Sahar Pirooz Azad, PEng (She/Her)

Dr. Sahar Pirooz Azad received her PhD in Electrical Engineering, specializing in power systems, from the University of Toronto in 2013. Her doctoral research focused on designing advanced control schemes for DC-segmented AC systems to enhance grid stability and prevent large-scale blackouts.

Following her PhD, Dr. Azad was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Applied Power Electronics (CAPE) at the University of Toronto, where she developed controllers with minimal communication requirements to improve the stability of multi-infeed HVDC systems. In 2015, she worked as an experienced researcher at Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven in Belgium, contributing to the Multi-Terminal DC Grid for Offshore Wind (MEDOW) project, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network funded by the European Commission.

From October 2015 to December 2017, Dr. Azad served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2018.

Dr. Azad's current research focuses on the protection and control of power systems that integrate High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) lines, with an emphasis on enhancing the stability, reliability, and efficiency of modern electrical grids.

• HVDC systems
• Power system protection
• Converter modelling
• Power system Control

• 2013, Doctorate Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

• ECE 260 - Electromechanical Energy Conversion
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022
• ECE 361 - Power Systems and Components
  • Taught in 2020
• ECE 6605PD - Power System Protection
  • Taught in 2022, 2024
• ECE 765 - Power System Protection and Relaying
  • Taught in 2020, 2024

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.