FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering at DHA Suffa University provides a solid education in electrical systems, equipping students with essential skills for successful careers.

Engr. Dr. Sunil Kumar

Assistant Professor and HoD

Engr. Dr. Dur Muhammad Soomro

Associate Professor

Engr. Dr. Mirza
Danish

Assistant Professor

Engr. Asif Gulraiz

Assistant Professor

Engr. Dr. Nizamuddin

Assistant Professor

Engr. Syed Asad Ali

Senior Lecturer

Engr. Muhammad Owais

Assistant Professor

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Engr. Dr. Sunil Kumar

Assistant Professor and HoD

 

Education:

  • MS-PhD (Electrical Engineering) Hanyang University, South Korea
  • B.E. (Electrical Engineering) NED University

Research Interests:

Electric Machine Design, Optimization and Analysis

WORK EXPERIENCE:

  1. Assistant Professor
    Department of Electrical Engineering
    DHA Suffa University, Pakistan [10.2022 ~ to-date]

  2. Assistant Professor
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering
    Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK) Institute, Pakistan [09.2020 ~ 09.2022]

  3. Post-doctoral Researcher
    Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), South Korea [09.2019 ~ 08. 2020]

  4. Trainee Engineer
    Karachi Electric Co. Ltd. (K.E.) – Distribution Region I, Karachi, Pakistan [05.2012 ~ 05.2013]

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Sunil Kumar, Wenliang Zhao, Zhentao S. Du, Thomas A. Lipo, and Byung-il Kwon, “Design of Ultra-High Speed Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Machine with Sinusoidal Back-EMF for Energy Storage Application” in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1-4, Nov. 2015.

  2. Sunil Kumar, Thomas A. Lipo, and Byung-il Kwon, “A 32,000 r/min Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Machine for Energy Storage with Mechanical Stress Analysis” in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 1-4, July 2016.

  3. Sunil Kumar, and Byung-il Kwon, “Design and Analysis of a Material Efficient Sinusoidal Consequent-Pole High-Speed Axial Flux Machine”, in Journal of IKEEE (KCI Indexed), vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 759-766, Sep-2018.

  4. Se-Hyun Rhyu, Sunil Kumar, Salman Khaliq, Myung-Hwan Yoon, Jeong-Eui Yun, and Sang-Seon Lee, “Design Optimization for Pullout Torque Improvement of a Magnetic Coupling in Chemical Pump Application”, Journal of Magnetics (SCIE/SCOPUS Indexed), Vol. 26. No. 01, pp. 60-66, Mar-2021. https://doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2021.26.1.060

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

  1. Sunil Kumar, Wenliang Zhao, Zhentao S. Du, Thomas A. Lipo, and Byung-il Kwon “Design of Ultra-High Speed Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Machine with Sinusoidal Back-EMF” IEEE International Magnetics (INTERMAG) conference, Beijing, China, 11~15 May 2015.

  2. Sunil Kumar, Thomas A. Lipo, and Byung-il Kwon “A 32,000 rev/min Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Machine for Energy Storage with Mechanical Stress Analysis” IEEE Joint MMM/INTERMAG conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 11~15 Jan 2016.

  3. Sunil Kumar, Myeong-Hwan Yoon, Salman Khaliq, Se-Hyun Rhyu, “Magnetic Coupling PM Shape optimization for Pull-out Torque Improvement of a 50-hp Industrial Pump System” IEEE International Magnetics (INTERMAG) conference, Montreal, Canada, 2020.

  4. Sunil Kumar, Wenliang Zhao, Thomas A. Lipo, and Byung-il Kwon “Optimal Design of Ultra-high speed Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Motor with Sinusoidal Back-EMF” KIEE Spring Conference, 25-April-2014.

  5. Sunil Kumar, Wenliang Zhao, Thomas A. Lipo, and Byung-il Kwon, “Optimal Rotor Design of Ultra-high speed Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Motor for Cogging Torque and Torque Ripple Minimization” KIEE Summer Conference, 16-July-2014.

  6. Sunil Kumar, Thomas A. Lipo, and Byung-il Kwon, “Analytical Design of Rotor Magnet Shape of an Ultra-High Speed Three-Phase Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Machine” KIEE Spring Conference, 17-April-2015.

  7. Sunil Kumar, and Byung-il Kwon, “Rotordynamic Analysis of High-speed Axial-flux type Permanent Magnet Machine” KIEE Fall Conference, 21-Oct- 2016.

  8. Sunil Kumar, and Byung-il Kwon, “Experimental Evaluation and Analysis of High-Speed Axial Flux PM Machine for Flywheel Energy Storage”, KIEE Summer conference, 14-July-2017.

