A/Professor Shahnia received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, in 2012. He is currently an A/Professor at Murdoch University. Before that, he was a Lecturer at Curtin University (2012–15), a Research Scholar at QUT (2008–11), and an R&D Engineer at the Eastern Azarbayjan Electric Power Distribution Company, Iran (2005–08). He is a senior member of IEEE, Chair of IEEE Western Australia Section and a member of the Engineers Australia and the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. He was the General Chair of the 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems at Perth, Australia on Dec. 2019. A/Professor Shahnia's research focuses on distribution networks, and microgrid and smart grid concepts. He has authored one book, 11 book chapters and over 100 peer-reviewed articles in international conferences and journals, and has also edited 6 books.
Dr. Deilami received her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Curtin University. She has over ten years of industry experience, and she is currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering, Macquarie University. Before joining Macquarie, she was a Lecturer at Curtin University (2014–2020), at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Curtin University. She also has over ten years of industry experience. Her research interests are smart grids, renewable energy, power quality, and power system protection. She has published over 40 papers including high citation journal articles, book chapters and peer reviewed conferences. She has also been awarded two industry grants in 2017. She is currently a member of the IEEE PES/PELS and the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE). She was the Vice Chair and the Chair of the IEEE WIE, WA section, in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
She was the publication chair of the 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems at Perth, Australia on Dec. 2019. She was also the technical chair and women in engineering chair of CMD 2018 conference and AUPEC 2014 conference, respectively.
