Amir Etemadi, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Assistant Director for Analytics

Full-time

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Background

Amir Etemadi is associate professor of online engineering at The George Washington University. Dr. Etemadi joined the Electrical Engineering department at GW in 2013 and the Online Engineering program in 2017. He has conducted research in control and operation of renewable energy systems, design and development of microgrids, and optimization and reliability of power systems. He is currently conducting research into the study and analysis of geomagnetic disturbances and their impacts on power system operation, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. His research publications appear in a variety of journals such as IEEE Transaction on Power System, Power Delivery, Industrial Electronics, Smart Grids, Journal of Energies, and Electric Power System Research. He has taught courses on electrical engineering fundamentals, advanced power system and power electronic topics, reliability, and probability and statistics. Dr. Etemadi has received his BSc from University of Tehran (2005), MSc from Sharif University of Technology (2007), and Ph.D. from University of Toronto (2012), in Electrical Engineering. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Publications

A. Rezaei-Zare, A. H. Etemadi, and R. Iravani, “Challenges of power converter operation and control under ferroresonance conditions,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Oct. 2016, accepted for publication.
Z. Yi and A. Etemadi, “Fault detection for photovoltaic systems based on multi-resolution signal decomposition and fuzzy inference systems,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Jul. 2016, accepted for publication.
A. Alqurashi, A. H. Etemadi, and A. Khodaei, “Treatment of uncertainty for next generation power systems: State-of-the-art in stochastic optimization,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 141, pp. 233 – 245, Dec. 2016.
A. H. Etemadi and R. Iravani, “Supplementary mechanisms for smooth transition between control modes in a microgrid,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 142, pp. 249–257, Jan. 2017.
C. C. Thompson, P. E. K. Oikonomou, A. H. Etemadi, and V. J. Sorger, “Optimization of data center battery storage investments for microgrid cost savings, emissions reduction, and reliability enhancement,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 2053–2060, May 2016.
A. H. Etemadi and A. Rezaei-Zare, “Optimal placement of GIC blocking devices for geomagnetic disturbance mitigation,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 2753–2762, Nov. 2014.
D. E. Olivares, A. Mehrizi-Sani, and A. H. Etemadi et. al., “Trends in microgrid control,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 5, no. 4, Jul. 2014.
A. H. Etemadi and R. Iravani, “Overcurrent and overload protection of directly voltage-controlled distributed resources in a microgrid,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 5629–5638, Dec. 2013.
A. H. Etemadi, E. J. Davison, and R. Iravani, “A decentralized robust control strategy for multi-DER microgrids — Part I: Fundamental concepts,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1843–1853, Oct. 2012.
A. H. Etemadi, E. J. Davison, and R. Iravani, “A decentralized robust control strategy for a multi- DER microgrid — Part II: Performance evaluation,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1854–1861, Oct. 2012.
A. H. Etemadi and M. Fotuhi-Firuzabad, “Design and routine test optimization of modern protection systems with reliability and economic constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 271–278, Jan. 2012.
A. H. Etemadi and M. Fotuhi-Firuzabad, “New considerations in modern protection system quantitative reliability assessment,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 2213 –2222, Oct. 2010.
A. H. Etemadi and M. Sanaye-Pasand, “High-impedance fault detection using multi-resolution signal decomposition and adaptive neural fuzzy inference system,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 110–118, Jan. 2008.
A. H. Etemadi and M. Fotuhi-Firuzabad, “Distribution system reliability enhancement using optimal capacitor placement,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 621–631, Sep. 2008.
A. H. Etemadi and M. Fotuhi-Firuzabad, “Quantitative assessment of protection system reliability incorporating human errors,” Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, vol. 222, no. 2, pp. 255–263, Jun. 2008.
S. H. Hosseini and A. H. Etemadi, “Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system based automatic genera- tion control,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 78, no. 7, pp. 1230 – 1239, Jul. 2008.