Atousa Yazdani is an Associate Professor with California State University, Sacramento. She has received her PhD from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2009. She has received her MSc and BSc in Tehran Polytechnics (2001) and Tehran University (1997), respectively. She has been involved with several consulting projects both in USA and abroad. She has been instrumental in several utility scaled projects such as integration of renewable energy, and implementation of stability algorithms utilizing synchrophasors data. She has many years of industry experience in design, modeling and analysis of power systems. Her main research interest is in the application of power electronic apparatus in power systems, dynamic system analysis and testing of power systems with the inclusion of novel technologies.