Farhad Farokhi received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Sharif University of Technology in 2008 and 2010, respectively, the Ph.D. degree from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2014.
In 2014, he joined The University of Melbourne, where he is currently a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in North America). From 2018-2020, he was also a Research Scientist at the CSIRO's Data61. In 2013, he held a Visiting Researcher position at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Farokhi has been the recipient of the VESKI Victoria Fellowship from the Victoria State Government, Australia, and the McKenzie Fellowship and the 2015 Early Career Researcher Award from The University of Melbourne. He has been involved in multiple projects on data privacy and cyber-security funded by the Australian Research Council, the Defence Science and Technology Group, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Environment and Energy, and the CSIRO. He is the associate editor for IET Smart Grid and Results in Control and Optimization.