Hadis Karimipour is the director of Smart Grid Lab in the School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She received a Ph.D. degree in Energy System from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Alberta in Feb. 2016. Before joining the University of Guelph, she was a postdoctoral fellow in University of Calgary working on cybersecurity of the smart power grids. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering, Engineering Systems and Computing Group, at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests include large-scale power system state estimation, cyber-physical modeling, cyber-security of the smart grids, and parallel and distributed computing. She is a member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. She serves as the Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) and Chapter Chair of IEEE Information Theory in the Kitchener-Waterloo section.
Farnaz Derakhshan is Assistant Professor, and the Director of Multi-Agent Systems laboratory at Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Iran. She received her PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Liverpool, in the UK. Her main research interests include multi-agent systems and its applications, normative multi-agent systems, multi-agent learning, Internet of Things and swarm intelligence.