Jubaer Ahmed
jubaer ahmed

Dr Jubaer Ahmed BSc, PhD, CPEng, IntPE (APEC)

Lecturer

 0131 455 2201

  J.Ahmed@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr. Jubaer Ahmed is currently working as a lecturer in School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment, 麻豆社区, UK. He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Technology, Malaysia (UTM) in 2016 and BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2012.

He is currently the programme leader for Electrical & Electronic Engineering in ENU and Capital University Egypt project. He also served the school as NSS champion lead for CSSE in 2025, Napier-Funded PhD selection committee in 2025 and SEBE school lead for PhD lunchtime Seminar in 2022.


In research, he has developed expertise in Photovoltaic (PV) System design that includes designing MPPT control algorithms for PV operation, PV module connection scheme, PV integration to the grids and optimize energy efficiency. He carried out about 15 research projects which contributed to develop control algorithms for PV DC-DC converter, mathematical models for PV operation, PV module connection schemes and other innovation in peripheral fields. These contributions were published in over 60 International journals and conferences including prestigious IEEE Transactions. According to Google scholar, his articles are cited over 4500 times and his current h-index is 25. He has received the best paper award from Applied Energy Journal in 2018. He was also featured among the top 2% research scientist in the world, ranking published by Stanford University in 2020-2024.

Dr Jubaer is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) and APEC IntPE under Engineers Australia. He is also a member of IEEE, IET and BEM.

From 2016-2021, he worked in Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus) as a Senior Lecturer and was the program leader for Electrical & Electronic Engineering in 2019-2020. He successfully led the program for accreditation exercise in 2019 under Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) Malaysia and enhanced lab facilities for Electrical Power System. He also served the faculty and the University as the Research Education Advisor, member of Faculty research committee, Staff Recreation Committee (SRC), Student progress review committee & IEEE R-10 subcommittee.

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Research Groups

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • IEEE R-10 Subcommittee (Sarawak Chapter, Malaysia)-Advisor
  • Member of Staff recreation & Well being Committee; Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Technical Chair- 6th International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 5.0 (STI2024) (STI-2024)
  • Technical Programme Committee- 5th International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry ) (STI-2023)
  • Technical Programme Committee- 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry(STI 2021)
  • Technical Programme Committee- 2020 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0 (STI, 2020)
  • Technical Programme Committee- 2nd International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems (SPIES 2020)

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Listed among the top 2% research Scientist, ranking Published by Stanford University
  • Listed among the top 2% research Scientist, ranking Published by Stanford University
  • Listed among the top 2% research Scientist, ranking Published by Stanford University
  • Listed among the top 2% research Scientist, ranking Published by Stanford University
  • Listed among the top 2% research Scientist, ranking Published by Stanford University
  • 2 Bronze Medal, Inovation Technology Expo (INTEX) 2019 Malaysia
  • Outstanding Researcher Award- Swinburne University of Technology (2019)
  • Gold Medal, Inovation Technology Expo (INTEX) 2019 Malaysia
  • Best Paper Award- Applied Energy (2018)
  • Best Researcher in Inverter Quality Control Center (IQCC) lab, UTM. 2014-2015

 

Invited Speaker

  • Invited Speaker: "Solar Panel to the Grid: The research areas to be explored"; Effat University, Saudi Arabia. Feb 2024
  • Conducted Workshop: 鈥淲hat is Journal Indexing and How to find them鈥, March 2022, 麻豆社区
  • Key Note Speaker "UK-India workshop on Net-Zero Emission: Provision for Transportation" Nov, 2022
  • Conducted Workshop: 鈥淗ow to publish in High Impact Journals鈥 November 2020 in Swinburne Sarawak.
  • Conducted Workshp 鈥淗ow to overcome stage fears during conference presentations鈥 August 2020 in Swinburne Sarawak
  • Conducted Workshop: 鈥淗ow to deliver a good oral presentation鈥 August 2020 in Swinburne Sarawak
  • Guest Speaker 鈥淔uture Challenges for Power System Engineers鈥 October 2019 in Vellore Institute of Technology, India
  • Guest Speaker: 鈥淪hadows behind the Renewable Energy鈥 April 2019 in Vellore Institute of Technology, India

