Address: Village and Post Office Gujrat Tehsil and District Mardan, KP
Phone: +92-300-500357 / +92-348-8818497
 

1.    Lecturer UET Mardan—12 March 2019—till date
2.    Lecturer University of Wah, Wah Cant, 17 Sept 2018—11 March 2019
3.    Research Associate, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, 05 Feb 2015—16 Sept 2018
4.    RNO Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent Islamabad, 05 Aug 2014—04 Jan 2015
5.    Internee, PTCL Peshawar, 17 Aug 2012—17 Oct 2012
 

1.    Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
2.    MS, Electrical Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan 
3.    BSc, Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar
4.    HSSC, Pre-Engineering, Sadhum Science College, Rustam, Mardan.
5.    SSC, Science, Govt. High School, Gujrat, Mardan.
 

1.    NTS Award based Scholarship 2015-2017.
2.    Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Research Group Project No. RGP-214.
3.    Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University: RG-1439-021.
4.    Research Grant, Harbin Engineering University, Heilongjiang, China, under Grant No: HEUCFG201712/3072019CFJ0518.
5.    King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Research Grant No. RG-1438-037.
6.    National Natural Science Foundation of China Research Grant No. 61803115
 

1.    Member IEEE
2.    Member PEC
3.    Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID): 0000-0002-9398-9414}  
 

1.    FYP supervision 
a.    Energy consumption schedular for efficient energy management in Smart Grid. 2020
b.    An optimal energy management system with integrated renewable energy in smart grid. 2020
c.    An innovative model for electric load forecasting in smart grid. 2020
d.    Electric load forecasting based on deep learning in smart grid. 2020
e.    Residential load scheduling under price-based DR program in smart grid 2020
f.    Smart helmet and theft detection 2020. 
g.    Characteristics of perovskite solar cell based on inorganic material using SCAPS 2019
h.    Soft starting of three phase induction motor 2019
i.    Smart water distribution and theft detection. 2018
j.    Smart Grid and its protection from faults using programmable relays. 2018
2.    MS Supervision
a.    Noor Islam: Energy Management under Price-based Demand Response Program in the Smart Grid. 2020.
b.    Ateeq UR Rahman: Efficient Utilization of Energy Employing Meta-Heuristic Techniques with the Incorporation of Green Energy Resources in Smart Cities. 2020
c.    Asif Khan: Towards Multi-Objective Optimization of Cost and Power Loss for Optimal Power Flow in Smart Grid. 2019
 

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Ghulam Hafeez has completed his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan, and MS in Electrical Engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is pursuing towards Ph.D. from the same University. Ghulam Hafeez is lifetime charted engineer from Pakistan Engineering Council. Ghulam Hafeez is working as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Mardan. He has authored or co-authored over 15 peer-reviewed research papers in reputed international journals and conferences.  His research interests include optimization, planning, energy management, Renewable energy integration, and machine learning applications in smart/micro grids, etc
 

