Masoud Nazari
Position Title
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biography
Dr. Masoud H. Nazari is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University (WSU). His research interest is in the intersection of power systems, distributed control, and machine learning.
Nazari is the IEEE Senior Member, Global Learning Faculty Fellow at WSU and is selected for the IEEE Technology Conferences Editorial Board. Prior to joining WSU, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at California State University, Long Beach.
Nazari is leading a $2.5M research project by the California Energy Commission to design, develop, and demonstrate an innovative data-driven IoT-based smart building energy management system in large university buildings. He has more than 70 publications in the field, including the best paper award in 2017 North American Power Symposium. His papers have been published in prestigious journals and transactions, such as IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems Springer Science & Business Media, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, and Control Engineering Practice.
Nazari received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012 and was a postdoctoral fellow from 2013 to 2015 in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology.