| Education  PhD, Electrical & Computer
                      Engineering, University of British Columbia,
                      Vancouver, Canada.GDBA, Graduate Diploma in Business Administration,
                      Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.
 MASc, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of
                      Technology, Tehran, Iran.
 BASc, Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University,
                      Shiraz, Iran.
 
 Background Since 2012, Dr. Chiniforoosh has
                      been with BC Hydro, where he is currently a
                      Specialist Engineer in the Integrated Planning
                      Mandatory Reliability Standards (IP MRS) team.
                      Previously, he was a Senior System Planning
                      Engineer responsible for the long-range planning
                      of the Metro Vancouver Regional Transmission
                      System. He has been involved with UBC, at the same
                      time, as a Sessional Instructor, and later as an
                      Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical
                      and Computer Engineering. Dr. Chiniforoosh is a registered Professional
                      Engineer (P.Eng.) in the Province of British
                      Columbia, and a Senior Member of IEEE active in
                      the Power and Energy Society. He has been a
                      contributing member of the IEEE Task Force on
                      Dynamic Average Modeling, under the Working Group
                      on Modeling and Analysis of System Transients
                      Using Digital Programs. He has authored or
                      co-authored more than thirty technical articles
                      published as book chapters, peer-reviewed journal
                      articles, and conference proceedings.
 Research Interests 
                      
                        Power System Planning and OperationPower-Electronic ConvertersElectric Machine DrivesRenewable Energy Systems Courses Offered 
                      
                        EECE 555: Renewable and Efficient Electric
                          Power SystemsELEC 352: Electric Energy SystemsEECE 376: ElectromechanicsEECE 365: Applied Electronics and
                          ElectromechanicsEECE 373: Electromechanical Energy
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