Dr. Ashkan Rahimi-Kian

Founder and CEO
I-EMS Group Ltd.

Ashkan has 24+ years of professional experiences in Smart Energy Grids, Power Systems Planning, Operations and Optimal Control, DERMS, Operations Research, Predictive Analytics, Game Theory & Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), and Transactive Energy Markets by means of Blockchain. 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). He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers about Smart Energy Grids, Energy Markets, Power Systems' Load & Price Estimation, Home and Building Intelligent Energy Management Systems. Ashkan is the main inventor of a US patent for a novel "Integrated Distribution Planning" method for Smart Distribution Grids.