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Principal Investigator<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Prof. Mojdeh Khorsand<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Khorsand is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. Her research and teaching activities are mainly in the domain of electric power and energy systems.
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.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Current Students<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Almuthana Alharbi<\/h3><\/div>

Ph.D. Student<\/span><\/h4><\/div>

Almuthana Alharbi completed his B.Sc. from Jazan University, Saudi Arabia, in 2014. He started working as a teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. in 2015. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2018. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in Power Systems. His research interests include Power System Protection, Inverter-Based Resources, Power System Transients, and Security Assessment under High Penetration Levels of Inverter-Based Resources. <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Giritharan Vijay Iswaran<\/h3><\/div>

Ph.D. Student<\/span><\/h4>

Co-Advisor: Prof. Vijay Vittal<\/span><\/h4><\/div>

Giritharan Vijay Iswaran completed his Bachelor of Engineering in 2019 from Anna University, India, post which completed his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2022. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Power System Dynamics and Control area. His research interests include Inverter Based Resources, Power System Stability, Dynamics, and Control. <\/p><\/div>