Hanif Livani is Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno with affiliation in the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering specializing in power system engineering. He received the BS and the MS degree in electrical engineering, both from the University of Mazandaran, Iran and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic and State university (Virginia Tech). He joined the faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno in Fall 2014.