Dr. Hadi Zayandehroodi was born in Kerman, Iran, 1978. He received his B.Sc from Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, in 2003, M.Sc from Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran, in 2005, and Ph.D from National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 2011 in Power Systems Engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Iran. He also has more than 12 years of consultancy experience with power system companies in Iran. His main research interests are designing the protection system for power systems, especially distribution networks in the presence of distributed generations (DG), as well as distribution systems restructuring and software development for electrical distribution systems.