Ali Tajer received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2002 and 2004, respectively. During 2007-2010 he was with Columbia University where he received the M.A degree in Statistics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, and during 2010-2012 he was with Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests include mathematical statistics, statistical signal processing, and network information theory, with applications in wireless communications and power grids. His recent publications include an edited book entitled Advanced Data Analytics for Power Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He has received an NSF CAREER award, AFRL Faculty Fellowship, Research Excellence Award (Rensselaer), Teaching Excellence Award (Rensselaer), James M. Tien ’66 Early Career Award,  Rensselaer’s Board of Trustees Faculty Achievement Award. He has also received the Jury Award for Excellence in Research (Columbia University).

He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. In the past he has served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, a Guest Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, an Editor for the IET Transactions on Smart Grid, and as the Guest Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid – Special Issue on Theory of Complex Systems with Applications to Smart Grid Operations. He is currently serving as a member of the SPS SPCOM and SPS SPTM technical committees.