Sara Eftekharnejad (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2006, the M.Sc. degree from West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA, in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, in 2012. From 2012 to 2014, she worked as a Transmission Planning Engineer in Tucson Electric Power Co., Tucson, AZ, USA. She then joined the University of Idaho as an Assistant Professor from 2014 to 2015. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.