Dr. Mohammad Heidari Kapourchali is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage and an affiliated researcher at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP). The focus of his research is on energy resilience in the island and remote communities, microgrid operation and planning, and renewable energy integration. Dr. Heidari received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Wichita State University in 2018.
Publications
Su, J., R. Zhang, P. Dehghanian, M.H. Kapourchali, S. Choi, and Z. Ding, 2024: Renewable-dominated mobility-as-a-service framework for resilience delivery in hydrogen-accommodated microgrids, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2024.110047
DeMichele, K., M.H. Kapourchali, C. Waigl, C.A. Richards, M. Hahn, and L. Zhao, 2025: Evaluating Lightning-Caused Wildfire Risk to Alaska’s Power Grid Infrastructure, 2025 IEEE/IAS 61st Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (I&CPS), https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPS64254.2025.11030377
Rostamzadeh, M., M.H. Kapourchali, L. Zhao, and V. Aravinthan, 2023: Outage Management of Power Distribution Systems with Electricity-Dependent Medically-Vulnerable Critical Loads, 2023 IEEE/IAS 59th Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (I&CPS), https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPS57144.2023.10142087
Lindemann, M., K. DeMichele, M.H. Kapourchali, C. Waigl, and E. Trochim, 2023: Igniting Precision: Amplifying Wildfire Prediction in Diverse Regions via Teacher-Student Model Fusion, 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLA58977.2023.00079