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Developing conscious future generation on global energy transition toward a sustainable future. (Conducted 4 workshop sessions with Scout groups in Edinburgh) (拢2000 funding Received)
  • Roadmap to the future of STEM-5 Days Workshop (拢1500 grant received)
  • Developed and conducted a 6 hours long CPD workshop on 鈥淕rid connected PV System design and operation鈥 in September, 2021, at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • External Examiner for the PhD Thesis Titled "鈥淓STIMATION OF WEIBULL PARAMETERS FOR WIND ENERGY POTENTIAL ASSESSMENT APPLIED TO TRANSIENT STABILITY IMPROVEMENT OF WECS鈥, ( Mr. MEKALATHUR B HEMANTH KUMAR , Vellore Institute of Technology, India.)
  • External Examiner for the PhD Thesis "Simulation and Experimental Investigation on the usage of AC and DC Electric Springs in Grid Interactive Micro Grids" (Mr. S Hari Charan Cherukuri, Vellore Institute of Technology, India )
  • External examiner for the MPhil thesis titled "Design of Energy Efficient Hybrid GMPPT Algorithm for shaded PV Solar System" ( Mr. Lucas Gao King Chai, Curtin University, Australia.)

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer for IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2 Reviews)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics (5 Reviews)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Energy Conversion (4 Reviews)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Sustainable Energy (46 Reviews)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics (26 Reviews)

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Research Fellow (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) Sep-Oct 2022
  • Adjunct Research Fellow (Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak)
  • Associate Research Fellow (University Malaysia Perlis)

 

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Experimental Analysis of Gravity and Buoyancy Powered Energy Generation Storage Systems

Book Chapter
Kashem, S. B. A., Ngambi, D. T., Ahmed, J., Qidwai, U., & Suresh, P. (2020)
Experimental Analysis of Gravity and Buoyancy Powered Energy Generation Storage Systems. In P. Suresh, U. Saravanakumar, & M. S. H. Al Salameh (Eds.), Advances in Smart System Technologies: Select Proceedings of ICFSST 2019 (813-826). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5029-4_70
The concept of harnessing energy from buoyancy as well as the ability to have underwater energy storage is an area of research that, compared to other renewable energy generat...

Autonomous Vehicle Sunshade Using Aluminum Panels

Book Chapter
Kashem, S. B. A., Shahid, F., Qidwai, U., Suresh, P., Ahmed, J., & Saravanakumar, U. (2020)
Autonomous Vehicle Sunshade Using Aluminum Panels. In P. Suresh, U. Saravanakumar, & M. S. H. Al Salameh (Eds.), Advances in Smart System Technologies: Select Proceedings of ICFSST 2019 (679-688). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5029-4_56
The heat build-up inside of a vehicle cabin due to the direct composure of thermal energy when parked outside during the day can be a huge dilemma, the intensity of the proble...

Assessment of maximum power point trackers performance using direct and indirect control methods

Journal Article
Kermadi, M., Mekhilef, S., Salam, Z., Ahmed, J., & Berkouk, E. M. (2020)
Assessment of maximum power point trackers performance using direct and indirect control methods. International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 30(10), Article e12565. https://doi.org/10.1002/2050-7038.12565
The direct and indirect control methods are commonly used for maximum power point tracker (MPPT) of photovoltaic (PV) systems. Due to the absence of the literature that assess...

Feasibility Study of Solar Power System in Residential Area

Journal Article
Abul, S. B., Muhammad, E., Tabassum, M., Muscat, O., Molla, M. E., Ashraf, A., & Ahmed, J. (2020)
Feasibility Study of Solar Power System in Residential Area. International Journal of Innovation in Computational Science and Engineering, 1(1), 10-17
The present paper studied the feasibility of solar power system in the residential area in Kuching. Generally, the solar power system described in this paper is defined as a s...

Review on Comparison of Solar Transport Vehicle with Full Electric Vehicle

Journal Article
Tabassum, M., Kashem, S. B. A., Chowdhury, M., Khandakar, A., Ashraf, A., & Ahmed, J. (2020)
Review on Comparison of Solar Transport Vehicle with Full Electric Vehicle. International Journal of Technology, 1(2), 184-201
Nowadays, the earth is facing resources limitation especially fossil fuels. It is essential to make a new study of the renewable source to sustain the demand for energy. The s...