1.    Journal Articles 
a.    Hafeez, Ghulam, Khurram Saleem Alimgeer, and Imran Khan. "Electric load forecasting based on deep learning and optimized by heuristic algorithm in smart grid." Applied Energy 269 (2020): 114915.
b.    G. Hafeez et al., "An Innovative Optimization Strategy for Efficient Energy Management With Day-Ahead Demand Response Signal and Energy Consumption Forecasting in Smart Grid Using Artificial Neural Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 84415-84433, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2989316
c.    G. Hafeez et al., "A Hybrid Approach for Energy Consumption Forecasting With a New Feature Engineering and Optimization Framework in Smart Grid," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 96210-96226, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2985732.
d.    Hafeez, Ghulam, Khurram Saleem Alimgeer, Zahid Wadud, Zeeshan Shafiq, Mohammad Usman Ali Khan, Imran Khan, Farrukh Aslam Khan, and Abdelouahid Derhab. "A Novel Accurate and Fast Converging Deep Learning-Based Model for Electrical Energy Consumption Forecasting in a Smart Grid." Energies 13, no. 9 (2020): 2244.
e.    Ghulam Hafeez, Zahid Wadud, Imran Ullah Khan *, Imran Khan, Zeeshan Shafiq, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Usman Ali “Efficient Energy Management of IoT Enabled Smart Homes Under Price-based Demand Response Program in Smart Grid”. Sensor (2020)
f.    Ghulam Hafeez, Noor Islam, Ammar Ali, Salman Ahmad, Muhammad Usman, and Khurram Saleem Alimgeer. ``A Modular Framework for Optimal Load Scheduling under Price-Based Demand Response Scheme in Smart Grid.'' Processes 7, no. 8 (2019): 499.
g.    Ghulam Hafeez, Nadeem Javaid, Sohail Iqbal, Nabil Alrajeh, Mohamad Souheil Alabed, and Mohsen Guizani. ``Energy Efficient Integration of Renewable Energy Sources in the Smart Grid for Demand Side Management.'' IEEE Access 6 (2018): 77077-77096.
h.    Ghulam Hafeez, Nadeem Javaid, Sohail Iqbal, and Farman Ali Khan. ``Optimal Residential Load Scheduling under Utility and Rooftop Photovoltaic Units.'' Energies 11, no. 3 (2018): 611.
i.    Abdullah Nawaz, Ghulam Hafeez, Imran Khan, Khadim Ullah Jan, Hui Li, Shiraz Ali Khan, and Zahid Wadud “An Intelligent Integrated Approach for Efficient Demand Side Management with Forecaster and Advanced Metering Infrastructure Frameworks in Smart Grid”. Under review in IEEE Access.
2.    Conference proceedings
a.    K. Ullah, Z. Ullah, I. Khan, F. Wahab, W. Uddin, A. Waseem, A. Haider, Ghulam Hafeez, S. M. Ali and K. U. Jan “Load Forecasting Schemes and Demand Response Programs within Smart Grid”.  In 2020 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE), pp. 61-66. IEEE, 2020.
b.    Taimoor Ahmad, Kalim Ullah, Ghulam Hafeez, Imran Khan, Safeer Ullah, Athar Waseem, and Zahid Ullah. “Energy demand control under dynamic price-based demand response program in smart grid”. In 2020 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE), pp. 51-56. IEEE, 2020.
c.    Adil Imran, Ahmed Wahid, Muhammad Ilyas, Imran Khan, Ghulam Hafeez, Khadim Ullah Jan and Demba Diallo. “An Optimal Energy Management Strategy Under Hybrid Generation and Price-based Demand Response Program in Smart Grid”. In 2020 2nd International Conference on Smart Power \& Internet Energy Systems (SPIES), pp. 41-46. IEEE, 2020.
d.    Abdullah Nawaz, Ghulam Hafeez, Imran Khan, Muhammad Usman, Khadim Ullah Jan and Zahid Ullah. “Demand-side Management of Residential Service Area Under Price-based Demand Response Program in Smart Grid”. In 2020 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE), pp. 31-36. IEEE, 2020.
e.    Ghulam Hafeez, Imran Khan, Muhammad Usman, Khursheed Aurangzeb, and Ashraf Ullah. ``Energy demand control under dynamic price-based demand response program in smart grid.'' In 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE 2020) pp. 01-06. IEEE, 2020.
f.    Hafeez, Ghulam, Imran Khan, Muhammad Usman, Khursheed Aurangzeb, and Ashraf Ullah. "Fast and Accurate Hybrid Electric Load Forecasting with Novel Feature Engineering and Optimization Framework in Smart Grid." In 2020 6th Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning Applications (CDMA), pp. 31-36. IEEE, 2020.
g.    Ullah, Rahim, Nadeem Javaid, Ghulam Hafeez, Salim Ullah, Fahad Ahmad, and Ashraf Ullah. "A Comparative Analysis of Neural Networks and Enhancement of ELM for Short Term Load Forecasting." In Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, pp. 73-86. Springer, Cham, 2019.
h.    Hafeez, Ghulam, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Riaz, Khalid Umar, Zafar Iqbal, and Ammar Ali. "An Innovative Model Based on FCRBM for Load Forecasting in the Smart Grid." In International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 49-62. Springer, Cham, 2019.
i.    Hafeez, Ghulam, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Riaz, Ammar Ali, Khalid Umar, and Zafar Iqbal. "Day Ahead Electric Load Forecasting by an Intelligent Hybrid Model Based on Deep Learning for Smart Grid." In Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, pp. 36-49. Springer, Cham, 2019.
j.    Hafeez, Ghulam, Nadeem Javaid, Safeer Ullah, Zafar Iqbal, Mahnoor Khan, and Aziz Ur Rehman. "Short term load forecasting based on deep learning for smart grid applications." In International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 276-288. Springer, Cham, 2018.
k.    Hafeez, Ghulam, Nadeem Javaid, Saman Zahoor, Itrat Fatima, and Zahoor Ali Khan. "Energy efficient integration of renewable energy sources in smart grid." In International Conference on Emerging Internetworking, Data & Web Technologies, pp. 553-562. Springer, Cham, 2017.
l.    Hafeez, Ghulam, Rabiya Khalid, Abdul Wahab Khan, Malik Ali Judge, Zafar Iqbal, Rasool Bukhsh, Asif Khan, and Nadeem Javaid. "Optimal Residential Load Scheduling Under Utility and Rooftop Photovoltaic Units." In International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing, pp. 142-153. Springer, Cham, 2017.
m.    Naseem, Mudassar, Samia Abid, Rabia Khalid, Ghulam Hafeez, Sardar Mahboob Hussain, and Nadeem Javaid. "Towards heuristic algorithms: GA, WDO, BPSO, and BFOA for home energy management in smart grid." In International conference on broadband and wireless computing, communication and applications, pp. 267-278. Springer, Cham, 2016.

2. Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Research Group Project No. RGP-214. Completed 
3. Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University: RG-1439-021. Completed 
4. Research Grant, Harbin Engineering University, Heilongjiang, China, under Grant No: HEUCFG201712/3072019CFJ0518. Completed 
5. King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Research Grant No. RG-1438-037. Completed 
6. National Natural Science Foundation of China Research Grant No. 61803115 In progress 
 

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