Brief Biography:

Dr. Vaahedi has over 25 years of power industry experience in energy restructuring, power system operation and planning as well as the development and implementation of decision support tools and their utilization in power systems. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees both from Imperial College, University of London in the area of security and economic operation of power systems. He presently works at BC Hydro where he is accountable for developing the technology strategy and the execution of a consolidated technology plan to ensure that BC Hydro Grid Operations technology remains at the leading edge. Dr. Vaahedi is an IEEE Fellow, Chairman of the Operation Methods Subcommittee of IEEE, an Editor of the IEEE Transactions in Power Systems and on the Board of Director sof CIO Association of Canada. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and Sharif University of Technology. He has authored over 100 papers and owns registered patents on On-line Dynamic Security Assessment. In 2004, he won the IEEE PES Prize Paper award.

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