Ali Arefi
Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering
Murdoch University
Western Australia
Biography
Ali Arefi received a B.Sc. (Honours), M.Sc., and Ph.D. all in electrical engineering in 1999, 2001, and 2011, respectively. He has been a lecturer and Research Fellow in Queensland University of Technology (QUT) since 2012. During this time, he has developed an automated tool for optimal investment strategy in electric distribution networks over large areas and long planning horizons. He is a chief investigator in the awarded Discovery Project titled “Transition to Customer Response Driven Networksâ€, which is funded $390k by Australian Research Council (ARC) in 2015. Moreover, he is contributor/author of two research grants including Linkage Project funded more than $0.5M by ARC and supply industry. He is an IEEE Senior member and a member of several IEEE Working Groups and Committee and Task Force. He has six years’ experiences with electric distribution industry. He has been the consultant for 5 industry-funded research projects.
Research Interest
Electric distribution network,Energy Efficiency,Power Engineering Education,Power Engineering Education