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Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad
Assistant Professor
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Education Detail
Postdoctorate () East Anglia University, United Kingdom
PhD (Electrical Engineering) The University of Newcastle, Australia
MS (Electrical Engineering) COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
BS (Electrical Engineering(Telecommunication)) COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

[32] Hussain, Hafiz Majid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Arun Narayanan, Pedro HJ Nardelli, and Yongheng Yang. ``Benchmarking of Heuristic Algorithms for Energy Router-Based Packetized Energy Management in Smart Homes." IEEE Systems Journal 17, no. 2 (2023): 2721-2732. [31] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Yusuf Khan. ``Optimal Sizing and Management of Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Buildings.'' Energy 244 (2022): 123110.[30] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Yusuf Khan. ``Real-Time Load Scheduling, Energy Storage Control and Comfort Management for Grid-Connected Solar Integrated Smart Buildings.'' Applied Energy 259 (2020): 114-208.[29] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Yusuf Khan. ``Real-time Load Scheduling and Storage Management for Solar Powered Network Connected EVs.'' IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 11, no. 3 (2020): 1220-1235.[28] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Yusuf Khan. ``Roof-Top Stand-Alone PV Micro-Grid: A Joint Real-Time BES Management, Load Scheduling and Energy Procurement From a Peaker Generator.'' IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 10, no. 4 (2018): 3895-3909.[27] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Abdul Mateen, Muhammad Awais, and Zahoor Ali Khan. "Short-term load forecasting in smart grids: an intelligent modular approach." Energies 12, no. 1 (2019): 164.[26] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Mohsen Guizani, Nabil Alrajeh, and Zahoor Ali Khan. "An accurate and fast converging short-term load forecasting model for industrial applications in a smart grid." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 13, no. 5 (2017): 2587-2596.[25] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Nabil Alrajeh, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Abid Khan. "A modified feature selection and artificial neural network-based day-ahead load forecasting model for a smart grid." Applied Sciences 5, no. 4 (2015): 1756-1772.[24] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Turki Ali Alghamdi. "(ACH)2: Routing Scheme to Maximize Lifetime and Throughput of Wireless Sensor Networks." IEEE Sensors Journal 14, no. 10 (2014): 3516-3532.[23] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Umar Qasim, Mohammad Ishfaq, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Turki Ali Alghamdi. "RE-ATTEMPT: a new energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless body area sensor networks." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 10, no. 4 (2014): 464010.[22] Aslam, Zeeshan, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Abrar Ahmed, and Sardar Muhammad Gulfam. "A Combined Deep Learning and Ensemble Learning Methodology to Avoid Electricity Theft in Smart Grids." Energies 13, no. 21 (2020): 5599.[21] Ilyas, Naveed, Ashfaq Ahmad, and Kiseon Kim. "CASA-Crowd: A Context-Aware Scale Aggregation CNN-Based Crowd Counting Technique." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 182050-182059.[20] Javaid, Nadeem, Usman Shakeel, Ashfaq Ahmad, Nabil Alrajeh, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Nadra Guizani. "DRADS: depth and reliability aware delay sensitive cooperative routing for underwater wireless sensor networks." Wireless Networks 25, no. 2 (2019): 777-789.[19] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Sheeraz Ahmed, Muhammad Imran, Masoom Alam, Iftikhar Azim Niaz, and Nadeem Javaid. "On energy efficiency in underwater wireless sensor networks with cooperative routing." Annals of Telecommunications 72, no. 3-4 (2017): 173-188.[18] Javaid, Nadeem, Sheraz Hussain, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Abid Khan, and Mohsen Guizani. "Region based cooperative routing in underwater wireless sensor networks." Journal of Network and Computer Applications 92 (2017): 31-41.