Mohsen Rahmani - Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Mohsen Rahmani
Visiting Scholar at University of Florida Department of Industrial&System Engineering
PhD Student, Power System Planning Research Laboratory (LAPSSE), Electrical
Engineering Department of State University of São Paulo (UNESP), BRAZIL.
Email: rahmani@ieee.org
DOB: 7 August 1980
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Power System Planning; Transmission Expansion and Reactive Power Planning,
Power System Operation, Operational Research, Industrial Automation and
Monitoring.
EDUCATION
Aug 2012- present
Aug 2009- present
Sep 2006- May 2009
Visiting Scholar at University of Florida, Department of Industrial and system
engineering.
Research Topic: Theoretical analysis and computational implementation of GRASP
with Path-Relinking and Particle Swarm Optimization to the problem of transmission
expansion planning of the electric power system
Supervisor: Prof. Panos M. Pardalos
Ph.d of Electrical Engineering, Power System Planning.
Electrical Engineering Department of State University of São Paulo (UNESP), São
Paulo, BRAZIL.
Dissertation topic: Analysis of new mathematical models for the power systems
transmission expansion planning problem.
Chair: Prof. Ruben Romero
Master of Science Degree in the field of Electrical: Control Engineering.
Engineering Faculty of Shaid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, IRAN.
Dissertation topic: Simultaneous planning of combined transmission expansion and
reactive power sources using real genetic algorithm.
Score: 17.56 out of 20
Jan 2001- March 2004 Bachelor of Science Degree in the field of Electrical: Applied Electronic.
Industrial Electronic Faculty of Shiraz University, Shiraz, IRAN.
Score: 15.25 out of 20

Mohsen Rahmani
Aug 1999-Sep 2001
Associated of Science Degree in the field of Electrical: Applied Electronic.
Engineering Faculty of Birjand University, Birjand, IRAN.
Score; 15.80 (out of 20) out of 20
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Full Time Jobs
Jul 2007-Aug 2009
Director of Engineering; Kalber Dairy Co, Arak, Markazi, Iran.
Job description: Management and coordination of Electrical, Mechanical and Utilities
Engineering.
Jun 2004-Sep 2006
Part Time Jobs
Manager of Electrical Engineering; Kalber Dairy Co, Arak, Markazi, Iran
Job description: responsible for Automation, Power, and electronic sections.
Consulting Engineer; Packaging machine automation in NASR GOSTAR Packaging
Company, Arak, IRAN.
Project Manager; Monitoring of Diary machines in Kalber Dairy, IRAN.
Project Manager; Atomization and control of Thermoforming packaging machines.
NASR GOSTAR Packaging Company, Arak, IRAN.
Project Manager; Designing of Electronic Board for lifting machines; KALBER
Diary Company, IRAN.
Teaching
Industrial Electronic in Shahid Chamran University of Kerman, IRAN.
Industrial Automation and Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) in Shahid
Chamran University of Kerman, IRAN.
Programmable Logic Controller (PLC); Arak Azad University, IRAN.
AC and DC Motor Drivers, KALBER factory company, IRAN.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
English (Fluent: reading, writing, speaking), TOEIC Degree Regards
Portuguese (Fluent: reading ,writing, speaking)
Spanish (reading and comprehending)
Arabic (reading and comprehending)
Persian (Native)

