Teaching and Supervision
Teaching Experiences
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Lecturer 2020-Present
Lecturer, The University of Adelaide - Australia
● ELEC ENG 2101 Electronic Circuits, Semester 1
● ELEC ENG 2105 Electronic Circuits M, Semester 1
● ELEC ENG 4087-7087 Electricity Market and Power System Operation, Semester 2
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Lecturer 2018
Research Fellow, The University of Queensland - Australia
● I taught Electricity market module of the Electricity Market Operation and Security (ELEC7310) course in Semester 1
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TA 2011-2013
Teaching Assistant, Montana State University - USA
● Taught PowerWorld in Power System Analysis class for a couple of semesters
● Taught Linear Control class for a couple of sessions
Supervisory Activities
Sepehr Karimi
Ph.D. Student @ Adelaide University, Australia, 2025
He will be working on the National Industry PhD project (Department of Education and OptiGrid Pty Ltd) developing end-to-end learning for BESS bidding in the market.
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Tamsa.
Ph.D. Student @ Adelaide University, Australia, 2023
She will be working on FBICRC Mine Electrification project developing ML-based model of electric and diesel haul trucks.
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Shah Mohammad Mominul Islam
Ph.D. Student @ Adelaide University, Australia, 2022
He will be working on FBICRC Mine Electrification project developing algorithms for energy infrastructure design.
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Behnam Hashemian Ataabadi
Ph.D. Student @ Adelaide University, Australia, 2022
He will be working on FBICRC Mine Electrification project developing charging scheduling algorithms for electric haul trucks.
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Dr Hao Wang
Ph.D. Student @ The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2021-2025
He worked on FBICRC Microgrid Deployment project and developed Redox Flow battery model and energy management system.
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Dr Yogesh Pipada Sunil Kumar
Ph.D. Student @ Adelaide University, Australia, 2021-2026
He worked on FRESNO A project developing decision-making tools for aggregator operation in the electricity market.
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Dr Trong Nam Dinh
Ph.D. Student @ The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2021-2025
He will be working on FRESNO C project developing advanced game-theoretic model of prosumers.
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Dr Rui (Ray) Yuan
Ph.D. Student @ The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2021-2025
He will be working on FRESNO B project developing probabilistic models of consumers reaction to price signals.
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Sahand Karimi-Arpanahi
Ph.D. Student @ Adelaide University, Australia, 2020
He is developing new battery sizing strategies based on predictability measure for utility-scale PV/wind farms.
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Yuan Yao
Ph.D. Student @ The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2019-2024
He developed hierarchical controller/management systems for a cluster of MGs.
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Dr Mahsa Bagheri Tookanlou
Ph.D. Student @ Northumbria University, the UK, 2019-2022
She developed V2G and G2V pricing and trading mechanisms for EVs in an e-mobility ecosystem.
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Dr Emma Blomgren
Ph.D. Student @ DTU, Denmark, 2019-2023
She is working on developing market mechanisms for multi-carrier energy systems in Flexible Energy Denmark (FED) project.
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Dr Julian Lemos Vinasco
Ph.D. Student @ DTU, Denmark, 2019-2022
He is working on developing flexibility aggregation methods considering technical constraints.
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Md Mehedi Hasan
MPhil Student @ The University of Queensland, Australia, 2017-2019
He is developing thermal model of battery and its container considering forced ventilation for battery energy management applications.
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Dr Giulia De Zotti
Ph.D. student @ DTU, Denmark, 2017-2019
She developed novel control-based algorithms for ancillary services provision in the future electricity market.
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Dr Marzieh Parandehgheibi
Summer Research Intern @ NEC Laboratories America, the USA, 2016
She developed an optimal two-level control algorithm to aggregate behind-the-meter storage devices for day-ahead energy market participation.
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Dr Shankar Mohan
Summer Research Intern @ NEC Laboratories America, the USA, 2015
He developed an optimization framework for optimal battery sizing for participation in various demand response programs.
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Dr Reza Ahmadi
Ph.D. Visiting Scholar @ Montana State University, the USA, 2014
He worked on simulation modeling to assess the impact of G2V and V2G EV operation in active distribution networks.
