Farhad Shahnia
Professor
Organizing Committee
Australia
Murdoch University
BIOGRAPHY
A/Professor Farhad Shahnia received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 2012. He is currently anA/Professor at Murdoch University. Before that, he was a Lecturer at Curtin University (2012-15), a research scholar at QUT (2008-11), and an R&D engineer at the Eastern Azarbayjan Electric Power Distribution Company, Iran (2005-08). He is currently a Fellow member of Engineers Australia, Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.
PUBLICATIONS
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.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Farhad’s research falls under Distribution networks, Microgrid, and Smart grid concepts.
HONORS AND AWARDS
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.