About me
Professor Ali Arefi is currently working as an Professor in the School of Engineering and Energy at Murdoch University, Western Australia.
He received a B.Sc. (Honours), M.Sc., and Ph.D. all in electrical engineering in 1999, 2001, and 2011, respectively. He has been a lecturer and Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) from 2012 to 2015. Ali has been the Chief Investigator in many national competitive grants with a total award of more than $11 million in research funds, from which $4m has been the research grants from the Government funders such as ARC Discovery Project, ARENA, Smart Cities and Suburbs Program, and the CRC Future Battery Institute .and $7m is from industry partners, which is equivalent to securing $1.8m annual research fund on average during last 7 years. In major funds, there have been extensive collaborations with industry including Horizon Power, Magellan Power, Engon Energy (Energy Queensland), Energex, City of Melville, Western Power, Engineers Australia, Yaran Property Group, Energetics, UPS, Ensave, etc.
With 34 peer-reviewed journal papers published in high-tier Q1 Journals (80% of my journal publications), 7 quality edited books and chapters, and a notable 78 peer-reviewed conference papers showcased at prestigious conferences, his contributions to the scholarly community have been extensive and impactful. Additionally, Ali has authored over 58 technical reports, each serving as a testament to his expertise in industrial projects and advisory roles for government and industry stakeholders. Collectively, these outstanding achievements amount to over 180 publications. He is an IEEE Senior member and a member of several IEEE Working Groups and Committee and Task Force. He has more than six years of experience in the electrical industry. He has been the consultant for 5 industry-funded research projects. Moreover, he has delivered many talks for industries in the field of energy efficiency and power quality.
His research interests are mainly in the areas of sustainable electric distribution planning, state estimation, and energy efficiency.
Some of his accomplishments are:
a) Investigation of 18 projects of DG interconnection including gas turbine, biogas, wind, and hydro in different geographic areas.
b) Electric Power Quality and Energy Saving Audit and Analysis of more than 35 Electric Power Utilities and Factories.
c) Development of a tool for risk-managed optimal planning of energy storage, voltage control devices, demand responses, along with transformer, line, voltage regulator, cross-connect, and new zone substation upgrades in electric distribution network to meet network constraints and load growth based on the minimization of total net present value (NPV) considering cost of reliability and losses.