I am an instructor at Texas Tech University, where I teach courses at the College of Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I received the PhD degree from the University of California Riverside, the Master of Science degree from Texas Tech University, and the Bachelor of Science degree from Sharif University of Technology. I have worked as a faculty at Miami University, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and University of Texas Permian Basin. I have worked as a postdoctoral scholar at University of California Berkeley and University of California Davis. I also have worked as a Technical Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In these positions, I have been supervised, mentored and advised by (Chronological order):

Optimization, power systems, smart grid, electricity market, energy management of data centers, electric vehicles

[1] L. Chen, M. Farajollahi, M. Ghamkhari, W. Zhao, S. Huang and H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Switch status identification in distribution networks using harmonic synchrophasor measurements" IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 2413-2424, May 2021.

[2] Y. Zhan, M. Ghamkhari, H. Akhavan-Hejazi, D. Xu and H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Cost-Aware Traffic Management under Demand Uncertainty from a Colocation Data Center User's Perspective", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 400-412, March 2021.

[3] S. Yankson and M. Ghamkhari, "Transactive Energy to Thwart Load Altering Attacks on Power Distribution Systems", Future Internet, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2020.

[4] T. Lipman, D. Callaway, G. Fierro, M. Ghamkhari, M. Liu, A. Meier, S. Moura, T. Peffer, P. Phanivong, E. Ratnam and J. Szinai, "Open-Source, Open-Architecture Software Platform for Plug-In Electric Vehicle Smart Charging in California", Prepared for California Energy Commission, Publication number: CEC-500-2020-005, March 2020.

[5] S. Yankson and M. Ghamkhari, "Transactive Energy to Guard against a Zero-Day Load Altering Attack on Power Distribution Systems", in Proc. of the IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering Conference, Oshawa, ON, Canada, August 2019.

[6] MD A. Rahaman and M. Ghamkhari, "Peer-to-Peer and Real-Time Energy Exchanges with Data Centers in a Transactive Energy Framework", in Proc. of the IEEE Smart Energy Grid Engineering Conference, Oshawa, ON, Canada, August 2019.

[7] M. Ghamkhari, "Transactive Energy vs Demand Response in Cutting Wholesale Electricity Prices", in Proc. of IEEE International conference on Smart Grids and Smart Cities, Berkeley, California, June 2019.

[8] M. Ghamkhari, "Transactive Energy Pricing in Power Distribution Systems", in Proc. of IEEE GreenTech conference, Lafayette, LA, April 2019.

[9] L. Chen, D. Feng, M. Ghamkhari, "Strategic Bidding in Electricity Markets: A Power Grid Partitioning Approach" in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Melbourne, Australia, February 2019.

[10] Y. Zhan, M. Ghamkhari, D. Xu, S. Ren, H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Extending Demand Response to Tenants in Cloud Data Centers via Non-intrusive Workload Flexibility Pricing" IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3235-3246, July 2018.

[11] M. Ghamkhari, A. Wierman, and H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Energy Portfolio Optimization of Data Centers", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1898-1910, July 2017.

[12] M. Ghamkhari, A. Sadeghi-Mobarakeh, H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Strategic Bidding for Producers in Nodal Electricity Markets: A Convex Relaxation Approach", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 2324-2336, May 2017.

[13] Babak Moazzez, Mahdi Ghamkhari, Kevin Kao, Junaid As-Salek, Zhaojun Bai, Matthias Koeppe, Tariq Kadir, Prabhjot Sandhu and Sanjaya Seneviratne, "jCbc: An Open-Source MILP Solver for use in WRIMS", in proceedings of CWEMF Annual Meeting, March 2017.

[14] M. Ghamkhari and H. Mohsenian-Rad, "A Convex Optimization Framework for Service Rate Allocation in Finite Communications Buffers", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no 1, pp. 69-72, January 2016.

[15] Y. Zhan, M. Ghamkhari, D. Xu, H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Propagating Electricity Bill onto Cloud Tenants: Using a Novel Pricing Mechanism", in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2015.

[16] H. Mohsenian-Rad and M. Ghamkhari, "Optimal Charging of Electric Vehicles with Uncertain Departure Times: A Closed-Form Solution", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 940-942, March 2015.

[17] M. Ghamkhari, H. Mohsenian-Rad, and Adam Wierman, "Optimal Risk-aware Power Procurement for Data Centers in Day-Ahead and Real-Time Electricity Markets", in Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Smart Data Pricing, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 2014.

[18] M. Ghamkhari and H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Energy and Performance Management of Green Data Centers: A Profit Maximization Approach", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1017-1025, June 2013.

[19] M. Ghamkhari and H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Profit Maximization and Power Management of Green Data Centers Supporting Multiple SLAs", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, San Diego, CA, January 2013.

[20] M. Ghamkhari and H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Data Centers to Offer Ancillary Services", in Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Tainan City, Taiwan, October 2012.

[21] M. Ghamkhari and H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Optimal Integration of Renewable Energy Resources in Data Centers with Behind-the-Meter Renewable Generator", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference in Communications, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012.

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