Awards and Recognitions

Citation Overview

  • Total Citation (Google Scholar): 14,000+
  • H-index (Google Scholar): 58

Academic Awards

  • Fellow, IEEE, since January 2024
  • Best Paper Award, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON 2021), Malaysia, September 24-26, 2021.
  • IEEE Outstanding WA Engineer Award 2017, IEEE joint Power and Energy Society (PES) & Power Electronics Society (PELS)
  • IEEE Region 10 PES Conference Advisory Committee, 2018-2019
  • Secretary Elect, IEEE PES Power and Energy Education Committee, PEEC – University Education Subcommittee 2018-2020.
  • Best paper award, co-authored paper in IEEJ  Branch Conference, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, January 2018
  • First Prize Best Paper Award, in IEEE GreenTech Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, March 2017.
  • Second Prize Best Paper Award, co-authored paper in AUPEC Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 2017.
  • Fellow of the Institutions of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), 2016
  • The Petroleum Institute ‘Research/Scholarship Award-2012”, this was the only research award given from the university until 2013.
  • Senior Member, IEEE, USA, since 2012.
  • JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral fellowship for 2 years from May 2008 to May 2010.
  • ‘Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Student Award’ from ‘The Promotion foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering’, Japan, for its outstanding technical competence, co-authored paper, 2010.
  • MINT Award 2008 from Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan.
  • IEEE Sapporo Section Student Paper Contest Award 2008, Japan.
  • Award of Excellence 2008 from Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan.
  • Award of Excellence 2007 from Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan.
  • Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship since October 2002-March 2008.

Professional Membership

  • Fellow IEEE
  • Chartered Engineer (CPEng), NER, APEC Engineer, since 2021
  • Fellow of the Institutions of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), since 2016
  • Senior Member, IEEE, USA, since February 2012.
  • Awards, Membership Development and Nominations, IEEE WA Section, 2019-2020
  • Secretary-elect, IEEE PES, University Education Sub-committee, under Power and Education Committee (PEEC), 2018-2019
  • Secretary, IEEE PES, University Education Sub-committee, under Power and Education Committee (PEEC), 2019-2020
  • Vice Chair, IEEE PES, University Education Sub-committee, under Power and Education Committee (PEEC), 2020-2021
  •  Secretary/Treasurer IEEE PES Chapter, UAE Section, 2015-2016
  • Member and Curtin University representative, Australasian Committee for Power Engineering (ACPE) (2020-2021)
  • Member, IEEE PES
  • Member IEEE IES
  • Member, IEE, Japan.
  • Wind Energy Professional Group

Editorial Services

  • Editor-in-chief, Industrial Electronics Section of Electronics
  • Editor-in-chief, Smart Grid Section of Frontier in Energy Research
  • Editor, IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion
  • Editor, IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy
  • Editor, IEEE Power Engineering Letters
  • Associate Editor, IET-RPG (IET-Renewable Power Generation)
  • Subject Editor + Associate Editor, IET-GTD (IET-Generation, Transmission & Distribution)
  • Associate Editor, Applied Sciences, Section Energy
  • Editorial Board Member for Energies
  • Editorial Board Member for Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy
  • Editorial Board Member for International Journal on Energy Conversion (IRECON).
  • Guest Editor, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Special Issue on Smart Power and Internet Energy Systems for the Future
  • Guest Editor, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Special Issue on Modeling and Control of Power System Resilience
  • Guest Editor-in-Chief, IET-Generations, Transmissions and Distributions, Special Issue on Emerging Technologies for Virtual Power Plant and Microgrid
  • Leading Guest Editor, Energies, Special Issue on Virtual Power Plants: ICT-Based Control and Optimization
  • Leading Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, Special Issue on Large Grid-connected Wind Turbine
  • Guest Editor, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Special Issue on Harnessing Smart Grid technologies for combating modern power systems stability issues through Feedback Control
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, Special Issue on IoT for Energy Systems Sustainability
  • Guest Editor, Energies, Special Issue on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems
  • Guest Editor, Energies, Special Issue on Application of Power Electronics Converters in Smart Grids and Renewable Energy Systems
  • Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, Special Issue on Microgrids/Nanogrids Implementation, Planning, and Operation
  • Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, Special Issue on Wind Generators: Technology and Trends
  • Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, Special Issue on 10th Anniversary of Applied Sciences: Invited Papers in Energy Section

