Doctoral Candidates
Mohammed Ibraheem
Mohammed is currently a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science department at York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. He received his M.Eng degree in Automation and Smart Systems, from McMaster University, in 2021. He completed a Bachelor of Engineering Technology at McMaster University, specializing in Power and Energy. He has working experience in the Ontario energy market, focusing on market planning and forecasting. His research interests include power system, digital twin technology, machine learning and big data.
Junfei Wang
Junfei Wang (Student Member, IEEE) is a Ph.D. student at York University. He has practical experience in data-driven application analysis, management and innovation in both industry and academia. His research interests includes optimization, trustworthy machine learning and representation learning in smart grid. He received the B.Sc. degree in Communication Engineering from Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China in 2008, and M.Eng degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China in 2010, and M.E.Sc degree from Western University, London, ON, Canada in 2020.
Thesis-Based Masters Candidates
Amir Naeeni
Amir received his Bachelor's degree in March 2022 from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) and he is currently a Master's candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at York University. His research interests include machine learning applications, Cybersecurity and Optimization.
Dorsa Nazari
Dorsa is a Master's candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at York University. She received her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in 2021. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Convex Optimization, and Reinforcement Learning.
Mingnan Su
Mingnan is a Masters candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at York University. She received her Bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University in 2020. Her research interests include machine learning, Blockchain, and transactive energy systems.
Kasun Weerasinghe
Kasun is a Master's candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at York University. He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a first class (Hons) from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2017. His undergraduate research, “Mapping and Path Planning for Long Distance Autonomous Navigation Using Multisensory Data”, was published in IEEE Explorer. He has experience in the power generation sector and worked as an electrical engineer in a 3 x 300 MW coal power plant. His main research interests are in the areas of renewable energy, power system optimization, and microgrid control.
Alumni
Fayas Ahamed
Fayas has successfully defended his Masters thesis in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at York University. He received his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa in 2016. His research interests include decentralized transient control in microgrid networks.
Samer El Kababji
Samer had successfully defended his doctoral thesis in August 2021. He will be receiving his doctoral degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Western University. He is the founder of Smartegrators Ltd. He has obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Jordan and his professional Masters degree from Western University. He has extensive industrial experience in the field of smart devices and electical systems. His research interests are in the areas of generative adversarial networks and hidden Markov Models for disaggregation of energy data.
Jingyuan Liu
Jingyuan has successfully defended his doctoral thesis in April 2022 in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at York University. He has been nominated for the dissertation prize. He obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Purdue University respectively. His research interests lie in the areas of decentralized topology reconfiguration of the distribution network for preventive and reactive mitigation of natural/adversarial perturbations.
Mithun Mallick
Mithun successfully defended his Masters thesis and graduated from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Western University in November 2019. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2017. His research interests include efficient integration of renewables, optimization of power systems and smart grids.
Gehad Ouda
Gehad has successfully defended his Masters thesis in April 2022 in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at York University. He received his Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Western University in 2015. His research interests include power systems engineering, application of digital signal processing to power systems, and power systems protection.
Junfei Wang
Junfei Wang had successfully defended his thesis in May, 2020 and is continuing his graduate studies at York University.
