Intessar Al-Iedani received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Basrah, Iraq, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. She worked as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Basrah, Iraq, from 2007 to 2012. After receiving a Graduate fellowship from the Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq (HCED) in 2012, she started pursuing her PhD study at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, from which she received her Ph.D. degree in 2021, under the supervision of Professor Zoran Gajic. Intessar was the recipient of a Graduate Fellowship from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, for the three consecutive academic years, 2017-2020. She also received Dr. Puri Scholarship Award for two consecutive years, 2019 and 2020. She is currently working as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Basrah, Iraq.
Intessar’s research focuses on the order reduction of large-scale wind energy systems using the balancing and singular perturbation methods.