Carnegie Mellon University Energy Club

Carnegie Mellon University Electric Energy Club encourages energy related collaboration and discussion among students, faculty, and industry. We aim to advance club members' awareness of current energy issues, technologies, research on campus, and industry practices. We host student, faculty, and industry speakers, and also make site visits to learn about real world practices.
Starting from Dec. 2018 we initiated Lunch&Learn (Energy L&L) Events that aim at enhancing our knowledge about challenges in energy sector. For detailed information about time and location of upcoming events please subscribe to our official page at: 

Energy L&L Event #1: DEC 5, 2018; Title: The Future of Solar Energy
Happy Hour: Feb 13, 2019
NREL Workshop and Career Opportunity: March 22, 2019; Title: Hands-On Renewable Energy Optimization with NREL’s REopt Modeling Tool (see the events page for flyer)

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 Officers:
President: M. Hadi Amini, PhD Candidate, ECE                                                Hadi is currently a Ph.D. Candidate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, where he received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015. Prior to that, he received the B.Sc. degree from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2011, and the M.Sc. degree from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, in 2013, both in Electrical Engineering. He serves as reviewer for several high impact journals, and international conferences and symposiums in the field of power systems and electrified/intelligent transportation networks. He serves as technical program committee of “IEEE Int’l. Conf. on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies” (SEST 2019). Hadi is currently serving as the President of the Carnegie Mellon University Energy Club. He has published more than 50 refereed journal and conference papers in the smart energy systems and electrified transportation network related areas. He serves as the lead Editor for “Sustainable Interdependent Networks”. He is the recipient of the best paper award of “Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy” in 2016, best reviewer award of “IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid” from the IEEE Power & Energy Society in 2017, outstanding reviewer award of “IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy” in 2017, and the dean’s honorary award from the president of Sharif University of Technology in 2007. Hadi is a member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) Sigma Chapter, the honor society of IEEE. His current research interests include interdependent networks, distributed/decentralized optimization algorithms in power and energy networks, transportation electrification, smart grid, smart cities, and cybersecurity. 

Vice President: Pranit Parekh, Graduate Student, ESTP       
                      Pranit is currently a graduate student in the Energy Science, Technology and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University. 

 Vice President
: Tochukwu Okafor, Graduate Student, ESTP                              Tochukwu is currently a graduate student in the Energy Science, Technology and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University. i is currently a Ph.D. Candidate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, where he received the M.Sc. degree in Ele











Treasurer: Vibhor Kumar, Graduate Student, ESTP
                                          Building upon a holistic understanding of sustainability through his bachelors, Vibhor plans to focus on energy efficiency of various aspects of built environments through performance modelling, techno-economic assessment and data analytics.

 Faculty Advisor: Javad Mohammadi, Special Faculty, ECE                         
           Javad Mohammadi is a special faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department at  Carnegie Mellon as a research scientist. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016. As a graduate student, he received the innovation fellowship from Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. His research interests include energy system optimization and control, distributed computations, smart grid and Electrified transportation systems.