Mahmoud Mohamed Othman Ahmed

Assistant Professor at Electrical Power and Machines Engineering

Career Information

Academic Information

Brief

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Waterloo.
Ph.D (2015) Electrical Power and Machines Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
M.Sc (2010) Electrical Power and Machines Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
11 years of university level teaching experience.
10 top ranked journal publications and over 8 conference publications.

Books

Mahmoud M. Othman, Electrical Energy Management in Power Delivery Systems: Virtual Power Plant Concept. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Dec. 2015.

Articles

1. M. M. Othman, W. El-Khattam, Y. G. Hegazy and A. Y. Abdelaziz, „Optimal Placement and Sizing of Distributed Generators in Unbalanced Distribution Systems Using Supervised Big Bang Big Crunch Method‟, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.30,no.2, March 2015, pp.911-919.

2. A. Y. Abdelaziz, Y. G. Hegazy, W. El-Khattam and M. M. Othman, „Optimal Allocation of Stochastically Dependent Renewable Energy Based Distributed Generators in Unbalanced Distribution Networks‟, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 119, February 2015, pp. 34-44.

3. A. Y. Abdelaziz, Y. G. Hegazy, W. El-Khattam and Mahmoud M. Othman, „A Multiobjective Optimization for Sizing and Placement of Voltage Controlled Distributed Generation Using Supervised Big Bang Big Crunch Method‟ Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 43, no.1 pp.105–117, Jan. 2015.

4. A. Y. Abdelaziz, Y. G. Hegazy, W. El-Khattam and Mahmoud M. Othman, „Optimal Planning of Distributed Generators in Distribution Networks Using Modified Firefly Method‟, Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 43, no.3 pp.320-333, Jan. 2015.

5. M.M. Othman, A. Y. Abdelaziz, Y.G. Hegazy, Walid El-Khattam, , „Approach for Modeling Stochastically Dependent Renewable Energy Based Generators using Diagonal Band Copula‟, IET Renewable Power Generation, vol.9, no.8, pp.809 -820,Sep. 2015.

6. M. M. Othman, A.Y.Abdelaziz, and Y. G. Hegazy, „A Review of Virtual power plant Definitions, Components, Framework and Optimization, International Electrical Engineering Journal (IEEJ), vol. 6, pp. 2010-2024, 2015.

7. A. Y. Abdelaziz, Y.G. Hegazy, Walid El-Khattam, M.M. Othman, „Optimal Placement and Sizing of Voltage Controlled Distributed Generators in Unbalanced Distribution Networks Using Supervised Firefly Algorithm” International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 82, pp. 105-113, Nov. , 1026 .

8. Mahmoud M, Othman, Yasser G. Hegazy, and A. Y. Abelaziz „Optimal Operation of Virtual Power Plant in unbalanced Distribution Networks, Electric power components and systems, Vol. 44, No. 14, pp. 1620-1630, Aug. 2016.

9. Engy A. Mohamed, Mahmoud M. Othman ,and Yasser G Hegazy „A Novel Probabilistic Technique for Optimal Allocation of Photovoltaic Based Distributed Generators to Decrease System Losses‟, Periodica Polytechnica Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol.60, no.4, pp.247-253, Sep. 2016.

10. Mahmoud M, Othman, Yasser G. Hegazy, and A. Y. Abelaziz „Electrical Energy Management in Unbalanced Distribution Networks using Virtual Power Plant Concept, accepted, Electric power system research and systems.

Publications

1. A. Y. Abdelaziz, Y. G. Hegazy, Walid El-Khattam and M.M.Othman, ' Virtual Power Plant: The Future of Power Delivery Systems', Proceedings of the Second European Conference and Workshop on Renewable Energy Systems, 20-30 September 2013, Antalya, Türkey.

2. Y. G. Hegazy, M. M. Othman, W. El-Khattam and A. Y. Abdelaziz, 'Optimal sizing and siting of distributed generators using Big Bang Big Crunch method‟, Proceedings of 49th International Universities‟ Power Engineering Conference, 2-5 September 2014, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

3. M. M. Othman, W. El-Khattam A. Y. Abdelaziz and Y. G. Hegazy, 'A Firefly Based Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Planning of Voltage Controlled Distributed Generators‟, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Engineering Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal, 8-11 September, 2014.

4. M. M. Othman, Walid El-Khattam, A.Y.Abdelaziz, and Y. G. Hegazy, „Multiple voltage controlled distributed energy resources sizing and allocation for virtual power plant realization‟, Proceedings of the 16th International Middle East Power Systems Conference, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, December 23-25, 2014 (MEPCON'14).

5. Engy A. Mohamed, Mahmoud M. Othman, and Y. G. Hegazy “Optimal Sizing and Placement of Distributed Generators for Profit Maximization Using Firefly Algorithm”Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Energy and Manufacturing Engineering (ICAEME‟2014), June 9-10, 2014 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

6. Mahmoud M. Othman, Y.G.Hegazy, and A. Y. Abdelaziz “Optimal Planning of Dispatchable Distributed Generators for Power Loss Reduction in Unbalanced Distribution Networks” ICEPE 2015 : 17th International Conference on Electrical and Power Engineering, Venice, Italy, 13-14 August 2015.

7. M. M. Nagib, Mahmoud M Othman, Adel A. Naiem, Y. G. Hegazy, ' Invasive weed optimization algorithm for solving economic load dispatch', IEEE 16th International Conferences on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 7-10 June 2016, Florence, Italy.

Research Projects

1- DG penetration online impact assessment .