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  • Name
    Engr. Khadim Ullah Jan
    IsDB Scholar (On Study Leave for Ph.D. Abroad)

  • Personal

    Career objective(s): To integrate in a dynamic and talented team driven by innovation, results, and impact to address the most decisive challenges in the energy sector. I have a strong aptitude for innovation that could get commercialized.

    Biography: Khadim Ullah Jan (S’20, P.Eng., MIEEE-PES, MIAS, Member CIGRE) graduated in 2009 and earned a Master’s degree in 2014 from UET Peshawar, both majored in electrical engineering. From September 2014 to present, he has been a Lecturer with the University of Engineering and Technology, Mardan, Pakistan.  In June 2019, he moved to the University Paris-Saclay, France, for doctoral studies. He is a recipient of the highly prestigious Ph.D. scholarship by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) under Grant No. 600036563 (Energy & Power). His core research focus is on sustainable rural electrification using renewable energies. Other research interests include hybrid energy microgrids, multiport power converters, power distribution systems, interlinking microgrid clusters, power and energy management, PV systems, battery storage systems, and community microgrids. 
    He is a Lifetime Chartered Professional Engineer (Electrical Power) with the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), member of IEEE R-8, student member CIGRE-French national committee of large supply systems, IEEE-PES Power & Energy, and IEEE-IAS Industry Applications Societies. He is an active member of the technical committees of many international conferences on sustainable energy, PV, and storage systems. He has attended, presented, and supported the organization of many international conferences, and served as a Session Chair at the SPIES IEEE conference, Shanghai, China, in September 2021. He got the best paper award in the 9th IEEE international conference on Smart Grids (icSmartGrids2021), Portugal in 2021, and the best Ph.D. presentation in Energy4Climate summer school held at Inst. Polytechnique de Paris in 2021.
    He got the best paper award in the IEEE international conference on Smart Grids (icSmartGrids2021), Portugal in 2021, and the best Ph.D. presentation in Energy4Climate summer school held at Inst. Polytechnique de Paris, in 2021. He is also a certified safety operations supervisor for low and high-voltage electric networks (HTA, L6313-7 code du travail) by APAVE® PARISIENNE S.A.S Inc., Paris. 

    Phone local: +92-937-9230482 Abroad: +33 7 67 64 84 79
    Email: khadimullah@uetmardan.edu.pk/    khadim-ullah.jan@universite-paris-saclay.fr
    Address: H. No. D-NEW-03, UET Mardan, Charsadda Road, 23200, MARDAN.


  • Experience

    (1) Teaching and Research:
    •    Total teaching experience:
    12 years. 

    1. June 2019 – Present:               CNRS Researcher (non-permanent/doctorant), French  
        National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Laboratoire de Génie Electrique de 
        Paris (GeePs Lab), 91192 Gif sur Yvette, Paris, France. 
    2. Sept. 2014 –  Present:              Lecturer, UET Mardan.
    3. July, 2010 – Sept., 2014:              Lab Engineer, FAST-NUCES National Univ., Peshawar.
    4. Oct. 2011 – Oct. 2011:             Appointed as Lecturer (BPS-18), UET Bannu Campus.
    5. February, 2010 – July, 2010:   Visiting faculty, Abasyn University, Peshawar. 

    •    Research: Specializing in off-grid energy systems. 
    ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9964-3959
    Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Khadim-Jan-2

    (2) Professional Skills:
    •    Specialist knowledge: (1) in general instrumentation/ installation, testing, and operation of electrical equipment/workbench at laboratory-level, (2) performance evaluation of electrical components.
    •    Expertise: (1) in technical specifications and analysis of BoQ, (2) preparation/ evaluation of technical bids, and (3) technical proposal drafting.
    •    Experienced: (1) in PV systems installations, (2) domestic and industrial level 1-phase/3-phase power planning and distribution, (3) electric fault troubleshooting. 
    •    Skill set: MATLAB SimPowerSystemsTM, LabVIEW®, Scientific communication (verbal/written), data analysis, system-level modeling, and setting up experimental bench/ measurement platforms.
    •    Soft skills: Autonomous and self-organized, ability to understand and work with experimental constraints, easily get along well in a working atmosphere without problems of interpersonal relations, opinions, and/or cultural differences.
    •    Managerial skills: 

    - Ability to manage a team.
    - Ability to interact effectively in a research environment.
    - Ability to report to the members involved in the project and to the bodies of the concerned institutions.


