Reza Iravani
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Dr. Reza Iravani (in Persian: رضا ایروانی) is a professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He holds the L. Lau Chair Electrical and Computer Engineering in same department. He became a fellow of the IEEE in 2003 for his contributions to power engineering education and the modeling, design, and control of power electronic converters for power system applications. He is also the chair of the IEEE Power Engineering Society on T&D Subcommittee on General Systems. He is a registered Professional Engineering in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
After obtaining his B.Sc degree in 1976 in electrical engineering from Tehran Polytechnique University, Dr. Iravani worked as a consulting engineering from 1976 to 1979. He then moved to Canada and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1981 and 1985, respectively.
His research interests include application of power electronics in industrial and utility electric power systems, distributed generation and storage, renewable energy systems, modeling and analysis of electromagnetic transient phenomena in power systems, and power system dynamics and control.
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