December 2023) was born in Bahawalpur, Pakistan in 1991. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical engineering from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, in 2014. He completed his Masters in Electrical Power Engineering from Department of Electrical Power Engineering, U.S. Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan in 2018. He was a Ph.D. student in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Kansas State University from 2019-2020. After this he continued pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Farooq also worked as an intern at G&W Electric Co. in Summer 2022. During his PhD he was a Fulbright Grantee 2019. His research interests are control of power electronics interfaces and renewable energy.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2019 – December 2023

Title of his Ph.D. Dissertation: Enforced Coherent Dynamic Interaction of Grid-forming Inverters in Low Inertia Systems

Current position:  Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University – Qatar

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Dr. Mohsen Hosseinzadehtaher (Ph.D. December 2022) received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2014. From 2018 to 2020, he was a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA. Since 2020, he continued his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Dr. Hosseinzadehtaher received the best paper award in the 2nd IEEE SGRE conference in 2019. He is the co-recipient of the “2019 IEEE Foundation Industry Application Society Myron-Zucker Grant”. During his time at IPEG lab, Dr. Hosseinzadehtaher also worked as an intern at Quanta Technology in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022. His research interests include Smart Grids and Electricity Markets, Power Management in Smart Grids, Power Electronics, Integration of Renewable Energies and Distributed Generations, Power Quality and Electrical Machines.

Title of his Ph.D. Dissertation:  Resilient Operation of Active Distribution Networks via Self-learning Smart Devices

IPEG Research Associate: August 2018 – December 2022

Current position: Senior Engineer at Quanta Technology, LLC

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Dr. Ahmad Khan (Ph.D. December 2022) received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Qatar University, Doha, Qatar in 2014 and 2017, respectively. From 2018 to 2020, he was a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA. From 2020, he continued his Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois in Chicago, USA . Dr. Khan received the Qatar University outstanding thesis award in 2017. He received the best paper award from IEEE IES in the 12th CPE-POWERENG and the 2nd SGRE conferences in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He is co-recipient of the “2019 IEEE Foundation Industry Application Society Myron-Zucker Grant”. During his time at IPEG lab, Dr. Khan also worked as an intern at Siemens in Summer 2021 and Fall 2021.

Title of his Ph.D. Dissertation: Intrusion Detection Systems and Corrective Actions in Modern Power System

IPEG Research Associate: August 2018 – December 2022

Current position: Senior Engineer at Quanta Technology, LLC

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Pietro Minerva (M.Sc. July 2024) was born in Lecce, Italy in 2000. He received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering in July 2022 from Polytechnic University of Turin. He is currently a M.Sc student in Mechatronic Engineering at Polytechnic University of Turin. He is  also currently working on pursuing his M.Sc. degree under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Shadmand in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).

Thesis Title: Efficient and Grid Friendly DC Charging Station

IPEG Research Associate: August 2023 – July 2024

Current position: Power Electronics Hardware Project Engineer at GE Vernova, USA.

Hassan Althuwaini (M.Sc. December 2022) earned his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University in 2019. He was a research assistant at JKLab.org from 2018 to 2019. From August 2020 to December 2022, he worked on pursuing his M.Sc. degree under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Shadmand in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His research interests include Smart Micro-Grids, Energy storage system, Characterization of SiC and GaN Power Devices.

Thesis Title: Optimal Predictive Control for Maximum Utilization of Heterogeneous Battery Energy Storage System

IPEG Research Associate: August 2020 – December 2022

Current position: Wind Turbine Engineer Intern at RWE

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Brevann Nun (M.Sc. May 2021) was born in Geneva, NE in 1997. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering in December 2019 and May 2021 from Kansas State University. He joined IPEG (formerly PEAS Research Group) in September 2019 and his interests include power electronics and renewable energy systems. Brevann joined Raytheon Technologies in June 2021.

