Jubaer Ahmed
jubaer ahmed

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

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Biography

Dr. Jubaer Ahmed is currently working as a lecturer (Assistant Prof.) in School of Engineering and Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, 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.

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.

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 2000 times and his current h-index is 17. 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 2020-2023.

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

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A Modified P&O Maximum Power Point Tracking Method with Reduced Steady State Oscillation and Improved Tracking Efficiency

Journal Article
Ahmed, J., & Salam, Z. (2016)
A Modified P&O Maximum Power Point Tracking Method with Reduced Steady State Oscillation and Improved Tracking Efficiency. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 7(4), 1506-1515. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSTE.2016.2568043
This paper proposes a method to reduce the steadystate oscillation and to mitigate the probability of losing the tracking direction of the perturb and observed (P&O)-based max...

Comparative study of software and hardware solutions for partial shading in PV system

Conference Proceeding
Salam, Z., Ramli, M., & Ahmed, J. (2016)
Comparative study of software and hardware solutions for partial shading in PV system. In 2015 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON) (480-485). https://doi.org/10.1109/CENCON.2015.7409592
The energy yield of the PV system is reduced significantly due to partial shading. To mitigate this problem, two approaches, namely the software and hardware solutions are int...

Partial shading in building integrated PV system: Causes, effects and mitigating techniques

Journal Article
Salam, Z., Ramli, Z., Ahmed, J., & Amjad, M. (2015)
Partial shading in building integrated PV system: Causes, effects and mitigating techniques. International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 6(4), 712-722. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijpeds.v6.i4.pp712-722
This paper is aimed to provide a holistic understanding on the issues related to partial shading: its causes, the theoretical and physical reasons behind it, its implications ...

An improved method to predict the position of maximum power point during partial shading for PV arrays

Journal Article
Ahmed, J., & Salam, Z. (2015)
An improved method to predict the position of maximum power point during partial shading for PV arrays. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 11(6), 1378-1387. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2015.2489579
For a photovoltaic (PV) system, it is widely assumed that the peaks of a partially shaded P-V curve are located at the multiples of 0.8V oc , where V oc is the open-circuit vo...

An improved perturb and observe (P&O) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm for higher efficiency

Journal Article
Ahmed, J., & Salam, Z. (2015)
An improved perturb and observe (P&O) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm for higher efficiency. Applied Energy, 150, 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.04.006
This paper proposes a method to improve the efficiency of the P&O maximum power point tracker (MPPT) by reducing the steady state oscillation and eliminating the possibility o...

A critical evaluation on maximum power point tracking methods for partial shading in PV systems

Journal Article
Ahmed, J., & Salam, Z. (2015)
A critical evaluation on maximum power point tracking methods for partial shading in PV systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 47, 933-953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.03.080
As photovoltaic (PV) system suffers considerable energy loss due to partial shading (PS), various approaches have been proposed to mitigate this problem. Among these, improvin...

The application of soft computing techniques to improve the performance of maximum power point tracker for PV system during partial shading

Conference Proceeding
Salam, Z., & Ahmed, J. (2014)
The application of soft computing techniques to improve the performance of maximum power point tracker for PV system during partial shading. In 2014 IEEE 8th International Power Engineering and Optimization Conference (PEOCO2014) (237-242). https://doi.org/10.1109/PEOCO.2014.6814432
Partial shading is a phenomenon, whereby, certain spots of the photovoltaic (PV) array are shaded, while other parts are left uniformly irradiated. It is caused by the shadow ...

A Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) for PV system using Cuckoo Search with partial shading capability

Journal Article
Ahmed, J., & Salam, Z. (2014)
A Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) for PV system using Cuckoo Search with partial shading capability. Applied Energy, 119, 118-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.12.062
Objectives This work proposes a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) for PV system using Cuckoo Search (CS) method. Methods It is acknowledged that CS exhibits several advanta...

A soft computing MPPT for PV system based on Cuckoo Search algorithm

Conference Proceeding
Ahmed, J., & Salam, Z. (2013)
A soft computing MPPT for PV system based on Cuckoo Search algorithm. In 4th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (558-562). https://doi.org/10.1109/PowerEng.2013.6635669
This paper presents a novel approach to determine the maximum power point (MPP) in Photovoltaic (PV) System using the Cuckoo Search (CS) algorithm. In CS, three samples of vol...

The application of soft computing methods for MPPT of PV system: A technological and status review

Journal Article
Salam, Z., Ahmed, J., & Merugu, B. S. (2013)
The application of soft computing methods for MPPT of PV system: A technological and status review. Applied Energy, 107, 135-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.02.008
With the availability of powerful and low cost computing power, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) that utilizes soft computing (SC) techniques are attracting substantial int...

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