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 Operation
- Power-Electronic Converters
- Electric Machine Drives
- Renewable Energy Systems
Courses Offered
- EECE 555: Renewable and Efficient Electric
Power Systems
- ELEC 352: Electric Energy Systems
- EECE 376: Electromechanics
- EECE 365: Applied Electronics and
Electromechanics
- EECE 373: Electromechanical Energy
Conversion and Transmission
Publications
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