Dr. Massoud Amin Energy, Defense and Security Strategist and Pioneer. On a Mission to Develop Leaders and Power Progress. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota.

Professor Massoud Amin Energy, Defense and Security Strategist and Pioneer. On a Mission to Develop Leaders and Power Progress. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota.

Massoud Amin says smart grids are power transmission infrastructures furnished with information technology to broadcast energy more competently in a better way and permits distributors and providers access to data on how energy is taken.

Smart grids will comprise digital meters that can spot electronic outages and challenging areas within the grid. This will enable electricity companies to offer maintenance to components that require it to avoid hazards. A smart grid according to Professor Massoud Amin allows faster response times when it comes to troubleshooting defective electrical setups.

Professor Massoud Amin Energy, Defense and Security Strategist and Pioneer. On a Mission to Develop Leaders and Power Progress. Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota

Dr. Massoud Amin, IEEE and ASME Fellow, is a professor of electrical & computer engineering (ECE), and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is currently on leave from the Technological Leadership Institute (TLI.umn.edu), where he served as the Director and the Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership (during March 2003 – Oct. 2018), in part, to complete his forthcoming book on “Powering Progress and Fueling Prosperity: Resilience & Sensitivity in Face of Chaos,” to continue his R&D in this area and to develop/deliver training, simulations, and new courses with a focus on proactive resilience and security of Complex Interdependent Networks/Systems.

The two-way flow of electricity and data according to Massoud Amin that is the essential characteristic of a smart grid allows to feed information and data to the several stakeholders in the electricity market which can be analyzed to optimize the grid, foresee potential issues, react quicker when challenges arise and build new capacities and services as the power landscape is changing.

Massoud Amin that is the essential characteristic of a smart grid allows to feed information and data to the several stakeholders in the electricity market which can be analyzed to optimize the grid, foresee potential issues, react quicker when challenges arise and build new capacities and services as the power landscape is changing.

Dr. Amin was with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, Calif. where he served as Lead, Mathematical & Information Sciences, and as Area Manager of Infrastructure Security, Grid Operations/Planning, and Energy Markets. After 9/11, he directed all security-related R&D for U.S. utilities. He has led research, development, and deployment of smart grids, and the enhancement of critical infrastructures’ security during this period. In addition, Professor Massoud Amin pioneered R&D in smart grids in 1998, and led the development of 24 technologies that transferred to industry. He is considered the father of the smart grid (tli.umn.edu/tli-blog/inspiration-behind-smart-grid-series-defining-moments). Massoud Amin received several awards including six EPRI Performance Recognition Awards for leadership in three areas, the 2002 President’s Award for the Infrastructure Security Initiative, and twice received the Chauncey Award, the Institute’s highest honor.

Dr. Massoud Amin is an expert in smart grids, energy, control engineering, dynamical systems, critical infrastructure protection, cyber-physical security, emergency pivotal technologies, IP valuation/strategy, S&T policy/development, & teaches quite a few courses.

Dr. Massoud Amin is the author or co-author of more than 340 peer-reviewed publications and the editor of seven collections of manuscripts, and served on the editorial boards of six academic journals. At Washington University, students voted him three times Professor of the Year (voted annually by seniors in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University, 1992-1995), Mentor-of-The-Year (Assoc. of Graduate Engineering Students, Feb. 1996), and the Leadership Award (voted by the senior engineering class, May 1995). Professor Massoud Amin received Best Session Paper Presentation Awards (American Control Conference, 1997) and an AIAA Young Professional Award (St. Louis section, 1991). At EPRI he received several awards including the 2002 President’s Award for the Infrastructure Security Initiative, 2000 and 2002 Chauncey Awards (the highest annual EPRI Award, in March 2001 and 2003), and six EPRI Performance Recognition Awards during 1999-2002 for leadership in three areas.