Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour

Distinguished Bodine Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
Director, Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation
Associate Director, Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER)


Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour joined Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 1983. He is the Bodine Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Director of the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, and Associate Director of WISER at Illinois Institute of Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Shahidehpour was the recipient of IEEE PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award, IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, IEEE PES T. Burke Hayes Faculty Recognition Award, IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award, Chicago Chapter, Edison Electric Institute's Power Engineering Educator Award, C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Professor Award, Romanian Association of Engineers' Outstanding Author Award, Illinois Technology Association's Technologist of the Year Award, Sigma Xi Society's Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award, Electrical Engineering Department Head Association's Innovative Program Award, and IIT's Research Leadership and Excellence in Teaching Awards.

Dr. Shahidehpour was the 2009 recipient of the honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He is the holder of Nourbakhshian Endowed Chair Professorship, University of Kashan, Iran, and Otto Monsted Professorship, Technical University of Denmark. He is a Research Professor at King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia), Sharif University of Technology (Iran), as well as several universities in China including Tsinghua University, Xian Jiaotong University, Nanjing University, North China Electric Power University, and Hunan University.
Dr. Shahidehpour is the Principal Investigator of $60 million grants and contracts on smart grid research and development. His DOE Project on Perfect Power Systems has converted the entire IIT Campus to an islanded microgrid. He has initiated CSMART (Center for Smart Grid Applications, Research, and Technology) at IIT for promoting the smart grid cybersecurity research and implementation and enhancing the resilience of wireless networked communication and control systems in smart cities. He is a member of SPIKE Center in the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech which is facilitating the design and the implementation of affordable microgrids in impoverished nations (ResearchGate).

Dr. Shahidehpour has supervised 120 visiting faculty and graduate research students at IIT. He has co-authored six books and 500 papers on electric power system operation and planning (Google Scholar), and was the recipient of eight best paper awards for his IEEE publications. He is an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer and served as the VP of Publications for the IEEE Power and Energy Society, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.