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Associate Professor, Elect & Computer Engineering

mostafa.ardakani@utah.edu

Professional Membership

  • ENERGY: Member, Energy Systems Integration Group, 09/2018

Publications

  • ENERGY: B. Willing, A. Ho, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, and K. Powell, “System Benefits of Industrial Battery Storage: A Comparison of Grid and Facility Control and Dispatch,” Sustainable Energy, Grids, and Networks, vol. 32, Dec. 2022., 12/2022
  • JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY: S. Tiwari, C. Schelly, G. Ou, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, J. Chen, and F. Jafarishiadeh, “Conceptualizing Resilience: An Energy Services Approach,” Energy Research and Social Science, vol. 94, Dec. 2022., 12/2022
  • ENERGY: X. Rui and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “A Successive Flow Direction Enforcing Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Variable-Impedance FACTS Devices,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 211, Oct. 2022., 10/2022
  • ENERGY: S. Sadat and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Tuning Successive Linear Programming to Solve AC Optimal Power Flow Problem for Large Networks,” International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol. 137, May 2022., 05/2022
  • ENERGY: X. Rui, T. Nudell, and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Linear Modelling of Series FACTS Devices in Power System Operation Models,” IET Generation, Transmission, & Distribution, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1047-1063, March 2022, 03/2022
  • ENERGY: S. Sadat, X. Rui, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Computational Impacts of SVCs on Optimal Power Flow using Approximated Active-Set Interior Point Algorithm,” in Proc. Of 2021 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), College Station, TX, USA., 11/2021
  • ENERGY: S. Sadat, and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Customized Sequential Quadratic Programming for Solving Large-Scale AC Optimal Power Flow,” in Proc. Of 2021 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), College Station, TX, USA., 11/2021
  • ENERGY: Y. Al-Abdullah, M. Al-Saffar, A. Al-Azmi, and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Impacts of COVID-19 on Kuwait’s Electric Power Grid,” Electricity Journal, vol. 34, no. 9, Nov. 2021., 11/2021
  • ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE: F. Mohammadi, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, D. Trakas, and N. Hatziargyriou, “Machine Learning Assisted Stochastic Unit Commitment during Hurricanes with Predictable Line Outages,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 5131 – 5142, Nov. 2021., 03/2021
  • ENERGY: F. Mohammadi, F. Jafarishiadeh, J. Xue, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, and G. Ou, “Deterministic Proxies for Stochastic Unit Commitment During Hurricanes,” IET Generation Transmission and Distribution, in press, 2020, 12/2020
  • ENERGY | WATER: Y. Zheng and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Leveraging Existing Water and Wastewater Infrastructure to Develop Distributed Pumped Storage Hydropower in California,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 34, Feb. 2021., 12/2020
  • ENERGY: F. Mohammadi and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Multidimensional Scenario Selection for Power Systems with Stochastic Failures,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 5428-4538, Nov. 2020., 11/2020
  • ENERGY: J. Xue, X. Li, F. Mohammadi, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, Z. Pu, and G. Ou, “Impact of Transmission Tower-Line Interaction to the Bulk Power System during Hurricane,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 203, Nov. 2020., 11/2020
  • ENERGY | WATER: F. Mohammadi, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, Y. Al-Abdullah, and G. T. Heydt, “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Desalination: A Power Market Opportunity,” Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 1091-1101, 2020., 11/2020
  • ENERGY: F. Jafarishiadeh, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, and M. Liu, “Preventive Unit Commitment for Transmission Line De-icing in Changing Weather Conditions,” in Proc. Of 2020 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Tempe, AZ, USA, 11/2020
  • ENERGY: S. Sadat and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Initializing Successive Linear Programming Solver for ACOPF using Machine Learning,” in Proc. Of 2020 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Tempe, AZ, USA, 11/2020
  • ENERGY: O. Mirzapour and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Environmental Impacts of Power Flow Control with Variable-Impedance FACTS,” in Proc. Of 2020 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Tempe, AZ, USA., 11/2020
