Prof. Khorsand received her doctorate from the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University in 2017 and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from Iran University of Science and Technology and Mazandaran University, respectively.

Her research expertise includes power systems operations and planning, power systems restoration and cascading events, cybersecurity for electric power systems, renewable energy, transient stability studies, protection systems, power flow control technologies, stochastic optimization, and electric energy markets.