[17] Azam, Irfan, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Wadood A., Ahmad Almogren, and Atif Alamri. "Balanced load distribution with energy hole avoidance in underwater WSNs." IEEE Access 5 (2017): 15206-15221.[16] Rahim, Sahar, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Shahid Ahmed Khan, Zahoor Ali Khan, Nabil Alrajeh, and Umar Qasim. "Exploiting heuristic algorithms to efficiently utilize energy management controllers with renewable energy sources." Energy and Buildings 129 (2016): 452-470.[15] Rasheed, Muhammad Babar, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Awais, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Nabil Alrajeh. "Priority and delay constrained demand side management in real‐time price environment with renewable energy source." International Journal of Energy Research 40, no. 14 (2016): 2002-2021.[14] Rasheed, Muhammad Babar, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Mohsin Jamil, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Nabil Alrajeh. "Energy optimization in smart homes using customer preference and dynamic pricing." Energies 9, no. 8 (2016): 593.[13] Javaid, Nadeem, Ashfaq Ahmad, Anum Tauqir, Muhammad Imran, Mohsen Guizani, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Umar Qasim. "Modeling induction and routing to monitor hospitalized patients in multi-hop mobility-aware body area sensor networks." EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2016, no. 1 (2016): 147.[12] Latif, Kamran, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Nabil Alrajeh, and Majid Iqbal Khan. "On energy hole and coverage hole avoidance in underwater wireless sensor networks." IEEE Sensors Journal 16, no. 11 (2016): 4431-4442.[11] Javaid, Nadeem, Mehreen Shah, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Majid Iqbal Khan, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "An enhanced energy balanced data transmission protocol for underwater acoustic sensor networks." Sensors 16, no. 4 (2016): 487.[10] Ahmed, Sheeraz, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Imran Ahmed, Mehr Yahya Durrani, Armughan Ali, Syed Bilal Haider, and Manzoor Ilahi. "SPARCO: stochastic performance analysis with reliability and cooperation for underwater wireless sensor networks." Journal of Sensors 2016 (2016).[9] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Manzoor Ilahi, and Dongkyun Kim. "COME: cost optimisation with multi-chaining for energy efficient communication in wireless sensor networks." International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 20, no. 3 (2015): 186-198.[8] Javaid, Nadeem, Naveed Ilyas, Ashfaq Ahmad, Nabil Alrajeh, Umar Qasim, Zahoor Ali Khan, Tayyaba Liaqat, and Majid Iqbal Khan. "An efficient data-gathering routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks." Sensors 15, no. 11 (2015): 29149-29181.[7] Rasheed, Muhammad Babar, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Nabil Alrajeh. "An efficient power scheduling scheme for residential load management in smart homes." Applied Sciences 5, no. 4 (2015): 1134-1163.[6] Umar, Amara, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, Nabil Alrajeh, and Amir Hayat. "DEADS: Depth and energy aware dominating set based algorithm for cooperative routing along with sink mobility in underwater WSNs." Sensors 15, no. 6 (2015): 14458-14486.[5] Akram, Sana, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Muhammad Imran, Mohsen Guizani, Amir Hayat, and Manzoor Ilahi. "A fatigue measuring protocol for wireless body area sensor networks." Journal of medical systems 39, no. 12 (2015): 193.[4] Javaid, Nadeem, Ashfaq Ahmad, Yahya Khan, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Turki Ali Alghamdi. "A relay based routing protocol for wireless in-body sensor networks." Wireless Personal Communications 80, no. 3 (2015): 1063-1078.[3] Ahmed, Sheeraz, Nadeem Javaid, Sidrah Yousaf, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Moid Sandhu, Muhammad Imran, Zahoor Ali Khan, and N. Alrajeh. "Co-LAEEBA: Cooperative link aware and energy efficient protocol for wireless body area networks." Computers in Human Behavior 51 (2015): 1205-1215.[2] Javaid, Nadeem, Ashfaq Ahmad, Qaisar Nadeem, Muhammad Imran, and Noman Haider. "iM-SIMPLE: iMproved stable increased-throughput multi-hop link efficient routing protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks." Computers in Human Behavior 51 (2015): 1003-1011.[1] Javaid, Nadeem, Ashfaq Ahmad, Azizur Rahim, Zahoor Ali Khan, Mohammad Ishfaq, and Umar Qasim. "Adaptive medium access control protocol for wireless body area networks." