My CV

Fiaz Ahmad

Microsystems Laboratory 1114 FENS,

Sabanci University, Orta Mah. Cad.No.27, Orhanli,

34956 Tuzla, Istanbul Turkey

Ph: +90-216-4839000-2125

Email: fiazahmad@sabanciuniv.edu

Work Experience

Lecturer, Dept. of Electrical Engineering,

University of Engineering & Technology Peshawar April 2012-Jan 2014

  • Undergraduate Teaching
  • Supervision of undergraduate students Final Year Projects
  • Administrative Duties

Lecturer, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IQRA National University Peshawar

Jan 2011-April 2012

Responsibilities:

  • Undergraduate Teaching
  • Supervision of undergraduate students Final Year Projects
  • Administrative Duties

Lab Manager/Lab Engineer, Dept. of Electrical Engineering,

IQRA National University Peshawar Aug 2008-December 2010

Responsibilities:

  • Conduction of Experiments in Laboratories.
  • Laboratories Record Keeping,
  • Equipment Maintenance and Purchase.

Academic Credentials

Sabanci University, Istanbul Turkey.

PhD Mechatronics (in progress)

CGPA:                   3.67/4

Date Started: February 2014- will be completed by June 2017

Courses studied:

  • Power Electronics and Electrical drives.
  • Real time system design
  • Engineering optimization
  • Numerical Methods
  • Digital control systems
  • Sliding mode control
  • Autonomous Mobile robots
  • Advanced motion control systems

PhD Dissertation: Event-driven state estimation in electric distribution systems.

University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar Pakistan       

M.Sc Electrical Engineering

CGPA:                   3.06/4

Date Started: March 2009-To April 2012

Courses studied:

  • Power Electronics I
  • Power Electronics II
  • Power system Analysis I
  • Power system Analysis II
  • Power system operation and control.

MSc Thesis: Wind integrated compressed air energy storage systems

B.Sc Electrical Engineering

CGPA:         3.20/4

Date Started: September 2004-To August 2008

Courses studied:

  • Control Systems
  • Digital Signal processing
  • Communication systems
  • Electronics etc.

Publications

 Journal Publications :

[1]      Fiaz Ahmad, Akhtar Rasool, Emre Ozsoy, Asif Sabanovic, Meltem Elitas, A Robust Cascaded Controller for DC-DC Boost and Cuk converters, World Journal of Engineering (Accepted)

[2]      Fiaz Ahmad, Akhtar Rasool, Emre Ozsoy, Asif Sabanovic, Meltem Elitas, A Successive-Over-Relaxation based recursive Bayesian approach for power system configuration identification, The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2017, Vol 36, issue 4. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-10-2016-0462.

[3] Fiaz Ahmad, M.A.Kabir, Akhtar Rasool, Emre Ozsoy, Asif Sabanovic, Meltem Elitas, An Improved Unscented Kalman Filter based Dynamic State Estimation Algorithm for Electric Distribution Systems, The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering , 2017, Vol 36, issue 4. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-12-2016-0586.

[4] Fiaz Ahmad, M.A.Kabir, Akhtar Rasool, Emre Ozsoy, Asif Sabanovic, Meltem Elitas, Performance comparison of static and dynamic state estimators for Electric Distribution Systems, International Journal of Emerging Electric Power systems, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijeeps-2016-0299

[5] Fiaz Ahmad, Akhtar Rasool, Emre Ozsoy, S.Rajasakar,Asif Sabanovic, Meltem Elitas, Distribution system state estimation-a step towards smart grid, Renewable and Sustainable energy reviews (Accepted)

[6] Akhtar Rasool, Emre Ozsoy, Fiaz Ahmad, Asif Sabanovic,  Disturbance-Observer based Control of Voltage-Source-Converter under Unbalanced Voltage Conditions, World Journal of Engineering (Accepted).

 

Conference Publications:

[1] Fiaz Ahmad, Akhtar Rasool, Emre ozsoy, Asif Sabanovic, “Design of a robust cascade controller for Cuk converter”, IEEE 18th international conference on power electronics and motion control (PEMC), September 2016 at Varna, Bulgaria DOI: 10.1109/EPEPEMC.2016.7751978

[2] Fiaz Ahmad, Waqas A. Imtiaz, Namoos Khan, Azzam Ul Asar, “ role of Energy Storage Systems in Integrating Wind Power to Grids”, National Science Conference: Roadmap of cutting edge technologies, 2012.

[3] Anees Ur Rehman, Fiaz Ahmad, “Absorption properties and I-V Characterization of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using Ruthenium”, 2nd International Multidisciplinary conference towards better Pakistan September, 24 & 25, 2012 Peshawar, Pakistan.

[4] Fiaz Ahmad, Azzam ul Asar, “Wind Integrated Compressed Air Energy Storage in Pakistan”, International Symposium on Energy, October 6, 2012 Peshawar Pakistan.

Programming Skills

  • Matlab/Simulink
  • C++
  • Multisim
  • PROTEUS PCB DESIGN
  • LATEX
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office tools (MS Office, MS Excel & Power Point).

Awards and Distinctions

  • BISE Bannu Board Topper in HSSC examination.
  • Distinguished HEC PhD scholar

Languages

v English Read/ Write/ Speak

v Urdu Read/ Write/ Speak

v Pashto Native

v Turkish  Limited working proficiency