    (3) Additional Qualification and Experience:

    •    APAVE PARISIENNE S.A.S, Paris: Certified for safety operations of low and high voltage electric networks (HTA, L6313-7 code du travail).
    •    Energy & Power department KPK: Certified supervisor for overhead transmission, industrial and underground power distributions systems.
    •    Active Citizens Trainer: British Council certified academic trainer and facilitator.

    (4) Organizer of International/local Conference(s):

    •    International: Organizer/ session moderator, Electric Power Engineering Conference IEEE ECCE Europe EPE’2020, Lyon, France.
    •    Local: Organizer of the local conference of doctoral students at the University Paris-Saclay.


  • Qualification
    • Ph.D. Electrical Power Engineering, University Paris Saclay, FRANCE (In Progress 2019)
    • M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, UET Peshawar (2014)
    • B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, UET Peshawar (2009)
    • HSSC, Pre-Engineering, Govt. College, Peshawar (2005)
    • SSC (Science), Govt. High School Hajizai, Charsadda (2003)

     


  • Honor and Awards
    • Honor: Hafiz e Quran
    • Foreign scholarship: Winner of the prestigious fully funded IsDB scholarship for Ph.D. abroad among all the world’s Muslim countries (Engineering category from Pakistan). Awarded scholarship for Pakistan (Agriculture 1, Engineering 1) for the Batch 2018-19.
    • HEC scholarship: HEC fully funded scholarship for 4-years undergraduate studies.
    • Performance-based award: Double annual increment award and appreciation for establishing state-of-the-art labs at FAST-NUCES National University, Peshawar Campus.
    • Session Chair: Advanced Electronics and Control Technology (Oral presentations, Session-11), September 28, 2021, at International Conference on Smart Power and Internet Energy Systems, Shanghai, China.

    • Best paper award: “Experimental evaluation of the true remaining capacity of legacy lead acid batteries”, presented at icSmartGrids’2021, Portugal.

    • Best Ph.D. topic presentation: Summer school E4C’2021, École Polytechnique de Paris, France.
       


  • Memberships

    (1) Professional Memberships:

    •    Professional Engineer (Electrical Power), PEC (Elect-29834), Status: Lifetime
    •    Member, IEEE, R-8 Europe

    •    Student member, CIGRE-French National Committee for large electric supply systems
    •    Member, IEEE-PES Power and Energy Society
    •    Member, IEEE-IAS Industry Applications Society
    •    Member, ATACS, Paris-Saclay University, France
    •    Member Alumni, CentraleSupélec, France and EPFL Polytech. Lausanne, Swiss

    (2) Member of International Scientific/Technical Committees:

    •    IEEE SPIES'2020, Bangkok, Thailand
    •    ICECCE’21, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 
    •    ICSPIES’21, Shanghai, China
    •    CEEGE 2021 Green Energy Conference, Munich, Germany
    •    IEEE EUROCON 2021, Lviv, Ukraine
    •    ICECMME'21, Mauritius Island
    •    IcSmartGrid2021, Setubal, Portugal

    • ICRERA 2021, Renewable Energy Conference, Ankara, Turkey

    (3) External Graduate Student:

    •    Auditor–EDOC, EPFL Polytech. Lausanne, Switzerland


  • Graduate, Undergraduate, Honor Students Supervised

    Undergraduate thesis supervision: 
    Two (02) of my undergraduate groups won Ignite–NGIRI National Technology Fund, Pakistan, for their final year projects. 

