Guest editor of Frontiers in Energy Research
Editorial board of Clean Technologies journal
Technical-Chair of 2019 Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference (ESTAC)
Technical-Chair of 2018 Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference (ESTAC)
Technical Advisory Committee member for the Southern California Edison project on Electric Access System Enhancement (EASE)
Technical Advisory Committee member for the SLAC project
Co-Chair of Energy Storage and Electric Vehicles - Smart Grid Communications Emerging Technical Subcommittee
Principal Editor of Balkan Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Committee member of Data-driven DER operations and economics- IEEE PES Subcommittee
Review for:
Louisiana Board of Regents’ Research Competitiveness subprogram (State research funding program)
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Automatica
Applied Sciences
Energies
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Series on Green Communications and Networking
Springer Journal on Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy
Springer Journal on Electrical Engineering (ELEN)
Springer International Journal of Automation and Computing
Springer Journal on Modern Power Systems and Clear Energy (MPCE)
Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC)
IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PES GM)
IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT)
Iranian Student Conference on Electrical Engineering (ISCEE)
Assistant Editor for Smart Grid Journal DE GRUYTER OPEN
Vice Chair of IEEE Power and Energy Society, San Fernando Valley, CA
Interviewed by News 9 “OSU Professor Advocates for Energy Diversity, Storage After Winter Storm Crisis”, Karl Torp, 2021.
Interviewed by Koco-TV 5 abc “State is Safe from Rolling Blackouts, But Expert Says Grid Modernization Needed”, Perris Jones, 2021.
Interviewed by Shawnee News-Star on “Explainer: A Look into What Caused Need for Rolling Blackouts”, Tina Bridenstine, 2021.
Interviewed by Nevada Public Radio on “What's on the Horizon for Nevada's Renewable Energy Sources”, Heidi Kyser, 2020.
Interviewed and quoted in LA Times article “PG&E’s Blackouts Were ‘Not Surgical by any Stretch.’ Its Systems May Be to Blame”, James Rainey and Joseph Serna, 2019.
Interviewed by KCBS Radio on “How to Bolster Power Infrastructure Resilience Against Wildfires”, Keith Menconi, 2019.
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering webpage, “Dissertation Year Fellowship Award”, 2017.
Reuters, “Winner of Mobile Defense Challenge”, 2015
CNN Money, “Winner of Mobile Defense Challenge”, 2015
Oral presentation at conference: “Non-Parametric Probabilistic Demand Forecasting in Distribution Grids; Kernel Density Estimation and Mixture Density Networks” IEEE 52nd NAPS, 2021.
Invited speaker: Wayne State University, “Smart Operation of Energy Storage in the Evolving Power System,” November 2020.
Invited speaker: DISTRIBUTECH International, “Real-World Application of Energy Storage Systems in Improving Grid Resilience”, January 2020.
Panel Chair and speaker: Energy Storage Technologies & Applications Conference, "Improving Power System Resilience by Employing Energy Storage", April 2019
Invited speaker: talk at CE CERT Solar Conference, "Energy Research at the University of California", March 2018.
Invited speaker: talk at UCLA Extension, “Smart Grid Regional Demonstration Program”, July, 2017.
Oral presentation at conference: “Univariate Time Series Prediction of Solar Power Using a Hybrid Wavelet-ARMA-NARX Prediction Method”, IEEE PES T&D, Dallas, Texas, 2-5 May 2016.
Oral presentation at workshop: “Real time operation of battery energy storage systems”, Innovation Thought Leadership Forum: Advancing the Electric Grid for the 21st Century Energy Needs, Washington D.C, April 13, 2016.
Invited speaker: talk at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), “PV Integration challenges”, Sept, 2015
Invited speaker: talk at ITT technical institute, “Renewables Integration to the Power Grid”, Sept, 2015
Oral presentation at conference: “Optimal Sizing and Placement of Battery Energy Storage in Distribution Systems Based on Solar Size for Voltage Regulation”, IEEE PES General Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 26-30 July 2015
Poster presentation at conference: “Vehicle-to-Grid Automatic Load Sharing with Driver Preference in Micro-Grids”, IEEE PES General Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 26-30 July 2015
Poster presentation at conference: “Optimal PMU Placement for Fault Observability in Distributed Power System by Using Simultaneous Voltage and Current Measurements” IEEE PES T&D, Chicago, Illinois, 14-17 April 2014
Oral presentation at conference: “Control of UPFC Using Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman Formulation Based Neural Network”. Proceedings of the 2012 Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), San Diego, California USA, July 2012
Oral presentation at conference: “Control of Parallel Three-phase Inverters Using Optimal Control and SVPWM Technique”, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2009), Seoul Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea, July 2009
Oral presentation at conference: “Improved Optimal Control Technique for Control of Parallel Three- phase Inverters”, Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS 2009), Sharjah, UAE, November 2009