Director

Dr. Shahab Mehraeen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology and Esfahan University of Technology, Iran, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri, in 2009. He joined Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as assistant professor, in 2010. He conducts research on power system control, renewable energy integration, fault detection, and micro grids. He also conducts research in decentralized, adaptive, and optimal control of dynamical systems. Shahab Mehraeen is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a holder of a US patent.  

Graduate Students

Pooria Mohammadi received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2010 and his M.S. degree focused in power system and protection from University of Texas at Tyler, Texas, in 2013. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate at the ECE department, Louisiana State University (LSU). During his doctoral, he has executed research in the areas of power system protection, Optimal PMU Placement (OPP), observability and state estimation, and Distributed Generations (DGs) integration. He has conducted several projects for utility companies during his education and holds three patents. His research interests also include smart grid, renewable energies, energy storage, PMU applications, intelligent and adaptive methods in power systems.

Hossein Saberi received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) and his M.S. degree from University of Tabriz in Iran. He is currently perusing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at LSU. His thesis focus is on control of smart grid with penetration of renewable energies. His research interest includes power electronics applications in ac and dc micro grids, electric drives, decentralized control, and power system protection.

Boyu Wang received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technologyi, Weihai, China in 2012 and M.S. degree from Louisiana State University in 2014. He is currently a PhD. candidate in Electrical Engineering at LSU. He focuses on decentralized optimal control and power system stability analysis.

Morteza Dabbaghjamanesh received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Northern Illinois University in 2014. He is currently working as the PhD student in Power Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Laboratory: Control and Protections at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. His current research interests include power system operation and planning, optimization, renewable energy, microgrids, and smart grid.

John A Boudreaux is currently pursuing his Master’s in Electrical Engineering at LSU. His thesis is on the design, simulation, and construction of an IEEE 14 Bus Power System for the testing of novel decentralized control techniques for generators and solar panel inverters. John’s research interests are in power system design and modeling and large scale renewable energy integration. He is also working as a distribution planning engineer for Entergy Louisiana as of January 2017.  John attended undergraduate at LSU and is a huge fan of LSU athletics. His hobbies include fitness and bodybuilding as well as fly fishing.

Sudipta Sen received the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Techno India, Salt lake, Kolkata, India in 2011.He is currently doing his Ph.D. in department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University, 102-C EE Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5901, U.S.A. (e-mail: ssen11@lsu.edu)

Graduate Scholars

Hamidreza Nazaripouya is a PhD candidate at UCLA SMERC. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2007. In 2010, he obtained a M.S. degree in Power Electronics from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, and another M.S. degree in Power System from Louisiana State University in 2013.  Besides his academic education, Nazaripouya is an experienced power system engineer with industry background. In particular, he has worked for Entergy Corporation, owner and operator of power plants with approximately 30,000 MW of electric generating capacity. In addition, Nazaripouya has conducted and participated in several power engineering projects, including designing the medium and low voltage power distribution panel for a 5MW plant, optimal placement of Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) for fault observability, analysis of the effect of power backflow on network protectors in downtown New Orleans, and grid integration of photovoltaics (PV) and battery energy storage system among others. His research interests include control and integration of DERs, application of power electronics in power system, microgrid technologies, electric vehicle (EV), and battery energy storage system integration.

Hari Anandh Ashok Bindhu, received his master’s degree in Electric Engineering from Louisiana State University in 2016. During his Master’s degree, he worked for Dr. Mehraeen in his power systems laboratory for a year in building a renewable energy setup and conducting system voltage performance analysis of photovoltaics for laboratory purposefulness. After his graduation, Mr. Bindhu is working as an associate electrical engineer in Power Engineering Consultants in Baton Rouge. His primary research interests include renewable energy & energy storage integration and relay systems. Hari is from India and loves to play cricket and soccer.

DATTATRAY GAIKWAD received his Master of Science (M.S) Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University, in August 2012 where his thesis was about Reactive Power Considerations in Reliability Analysis of Photovoltaic Systems Also, he received Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) Electrical Engineering,form Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, in June 2006. His current affiliation is Electrical Controls Design Engineer, Kiewit Engineering Group Inc. Lenexa, Kansas

Shaghayegh Kazemlou received the B.S.and M.S.degrees in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2007 and 2010, respectively, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 2013 from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,LA,USA. Also, she has graduated as PhD form Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,LA,USA. in 2015. Her current research interests include renewable energies, power system stability, and nonlinear control of dynamic systems.

Pedram received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Azad University, Iran. He started his M.S. degree in electrical engineering at LSU in 2013. His thesis was about fault location in Shipboard Power System (SPS). He graduated with M.S. degree in 2015. Currently, he is working as an Electrical Engineer in Power and Control Systems (PCS2000) company.