Mohamed Zakaria Meshref Omran Kamh

Associate Professor at Electrical Power and Machines Engineering

Career Information

Academic Information

Brief

Dr. Mohamed Kamh serves as Associate Professor of Electrical Power Engineering at the Department of Electrical Power and Machines Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. He received the B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2003 and 2007 respectively, both in electrical power and machines engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2011. He is a Senior IEEE member where he actively participates in several IEEE Task Forces on modeling and analysis of distributed energy resources. He is also an official technical reviewer for IET and IEEE Power and Energy Society journals and conference publications.

Dr. Kamh is currently seconded to the World Bank to lead the Energy Dialogue with the Government of Jordan. Before that, he served as the Technical Adviser for the Minister of
Electricity and Renewable Energy in Egypt, where he gave strategic and technical advice on matters related to electricity policies related to renewable energy, Transmission Network planning and operation, as well as establishing Egypt as a Regional Electricity Hub.

He is a registered Professional Engineer in Egypt, as well as with the Provinces of Alberta and Ontario, Canada where he served for more than a decade as a utility leader in the fields of transmission system planning, operation, and engineering. In addition, he has developed and delivered short courses/lectures/tutorials related to power system engineering education and training.

His research interests include power system planning and operation, power electronics, distributed and renewable energy resources, smart grids, and application of artificial intelligence in the aforementioned fields.

His engineering consulting specialties: Value Engineering, Utility reforms and policy development, Power Systems , Engineering Management, Project Management, Procurement Development and Implementation, Project Financing, Change Management, Integration of Renewable and Energy Storage Resources, Power Electronics applications to power systems, Smart Grids and Active Distribution Networks, Microgrids.

Awards

International Publications Award, Ain Shams University, 2022

Books

1. M.Z. Kamh, A.Y. Abdelaziz, S.F. Mekhamer, Thermal Generation Dispatch and Unit Commitment - Modeling and Optimization, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-659-39635-9, 2013
2. M.Z. Kamh and R. Iravani, Active Distribution Networks: Modeling and Real-Time Power Management, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, ISBN: 978-3846523131 , 2011

Publications

1. Rania A. Swief, Noha H. El-Amary, Mohamed Z. Kamh, " optimal energy management integrating plug in hybrid vehicle under load and renewable uncertainties ", IEEE Access, 2020
2. Ahmed M. Shawqran, Abdallah El-Marhomy, Mahmoud A. Attia, Mohamed Z. Kamh, " Novel blade angle controllers techniques based on heuristics algorithms ", Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2022
3. Swief, R.A., Hassan, N.M., Hasanien, H.M., Abdelaziz, A.Y., Kamh, M.Z., " AC&DC optimal power flow incorporating centralized/decentralized multi-region grid control employing the whale algorithm ", Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2021
4. Abdelazeem A. Abdelsalam, Almoataz Y. Abdelaziz, Mohamed Z. Kamh, " A Generalized Approach for Power Quality Disturbances Recognition Based on Kalman Filter ", IEEE Access, 2021
5. Swief, R.A., Hassan, N.M., Hasanien, H.M., Abdelaziz, A.Y., Kamh, M.Z., " Multi-Regional Optimal Power Flow Using Marine Predators Algorithm Considering Load and Generation Variability ", IEEE Access, 2021
6. Hassan, N.M., Swief, R.A., Kamh, M.Z., Hasanien, H.M., Abdelaziz, A.Y., " Centralized/Decentralized Optimal Load Flow Based on Tuned Whale Optimization Algorithm ", Proceedings of 2020 International Conference on Innovative Trends in Communication and Computer Engineering, ITCE 2020, 2020
7. Kamh, M.Z., Iravani, R., " A sequence frame-based distributed slack bus model for energy management of active distribution networks ", IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2012
8. Kamh, M.Z., Iravani, R., El-Fouly, T.H.M., " Realizing a smart microgrid Pioneer Canadian experience ", IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012
9. Kamh, M.Z., Iravani, R., " Steady-state model and power-flow analysis of single-phase electronically coupled distributed energy resources ", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2012
10. Kamh, M.Z., Iravani, R., " Three-phase steady-state model of type-3 wind generation unit part II: Model validation and applications ", IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2012
11. Kamh, M.Z., Iravani, R., " A unified three-phase power-flow analysis model for electronically coupled distributed energy resources ", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2011
12. Kamh, M.Z., Iravani, R., " Three-phase steady-state model of Type-3 wind generation unit - Part I: Mathematical models ", IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2011
13. Kamh, M.Z., Iravani, R., " Unbalanced model and power-flow analysis of microgrids and active distribution systems ", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2010
14. Mekhamer, S.F., Abdelaziz, A.Y., Kamh, M.Z., Badr, M.A.L., " Dynamic economic dispatch using a hybrid hopfield neural network quadratic programming based technique ", Electric Power Components and Systems, 2009
15. Kamh, M.Z., Abdelaziz, A.Y., Mekhamer, S.F., Badr, M.A.L., " Modified augmented hopfield neural network for optimal thermal unit commitment ", 2009 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PES '09, 2009
16. Abdelaziz, A.Y., Kamh, M.Z., Mekhamer, S.F., Badr, M.A.L., " A hybrid HNN-QP approach for dynamic economic dispatch problem ", Electric Power Systems Research, 2008
17. Abdelaziz, A.Y., Mekhamer, S.F., Kamh, M.Z., Badr, M.A.L., " A hybrid hopfield neural network-quadratic programming approach for dynamic economic dispatch problem ", 2008 12th International Middle East Power System Conference, MEPCON 2008, 2008
18. Abdelaziz, A.Y., Mekhamer, S.F., Badr, M.A.L., Kamh, M.Z., " Economic dispatch using an enhanced Hopfield neural network ", Electric Power Components and Systems, 2008
19. Mekhamer, S.F., Abdelaziz, A.Y., Badr, M.A.L., Kamh, M.Z., " Enhancing the performance of hopfield neural network applied to the economic dispatch problem ", Proceedings of the 11th International Middle East Power Systems Conference, MEPCON'2006, 2006