Ali Shahmohammadi was born in Tehran, Iran on 1987. He received his B.Sc. degree with the second class honor, 2009, and his M.Sc. degree with the first class honor, 2011, all in electrical engineering from Shahid Beheshti University (Abbaspour college of Technology), Tehran, Iran. His research interests include Restructuring and power markets, Renewable energies, Energy management and Smart grid, as well as Application of optimization theory in operation and planning of power systems.

1) "Intentional Islanding Using a New Algorithm based on Ant Search Mechanism" International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (IJEPES), Elsevier, Vol. 35, (2012), PP. 138-147.

2) "Energy Hubs' Structural and Operational Linear Optimization with Energy Storage Elements", 2^nd International Conference on Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS), IEEE conference, UAE, 2011.

3) "Structural and Operational Optimization of Multi-Carrier Energy Systems Considering Reliability Constraints ", 26^th International Power System Conference (PSC), Tehran, Iran, 2011.

4) "Comparative Study of the Effect of Various Shields on Lightning Electric Field in Power Transformer Windings", Proceedings of 9^th IEEE PES PowerTech conference, Trondheim, Norway, 19-23 June 2011.

5) "Intentional islanding As a Preventive Strategy for Mitigating Power System blackouts", 18^th International Conference of Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Esfahan, Iran, pp. 3610-3615, 2010.