Invited Speakers
Professor Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, University of Toronto, Canada
Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, where he joined in 2025. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at Delft University of Technology, having joined in 2016 following several research appointments at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and MIT between 2014 and 2016. He received the PhD degree from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the MSc and BSc degrees from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. His research interests include theoretical and practical aspects of decision-making problems in uncertain and dynamic environments, with applications in engineering systems and management. He currently serves as an associate editor of Operations Research, Transactions on Automatic Control, Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, and Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization. He was one of the three finalists for the Young Researcher Prize in Continuous Optimization awarded by the Mathematical Optimization Society in 2016, and a recipient of the 2016 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society. He received the ERC Starting Grant and the INFORMS Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 2020. He is the recipient of the 2022 European Control Award.
Professor Pierluigi Mancarella, University of Melbourne, Australie
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Professor Mario Paolone, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Suisse
Mario Paolone received the M.Sc. (with honors) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 2005, he became an Assistant Professor in power systems at the University of Bologna, where he worked in the Power Systems Laboratory until 2011. Since 2011, he has been with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is a Full Professor and the Chair of the Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory. His research focuses on power systems, with particular emphasis on real-time monitoring, operational aspects, protection, dynamics, and transients. Dr. Paolone has made significant contributions in the field of PMU-based situational awareness for Active Distribution Networks (ADNs) and in developing exact, convex, and computationally efficient methods for the optimal planning and operation of ADNs. Dr. Paolone was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks. In 2022, he has been nominated Fellow of the IEEE.
Professor Baosen Zhang, University of Washington, USA
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