Dr Jalili received his PhD in Computer, Communication and Information Sciences in 2009 from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Upon the completion of his PhD, he accepted a teaching and research position as Assistant Professor at Sharif University of Technology. He was a visiting Assistant Professor at Curtin University of Technology in April 2011, University of South Australia in January 2013, and RMIT University between June – December 2012. At Sharif University of Technology, he started conducting research on the application of machine learning techniques in network science, including link prediction, network inference and designing recommender systems.
Dr Jalili moved to RMIT University in February 2014 to take a research position as Senior Research Fellow after being awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discover Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellowship – a prestigious ARC program that is awarded to select high-profile early-career Australians. He also holds RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship. His DECRA provided a great opportunity to undertake substantial research activities in the field of machine learning and network science. He chose to apply for ARC DECRA from RMIT University as the host organisation, as RMIT has one of the most dynamic research environments in the field of network science and engineering. He is currently Senior Lecturer of Electrical Engineering and Discipline Manager of Higher Degree by Research at the School of Engineering, RMIT University.
Dr Jalili has extensive national and international collaboration networks. He is currently collaborating with a number of key figures in the field of machine learning, artificial intelligence, energy systems and networks science in Australia and overseas. As a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) – the largest professional organisation in his field, Dr Jalili has been involved in many IEEE activities, including organising IEEE sponsored conferences, editor-ship in IEEE journals, and reviewing research articles. He has been very active within Engineers Australia (EA), e.g. he provided input to EA’s response to Alen Finkel’s report of the future electricity grid (2017). He is selected council member of Complex Systems Society – a peak technical body in the field of complex systems and network science. The council sets the annual activity plan of the society.
Dr Jalili has received many recognitions in his career including four research projects supported by the ARC. He has active collaboration with Australian energy industries, including Centre for New Energy Technologies (C4Net) – a Victorian government initiative – Citipower/Powercor (a major Victorian energy distributor), Pacific Hydro, Desert Knowledge Australia – an NT government initiative – Findex, AGL and Origin Energy. His current research and development activities at RMIT are focused on machine learning, network science and their applications in energy systems. His passion is to develop state-of-the-art data-informed decision support technologies to help provide more affordable, reliable and secure electricity for Australians.