Mohsen Rahmani
COMPUTER SKILLS
Other Skills
Languages :Fortran 95/2003 , C/C++ , MATLAB ; general programming, MEX files
interfaces, and simulink.
Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming: AMPL , GAMS
Solvers : Cplex, Minos and IMSL library in Fortran and MATLAB environment.
Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), specialized in Siemence S5 & S7, LG and
FATEK Models.
Optimization Methods: Genetic Algorithm, GRASP, Fuzzy Logic, Tabu search,
Branch and Bound, Bnders Decomposition, Ballas, Simplex.
Industrial Automation Including; PLC programming, Distributed Control Systems
(DCS), Motor Drivers, PC based Monitoring and HMI (Human Machine Interfaces).
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL PAPERS:
A. ACCEPTED :
1. Rahmani, M. ; Romero, R.; Rider, M.j.; Rashidinejad , M.; Risk/Investment-Driven Transmission
Expansion Planning with Multiple Scenarios, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 2013
(Accepted for Publication).
2. Rahmani, M. ; Romero, R.; Rider, M.j.; Strategies to Reduce Variables and the Combinatorial Search
Space in Static and Multistage Transmission Expansion Planning Problem. IEEE Transactions on Power
Systems, October 2012 (Accepted for Publication).
3. Rahmani, M. ; Rashidinejad, M. ; Carreno, E.M. ; Romero, R. Efficient Method for AC Transmission
Network Expansion Planning. Electric Power Systems Research (Print), v. 80, p. 1056-1064, 2010.
4. Rahmani, M.; Rashidinejad.; Integrated AC Transmission Network Expansion and Reactive Power
Planning. Iranian Journal of Science & Technology, Transaction B, Engineering, Dec 2011.
5. M. Zeinaddini ; Rashidinejad M. ; Khorasani, H. ; Rahmani, M. ; Mahmoudabadi, A. An
Implementation of Modified Scatter Search Algorithm to Transmission Expansion Planning. TURK J
ELECTR ENG CO, 2011.
6. Mahmoudabadi, A.; Rashidinejad, M.; Zeinaddini. M.; Rahmani, M. : An implementation of AC model
to transmission expansion planning considering reliability constraints, TURK J ELECTR ENG CO,
2012.

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B. SUBMITTED:
1. Rahmani, M. ; Vinasco, G.; Rider, M.J.; Romero, R.; Multistage Transmission Expansion Planning
Considering Fixed Series Compensation Allocation and N-1 Security Constraints, IEEE Transactions on
Power Systems, Aug 2012.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
1. Rahmani, M.; Romero, R.; Rider, J.; and Paredes, M; Domain Reduction Using GRASP Construction
Phase for Transmission Expansion Planning Problem. In: Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial
Optimization. vol. 7245, J.-K. Hao and M. Middendorf, Eds., ed: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012, pp.
87-98.
2. Rahmani, M. ; Rashidinejad, M. ; Carreno, E.M. ; Romero, R. A Combinatorial Approach for
Transmission Expansion & reactive Power Planning. In: IEEE/PES 2010 T&D Latin America
Conference and Exposition, 2010, São Paulo. IEEE/PES 2010 T&D Latin America Conference and
Exposition, 2010.
3. Rahmani, M ; Rashidinejad, M. ; Carreno, E.M. ; Romero, R. Evolutionary multi-move path-relinking
for transmission network expansion planning. In: Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2010
IEEE, 2010. Power and Energy Society General Meeting.
4. Zeinaddini M.; Rashidinejad. M.; Mohammadian. M; Khorasani. H.h , Rahmani. M; An application of a
Modified Constructive Heuristic Algorithm to Transmission Expansion Planning IEEE PES Trondheim
PowerTech 2011 19 - 23 June.
5. Rahmani, M. Romero, R.; Rider, M.j.; Rashidinejad, M; Bounded Dual Simplex Algorithm and its
Application to Transmission Expanssion Planning. International Federation of Operational Research
Societies (IFORS2011) 10-15 July.
6. M. Zeinaddini ; Rashidinejad, M. ; Mohammadian, M. ; Rahmani, M. An Application of Scatter Search
Algorithm to TEP Problems. In: fifth Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization PCO 2011,
2010, Kuching. Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization PCO, 2010. p. 1-6.
7. Khorasani, H. ; Rashidinejad, M. ; Rahmani, M. Transmission Expansion Planning in Restructured
Electricity Industry Via Hybrid Heuristic Technique. In: Global Conference on Power Control and
Optimization PCO 2011, 2010, kuching. Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization PCO,
2010. p. 1-6.
8. Rahmani, M. ; Rashidinejad, M. ; Gharaveisi, A. ; Mohammadian, M. TRANSMISSION NETWORK
EXPANSION PLANNING USING AC MODEL VIA REAL GA. In: Global Conference on Power
Control and Optimization PCO, 2008, Chiang May. 1 Global Conference on Power Control and
Optimization PCO 2008, 2008. p. 1-6.

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9. Da silva E.F. ; Rahmani M. ; Rider M.J.; Transmission Expansion Planning with Security
Constraints, ( in Portuguese) XIX Congresso Brasileiro de Automática - CBA 2012.
10. Lima, A.; Rahmani, M.; Scatter search for transmission expansion planning. (in Portuguese) In: IV
Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Elétricos – SBSE 15-18 May 2012 . Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.