  • ENERGY: F. Mohammadi, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, D. Trakas, and N. Hatziargyriou, “Machine Learning Assisted Stochastic Unit Commitment: A Feasibility Study,” in Proc. Of 2020 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Tempe, AZ, USA., 11/2020
  • ENERGY: F. Jafarishiadeh, F. Mohammadi, and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Preventive Dispatch for Transmission De-icing,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 4104-4107, Sept. 2020, 09/2020
  • ENERGY: F. Mohammadi and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Tractable Stochastic Unit Commitment for Large Systems during Predictable Hazards,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 115078-115088, June 2020., 06/2020
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, F. Mohammadi, G. Ou, Z. Pu, J. Xue, X. Lin, and Y. Sang, “Reliability Enhancement via Integration of Extreme Weather Forecast in Power System Operation,” 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES 2019), December 2019, Perth, Australia., 12/2019
  • ENERGY: Y. Sang, J. Xue, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, and G. Ou, “An Integrated Preventive Operation Framework for Power Systems During Hurricanes,” IEEE Systems Journal, in press, 2019., 11/2019
  • ENERGY | WATER | FOOD SYSTEMS: F. Mohammadi, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, Y. Al-Abdullah, and G. T. Heydt, “Can Desalination be an Economically Viable Solution for Water Scarcity?” IEEE Global Humanitarian Conference, October 2019, Seattle, WA, USA., 11/2019
  • ENERGY: Y. Sang, J Xue, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, and G. Ou, “Comparing a New Power System Preventive Operation Method with a Conventional Industry Practice during Hurricanes,” 2019 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Wichita, KS, USA., 10/2019
  • ENERGY | WATER: G. T. Heydt, F. Mohammadi, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, Y. Al-Abdullah, “Large Scale Desalination: Potential for a Significant Electric Energy Market,” 2019 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Wichita, KS, USA., 10/2019
  • ENERGY: Y. Sang and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Effective Power Flow Control via Distributed FACTS Considering Future Uncertainties,” Electric Power System Research, vol. 168, pp. 127-136, March 2019., 03/2019
  • ENERGY | WATER: F. Mohammadi, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, Y. Al-Abdullah, and Gerald T. Heydt, “Coordinated Scheduling of Power Generation and Water Desalination Units,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 3657-3666, Sept. 2019., 02/2019
  • ENERGY: F. Mohammadi, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, and Y. Al-Abdullah, “Coordinated Operation of Power Generation and Water Desalination,” 10th IFAC Symposium on Control of Power and Energy Systems (CPES), Sept. 2018, Tokyo, Japan., 09/2018
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Merchant Power Flow Controllers,” Energy Economics, vol. 74, pp. 878-885, Aug. 2018, 08/2018
  • ENERGY: S. Sadat, D. Haralson, and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Evaluation of Various Techniques to Warm-Start a Successive Linear Programming Algorithm for Solving the IV ACOPF,” IEEE PES General Meeting 2018, Portland, OR, USA., 08/2018
  • ENERGY: Y. Sang and Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, “Economic Benefit Comparison of D-FACTS and FACTS in Transmission Networks with Uncertainties,” IEEE PES General Meeting 2018, Portland, OR, USA., 08/2018
  • ENERGY: S. Sadat, D. Haralson, and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Security versus Computation Time in IV-ACOPF with SOCP Initialization,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Boise, ID, USA., 06/2018
  • ENERGY: Y. Sang, J. Xue, M. Sahraei-Ardakani, and G. Ou, “Effective Scenario Selection for Preventive Stochastic Unit Commitment during Hurricanes,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Boise, ID, USA., 06/2018
  • ENERGY: Y. Sang and Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, “Analyzing the Mutual Influence of Conventional and Distributed FACTS via Stochastic Co-optimization,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), Boise, ID, USA., 06/2018
  • ENERGY: Y. Al-Abdullah and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Differences in locational marginal prices: Deterministic vs. stochastic market formulations,” 2018 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy: Generation and Applications (ICREGA), Al-Ain, UAE., 06/2018
  • ENERGY: Y. Sang and M. Sahraei–Ardakani, “The Interdependence between Transmission Switching and Variable-Impedance Series FACTS Devices,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 2792-2803, May 2018., 05/2018

