News
May 2024
Lehigh Team at EWRI Congress 2024
It was great to attend EWRI congress 2024 and listen to the excellent presentations made by the Lehigh team. I had the pleasure to collaborate on four papers with Concise Laboratory team led by Farrah Moazeni from Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Lehigh.
April 2024
Special thanks to my PhD student Elham Jamalinia to nominate me for the mentorship award at Lehigh University.
April 2024
Elham Jamalinia, a third-year PhD student of the INTEGRITY laboratory has recently received an internship offer for Summer 2024. She will be a “ Power Electronic Intern” for York International Corp, a subsidiary or affiliate of Johnson Control.
December 2023
INTEGRITY and CONCISE lab members participated in the 2023 DoD energy and environment innovation symposium to present two posters of our recent research on microgrid resilience and control.
October 2023
Two of our PhD students (Ali Hosseinipour and Maral Shadaei) will be doing internships in Spring 2024 at Tesla.
Aug 2023
Ali Hosseinipour, a second-year PhD student of the INTEGRITY lab was awarded the best poster presentation award (3rd Prize) at the IEEE PESGM 2023, congratulations to Ali for his great achievement!
June 2023
Our group has received an award from the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research (ONR) to study deep learning-based optimal control of naval microgrids.
May 2023
Ali Hosseinipour, a second-year PhD student of the INTEGRITY lab has published his first journal article in Elsevier's International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (a very good journal with impact factor of 5.6) . This is the first journal article to come out of the INTEGRITY lab since its establishment in 2021. Keep up the good work, Ali. You can read his paper via this link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142061523002818?dgcid=author
Our group participated in Girl Scouts program in Camp Archbald on May 6th , PA, to present the beauty of electrical engineering to girls from kindergarten to high-school.
April 2023
Our group has received an award from the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research (ONR) to study real-time resilience of naval microgrids.
December 2022
Our group has received a grant from Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) to work with Lehigh's Institute for Cyber-Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) along with our industry partner "Duquesne Light Company" to work on a project on grid integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) using DC interlink system .
September 2022
Our group participated in Girl Scouts program in Camp Small Valley, PA, to present the beauty of electrical engineering to girls from kindergarten to high-school.
Our group received an award from National Science Foundation to study dynamic state-estimation of modern power systems using statistical machine learning approaches.
More information here: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221784&HistoricalAwards=false
July 2022
Our group has received two grants from Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) to work with Lehigh's Institute for Cyber-Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) along with our industry partner "Honeywell" in developing algorithms for battery energy management in buildings with electric vehicles and explore cyber threats in building energy management systems.
March 2022
I am collaborating with Dr. Moazeni from Civil and Environmental Engineering department on an internal funding through Faculty Innovation Grant (FIG) from Lehigh University to develop AI-based solutions for detection of cyberattacks in smart water systems.
Jan 2022
Our group has received funding from Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) to work with Lehigh's Institute for Cyber-Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE) along with our industry partner "ProtoGen Energy Aligned" in developing microgrid and energy storage solutions to enhance Quakertown's grid resilience against flash flooding and failures.
Aug 2021
I joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Lehigh University effective in Fall 2021.
Jan 2020- Aug 2021
I recently established the Power and Energy Society (PES) Chapter in IEEE Region 2, Susquehanna Section and I am the interim chair. The section aims at promoting the power and energy society by inviting experts in the field and holding workshops and conferences for professional networking and job opportunities. Please refer to the IEEE Region 2, Susquehanna Section PES chapter through the following link
I was recently promoted to the IEEE Senior Member grade .
I am Co-organizing the Second International Workshop on Application of Big Data Analytics to Cyber-Physical Systems as a track chair embedded in IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference to be held virtually on October 19, 2020. Please submit your articles by August 19, 2020. Link
I am guest editing a special issue on Sustainability Journal with the topic of "Modeling, Optimization, and Security of Modern Energy-Water Nexus with High Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources". Two colleagues of mine are assisting me with the process, Dr. Arash Asrari from Southern Illinois University and Dr. Faegheh Moazeni from Penn State Harrisburg. Please feel free to submit your articles by October 2021. Link
We received additional funding from the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research to develop a hardware testbed enabling integration of power converters up to 10kVA capacity to a real-time simulator for shipboard power system modeling (July 2020).
We received a funding from Penn State's Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE) under Homeland Security Track to study cyberattacks in interlinked water-energy networks (May 2020). Link
We received a funding from the Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research to develop a distributed renewable energy resource (DER) and cybersecurity testbed for naval shipboard power systems and smart grids (January 2020). Link