  9. Sunil Kumar, Hyeun-Myeong Yang, Byung-il Kwon, ‘Axial Force Control of a High-Speed Axial Flux PM Machine for Flywheel Energy Storage System’’. KIEE Summer conference, 12-July-2018.

Contact Information:

Contact: sunil.kumar@dsu.edu.pk
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Engr. Dr. Dur Muhammad Soomro

Associate Professor

Education:

1. PhD. (Electrical Engg.) UTM, Malaysia 2. M.E. (Electrical Power Engg.) MUET Jamshoro, Pakistan 3. B.E. (Electrical Engg.) (1990) from MUET, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Research Interests:

Power Systems Stability • Power Quality • Renewable Energy • Smart Grids • Distributed Generation • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning • Industrial Revolution 4.0 Contact: durm.soomro@dsu.edu.pk Extension: 110

Work Experience:

  1. Associate Professor
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Malaysia (05.09.2019-04.09.2023)
  1. Senior Lecturer
UTHM, Malaysia (05.09.2011-04.09.2019)
  1. Lecturer
Balochistan University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Khuzdar, Pakistan (08.09.1992-17.08.2005)
  1. Engineer
Central Power Pvt. Ltd., Islamabad, Pakistan (01.06.1990-30.08.1992)
  1. Engineer
Balochistan Solar Systems Pvt. Ltd., Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan (May 1990)

Publications:

HEC Recognized PublicationsNon-HEC Recognized Journals Proceedings Teaching Modules Laboratory Modules Book Chapters
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Teaching Modules:

  1. Faridah Hanim Mohd Noh, Dur Muhammad Soomro, Roziah Aziz, 2011, Power System (BEF25503),
Lab Modules:
  1. Rahisham Abd Rahman, Mohd Fairouz Mohd Yousof, Mohd Noor Abdullah, Dur Muhammad Soomro, et al, 2016, Electrical Engineering Laboratory I (BEF23401),
  2. Rahisham Abd Rahman, Mohd Fairouz Mohd Yousof, Siti Amely Jummat, Dur Muhammad Soomro, et al, 2016, Electrical Engineering Laboratory III (BEF45101), UTHM.
  Book Chapters/Thesis:
  1. Dur Muhammad Soomro, “An Optimal Dynamic Underfrequency Load Shedding Scheme,” Thesis, Thesis, eprints.utm.my, 2011.
  2. M. Soomro, SC Chong, ZA Memon, AM Soomro, “Identification of Harmonics by Simulating 3-Phase Full Wave AC-DC Converter in MATLAB”, Goo, 2011.
  3. Chong, S. C. and Soomro, D. M., Harmonic Behaviour of Different Branded LED Lamps and Their Respective Cost Effectiveness, Vol. 398 of the series Lecture Notes Electrical Engineering, Chapter: 79, Book Id: 339721_1_En, Publisher: Springer, pp. 725-736, 2017.

Engr. Dr. Mirza Danish

Assistant Professor

Education:

  • PhD (Automation Systems Engineering) King’s College London
  • MSc (Mechanical Engineering) King’s College London
  • BSc (Mechanical Engineering) National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan.

Publications:

  1. Mirza Danish Beg, Yahya Zeweri, Kaspar Althoefer, Topographical control system for
    Smart Grids, IEEE 2013.

  2. Mirza Danish Beg, Kaspar Althoefer, Control and Smart methodologies for automated
    statistical control of Electrical Systems, IEEE 2013.

  3. Mirza Danish Beg, Kaspar Althoefer, David Sun, Modification topologies for conversion
    of MV and LV switchgear for remote monitoring and control, CoRE Journal, 2014.

  4. Mirza Danish Beg, Ashad Mustafa, Kamran Raza, Ayaz Ahmed Khan, Altamash Ahmed,
    Shariq Tabraiz, Umer Ali Shah, Development of unmanned autonomous surveillance
    drone, submitted to IEEE, 2012.

  5. Mirza Danish Beg, Amjad Ali, Imran Wali, Aamir Mujtaba, Umair Ali Siddiqui, Video
    transmission through dialup GSM network, submitted to IEEE, 2012.

  6. Mirza Danish Beg, Ashad Mustafa, Kamran Raza, Smart Solar Street Lights, presented
    in International Energy Conservation Conference Malaysia 2011.

  7. Mirza Danish Beg, Kaspar Althoefer, Design of Laser based vibrometer for high-speed
    CD-ROM drives, Proceedings of American Control Conference, London, UK, pp. 1587-
    1592, 2002.

