Dr. Mojtaba Shivaie

Dr. Shivaie is currently an assistant professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran. He obtained the B.Sc. degree with first-class honors in Electrical Engineering from Semnan University, Semnan, Iran, in 2008. He also received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees with first-class honors, both in Electrical Engineering, from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He has worked extensively in the areas of power systems, smart distribution grids, stochastic simulation, and optimization techniques, and he (with Dr. Kiani-Moghaddam and Prof. Weinsier) is the inventor of a modern optimization technique known as “symphony orchestra search algorithm” and an innovative architecture for competitive electricity markets known as “Hypaethral market.” He was awarded the Dr. Shahriari’s scholarship by the office of honor students of Shahid Beheshti University and the Dr. Kazemi-Ashtiani’s award by Iran’s National Elites Foundation for outstanding educational and research achievements. He has served as an editorial board member of the International Transaction of Electrical and Computer Engineers System journal and the Control and Systems Engineering journal and also a peer reviewer for over 12 high-impact journals. He was a recipient of the outstanding reviewer award of the Applied Soft Computing in 2014, the Energy Conversion and Management in 2016, and the Electric Power Systems Research in 2017.