Dr. Ashkan Rahimi-Kian has over 28 years of R&D, consulting and software development experiences in smart energy grids, power systems planning, operations & optimal control, and transactive energy markets by means of blockchain. Ashkan has served as the CTO at IEMS Solutions (August 2022 to present); Founder & CEO at IEMS (July 2015 to July 2022); Senior Data Scientist at Opus One Solutions (2016-2018); and VP of Engineering at Genscape Inc. (2001 to 2002). Ashkan is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has published over 150 peer- reviewed papers and is the main inventor of 6 US provisional patents related to smart grid software/SaaS. Ashkan led IEMS tech team to become top-10 in E-mobility within LG Nova's competition for innovation in 2022 among 1500 participating startups globally.