SGERL Alumni

Jordan Reed graduated in May 2023 with MS degree in Electrical Engineering at SD Mines. He previously served five years in the United States Navy as a Gas Turbine Systems Electrical Technician. He is currently working in the Transmission and Engineering Services department at Black Hills Energy in Rapid City, SD. 

During his Master's study, Jordan developed an Industrial IoT-based monitoring platform for grid-tied solar PV systems. This work has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and currently under review. 

Anders Stenstadvolden is from Houston, Texas. He graduated in May 2023 with MS degree. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering in 2022 with the highest honors and MS in Electrical Engineering  at South Dakota Mines  in May 2023. Anders is an awardee of outstanding graduate student SD Mines. 

During his Master's study, Anders did research and a thesis building a model to forecast power demand with use in electric vehicles increasing. This work has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and currently under review. 

Amjad Jebril Ali received the B.S. degree from University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya, in 2016, and the M.S. degree from South Dakota School of Mines, Rapid City, SD, USA in 2022, all in electrical engineering. He received two years Fulbright scholarship, in 2021 and 2022.

In Spring 2021, he started his M.S. studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at South Dakota Mines. He joined Smart Grid and Energy Research Lab (SGERL) to conduct his M.S. thesis under the supervision of Dr. Long Zhao. During his M.S. studies his main research activities focused on quantifying and modeling wildfire smoke impact on the photovoltaic (PV) systems, large-scale wildfire impact on the frequency stability of low-inertia trending power systems, solar PV modeling, and renewable energy integration into power systems.

Md Rahan Chowdhury earned his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2014, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, SD, USA, in 2021.

He was a Graduate Research Assistant at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology's Smart Grid and Energy Research Lab, where he worked on market research for renewable energy sources, distributed generation for rural electrification, power system analysis, and various power electronics converter topologies. Rahan is currently an Electrical Coordinator at HDR.

Ali Mohammed Jobayer received his B.Sc. in EEE from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) in Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 2014, and his M.S. in EE from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, SD, USA, in 2021 respectively.

During his MS studies, he was working as a Graduate Research Assistant in Smart Grid and Energy Research Lab (SGERL) at South Dakota Mines where his main research activities were focused on frequency stability analysis in low inertia trending power systems, Power Electronics-Based Power Systems, and Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources.

Currently Ali is a Validation Engineer at GE Healthcare