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 10, no. 3 (2014): 254397.II. List of Conference Proceedings[16] Hussain, Hafiz Majid, Ashfaq Ahmad, and Pedro HJ Nardelli. “Crossover-BPSO Driven Multi-Agent Technology for Managing Local Energy Systems'', In Proc. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), pp. 1-5, 2024. [15] Hussain, Hafiz Majid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Arun Narayanan, Pedro HJ Nardelli, and Yongheng Yang. "Packetized Energy Management Controller for Residential Consumers." In Proc. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), pp. 1-6, 2021.[14] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Y. Khan. "Real-time Energy Management of Solar-integrated Electric Vehicles as-service-over Vehicular Fog." In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), pp. 1-6, 2019.[13] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Y. Khan. "Stand-Alone Distributed PV Systems: Maximizing Self Consumption and User Comfort using ANNs." In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), pp. 1-6, 2018.[12] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Y. Khan. "A Joint Real Time Optimization of Household Loads, Energy Storage and Peak Generator for Stand-Alone Distributed PV Systems." In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-6, 2018.[11] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Umar Qasim, and Zahoor Ali Khan. "Demand response: From classification to optimization techniques in smart grid." In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, pp. 229-235, 2015.[10] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Zahoor Ali Khan, Muhammad Imran, and Mohammed Alnuem. "iA-MAC: Improved adaptive medium access control protocol for wireless body area networks." In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), pp. 156-160, 2014.[9] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Muhammad Babar Rasheed, Muhammad Moid Sandhu, Zahoor Ali Khan, Ansar Ul Haque Yasar, and Nadeem Javaid. "Hop Adjusted Multi-chain Routing for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks." In Proc. International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2014), pp. 236-243, 2014.[8] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Imran, Mohsen Guizani, and Ahmad A. Alhamed. "An advanced energy consumption model for terrestrial wireless sensor networks." In Proc. IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), pp. 790-793, 2016.[7] Javaid, Nadeem, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Ahmad A. Alhamed, and Mohsen Guizani. "BIETX: A new quality link metric for static wireless multi-hop networks." In Proc. IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), pp. 784-789, 2016.[6] Liaqat, Tayyaba, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Muhammad Imran. "Energy efficient and reliable data gathering in Underwater WSNs." In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), pp. 473-478, 2016.[5] Mahmood, Anzar, Ashfaq Ahmad, H. T. Javed, Z. Mehmood, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Nadeem Javaid. "A survey of user comfort in home energy management systems in smart grid." In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), pp. 36-43, 2015.[4] Naeem, W., Nadeem Javaid, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, Anzar Mahmood, Z. Mehmood, Ashfaq Ahmad, F. Ali, and W. Sarwar. "Performance evaluation of experimental setups in home energy management systems in smart grid." In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, pp. 623-632, 2015.[3] Javaid, Nadeem, M. Aslam, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Turki Ali Alghamdi. "MCEEC: multi-hop centralized energy efficient clustering routing protocol for WSNs." In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1784-1789, 2014.[2] Latif, K., A. Ahmad, N. Javaid, Z. A. Khan, and N. Alrajeh. "Divide-and-Rule Scheme for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks." In Proc. International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT), pp. 340-347, 2013.[1] Ahmad, Ashfaq, K. Latif, N. Javaidl, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Umar Qasim. "Density controlled divide-and-rule scheme for energy efficient routing in Wireless Sensor Networks." In Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), pp. 1-4, 2013.

Research Interest
Machine Learning
Optimization Theory
Energy Management
Load Forecasting
Electricity Theft Detection