Dr Ahmed S. Musleh | UNSW Research

Keywords

smart grids

cyber-physical systems

Fields of Research (FoR)

Electrical engineering, Cybersecurity and privacy, Cyberphysical systems and internet of things, Electrical energy transmission, networks and systems, Machine learning

SEO tags

Energy Transmission and Distribution (excl. Hydrogen)

Biography

Ahmed S. Musleh completed his B.Sc. degree (with the highest honors) from Abu Dhabi University in 2014, his M.Sc. degree from the Petroleum Institute (currently known as Khalifa University) in Abu Dhabi in 2016, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2022. Presently, he is an Associate Lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. His research pursuits revolve around smart grid technologies, wide area monitoring and control, cyber-physical security, and the application of machine learning in power systems. Notably accomplished, he has been the recipient of multiple awards for his research, including esteemed recognitions such as best and outstanding paper awards from IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and various international IEEE conferences. Furthermore, his contributions extend beyond research, as he demonstrated excellence as a reviewer, notably being recognized as an outstanding reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid in the year 2022. Ahmed is also actively engaged as a reviewer for several other IEEE Transactions journals.

My Grants

CAESER – Cyber Assurance in Energy Systems for Security and Resilience, Cybersecurity CRC, $171.450k, 2023-2024, chief investigator, collaborating with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Edith Cowen University, and CSIRO DATA61.
Empowering Tomorrow's Engineers via Remote Laboratories and SparkLab Workshops, EDI Outreach Fund, $5.850k, 2024, chief investigator.
Top-Up Scholarship, CSIRO DATA61, $31.205k, 2019-2022, sole chief investigator.

My Qualifications

PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2022.
M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, The Petroleum Institute (currently Khalifa University), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2016.
B.Sc (Summa Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2014.

My Awards

Early Career Academic (ECA) Fellowship, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW, 2023
Outstanding Paper among thousands of papers from 2019 to 2022, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2023.
Outstanding Reviewer for the year 2022, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2023.
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis, University of New South Wales, 2022.
Best Poster Award, Electric Energy Society of Australia Annual Conference (EECON 2020), 2020.
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Smart Grids and Energy Systems (SGES 2020), 2020.
Top-up Scholarship for the Ph.D. Degree, CSIRO’s DATA61, 2019
Full Scholarship for the Ph.D. degree, University of New South Wales, 2018
Full Scholarship for the MSc. degree, The Petroleum Institute, 2014
First Place, 9th Mobile Application Contest (MAC 2014), Khalifa University, 2014.
Abu Dhabi University Overall Award of Excellence, 2014
Full Scholarship for the BSc. degree, Abu Dhabi University, 2010

My Research Activities

Research Interests:

Smart Grid Technologies
Wide Area Monitoring and Control
Cyber-Physical Security
Real-Time Studies with HIL/SIL
Machine Learning Applications
Power Quality and Renewable Energy

Memberships:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
IEEE Power & Energy Society
Electric Energy Society of Australia (EESA)

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

smart grids

power systems

cyber security

cyber-physical systems

machine learning

Areas of supervision

Smart Grids Technologies
Wide Area Monitoring and Control
Cyber-Physical Security of smart grids
Real-Time Studies with HIL/SIL
Machine Learning Applications in Power Systems
Power Quality and Renewable Energy

Currently supervising

I am available to supervise Ph.D., M.Phil, and thesis students. If you share the same research interest as mine, please do not hesitate to contact me by email.

Current:

Nan Wang, PhD., Joint Supervisor, Due in 2028.
Junjie Chai, PhD., Secondary Supervisor, Due in 2028.
Haoyu Sun, PhD., Secondary Supervisor, Due in 2028.
Fangyan Liu, PhD., Joint Supervisor, Due in 2028.
Jiaqin Liu, MEng., Primary Supervisor, Due in 2025.
Toha Kusuma, MEng., Primary Supervisor, Due in 2025.
Bashar Alkhatib, MEngSc., Primary Supervisor, Due in 2024.
Mingchen Wei, MEngSc., Primary Supervisor, Due in 2024.
Mengxuan Li, MEngSc., Primary Supervisor, Due in 2024.
Hossein Rahimpour, Ph.D., Mentor, Due in 2024, (2 publications).

Completed:

Abdulrahman Al Fayi, MEngSc., Primary Supervisor, completed in 2024, now a lecturer in Saudi Arabia, (1 publication).
Yunong Mao, Honors, Mentor, “Hardware in the Loop Test Platform for Microgrids under Cyberattacks”, completed in 2022.