Presentations

  • JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, J. Chen, M. Liu, and S. Yusaf, “Developing broadband infrastructure in the Navajo Nation: challenges and possible solutions,” Utah RF Day, University of Utah, September 2022. , 09/2022
  • JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, J. Chen, M. Liu, and S. Yusaf, “Energy and broadband infrastructure in US Native communities: The case of Navajo Nation,” NSF SRS RN Network: Connecting Rural and Urban Environments for Equitable Access to Transportation, Telecommunications and Energy (CREEATTE), University of Tennessee—Knoxville, August 2022., 08/2022
  • JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | ENERGY: M. Liu and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Connecting Diné Communities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Pathways,” IEEE PES General Meeting 2022, July 2022, Denver, CO, USA., 07/2022
  • JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, M. Liu, and S. Yusaf, “Access to electricity in US native communities: The case of Navajo Nation,” Energy and Climate Transformations: 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science, Manchester, UK, June 2022., 06/2022
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani and F. Mohammadi, “Enhancing Scalability of Stochastic Unit Commitment during Extreme Weather using Machine Learning,” INFORMS Annual Meeting 2020., 11/2020
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, F. Mohammadi, and G. Ou, “Integration of Severe Weather Forecast Data in Grid Operation,” IEEE PES General Meeting 2020, August 2020, Montreal, Canada., 08/2020
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, F. Mohammadi, and G. Ou, “Machine Learning Assisted Preventive Stochastic Unit Commitment,” Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency Through Software, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, June 2020, Washington, DC, USA., 06/2020
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, G. Ou, and Z. Pu, "An Integrated Platform for Preventive Power System Operation during Hurricanes," HurriCon, East Carolina University, February 2020., 02/2020
  • ENERGY: F. Mohammadi and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Scalable Stochastic Unit Commitment During Hurricanes,” INFORMS Annual Meeting 2019, Seattle, WA, USA., 11/2019
  • ENERGY: Y. Sang and M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Effective Power Flow Control Via Distributed FACTS Considering Future Uncertainties,” INFORMS Annual Meeting 2019, Seattle, WA, USA., 11/2019
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, F. Mohammadi, G. Ou, and Z. Pu, “Scalable Preventive Unit Commitment for Operation during Extreme Weather,” Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency Through Software, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Jun. 2019, Washington, DC, USA., 06/2019
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani and Y. Sang, “Optimal Portfolio of Power Flow Control Technologies: Topology and Impedance Control,” INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018, Phoenix, AZ, USA, 11/2018
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani and Y. Sang, “Coordinated Planning and Operation of M-FACTS and Transmission Switching,” 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Jul. 2018, Bordeaux, France, 07/2018
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani, “Enhanced Operation of Power Flow Controllers through Efficient Algorithms,” 2018 IEEE T&D Conference and Exposition, April 2018, Denver, CO, 04/2018
  • ENERGY: M. Sahraei-Ardakani and Ge Ou “Preventive Power System Operation During Hurricanes,” Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency Through Software, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Jun. 2018, Washington, DC, USA., 06/2017

Internal Service

  • ENERGY | WATER: Global Change and Sustainability Center (GCSC) Executive Committee, 09/2019

External Service

  • JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | ENERGY | WATER: Partnership with the Navajo nation (Kayenta, Dennehotso, and Chilchinbito chapters) to develop projects for delivering power, water, and communication to the community, 01/2020

Professional Service

  • ENERGY: Proposed a successful bid to host 2022 North American Power Symposium (NAPS) at the University of Utah. In collaboration with: Prof. Mingxi Liu., IEEE Power and Energy Society, 09/2019-10/2022

Media

  • JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY: Energy Department funds $9M in clean energy projects on tribal lands Daily Times, 03/2022
  • JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ENERGY: Kayenta Chapter secures grant to power 24 homes with solar energy; part of a five-year energy plan Navajo Hopi Observer, 03/2022

Awards

  • ENERGY: National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, National Science Foundation, 01/2022
  • ENERGY: Best paper award for “Preventive Unit Commitment for Transmission Line De-icing in Changing Weather Conditions,” in North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Tempe, AZ, USA. The paper was led by U of U student Fatemeh Jafarishiadeh with Dr. Sahraei-Ardakani and Dr. Liu as co-authors., 04/2021

Grants

  • ENERGY: INTERN: EAGER: Real-Time: Effective Power System Operation during Hurricanes using Historical and Real-Time Data. PI: Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, 09/2020-03/2021
  • ENERGY: Elements: Open Access Data Generation Engine for Bulk Power System under Extreme Windstorms. PI: Ge Ou. Co-PI(s): Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Zhaoxia Pu, 07/2020-07/2023