Dr. Seyed Fariborz Zarei

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Qom University of Technology (QUT)
Shahid Khodakaram blvd. (Tehran-Qom Old Rd.)
Qom, I.R. Iran

Contact Information
University email address	zarei@qut.ac.ir
Personal email address	sf.zarei@gmail.com
Skype	fariborz_sut

Educational Background
Sharif University of Technology (Electrical Engineering Department) Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Sept. 2014 - Sept. 2019) Title: Improvement of Inverter-Based AC Microgrids’ Protection against Short Circuit Supervisor: Prof. Hossein Mokhtari (mokhtari@sharif.edu) GPA: 18.53/20 (via 18 credits) Research and Technology Scholarship (Iran National Science Foundation)	Tehran, Iran
Aalborg University (Department of Energy Technology) International Visiting Graduate Student (February 2018 – August 2018) Track: Power electronic based power Systems Topic: Improvement of Inverter-Based AC Microgrids’ Protection against Short Circuit Supervisor: Prof. Frede Blaabjerg (fbl@et.aau.dk)
Sharif University of Technology (Electrical Engineering Department) M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Sept. 2012 – Aug. 2014) Thesis Title: Micro-Grid Protection in Presence of Inverter-Based and Conventional Distributed Generations Supervisor: Prof. Mostafa Parniani (parniani@sharif.edu) GPA:18.43/20 (via 32 credits)	Tehran, Iran
Amirkabir University of Technology (Electrical Engineering Department) B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Sept. 2008 – June 2012) Track: Power Systems (2^nd Ranked) Project Title: Identification of flicker sources in power systems Advisor: Prof. Seyed Hossein Hosseinian (hosseinian@aut.ac.ir) GPA: 18.4/20 (via 143 credits)

Field of Interest

Power Systems
Application of power electronics in power systems
Power system protection
Control of power converters
Renewable energies
Power quality
Electromagnetic compatibility

Publications (Journal Papers)
S. Hasanzadeh, S. F. Zarei, and E. Najafi. "A Train Scheduling for Energy Optimization: Tehran Metro System as a Case Study." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022, (early access), Available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9927159	IEEE JCR- Q1 IF: 9.551
M. A. Ghasemi, S. F. Zarei, Z. Sohrabi, F. Blaabjerg, and S. Peyghami. "An Observer-Based Current Sensor-Less Control Scheme for Grid-Following Converters." Applied Sciences 12, no. 15 (2022): 7749, Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/15/7749, download	MDPI JCR- Q2 IF: 2.679
M. Pourmirasghariyan, S. F. Zarei, M. Hamzeh, and F. Blaabjerg. "A Power Routing-Based Fault Detection Strategy for Multi-Terminal VSC-HVDC Grids." IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (2022), Early Access. Available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9842314/	IEEE JCR- Q1 IF: 4.415
M. Pourmirasghariyan, S. F. Zarei, and M. Hamzeh. "DC-system grounding: Existing strategies, performance analysis, functional characteristics, technical challenges, and selection criteria-a review." Electric Power Systems Research (2022): 107769. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378779621007501 download	Elsevier JCR- Q1 IF: 3.414
M.A. Ghasemi; S.F. Zarei; S. Peyghami; F. Blaabjerg. "A Theoretical Concept of Decoupled Current Control Scheme for Grid-Connected Inverter with L-C-L Filter" Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 6256. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/app11146256 download	MDPI JCR- Q2 IF: 2.679
S. F. Zarei, M. A. Ghasemi, and S. Khankalantary. "Current limiting strategy for grid-connected inverters under asymmetrical short circuit faults." International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 131 (2021): 107020. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S014206152100260X download	Elsevier JCR- Q1 IF: 3.588
S. F. Zarei, H. Mokhtari and F. Blaabjerg, "Fault Detection and Protection Strategy for Islanded Inverter-Based Microgrids," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 472-484, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/JESTPE.2019.2962245. Available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8943274 download	IEEE JCR- Q1 IF: 5.972
S. F. Zarei, H. Mokhtari, M. A. Ghasemi, S. Peyghami, P. Davari and F. Blaabjerg, "Control of Grid-Following Inverters Under Unbalanced Grid Conditions," in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 184-192, March 2020, doi: 10.1109/TEC.2019.2945699. Available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8859288 download	IEEE JCR- Q1 IF: 4.614
S. F. Zarei, H. Mokhtari, M. A. Ghasemi, S. Peyghami, P. Davari, and F. Blaabjerg, "DC-link loop bandwidth selection strategy for grid-connected inverters considering power quality requirements," International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 119, p. 105879, 2020/07/01/ 2020. doi: S0142-0615(19)32208-2. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0142061519322082 download	Elsevier JCR- Q1 IF: 4.418
S. F. Zarei, H. Mokhtari, M. A. Ghasemi and F. Blaabjerg, "Reinforcing Fault Ride Through Capability of Grid Forming Voltage Source Converters Using an Enhanced Voltage Control Scheme," in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1827-1842, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2018.2844082. Available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8371651 download	IEEE JCR- Q1 IF: 4.415
S. F. Zarei, M. A. Ghasemi, H. Mokhtari, F. Blaabjerg, “Performance Improvement of AC-DC Power Converters under Unbalanced Conditions," in Scientia Iranica (International journal of science & Technology), June 2019, DOI:_10.24200/sci.2019.53337.3254, article in press. Available at: http://scientiairanica.sharif.edu/article_21479.html download	Scientia Iranica JCR- Q2 IF: 1.017
S. F. Zarei, M. Parniani, "A Comprehensive Digital Protection Scheme for Low-Voltage Microgrids with Inverter-Based and Conventional Distributed Generations," in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 441-452, Feb. 2017, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2016.2566264. Available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7467562	IEEE JCR- Q1 IF: 4.415

Publications (Conference Papers)

A. Azizi, S. Peyghami, S.F. Zarei, & F. Blaabjerg, (2022, May). The Impact of Sun Tracking on the Reliability of Solar Inverters. In 2022 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Himeji 2022-ECCE Asia) (pp. 1553-1559). IEEE.

M. Moradi, M. Heydari, and S. F. Zarei, "Distributed Secondary Control for Voltage Restoration of ESSs in a DC Microgrid." 2022 13th Power Electronics, Drive Systems, and Technologies Conference (PEDSTC). IEEE, 2022.

S. F. Zarei, M. A. Ghasemi, S. Peyghami, F. Blaabjerg, "A Fault Detection Scheme for Islanded-Microgrid with Grid-Forming Inverters", 2021 6^th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGrid 2021), VIRTUAL, 8-10 Nov 2021,

S. Peyghami, S. F. Zarei, M. A. Ghasemi, P. Palensky and F. Blaabjerg, "A Decentralized Frequency Regulation Scheme in AC Microgrids," 2020 IEEE 21^st Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Aalborg, Denmark, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/COMPEL49091.2020.9265766.

S. F. Zarei, M. A. Ghasemi, S. Peyghami, P. Davari, H. Mokhtari and F. Blaabjerg, "Characterization of Proportional-Integral-Resonant Compensator for DC Link Voltage Control," 2018 IEEE 19^th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Padua, 2018, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/COMPEL.2018.8460151.

S. F. Zarei, H. Mokhtari and M. A. Ghasemi, "Enhanced control of grid forming VSCs in a micro-grid system under unbalanced conditions," 2018 9^th Annual Power Electronics, Drives Systems and Technologies Conference (PEDSTC), Tehran, 2018, pp. 380-385, doi: 10.1109/PEDSTC.2018.8343827.

M. A. Ghasemi, S. F. Zarei, H. Mokhtari and M. Pamiani, "An effective feed-forward approach for suppressing low order current harmonics of grid-connected VSCs," 2017 19^th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'17 ECCE Europe), Warsaw, 2017, pp. P.1-P.10, doi: 10.23919/EPE17ECCEEurope.2017.8099355.

M. A. Ghasemi, M. Parniani, S. F. Zarei and H. M. Foroushani, "Fast maximum power point tracking for PV arrays under partial shaded conditions," 2016 18th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'16 ECCE Europe), Karlsruhe, 2016, pp. 1-12, doi: 10.1109/EPE.2016.7695463.

H. Ranjbar, S. F. Zarei and S. H. Hosseini, "Imperialist competitive algorithm based optimal power flow," 2014 22nd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Tehran, 2014, pp. 746-750, doi: 10.1109/IranianCEE.2014.6999636.

Courses

Graduate Courses

Advanced Power System Protection
Reactive Power Control
Control of Electrical Machines

Undergraduate Courses

Power System Protection
Power System Analysis I
Electrical Machines I
Electrical Machines III
High Voltage Substations Design
Industrial Electronics

Experiences
Research Assistant Iran’s National Elites Foundation Sharif University of Technology (Sep. 2015 – Sep. 2018) Project Title: Improvement of Inverter-Based AC Microgrids’ Protection against Short Circuit
Experiments Aalborg University Department of Energy Technology (February 2018 –August 2018) Project Title: Closed loop control of Danfoss inverter via dSPACE controller under unbalanced and asymmetrical short circuit conditions.
Project Executive Sharif University of Technology Deputy of Research and Technology, Sharif Advanced Technologies Incubator, Sharif Technology Services Complex, (January. 2015 –February 2018) Project 1 Title: Field and laboratory tests of Tehran metro traction rectifiers Project 2 Title: Field and laboratory tests of Tehran metro trains braking resistors Project 3 Title: Investigating the causes of low power factor for Tehran metro’s Bonyadrang substation Project 4 Title: Investigation and measurement of stray currents in Tehran metro lines and proposing the necessary strategies and measures to reduce and prevent their emission. Project 5 Title: Preparation and compilation of the technical requirements of the passenger information system (PIS) Project 6 Title: Compilation of technical documentation of voltage sensor for AC 100 Series trains
Project Executive BuAliSina University- Iran Grid Management Company Deputy of Research and Technology Feb. 2018 –present Project Title: Studying and Validation of Identified Dynamic Models of AVR, PSS, and Governor Control Units of Power Plants with Their Implementation in DigSilent Software.
Project Executive Shahid Beheshti University- Alborz Electricity Distribution Company Deputy of Research and Technology April. 2015 –November 2017 Project Title: Reducing the damages to the end users resulting from neutral conductor defects in four-wire distribution systems

Awards, Honors, and Recognitions
Research and Technology Scholarship for the Ph.D. program Iran National Science Foundation (2017)
Elected as a member of Iran's Elites National Foundation Iran's National Elites Foundation (Sept. 2015 – Sep. 2018)
Ranked 17^th in Ph.D. KONKOOR National Organization for Educational Testing (2014) Ranked 17^th among more than 2,000 participants in Iranian Nationwide University Entrance Exam (KONKOOR) for Ph.D. Degree in Power Systems field
Merit-based admission to the M.Sc. program Sharif University of Technology (2012)
Merit-based admission to the M.Sc. program Amirkabir University of Technology (2012)
Ranked 2^nd among the B.Sc. students in the Power Systems field Amirkabir University of Technology (July 2012)
Ranked 373 in B.Sc. KONKOOR National Organization for Educational Testing (July 2008) Ranked 373 among more than 129,000 participants in Iranian Nationwide University Entrance Exam (KONKOOR) for B.Sc. Degree

Certifications
“Industrial/PhD course on Maritime Microgrids”, summer, 2018. Aalborg University Department of Energy Technology. Lecturer: Prof. Josep M. Guerrero, Prof. Tomasz Tarasiuk, Associate Prof. Giorgio Sulligoi.
“Periodic Control and Filtering in Power Electronic Converter Systems”, summer, 2018. Aalborg University Department of Energy Technology. Lecturer: Associate Prof. Yongheng Yang, Prof. Keliang Zhou.
“Stability and control of grid-connected voltage-source converters”, summer, 2018. Aalborg University Department of Energy Technology. Lecturer: Prof. Xiongfei Wang, Prof. Lennart Harnefor, Assistant Prof. Dongsheng Yang.
“Understand how to write good papers for high level journals”, winter, 2018. Aalborg University Department of Energy Technology. Lecturer: Prof. Frede Blaabjerg and Associate Prof. Kaiyuan Lu.
“Design and implementation of embedded systems using model-based design”, fall, 2018. Sharif University of Technology Guidance and Control Research Center. Lecturer: Prof. Hadi Nobahari and Dr. Mohammad Sajjad Ghasemi.

Professional Services and Activities

Peer Review Service

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Reviewer, Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Reviewer, IET Power Electronics
Reviewer, Scientia Iranica