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Kevin Marchese
M.Sc. Student @ Montana State University, the USA
He worked on developing demand response application for EWHs for islanded microgrid frequency regulation.
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Colin Young
M.Sc. Student @ Montana State University, the USA
He developed an LFC model with battery and DFIG dynamic models to design a fuzzy controller for frequency regulation.
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Aric Litchy
M.Sc. Student @ Montana State University, the USA
He compared different software applications for grid-tied and islanded microgrid design.
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Stasha Patrick
M.Sc. Student @ Montana State University, the USA
She designed real-time control concept to operate EWHs for frequency regulation in wind-dominated power system.
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Jonathan Wilson
M.Sc. Student @ Montana State University, the USA
He developed dynamic model of hybrid power system with fuel cells in MATLAB/Simulink.
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Team Achievements
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Dec 2025Trong Nam Dinh won the school of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Award for Excellence in HDR (Research Achievement) in 2025.
Award for Excellence in HDR (Research Achievement) celebrates a single PhD student who has significantly enhanced the EME school's ability to deliver impactful research in a given year. -
May 2025Shah Islam won Hans-Jurgen and Marianne Ohff Research Grantfor travel to visit Associate Professor Di Liu at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
The Hans-Jürgen & Marianne Ohff Research Grant was established by Hans-Jürgen & Marianne Ohff. The purpose of the Fund is to provide financial assistance to University of Adelaide postgraduate students travelling to a German-speaking university or research institution to undertake research projects, study and/or fieldwork. -
Jan. 2024Dr Hirad Assimi won Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant, promoted by the Helmholtz Information and Data Science Academy (HIDA) in Germany
The Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant offers doctoral researchers and postdocs the opportunity to do a fully-funded short-term research stay at one of the 18 Helmholtz Centers in Germany. Hirad is going to work with researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany for two months on the MOVE project. -
Aug. 2023Sahand Karimi-Arpanahi, one of the two finalists from South Australia in Australia's Falling Walls Labs competition
Sahand's project has been selected as one of the two finalists from South Australia and competed in the Australia's Falling Walls Labs competition in Canberra on 18 September, 2023. -
Aug. 2023Sahand Karimi-Arpanahi, one of four finalists from the Faculty of SET 3MT
For the second time, Sahand's 3MT selected as one of four finalists from the Faculty of SET, The University of Adelaide and set to compete in the University 3MT competition on Tuesday, 12 September.
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July 2023First place for team UoA in the Wind-Hydrogen optimization competition at Connecting Green Hydrogen APAC competition
The team of Uni Adelaide including Behnam Hashemian-Ataabadi, Shah Islam, Yogesh Pipada Sunil Kumar, and Raheel Ahmed Shaikh won the first place in the Wind-Hydrogen optimization competition at Connecting Green Hydrogen APAC in MCEC, Melbourne -
Sep. 2022Yuan Yao won the Best Paper Awward at AUPEC 2022
Yuan won one of the five Best Paper Awards for his paper title "Investigation of Short-Term Intermittency in Solar Irradiance and Its Impacts on PV Converter Systems." -
Sep. 2022Sahand Karimi-Arpanahi won SA Power Networks Best Paper Awward at AUPEC 2022
Sahand won one of the two SA Power Networks Best Paper Awards for his paper title "Efficient anomaly detection method for rooftop PV systems using big data and permutation entropy."
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Aug. 2022Sahand Karimi-Arpanahi, one of four finalists from the Faculty of SET 3MT
Sahand's 3MT selected as one of four finalists from the Faculty of SET, The University of Adelaide and set to compete in the University 3MT competition on Tuesday, 13 September.
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Dec. 2021Team FRESNO, 5th place in IEEE-CIS technical challenge
FRESNO team including Rui Yuan, Trong Nam Dinh and Yogesh Pipada Sunil Kumar won 5th place in the IEEE-CIS technical challenge on PREDICT+OPTIMIZE for renewable energy scheduling. -
Nov. 2021Sahand Karimi-Arpanahi, CSIRO top-op scholarship
Sahand secured a $15K p.a. top-op scholarship from CSIRO for the rest of his PhD.