Ashkan Rahimi-Kian

PhD, P.Eng, IEEE Senior Member Founder and CEO, I-EMS Group Ltd. Toronto, Canada

Dr. Ashkan Rahimi-Kian has 24+ years of professional experiences in Smart Energy Grids, Power Systems Planning, Operations and Optimal Control, DERMS, Operations Research, Predictive Analytics, Game Theory & Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), and Transactive Energy Markets by means of Blockchain. He has served as the V.P. of Engineering at Genscape Inc. (2001 to 2002); Senior Research Associate at School of ECE, Cornell University (2003); Assistant Professor (2004 to 2008) and Associate Professor (2009 to 2014) at School of ECE, College of Engineering, University of Tehran; Senior Research Associate, ECE Dept., University of Toronto (2015); Founder and CEO, I-EMS Group Ltd., Toronto, Canada (2015 to present); and Senior Data Scientist & Energy Market Analyst, Opus One Solutions, Toronto, Canada (2016 to 2018). He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers about Smart Energy Grids, Energy Markets, Power Systems' Load & Price Estimation, Home and Building Intelligent Energy Management Systems. Ashkan is the main inventor of two US patents, "Integrated Distribution Planning" and “A WEB-BASED SaaS with LOAD/PV FORECASTING, Power Distribution System Simulation/Optimization (DERMS), and Blockchain-based Transactive Energy Platform SERVICES FOR Smart Grids”. Ashkan has designed and managed the development of several software solutions for power systems/smart grids’ optimal planning, operations, monitoring and control for the past 18 years.

The title of speech:

SaaS solutions for future of Energy in Smart Cities

As the number of distributed energy resources (DER) are increasing within the smart distribution grids, the power system operators (ISO/IESO), power utilities (PU) and local distribution companies (LDC) need to utilize more advanced software solutions and cloud-based computational services to efficiently plan and operate future distribution grids with thousands of DER assets, and also trade energy with them by means of peer-to-peer Transactive Energy markets (or P2P TEM). This will become the new Energy SaaS infrastructure for evolving Smart Cities.

The I-EMS Group Limited has developed a total SaaS solution for the future of energy in Smart Cities. The Energy SaaS modules include:

1- Predictive Analytics for PV generation and network load forecast up to 24 hours-ahead (with one-hour granularity).

2- DER Management System (DERMS), a power system simulator and optimizer for DER’s and variable loads’ optimal scheduling for efficient operation of power distribution grids.

3- Blockchain based P2P TE application for trading energy between a distribution system operator (DSO) and all registered prosumers (DER, DG and flexible commercial & industrial/C&I loads) in its network for future times (i.e. one-hour to one-week ahead of time).

In this SCIOT2020 Talk, all three SaaS modules will be explained with numerical examples and how the integrated SaaS modules could help DSO’s to efficiently operate future distribution grids and trade energy with DER assets by means of P2P TE platform designed by I-EMS Group Limited.

Hamed Ahmadi

Assistant Professor at University of York

United Kingdom

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Email:

hamed.ahmadi@ucd.ieu

Dr. Hamed Ahmadi is currently Assistant Professor at the York University, UK. He was a lecturer (assistant professor) in communications and networks in school of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at University of Essex, UK, where was also the assistant academic coordinator of UESSEX and Northwest University (China) joint programme. His research interests are Next generation of mobile systems (5G), radio resource allocation, self-organizing networks, small cells, economic models for networks, network virtualization, networked flying platforms, optimization, machine learning, game and auction theory, and evolutionary algorithms. Dr. Ahmadi is co-chair network layer working group in COST Action CA15104 (IRACON) actively participate in IoT for health sub-working group activities. He is a member of editorial board in IEEE Access and Springer Wireless Networks. He has been the recent results track-chair of IEEE PIMRC18, tutorial chair of CrownComm18 and Network Softwarization track-chair of EuCNC19. I have also TPC co-chaired Next-GWIN18 and served Next-GWIN16 as summer school chair. He co-chaired 5G-related workshops in IEEE Globecome18, WCNC18 and PIMRC17.

In 2008, he received Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) to study Ph.D. at National University of Singapore. During his PhD studies, he was an attached student at Institute for Infocomm. Research (I2R). At NUS, he also attended graduate courses in engineering management department as a part of management of technology (MoT) program and received a graduate certificate in MoT. He was a research fellow at CTVR/CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland from 2012 to 2015. At CTVR he was working in Prof. Luiz DaSilva’s team and my research focused on game theoretic and machine learning approaches for decentralize dynamic spectrum access and the next generation of mobile communications, 5G.

The title of speech:

"Role of aerial platforms in beyond 5G networks"