About
Shahab Afshar received the B.S. degree from the Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, in 2014, and the M.Sc. degree from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, in 2016, both in Electrical Engineering. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, USA. From 2017 to 2018, he was with the Power Systems Studies Research Department, Niroo research institute, Tehran, Iran. His research interests include transportation electrification, microgrid planning, and operation, power system optimization.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Computational Engineering Aug. 2019-Aug 2022
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN, USA, GPA: 4.0/4.0
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering Aug. 2014- July. 2016
Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, GPA: 3.72/4.0
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering Aug. 2009-July. 2014
Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, GPA: 3.33/4.0
Research interests
- Transportation electrification
- Microgrid planning and operation
- Distributed optimization
- Multi-energy systems
Publications
- Accepted and published papers
- Afshar, Shahab, Pablo Macedo, Farog Mohamed, and Vahid Disfani. “Mobile charging stations for electric vehicles—A review.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 152 (2021): 111654.
- S. Afshar, V. Disfani and P. Siano, “A Distributed Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling Platform Considering Aggregators Coordination,” in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3126289.
- Afshar, Shahab, and Vahid Disfani. “A Distributed EV Charging Framework Considering Aggregators Collaboration.” In 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
- Afshar, Shahab, Pablo Macedo, Farog Mohamed, and Vahid Disfani. “A literature review on mobile charging station technology for electric vehicles.” In 2020 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC), pp. 1184-1190. IEEE, 2020.
- Mohamed, Farog, Shailesh Wasti, Shahab Afshar, Pablo Macedo, and Vahid Disfani. “Mmc-based distributed maximum power point tracking for photovoltaic systems.” In 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2020.
- Afshar, Shahab, Shailesh Wasti, and Vahid Disfani. “Coordinated EV Aggregation Management via Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers.” In 2020 International Conference on Smart Grids and Energy Systems (SGES), pp. 882-887. IEEE, 2020.
- Wasti, Shailesh, Pablo Ubiratan, Shahab Afshar, and Vahid Disfani. “Distributed dynamic economic dispatch using alternating direction method of multipliers.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.09819 (2020).
Awards
- 2022 Dean’s Merit Award. a scholarship $2000 from the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
- SEARCH Award Contest, among 54 proposals from students across the University, my proposal on “Distributed charging management of Electric vehicles” won the proposal contest and awarded $1000, College of Engineering and Computer Science.
- 2021 Dean’s Merit Award. a scholarship $2000 from the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
- 2021 Outstanding Doctoral student, Computational Science: Engineering, The UTC graduate school.
- Outstanding International Graduate Student of The Year 2020-2021, (Awarded $500) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Outstanding Contribution to Student Publication, 2020-2021, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Outstanding Graduate Assistant of The Year 2020-2021, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Outstanding International Graduate Student of The Year 2019-2020, (Awarded $500), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Awarded the Travel Award honor, May 2020 honor, Computer science department, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Awarded a scholarship as a PhD student, covers full tuition fee and health insurance Center of Excellence for Applied Computational Science and Engineering (SimCenter), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
- Accepted for a research position to work on EU funded projects, UNITED-GRID and FLEXI-GRID during summer 2020, at Chalmers university of technology.
- Third place of the Iran smart cup competition, 2017, honor, Aug 2017, Power systems ministry.
- Honored to the second-ranked MSc student within the Department of Electrical Engineering, Aug 2016, Tarbiat Modares University.
Current research projects
- Optimization modeling for urban electric vehicle charging market in Chattanooga.
- Application of distributed optimization techniques in EV aggregation.
- Cyber security in distributed control platforms.
Professional memberships
- Technical lead, Google developer student club: Develop technical curriculum/literature for hands-on activities and lead activities.
- Student member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS)
- IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, IEEE Access, IEEE Transportation and Electrification Conference and Expo.
- Serving as a reviewer for Elsevier, Worked as a reviewer for several book chapters in the field of power systems.
Selected presentations
Mobile charging station (ITEC2020)
Distributed EV charging management (SGES2020)
A Distributed EV Charging Framework Considering Aggregators Collaboration (2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech)
Selected photos
Shahab Afshar won the 2022 Dean’s merit Scholarship. A scholarship of $2000 from the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Shahab Afshar won the 2021 Dean’s merit Scholarship. A scholarship of $2000 from the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Shahab Afshar won the 2020-2021 Outstanding Graduate International Student of the Year, A scholarship of $500 from the university international office.
Shahab Afshar won the 2020 Outstanding Graduate assistant and 2020 outstanding contribution to the student publication awards.
Shahab Afshar won the 2021 Outstanding Doctoral Student Computational Science, Computational Engineering
Shahab Afshar won the 2019-2020 Outstanding Graduate International Student of the Year, A scholarship of $500 from the university international office.
Contact
Shahab-afshar@mocs.utc.edu
210, EMCS, 615 McCallie Ave, EMCS 108A,
Chattanooga, TN , USA, 37403