Thesis Title: Rank-based Predictive Control for Community Microgrids with Dynamic Topology and Multiple Points of Common Coupling

IPEG Research Associate: September 2019 – May 2021

Current position: Electrical Design Engineer at Garmin

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Silvanus D’silva (M.Sc. December 2020) is from India, born in Mumbai, India in 1993. He received his Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Mumbai, India (MU). He worked as a Systems Engineer for Rockwell Automation Inc., Milwaukee, WI from 2014 to 2017 . He obtained his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University in December 2020. He was an Graduate intern at Typhoon HIL, Inc in the summer of 2019. He also worked as a graduate researcher at the Smart Grid Centre in Texas A&M University at Qatar from January 2021 to August 2021. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois Chicago.

His research interests include Power Electronics for renewable power systems and their applications in future smart grid, power distribution systems, etc.

Thesis Title: Grid-friendly photovoltaic systems via autonomous power reserve function

IPEG Research Associate: December 2017- Present

Current position: Ph.D. student at IPEG lab, UIC

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Mitchell Easley (M.Sc. August 2020) was born in Shawnee, KS in 1995. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering in May 2018 and August 2020 at Kansas State University. He has joined IPEG (former PEAS Research Group) in December 2017. He was an intern at ABB Corporate Research Center in summer 2019. His research interests included power electronics and model predictive control. He joined Raytheon Technologies in August 2020.

Thesis Title: Autonomous model predictive control for realization of smart inverters at the grid-edge

IPEG Research Associate: December 2017- August 2020

Current position: Electrical Engineer II at Raytheon Technologies

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Anas Karaki received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ), Doha, Qatar, in 2016 and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, TX, USA, in 2020. He was an IPEG research associate from August 2020 to August 2021.

His research interests include microgrids, power electronics, parallel-inverter operation, power-sharing between inverter-based grids, droop control, islanding detection, and frequency restoration.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2020 – August 2021.

Current position: PhD student at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

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Zhen Zhang was born in 1998 and raised in both China and Canada. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University in May of 2019. Zhen joined the IPEG Research Group as a graduate researcher in October, 2018. His interests include grid modernization and renewable energy.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2019- August 2020

Jordan Siewe Tchokokam is currently pursuing a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and is set on graduating in Spring 2023. Post graduation, he wishes to join the industry as he has accepted a position of Assistant Electrical Engineer at Burns & McDonnell starting June 2023. He also plans on applying for the Master of Power Engineering program at Illinois Institute of Technology starting Fall 2023. His research interests include Power System, Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicles, Power plants, Power System studies, Engineering Management.

Dalton Hahn was born in Topeka, KS in 1996. He completed his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Kansas State University in May 2018. He was working as a undergraduate researcher in the IPEG Research Group (formerly PEAS Research Group) from August 2017 to May 2018.

His interests include cyber security, privacy, and cyber physical systems.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2017- May 2018

Current position: Computer Science PhD student at The University of Kansas

Zac Stower was born in Gladstone, MO in 1997. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University in Dec 2018. Zac worked with the IPEG (formerly PEAS) Research Group from Aug 2018 to December 2018. His research interests include power electronics and grid adaptation for alternative energy.

IPEG Research Associate: August 2018- December 2018

Steven Nguyen pursued his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago in May 2022. While in school, he also worked as as a part-time Junior Electrical Engineer at Transcell Technology where he specialized in designing STM 36-bit Microelectronics. Steven has a history of being employed at other engineering firms such as TechLoss Consulting & Restoration where he was an Associate Engineer and assisted in technology portions of insurance claims as well as being an Intern Engineer at Sterling Engineering. His future plans include getting his Fundamental Engineering and the Engineer in Training certifications.

Halima Muthana graduated with her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in May 2022. She previously worked as an intern at Argonne National Laboratory, HBK Engineering Consulting, and Cummins. She also worked as a tutor for circuit analysis and signal processing courses, and as a researcher in wireless power transfer as part of the Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP).