Mahdi Habibi received the B.Sc. degree from the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran, in 2014, and the M.Sc. degree from Shahid Beheshti University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2016 all in electrical engineering. He is currently studying Ph.D. in power system electrical engineering at the Shahid Beheshti University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is a member of the SOHA Smart Energy Systems Laboratory at SBU. His research interests include the power system operation, system management under uncertainty, integration of renewable energy resources, provision of flexibility services, scheduling storage devices, and optimization models at transmission and distribution levels.