Ashkan Rahimi-Kian
PhD, P.Eng, IEEE Senior Member
Founder & CEO
Ashkan has 25 years of professional consulting and R&D experiences in Power Systems’ modeling, simulation, planning and optimal control. He has served as the V.P. of Engineering at Genscape Inc. (2001 to 2002); Senior Research Associate at School of ECE, Cornell University (2003); Assistant Professor (2004 to 2008) and Associate Professor (2009 to 2014) at School of ECE, College of Engineering, University of Tehran; Senior Research Associate, ECE Dept., University of Toronto (2015); Founder and CEO, I-EMS Group Ltd., Toronto, Canada (2015 to present); and Senior Data Scientist & Energy Market Analyst, Opus One Solutions, Toronto, Canada (2016 to 2018). Ashkan is the co-author of 150 peer-reviewed journal & conference papers. He is also the main inventor of three US Provisional patents for Smart Grids’ optimal operations & control and energy trading by means of AI, Blockchain, Model Predictive Control and Game Theory.