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Dr. Mohammad B. Shadmand
Assistant 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) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, in 2015. From 2015 to 2016, he was an Instructor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Research Engineer with the Renewable Energy and Advanced Power Electronics Research Laboratory, College Station, USA. From 2017 to 2020, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA. Since 2020, he is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. His current research interests include advanced model predictive control, grid-tied power electronics interfaces with advance functionalities, grid situational awareness, and control of smart microgrid systems.
He has published more than 85 journal and conference papers, and his research grants and industrial projects are backed by more than $9 million in funding from sources such as the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and Qatar National Research Fund.
Dr. Shadmand was awarded Michelle Munson Serban Simu Keystone Research Scholar, Kansas State University in 2017. He was awarded the 2019 IEEE Myron Zucker Faculty-Student Research Grant. He has served as Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2019 IEEE Smart Grid & Renewable Energy Conference. He has served as lead Technical Program Advisor of the 2020 First IEEE Kansas Power & Energy Conference (KPEC). He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Application and IET Renewable Power Generation.
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PhD Students
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
Amirhosein Gohari Nazari
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).
IPEG Research Associate: August 2022 – Present
Alireza Zare
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
Silvanus D’silva
Silvanus D’silva was 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 2020. While pursuing his M.Sc., Silvanus worked as a 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. 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, etc.
IPEG Research Associate: August 2021- Present
Asef Zadehgol-Mohammadi
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
Muhammad Farooq Umar
Muhammad Farooq Umar 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 has done 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. His research interests are control of power electronics interfaces and renewable energy. He was a Ph.D. student in Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Kansas State University from 2019-2020. Since 2020, he is 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. Currently he is Fulbright Grantee 2019.
IPEG Research Associate: August 2019- Present
Matt Baker
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- Present
Amin Yousefzadeh Fard
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
MSc students
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
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Former PhD Students
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
Ahmad Khan
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
Former MSc Students
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
Brevann
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
Silvanus D'silva
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
Mitchell Easley
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
Other Former Graduate/visiting students
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
Zhen Zhang
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
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Current Undergraduate Researchers
Ridwan Alrefai is currently pursuing his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering and is set on graduating in Fall 2023. He has previous research experience at a biology lab at UIC where he worked on projects related to bioinformatics and data analysis. He is also currently in training for certification in Data Analysis and UX design.Jordan Siewe Tchokokam
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.
Past Undergraduate Researchers
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
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
Rahiya Rasheed
Rahiya Rasheed pursued her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Signal Processing and a minor in Computer Science. She previously worked in the finance and tech industries as a software engineering intern and quantitative analyst intern. She also worked on two other research projects at UIC College of Engineering focusing on deep learning for nanorobotics and time series classification with the application to help disabled persons navigate urban terrain.Steven Nguyen
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
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).