Masood Parvania portrait
  • Roger P. Webb Endowed Professor, and Associate Professor, Elect & Computer Engineering
  • Associate Chair for Research and Advancement, Elect & Computer Engineering
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Mathematics
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, School Of Computing

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Research Summary

My research interests are on the applications of mathematical optimization methods, control theory and machine learning on the operation, economics and resilience of power and energy systems, modeling and integration of distributed energy resources, and modeling and operation of interdependent critical infrastructures.

Biography

Dr. Masood Parvania is currently Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Advancement at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah.

His research interests include the operation, economics and resilience of power and energy systems, modeling and integration of distributed energy resources, and modeling and operation of interdependent critical infrastructures.

Dr. Parvania serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, and the IEEE Power Engineering Letters. He is the Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Utah Chapter, and past Chair of the IEEE PES Bulk Power System Operation Subcommittee, and the IEEE PES Reliability, Risk and Probability Application (RRPA) Subcommittee.