Contact Information:

Email: danish.beg@dsu.edu.pk

Engr. Asif Gulraiz

Assistant Professor

Education:

  • MSc (Sustainable Electrical Power), Brunel University London, United Kingdom
  • BS (Electronics), SSUET, KarachiFormerly:
  • Senior Lecturer, DHA Suffa University
  • Lecturer, Usman Institute of Technology
  • Project Officer, Brunel University London
  • Electrical Engineer, Pakistan International Container Terminal

Research Interests:

  • Power Quality, Renewable Energy

Publications:

  1. Asif Gulraiz, Hammad Munami, Power Factor Correction for Non-Linear Loads, International Journal on Energy Conversion (IRECON). ISSN: 2281-5295, e-ISSN: 2281-5309.

Significant Achievements:

  • Distinction in Final Thesis (MSc), Brunel University London

Contact Information:

Email: asif.gulraiz@dsu.edu.pk

Engr. Dr. Nizamuddin

Assistant Professor

Education:

  • PhD, Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Canada
  • MS, Electrical Engineering (Electrophysics), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • MS, Nuclear Engineering, PIEAS, Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • BS, Electronics Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology, Topi, KPK

Research Interests:

  • Computational electromagnetics, particularly the finite element method
  • Numerical linear algebra
  • Electromagnetic modeling of low and high frequency components and devices
  • Multigrid numerical methods
  • Performance limitations of array antennas 

Selected Publications:

  1. Hussain, and J. Webb. “Geometric Multigrid Preconditioning in Voxel-based Finite Element Analysis of Scattering”. IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting’, Boston, USA, 2018 (Conference)

  2. Hussain, and J. Webb. “Preconditioners for the Nonconforming Voxel Edge Element Method”. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,  Vol. 53, issue 6, June 2017 (Journal)

  3. L. G. Jonsson, C. I. Kolitsidas, and N. Hussain. “Array Antenna Limitations”. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 12, pp. 1539-1542, Nov 2013 (Journal)

  4. Hussain, and J. Webb. “Preconditioners for the Nonconforming Voxel Edge Element Method”. IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC), 2016 Miami USA (Conference)

Contact Information:

Email: nizam.hussain@dsu.edu.pk

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Engr. Syed Asad Ali

Senior Lecturer

Education:

  • ME (Communication Systems and Networks), MUET
  • BE (Telecommunications), MUET

Formerly:

  • Assistant Manager, Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL – Etisalat), Hyderabad
  • Resident Engineer, Interactive Group of Companies Pvt Ltd, Army Data Center, Hyderabad

Research Interests:

  • Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
  • Cooperative Communication Systems

Publications:

  1. S Asad A, et al, Performance Evaluation Of Decode & Forward Cooperative Communication Protocols, International Journal Of Information Technology And Electrical Engineering , 1st Jan 2013, ISSN: 2225-7217

  2. Syed Asad Ali, et al, Bit Error rate Analysis of Amplify and Forward Cooperative Communication Protocol, IEEEP 26th Multi Topic Symposium 2011, Karachi Pakistan

Significant Achievements:

  • Gold Medal from IEEE on research paper
  • Position Holder in BE

Contact Information:

Email: engr.asad@dsu.edu.pk
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Engr. Muhammad Owais

Assistant Professor

Education:

  • MSc (Power Engineering), Technical University Munich, Germany
  • BE (Electronics), NED University

Formerly:

  • Linde AG, Engineering Division, Pullach, Germany
  • Institute of Automatic Control, Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany
  • Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan

Research Interests:

  • System Identification
  • Linear Control Systems
  • Non-Linear Control Systems
  • Distributed Control Systems
  • Model Predictive Control
  • Electrical Machines (Control)

Publications:

  1. Automatic Power Factor Correction Unit, International Conference on Computing, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, ICE Cube 2016, April 11-12, Quetta, Pakistan. ISBN 978-1-5090-1252-7

  2. Design of Smart Charge Controller for Wind Electric Conversion System, 8th International conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies SET 2009, 31st Aug to 3rd Sep 2009, Aachen, Germany. ISBN 978-3-9813246-1-7

  3. An off-grid Model Setup for Wind Electric Conversion System, TENCON 2009, November 23-26, Singapore. ISBN 978-1-4244-4547-9

  4. National Instruments LabVIEW based Pharmaceutical Medication Device with Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition System (SCADA), SoutheastCon 2009, March 5-8, Atlanta, GA, USA. ISBN 978-1-4244-3978-2

  5. GSM Based Security System Using LabVIEW,First International Conference on Computer, Control and Communication 2007 at Pakistan Navy Engineering College, NUST, Karachi during November 12-13, 2007
    Significant Achievements:

  6. Masters Thesis at Linde Engineering, Pullach, Germany in the department of Information Technology and Process Control

  7. Funding from NED University for presenting projects in Germany and USA at undergraduate level

  8. First prize winner in hardware competition at PAF-KIET (2008)

Contact Information:

Email: m.owais@dsu.edu.pk
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