A review of available hybrid renewable energy systems in Malaysia

Journal Article
Tambi, N. H. M., Afrouzi, H. N., Mehranzamir, K., & Ahmed, J. (2020)
A review of available hybrid renewable energy systems in Malaysia. International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 11(1), 433-441. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijpeds.v11.i1.pp433-441
The utilization of conventional sources of energy releases harmful pollutants to the environment causing global warming and acid rain. For that reason, it becomes necessary to...

A high-performance global maximum power point tracker of PV system for rapidly changing partial shading conditions

Journal Article
Kermadi, M., Salam, Z., Ahmed, J., & Berkouk, E. M. (2021)
A high-performance global maximum power point tracker of PV system for rapidly changing partial shading conditions. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 68(3), 2236-2245. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2020.2972456
This article proposes a fast and efficient maximum power point tracker (MPPT) for photovoltaic (PV) systems under rapidly changing partial shading conditions. An intelligent m...

Optimization Analysis of Hybrid Renewable Energy System Using Homer Software for Rural Electrification in Sarawak

Conference Proceeding
Hada, N., Nabipour-Afrouzi, H., Kieh, T. S., Mehranzamir, K., Ahmed, J., & Wooi, C. (2020)
Optimization Analysis of Hybrid Renewable Energy System Using Homer Software for Rural Electrification in Sarawak. In 2019 International UNIMAS STEM 12th Engineering Conference (EnCon). https://doi.org/10.1109/EnCon.2019.8861260
This research focuses on the design and optimization of a hybrid renewable energy system for the generation of electricity in a rural area in Sarawak, Malaysia. The investigat...

Simulation and Analysis of Electric Field Distributions in Stator Bar Insulation System with Different Arrangement of Cavities

Conference Proceeding
Chee, D. T. Y., Mehranzamir, K., Nabipour-Afrouzi, H., Ahmed, J., Malek, Z. A., & Kieh, T. S. (2020)
Simulation and Analysis of Electric Field Distributions in Stator Bar Insulation System with Different Arrangement of Cavities. In 2019 International UNIMAS STEM 12th Engineering Conference (EnCon). https://doi.org/10.1109/EnCon.2019.8861258
The underlying cause of the cessation in high voltage machineries can be rooted from the failure in the insulation system due to cavity's discharges originating from the prese...

Study of electric field distribution in the high voltage stator bar insulation in presence of different shapes, locations and sizes of cavities

Conference Proceeding
Chee, D. T. Y., Nabipour-Afrouzi, H., Malek, Z. A., Mehranzamir, K., & Ahmed, J. (2019)
Study of electric field distribution in the high voltage stator bar insulation in presence of different shapes, locations and sizes of cavities. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (ICon3E 2019). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5133927
The insulation system represents one of the most critical elements in any high voltage equipment, inclusive of any cabling and machineries. 60% of the faults and errors occurr...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • PI: Reliable load forecasting for Kuching using machine learning algorithms (funded by Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak )
  • PI: Solar power prediction model in Sarawak using machine learning algorithms (Funded by Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak )
  • CoI: Design and Implementation of an amphibious Robot using Duck feet movements (Funded by Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak )
  • Co-I: Basic home automation system with smart sockets (Funded by Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak)
  • PI: Automatic blower control to improve performance of centralized air-conditioning. Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak
  • PI-Automatic Street light controller to reduce energy consumption. Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak
  • PI: Developing A PSCAD Based PV Simulator For Grid-Connected PV System (Funded by Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak)
  • PI: Mitigating the Effect of Partial Shading on PV Modules by Smart Positioning and Connection of PV Modules (Funded by Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak)
  • Co-I: Swarm based MPPT control for PV system operation (Funded by University Malaysia Perlis, MYR 125,000)

Current Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Co-Supervision: MSc by Research: Ateeb Hassan (Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak)(Thesis Title-IoT Based Cost-Effective Smart Energy Meter with Electric Theft Detection and Device Level Monitoring)
  • Co-Supervision (PhD): Mohd Nasrul Izzani Bin Jamaludin, Universiti Malaysia Perlis. (Thesis Title: Dynamic Sine-Cosine algorithm for Maximum Power Point tracking of Building Integrated Photovoltaic System.)