Education

PhD student in Electrical Engineering, power systems

Iran University of Science and Technology

Form September 2009, Expected to be finished September 2013

• Thesis: Monitoring and Intelligent Control of Electrical Distribution Systems

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, power systems

Tarbiat Modarres University

GPA 16.6 / 20 Class Rank: 4/12.

Form September 2002 to July 2005

• Thesis: Modeling of UPFC for Security Constrained Optimal Power flow

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics Engineering 

University of Kashan

GPA 15.96 / 20 Class Rank: 2/34.

From September 1998 to August 2002

• Project: Linear Control Lab construction

Publications

• Ali Akbar Abrishami and Seyed Abbas Taher , " UPFC Location and Performance Analysis in Deregulated Power Systems ", Mathematical Problems in Engineering , accepted for publication, November 2009.

• A.A. Abrishami, Ali Yazdian-Varjani, H. Seifi, "Placement and Performance Analysis of UPFC in Restructured Power System", Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, accepted for publication, May 2008 (in Farsi).

• A.A. Abrishami, M. R. Hesamzadeh, N. Hosseinzadeh, "A Novel Modelling Approach for Exploring the Effects of UPFC on Restructured Electricity Market", International Power Engineering Conference, Singapore, 2007.

Fields of Interest

• Distribution system automation

• Fault current limiters

• Distributed control of substations

• Power system restructuring

• Application of FACTS controllers in power system

• Electric power system applications of optimization

Software – Hardware Experience

• Software Tools:

• MATLAB ( m file, Optimization toolbox, GA toolbox, Fuzzy toolbox, Control Process toolbox, Simulink, simPower system toolbox and GUI )

• Microsoft Office (MS Access database, MS Excel, MS Word)

• PSCAD, Neplan, Power World, MATHPOWER, Orcad, PSPICE

• Programming languages:

• C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, and Assembly

Work experience

• Rastafan CO. (an R&D company in communications), Tehran

EMC Engineer and power electronics expert, 2004

Electromagnetic compatibility researcher

Noise reduction in power converter

Languages

Perfect in English (score of 6.5 from Academic IELTS)