Conference Organizing Activities

  • International Advisory Committee Member, 2021 IEEE Green Technologies Conference (IEEE Greentech), Denver, Colorado, USA, April 2021.
  • Advisory Chair, 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Power and Internet Energy Systems, Shanghai, China, September 2021.
  • Finance Chair, 2021 IEEE Australian Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Perth, Australia, September 2021.
  • Program Chair, 2021 IEEE 4th Asia Conference on Energy and Electrical Engineering (ACEEE 2021), Bangkok, Thailand, March 2021.
  • Program Chair, 4th International Conference on Power and Smart Grid (ICPSG 2021), Bangkok, Thailand, March 2021.
  • Chair, Technical Program Committee, IEEE 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Electrical and Signal Processing Techniques (ICREST), Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2021.
  • Advisory Chair, 2021 International Conference on New Energy Research and Applications (ICNERA 2021), Sanya, China, January 2021.
  • General Chair, IEEE 4th International Conference on Power and Energy Engineering (ICPEE 2020), Xiamen, China, November 2020.
  • Advisory Chair, 2020 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Smart Power and Internet Energy Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2020.
  • Steering Committee Member, IEEE 2nd Asia Energy and Electrical Engineering Symposium (AEEES 2020), Chengdu, China, May 2020.
  • Chair, Special Session, Tutorial, Workshop, The Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC), Fiji, November 2019.
  • Advisory Chair, International Conference on Smart Power and Internet Energy Systems, Melbourne, Australia, April 2019.
  • International Steering Committee Member, IEEE COBEP/SPEC, Santos, Brazil, 2019.
  • Chair, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Robotics, Electrical and Signal Processing Techniques (ICREST), Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2019.
  • International Advisory Committee Member, IEEE APPEEC 2019, Macao, China.
  • Chair, Publication Committee, International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis, CMD, Perth, Australia, September, 2018.
  • Conference Program Chair, 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy Engineering (ICSEE 2018), Sydney, Australia, June 2018.
  • Conference Program Chair, 2018 Asia Conference on Energy and Environment Engineering, Shanghai, China, January 2018.
  • International Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Advancement in Electrical and Electronic Engineering- (ICAEEE 2018), Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 2018.
  • Organizing Committee Member, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Engineering, Perth, Australia, June 2017.
  • International Advisory Committee Member, International Conference on Sustainable Energy Management for Mitigation and Adaptation of Climate Change, Nepal, August 2017.
  • International Technical Committee Member, IEEE Green Technologies Conference 2016, Denver, USA
  • Technical Committee Member, The 2016 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Melbourne, Australia, November 2016.
  • Scientific Committee Member for 11th International Conference on Modeling and Simulations of Electric Machines, Converters and Systems, ELECTRIMACS 2014, Spain, May 2014.

Selective Keynote, Invited/Special Speeches

  • State-of-the-art Research Facilities in Educational Institutes for Sustainable Energy Growth, Keynote Speech, The International Conference on Automation, Control and Mechatronics for Industry 4.0 (ACMI 2021), Rajshahi, Bangladesh, July 2021.
  • Energy Sustainability and Required Power Engineering Research Facilities, Plenary Speech, 2021 International Conference & Exposition on Modern Energy and Power Systems (ICMEPS2021), Turkey, June 2021.
  • Microgrid Technology and Transformation, Plenary Speech, 4th Asia Conference on Energy and Electrical Engineering (ACEEE 2021), Bangkok, Thailand, October 2021.
  •    Smart Grid Control Blended with Information and Communication Technology, Keynote Speech, , 2021 International Conference on New Energy Research and Applications (ICNERA 2021), Sanya, China, July 2021.
  • Power Engineering Research Facilities – Key for Sustainable Energy Development, Keynote Speech, , IEEE 4th International Conference on Power and Energy Engineering (ICPEE 2020), Xiamen, China, November 2020.
  • Microgrid Technology and Transformation, Plenary Speech, IEEE 4th Asia Conference on Energy and Electrical Engineering (ACEEE 2021), Bangkok, Thailand, March 2021.
  • Artificial Intelligence Applications in Power Systems and Renewable Energy, Panel Speech, IEEE PES General Meeting 2019, Virtual Event, USA, August 2020.
  • Smart Grid Stability Enhancement – Impact of Communication Delay, Invited Speech, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, China, December 2019.
  • Wide Area Control Platform for Power Engineering Research and Education, Panel Speech, IEEE PES General Meeting 2019, Atlanta, USA, August 2019.
  • ICT enabled Wide Area Control for Smart Grid, Keynote Speech, International Conference on Smart Power and Internet Energy Systems, Melbourne Australia, April 2019.
  • Control and Optimization Issues of Modern Microgrid, Invited Speech, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, China, December 2018.
  • Wide Area Control and its Impact on Smart Grid, Plenary Speech, 2018 International Conference on Sustainable Energy Engineering, Sydney, Australia, June 2018.
  • Moving Forward – Micro-grid to Smart-grid, Invited Speed, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China, January 2018.
  • Transformation of Microgrid to Virtual Power Plant, Planary Speech, 2018 Asia Conference on Energy and Environment Engineering, Shanghai, China, January 2018.
  • Testing and Validation of Grid-connected Renewable Energy Systems, Invited Speech, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, August 2017.
  • Enabling Technologies for Present and Future Micro-grid, Invited Speech, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, August 2017.
  • Reliability and Stability Issues of Grid-connected Wind Farms, Keynote Speech, 2017 International Conference on Sustainable Energy Engineering, Perth, Australia, June 2017.
  • Recent Advancements in the Development of Microgrids, Invited Speech, 2017 Advancement Development in Electric Power Technologies Workshop (ADEPT), Perth, Australia, July 2017.
  • Stability of networks with high penetration of wind farm, Invited Speech, Electric Energy Society of Australia (EESA), Engineers Australia, February 2017.
  • Microgrid – The New Generation Power System, Invited Speech, Deakin University, November 2016.
  • Advancements in Alternative Energy Applications, Invited Speech, Shanghai Maritime University, China, June 2016.
  • Impact of Large scale Penetration of Renewable Energy on Power System Operation, Invited Speech, Joint Research Symposium (PI-University of Tokyo) Advances in Power System & High Voltage Engineering, UAE, February, 2016.
  • Engineering Optimization-Applications in Power System, Invited Speech, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, December 2015.
  • Grid Integration Issues of Renewable Energy, Keynote Speech, IEEE Modern Electric Power System Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, July 2015.
  • Renewable Energy Integration Challenges for Japan, Invited Speech, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, under Center for Advanced Power and Environmental technology (APET), November, 2015.
  • Distributed Power Generation-Technical Challenges, Invited Speech, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Norway, May 2015.
  • Wind Power in Power System: Secure Grid Interfacing and Hydrogen Production, Invited Speech, The 2009 Japan-Korea Joint Chapter Seminar on Wind Energy, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan, October 16, 2009.