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Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
Office: Siegel Hall 320
Phone: (312) 567-5737
Fax: (312) 567-8976
Email: ms@iit.edu
Homepage: http://motor.ece.iit.edu/ms/

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
BSEE, 1977, Arya Mehr University of Technology
MSEE, 1978, University of Missouri
PhD, 1981, University of Missouri

Mohammad Shahidehpour is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology where he has served in various academic and administrative positions since 1983 including the Dean of the Graduate College and Associate VP for Research.

He is the author of over 200 technical papers, four books on large-scale optimization and energy scheduling, and holds three patents. (Please see Homepage for a full listing) His research activities involve the operation, control and planning of electric power systems. He has supervised over 40 PhD and master’s theses which were mostly funded by DoE, NSF, EPRI, AFOSR, ONR, several electric utility companies and energy management vendors.

He won several national teaching and research awards including the C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Award and the Edison Electric Institute’s Outstanding Faculty Award. He is currently the National President of the HKN (Electrical engineering Honor Society) and chairs its Executive Committee.

He serves as the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and was the founder and chair of the Operation Methods Subcommittee of the IEEE PES. He serves on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Power Engineering Letters, IEEE CAP magazine, International Journal of Electric Power systems research, and International Journal of Electric Machines and Power Systems. Since 1990, he has served on the organizing committee of the IEEE PICA Conference, the American Power Conference and the IEEE T&D Conference. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transaction on SMC and was the founder of chair of the Chicago Section of the IEEE SMC in 1992. He was also the vice-chair of the IEEE SMC Conference in 1991. He has received several technical paper awards and outstanding working group awards from IEEE.

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