Payman Dehghanian

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 for
maintenance and asset management in electrical 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.