Payman Dehghanian (IEEE SM’20) received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2009, an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, in 2011, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2017. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA in 2018, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include electrical power systems reliability and resilience assessment, data-informed decision-making in power and energy systems, and smart electricity grid applications.

Dr. Dehghanian is the recipient of the 2014 and 2015 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Professional Achievement Awards, the 2015 IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award, the 2021 Early Career Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences, the 2022 George Washington University’s Early Career Researcher Award, the 2022 IEEE IAS Electric Safety Committee’s Young Professional Achievement Award, and the 2022 IEEE IAS Outstanding Young Member Service Award. In 2015 and 2016, Dr. Dehghanian was selected among the World’s Top 20 Young Scholars for Next Generation of Researchers in Electric Power Systems. He is currently a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing.