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1.29.2012 Guest of the Week: Dr. Saeed Monemi Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Co-chairs the Center for Geographic Information System Research California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Host: Dr. kamran Abedini

In his talk Dr. Monemi will describe the need to adopt the smart grid technology to improve the efficiency, quality of life, importance, reliability, economics, and sustainability of electricity servicesDr. Saeed Monemi is a Department Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State Polytechnic University. Dr. Monemi co-chairs the Center for Geographic Information System Research at Cal Poly Pomona. In 1980 Dr. Monemi received his B.S. degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Alabama A&M University, in Huntsville, AL, supported by a scholarship from Iran National Oil Company. He practiced engineering profession as an electrical engineer for Litton Industries in Atlanta, GA.
He received his M.S. in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1999, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN with a full scholarship awarded by Vanderbilt University. He continued working at Vanderbilt University as a Senior Associate Research Professor and a Research Scientist in Institute for Software Integrated Systems, where he conducted research in the areas of Model Integrated Computing, Diagnostics, and Fault Management Analysis. His professional experience includes working as a senior engineer and manager in one of the largest electric utility company, Tennessee Valley Authority in Nashville for almost 12 years.Dr. Monemi moved to Cal Poly Pomona in 2001, where he is teaching a broad range of undergraduate and graduate level courses in electrical and computer engineering. His scholarly work includes Smart Grid in Power, Algorithms and Complex Computations in Energy Management Environment, Operating Systems, Software Engineering and Robotics. He has published many papers in the areas of smart gird, fault management, outage management, diagnostics, system integration, data integration and security, decision support tools, and GPS/GIS in electric utility. He has received the best paper award titling “Integrated Diagnostics for Electric Utilities”, from IEEE 4th World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2000. He was selected as the Microsoft Corp teacher scholar awardee for his work in software engineering and contribution in book publication on operating systems for graduate program by Microsoft. He has received several research grants to support his research work from NASA, JWEMC, and NSF. He is a member of IEEE, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi.