Hossein Ali Mohammadpour (IEEE S '2009 - M '2015) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees all in electrical engineering power systems from the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He also received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with focus on renewable energy systems from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, in December 2014, where he continued as a postdoctoral fellow until March 2015. Since March 2015, he has been with the NRG Renew, Scottsdale AZ, USA as a Senior Power Systems Engineer. Dr. Mohammadpour has published over fifty papers in power systems, power electronics, and renewable energy resources in international journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include power systems stability and control, micro-grid systems, photovoltaic, battery energy storage systems, and smart grid. Enrico Santi received the Dr. Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Padua, Italy in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech in 1989 and 1994, respectively. He worked as a senior design engineer at TESLAco from 1993 to 1998, where he was responsible for the development of various switching power supplies for commercial applications. Since 1998 he has been with the University of South Carolina where he is currently an associate professor in the electrical engineering department. Dr. Santi has published over one hundred and fifty papers in power electronics and modeling and simulation in international journals and conference proceedings, is co-author of two books and holds three patents. His research interests include switched-mode power converters, advanced modeling and simulation of power systems, modeling and simulation of semiconductor power devices, control of power electronics systems
