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Ashkan Kian
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
bio
I have 27+ years of professional experiences (including R&D and consulting) in: - Power systems planning, operations and optimal control (for the power industry and utilities), - Renewable energy (or various energy) systems design, control and minimum risk operation (via combining demand response and bulk energy storage systems with non-dispatchable power generators). - Energy markets analysis including, energy market modeling and decision making using game theory. - Energy demand, Energy Market Price/LMP, and DER (Solar PV and Wind) output forecasting in short-term. - Bidding strategies in energy markets considering profit risk assessment and optimal management. - Design and development of optimal Energy Conservation and Demand Response programs for power systems (with high penetration of DERs). - Operations Research (including mathematical modeling, objective function formulation, uncertain parameter PDF/scenario tree definition, linear and non-linear optimization, sensitivity analysis. parameter estimation, system identification, market players'​ behavior learning/estimation) and its applications to energy systems, intelligent transportation systems and financial management systems. - Big Data Management (including Data Acquisition, Processing, Statistical Analysis, Anonymization, Knowledge Extraction, Clustering, Prediction) for condition monitoring and optimal decision making with special applications to smart energy grids. - Transactive Energy market design, analysis, predictive analytics and bidding strategy development. - Integrated Distribution System Planning's math modeling, simulation, optimization, implementation, test and deployment. - Hands on GAMS, CYME, Matlab, Excel software packages; R, Python and Julia programming languages; Machine Learning; Game Theory & Microeconomics; Multi-Agent-Systems (MAS) design, monitoring, communication, control and optimization (for smart grids and smart transportation systems).
skills
Analyst Data Analyst Educator/Teacher Engineer Entrepreneur Software Developer
bio
I have 27+ years of professional experiences (including R&D and consulting) in: - Power systems planning, operations and optimal control (for the power industry and utilities), - Renewable energy (or various energy) systems design, control and minimum risk operation (via combining demand response and bulk energy storage systems with non-dispatchable power generators). - Energy markets analysis including, energy market modeling and decision making using game theory. - Energy demand, Energy Market Price/LMP, and DER (Solar PV and Wind) output forecasting in short-term. - Bidding strategies in energy markets considering profit risk assessment and optimal management. - Design and development of optimal Energy Conservation and Demand Response programs for power systems (with high penetration of DERs). - Operations Research (including mathematical modeling, objective function formulation, uncertain parameter PDF/scenario tree definition, linear and non-linear optimization, sensitivity analysis. parameter estimation, system identification, market players'​ behavior learning/estimation) and its applications to energy systems, intelligent transportation systems and financial management systems. - Big Data Management (including Data Acquisition, Processing, Statistical Analysis, Anonymization, Knowledge Extraction, Clustering, Prediction) for condition monitoring and optimal decision making with special applications to smart energy grids. - Transactive Energy market design, analysis, predictive analytics and bidding strategy development. - Integrated Distribution System Planning's math modeling, simulation, optimization, implementation, test and deployment. - Hands on GAMS, CYME, Matlab, Excel software packages; R, Python and Julia programming languages; Machine Learning; Game Theory & Microeconomics; Multi-Agent-Systems (MAS) design, monitoring, communication, control and optimization (for smart grids and smart transportation systems).
skills
Analyst Data Analyst Educator/Teacher Engineer Entrepreneur Software Developer