Supervisor:
Dr Masoud Aliakbar-Golkar was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1954. He received the B.Sc. degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1977, the M.Sc. degree from the Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, The University of London, U.K., in 1986, all in electrical engineering (power systems).
Since 1979, he has been teaching and doing research at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is the advisor of many electricity boards and has successfully conducted many projects for different electricity utilities in Iran. He conducted some research groups on Electrical Distribution Systems and Reactive Power studies at the Electric Power Research Center (EPRC) for more than 10 years. From January 2002 to July 2005, he has served as a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University of Technology in Malaysia.
His main research areas are smart grid, distributed generation, and renewable generations studies, electric distribution systems and reactive power studies, voltage collapse studies, and load and energy management. He is the author of some books and has more than 200 papers in national and international journals and conferences. Currently, he is a Professor at K. N. Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.