    (1) Shakir Sultan, Muhammad Junaid, and Danish Ali “GSM-based SCADA: Power Monitoring and Power Management System”. 
    Funding amount (PKR): 16,310/-     Funding source: Ignite–NGIRI    Year: 2016
    (2) Ahmad Jamal, Waleed Athar, Sumsam Gilani, and Khalid Masood “Research and Design of Hydrogen Fuel Gas Generation Kit (energy transducer kit)” Funding amount (PKR): 18,200/-     Funding source: Ignite–NGIRI    Year: 2017


  • Service Activity

    (1): Current Status: 

    On study-leave for pursuing Ph.D. at Group of Electrical Engineers Paris (GeePs) Lab, CNRS, University Paris-Saclay.

    (2): Teaching: 

    Teaching, research, designing experiments, and supervision of undergraduate final year project thesis.

    (3): Academic Tasks: 

    •    Semester Coordinator (September 1, 2017– February 28, 2019)
    •    FYP Coordinator
    •    QEC member

    (4): Additional Responsibilities: 

    •    Deputy Director (Internal Audit)
    •    Member, Purchase and Procurement Committee
    •    Convener, Masjid Committee
    •    Focal Person, PMNLS Prime Minister Laptop Scheme
    •    Member, Food Price and Quality Control Committee

    •    Member, Proctorial Board
    •    Career Liaison Officer, Electrical Engineering Department
    •    Team Lead, NUTEC–2013, FAST-NUCES National University, Peshawar Campus

    (5): Departmental Services: 

    •  (1)  Installation of labs in EE department:
    Assisted foreign trainers from Germany in installing, commissioning, and training to set up three state-of-the-art major engineering laboratories at UET Mardan, i.e., Power Systems Lab, Power Electronics Lab, and Electrical Machines-II Lab.

    •  (2)  As a trainer for installed equipment/machinery:
    Supervised as a resource person for training the faculty on using different equipment before leaving for Ph.D. abroad. In four-day training, faculty participated in performing experiments using the latest computer-assisted training kits/ modules/ workstations in the newly installed laboratories. 
     


  • Brief Statement of Research Interest

    His core focus is on power control and energy management of standalone PV-based community microgrids using a mix of renewable and non-renewable energies. Other topics include: (1) Modeling and control of interlinked microgrids and distribution networks using SimScape power systems, (2) power flow measurement and control using LabVIEW, (3) hybrid PV-diesel, and (4) battery storage systems.


  • Publications

    Reference to the GoogleScholar link 
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6tlr3GoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
    OR ResearchGate
    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Khadim-Jan-2
     

    International Scientific Presentations

    •    “Modeling and analysis of the impact of second-life components on PV-Battery-Diesel microgrids” December 2, 2021 at JNPV’21, Dourdan, France.
    •    “Multi-stage hybrid SC-battery design and control”, October 14, 2021 at 47th IEEE IECON, Toronto, Canada.
    •    “Interlinked PV-diesel-battery rural microgrids” July 7, 2021 at Energy for Climate E4C summer school, École Polytechnique de Paris, France.
    •    “Experimental evaluation of lead-acid batteries” June 30 2021, icSmartGrids’21, Portugal.
    •    “Repower microgrids with legacies” Sept. 24, 2020, Bangkok, Thailand.
    •    “Modeling and energy management of second-life microgrid equipment” July 1, 2021, JDD’21, Univ. Paris Saclay, France.
    •    “Testing and performance validation of large PV plants using SimPowerSystems Toolbox” January 26, 2021, JNPV’20, Dourdan, France.
    •    “Performance impact of legacy equipment in community microgrids,” November 4, 2020, JDD’20, Univ. Paris Saclay, France.
    •    “Hybridization of renewable and non-renewable sources for low-cost rural electrification,” December 4, 2019, JNPV’19, Dourdan, France.
     


  • Research Grants and Contracts

    His Ph.D. research is funded by the IsDB under the doctoral scholarship Grant Agreement No. 600036563 (Energy& Power).