PEED 2027

Farhad Shahnia

Professor, Murdoch University, Australia.

Research field: Power system, renewable sources, objective function, renewable energy, renewable energy sources, battery capacity, convolutional neural network, copper loss, electric vehicles, energy storage systems, investment costs, long short-term memory.

Professor Farhad Shahnia (Senior Member, IEEE) received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 2012. He is currently an A/Professor at Murdoch University. Farhad’s research falls under Distribution networks, Microgrid and Smart grid concepts. He has authored one book and 11 book chapters and 100+ peer-reviewed scholarly articles in international conferences and journals, as well as being an editor of 6 books. Farhad has won 5 Best Paper Awards in various conferences and has also received the IET Premium Award for the Best Paper published in the IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution journal in 2015. One of his articles was listed under the top-25 most cited articles in the Electric Power System Research Journal in 2015 while one of his 2015 journal articles has been listed under the top-5 most read articles of the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He was the recipient of the Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award from Curtin University in 2015 and the Australia-China Young Scientist Exchange Award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2016. Farhad is currently a Subject Editor, Deputy Subject Editor, and Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Access, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Smart Grid, IET Energy Conversion and Economics, and International Transaction on Electrical Energy Systems and has served 35+ conferences in various roles such as General, Technical, Program, Publication, Publicity, Award, Sponsorship, and Special Session Chairs. Farhad has led the IEEE Western Australia Section as the 2020-2021 Chair, and was the 2019 Founding Chair of the IEEE Western Australia Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Chapter. He is currently the 2021-2022 Secretary of the IES’s Technical Committees on Smart Grids.

Nadeem Javaid

Professor, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan.

Research field: Energy optimization in smart grids, wireless sensor networks, big data analytics, and blockchain.

Nadeem Javaid (Senior Member, IEEE) received the master’s degree in electronics from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris-Est, France, in 2010. He was a Visiting Professor with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is currently Tenured Professor and Founding Director of the Communications Over Sensors (ComSens) Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad Campus. He has supervised 203 master’s and 32 Ph.D. theses. He has authored over 950 articles in technical journals and international conferences. He was a recipient of the Best University Teacher Award from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, in 2016, and the Research Productivity Award from the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, in 2017. He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Access. He is also an Editor of the Sustainable Cities and Society Journals.

Jiashen Teh

Associate Professor, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.

Research field: Electric vehicles, dynamic line rating, state of charge, monte carlo simulation, renewable energy, wind power, battery capacity, battery degradation, battery performance, battery state of charge, charge behavior, control method.

Jiashen Teh (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronic engineering from Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Malaysia, in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. in 2016. Since 2023, he has been an Associate Professor with Universiti Sains Malaysia, George Town, Malaysia. He is currently a Chartered Engineer conferred by the Engineering Council, U.K. and The Institution of Engineering and Technology, as well as a registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia. His research interests include probabilistic modeling of power systems, grid integration of renewable energy sources, and reliability modeling of smart grid networks. For three consecutive years in 2019, 2020 and 2021, he was among the top 2% of the world's most cited researchers according to field ranked by Stanford University. In 2021, he was the recipient of the IEEE PES Malaysia Outstanding Engineer Award.