Mojtaba Khanabadi, Ph.D., Mba, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Folsom, Ca, Us

Roseville, California

• Spearheaded the development and implementation of strategies to maximize resource value and minimize financial exposure, demonstrating strong leadership and strategic vision.• Led efforts to analyze market awards and identify discrepancies, taking proactive steps to recommend corrective actions and ensure alignment with organizational objectives.• Responsible for development and dissemination of commodity procurement strategies for participants in the Market Purchase Program and Gas Purchase Program.• Ensured the deployment of needed systems and tools to support deal tracking, e-tagging, pre-scheduling, price forecasting, hydrologic forecasting, hydro modeling/compliance, weather forecasting, and western portal communications capability.• Directed day-ahead scheduling operations with precision and efficiency, providing leadership in managing critical operational tasks.• Applied advanced statistical modeling techniques to optimize revenue allocation and settlement costs across all NCPA projects, while also participating in development of budget projections for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and Capital budgets exceeding one billion dollars, resulting in enhanced financial efficiency and performance.• Supervised and directed congestion revenue right (CRR) studies, analyzing market dynamics and implementing strategies to optimize revenue generation while hedging against the risk of market anomalies.• Oversaw the maintenance of comprehensive databases and utilized statistical programming languages to build and maintain forecast models, ensuring accuracy and reliability in forecasting.• Guided and mentored team members in performing supply/demand planning and risk management analyses, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.

Roseville, California, United States

Sacramento, California, United States

Folsom, Ca

• Led mathematical and economic analyses of market software and power systems applications, ensuring the validity of prices and congestion, while optimizing solutions for market efficiency and grid reliability.• Provided technical leadership in supplementing the design of market operations software, processes, and policies, contributing expertise in cost optimization technologies and transmission systems.• Directed the validation and testing of market outcomes, resolving market participant disputes and inquiries, and evaluating alternative courses of action, demonstrating decisive leadership in problem-solving.• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams including Day-Ahead Market and Real-Time Market operation engineers, focusing on problem resolution and identifying cost-effective solutions to meet functional requirements.• Offered 24/7 support to Real-Time Operations, demonstrating leadership in ensuring operational continuity and reliability.• Led efforts to integrate, enhance, and improve market applications such as Day-Ahead Market, Real-Time Market, and Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM).• Contributed significantly to the design and implementation of advanced power systems technologies; thus, supporting market operations and grid reliability.• Ensured meticulous documentation and implementation of new applications, maintaining organizational standards and quality assurance protocols.

Medina

• Successfully led a team of engineers as the Lead Power System Engineer across multiple regional footprints, demonstrating exceptional leadership and project management skills in overseeing complex engineering initiatives.• Conducted and refined Contingency Analysis, Power Flow, and State Estimation processes for industrial clients, ensuring optimal system performance and adherence to industry standards, showcasing leadership in technical expertise and problem-solving.• Led impact assessments of planned and forced equipment outages, exhibiting proactive leadership in risk management and mitigation strategies to maintain system reliability and operational integrity.• Implemented projects in strict accordance with NERC compliance standards.• Designed, integrated, tested, and commissioned advanced control systems for both market and non-market-based electric utilities, demonstrating leadership in innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions to meet client needs and industry demands.

• Conducted extensive research on multi-area power systems, focusing on algorithm development for reliable and secure operation of decentralized systems, emphasizing parallel implementation.• Developed a decentralized-based stochastic security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) model for interconnected power systems with high renewable energy penetration, enhancing system reliability and efficiency.• Performed real-time and contingency analysis to evaluate the reliability impact of transmission line switching (forced) and planned outages, providing critical insights for grid resilience enhancement.• Contributed to the Entergy corrective action project by designing and implementing Python code for N-2 contingency analysis and post-contingency corrective action planning, demonstrating technical expertise and problem-solving skills in power system reliability assessment and mitigation.Selected publications• M. Khanabadi, Y. Fu, C. Liu, " Decentralized Transmission Line Switching for Congestion Management of Interconnected Power Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2838046• M. Khanabadi, Y. Fu and L. Gong, "A Fully Parallel Stochastic Multi-area Power System Operation Considering Large-Scale Wind Power Integration," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 138-147, Jan. 2018. doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2017.2719659• M. Khanabadi, H. Ghasemi, and M. Doostizadeh, "Optimal Transmission Switching Considering Voltage Security and N-1 Contingency Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 542-550, Feb. 2013.• M. Khanabadi, C. Wang, and Y. Fu, "Security-constrained unit commitment considering voltage stability: A parallel solution," 2016 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Denver, CO, 2016, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/NAPS.2016.7747959

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Management, Finance, 3.8

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Enginnering, 4/4

Global Operation of Decentralized Integrated Power Systems

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering, 4/4

Optimal Transmission Line Switching in Restructured Power Systems.