Faculty

Profile

College / Department

Teaching areas

Photovoltaic Energy Systems (ELE 548), Advanced Power Electronics (ELE 546), Power Electronics (ELE 485), Electrical Energy Conversion (ELE 351), Electronics I (ELE 241), Electric Circuits and Devices (ELE 225), Electric Circuits I (ELE 211)

Research areas

DSP based Variable Speed Drives (VSDs), Hybrid and Electric Vehicle, Solar and other Renewable Energy Systems, Power Electronics, andDelivery of Design Experience in Engineering Education.

Education

PhD, Electrical Power Engineering, The Ohio State University, United States, 2001

MS, Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University, United States, 1995

Professional experience

Professor, Electrical Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2020 - Present

Associate Professor, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2009 - 2020

Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2006 - 2009

Assistant Professor, UAE University , Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates, 2001 - 2006

Design Engineer, Ford Motor Company, MI, United States, 1999 - 2000

Substation Engineer, Nespak Pakistan & Fichtner Consulting Engineers, Germany, 1991 - 1993

Memberships

IEEE, January 2002

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2987

Dr. Habib Ur Rehman

Professor

PhD, The Ohio State University, United States

Habib-ur Rehman received his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the The Ohio State University. He has worked as a design engineer in the Ford Research Laboratory USA and taught at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain. Dr. Rehman's primary research interests are in the areas of Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based adjustable-speed drives and their application for hybrid and electric vehicles, and solar energy system design.

Publications

Faisal Mumtaz, Kashif Imran, Habibur Rehman And Syed Bukhari. Novel protection method for AC microgrids with multiple distributed generations using Unscented Kalman filter, Electric Power Systems Research, May 2024

Dima Alshaal, Osama Mostafa, Mostafa Shaaban And Habib Rehman. Optimal Design and Economic Analysis of a PV System for A Commercial Buildings in UAE

Akhtar Ali, Hassan Khalid And Habibur Rehman. A Novel Reduced-Switch Fault-Tolerant CHB Inverter Drive for Electric Vehicles, Ieee Journal Of Emerging And Selected Topics In Power Electronics

Shoaib Ahmed, Usman Tariq, Ammar Hasan And Habib Rehman. A Deep Reinforcement Learning Paradigm for DC Motor Speed Control

Faris Ataalah, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Habib Rehman. Battery Temperature Aware EV Drive-Train Energy Management System

Ahmad Rizwan, Shoaib Ahmed, Rached Dhaouadi And Habib Rehman. Comparative Performance Analysis of PI, Fuzzy Logic, and Sliding Mode Controllers for the Battery Energy Consumption of EV Traction System

Farrukh Abideen, Hassan Khalid, Muhammad Khan, Habib Rehman And Ammar Hasan. Direct Model Predictive Control of Fuel Cell and Ultra-Capacitor Based Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Ieee Access, 27 March 2024

Faisal Mumtaz, Kashif Imran, Habibur Rehman And Hammad Qureshi. Hardware Supported Fault Detection and Localization Method for AC Microgrids Using Mathematical Morphology with State Observer Algorithm, Ieee Access, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2024

Shoaib Ahmed, Ahmad Rizwan, Faris Ataallah, Habib Rehman, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Rached Dhaouadi. EV Traction System’s Battery Thermal Analysis using Fuzzy Logic and PI Controller, 2023

Abu Zar, Iftikhar Ahmad And Habibur Rehman. Neural network based optimized barrier conditioned double super-twisting sliding mode controller of electric vehicle charger with grid to vehicle and vehicle to grid modes, Journal Of Energy Storage, November 2023

Habibur Rehman. AUS Research Extends Battery Powered Electric Vehicle Lifetime and Drving Distance, Innovation In Uae Magazine, November 2023

Abdul Ghani, Hassan Khalid And Habibur Rehman. Saliency Ratio-Based Torque Enhancement of Switched Reluctance Motors for Electric Bikes, Energies, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2023

Ahmed Abdelfatah, Sama Elkholy,, Youssef El Gohary, Mostafa Shaaban And Habib Rehman. Case Study for a Grid-Connected PV System Optimal Design, September 2023

Ghulam Hussain, Waqar Hassan, Farhan Mahmood, Muhammad Shafiq, Habib Rehman And John Kay. Review on Partial Discharge Diagnostic Techniques for High Voltage Equipment in Power Systems, Ieee Access, June 2023

Faris Ataallah, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Habib Rehman. Battery Temperature Assessment for FOPI and PI Based Electric Vehicle Traction System, March 2023

Ayesha Abbasi, Hassan Khalid, Habibur Rehman And Adnan Khan. A Novel Dynamic Load Scheduling and Peak Shaving Control Scheme in Community Home Energy Management System based Microgrids, Ieee Access, March 2023

Faisal Mumtaz, Kashif Imran, Habibur Rehman And Syed Bukhari. 1D recursive median filter based passive islanding detection strategy for grid-connected distributed generations network, Iet Renewable Power Generation, February 2023

Ahmed Khalil, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Habib Rehman. Comparative Performance Analysis of PI Controller and MRAC for a Differential Drive Robot, December 2022

Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Hafiz Usman And Habib Rehman. Real time Li-ion Battery Bank Parameters Estimation via Universal Adaptive Stabilization, Ieee Open Journal Of Control Systems, September 2022

Mazen Elsaadany, Muhammad Elahi, Faris Allah, Habib Rehman And Shayok Mukhopadhyay. Comparative analysis of different FOPI approximations and number of terms used on simulations of a battery-powered, field-oriented induction motor based electric vehicle traction system, Frontiers In Control Engineering, September 2022

Ahmed Aal, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Habib Rehman. Battery Energy Management Techniques for an Electric Vehicle Traction System, Ieee Access, August 2022

Muhammad Elahi, Mazen Elsaadany, Habib Rehman And Shayok Mukhopadhyay. Battery Energy Consumption Optimization for the EV Traction System, June 2022

Shereen Farhana, Mazen Elsaadany And Habib Rehman. An Optimal Stand-Alone Solar Streetlight System Design and Cost Estimation, February 2021

Sarah Albarri, Habibur Rehman And Shayok Mukhopadhyay. High-Gain Adaptive Controller for Speed Regulation of Induction Motor Drive System, December 2020

Alieldin Abed, Habib Rehman, Yazan Qasem And Ehab Shihab. Energy Optimization of Solar Street lighting system, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2020

Raveendhra Dogga, Rached Dhaouadi, Habib Rehman And Shayok Mukhopadhyay. LC Impedance Source Bi-Directional Converter with Reduced Capacitor Voltages, Electronics, 28 June 2020

Muneer Sabbagh, Habib Rehman, Jianyu Pan And Longya Xu. Suppressing the capacitor voltage fluctuations in low frequency operation of modular multilevel converters, Ieee Access, March 2020

Hafiz Butt, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Habibur Rehman. Permanent Magnet DC Motor Parameters Estimation via Universal Adaptive Stabilization, Control Engineering Practice, September 2019

Muhammad Butt, Abdul Ghaffor, Habib Rehman And Shayok Mukhopadhyay. Comparison of PI and FOPI Based Voltage and Current Controlled DC Motor Drive System, August 2019

Hafiz Butt, Habibur Rehman And Shayok Mukhopadyay. Performance Enhancement of Electric Vehicle Traction System using FO-PI Controller, Iet Electrical Systems In Transportation, August 2019

Ahmed Sayed Abdelaziz, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Habibur Rehman. Cascaded Fuzzy Controller for Electric Vehicle Traction System Battery Energy Management, August 2019

Minxia Shi, Habibur Rehman, Aici Qiu And Junhao Li. An Enhanced Electrical Steel Sheet Model Integrating the Effects of Rotating Magnetic Properties and DC-Biased Field, Materials Transactions, June 2019

Lamyaa Ghamri, Hamda Awadh, Najla Al Shamsi, Saeed Alkhateri, Adil Khurram And Habibur Rehman. Robust AVR design for the synchronous generator, The Journal Of Engineering, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2019

Lingyu Zhu, Chenzhao Fu, Hao Liu, Dandan Zhao, Lei Su, Habibur Rehman And Shengchang Ji. A decoupled circuital model methodology for calculating DC currents in AC grids induced by HVDC grounding current, Plos One, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019

Hafiz Usman, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Habibur Rehman. Universal Adaptive Stabilizer Based Optimization for Li-Ion Battery Model Parameters Estimation: An Experimental Study, Ieee Access, September 2018

Hafiz Usman, Habibur Rehman And Shayok Mukhopadhyay. Electric Vehicle Traction System Performance Enhancement Using FO-PI Controller, August 2018

Yaqi Fang, Habibur Rehman, Bin Xiao, Tian Wu, Kai Liu And Linong Wang. 1000-kV UHV substation live working and safety recommendations, Ieej Transactions On Electrical And Electronic Engineering, June 2018

Lingyu Zhu, Feng Hou, Shengchang Ji, Habibur Rehman And Xutao Wu. Primary differential pulse method for partial-discharge detection of oil-immersed inverted current transformers, Ieee Transactions On Power Delivery, June 2018

Adil Khurram, Habibur Rehman, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Daniyal Ali. Comparative Analysis of Integer-order and Fractional-order Proportional Integral Speed Controllers for Induction Motor Drive Systems, Journal Of Power Electronics, May 2018

Usman Butt, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Habib Rehman. A two stage, adaptive-optimized Li-ion battery parameters estimation strategy, March 2018

Habibur Rehman And Adil Khurram. Fuzzy Logic Enhanced Sensorless Alternative Energy Vehicular Drive System, December 2017

Lingyu Zhu, Jinyu Li, Yuhang Shi, Habibur Rehman And Shengchang Ji. Audible noise characteristics of filter capacitors used in HVDC converter stations, Ieee Transactions On Power Delivery, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2017

Daniyal Ali, Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Habibur Rehman And A Khurram. UAS based Li-ion battery model parameters estimation, Control Engineering Practice, September 2017

Adil Khurram, Habib Rehman And Shayok Mukhopadhyay. A Novel Hybrid Synchronous PWM Inverter Based IFO Drive System, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2017

Daniyal Ali, Shayok Mukhopadhyay And Habibur Rehman. A novel adaptive technique for Li-ion battery model parameters estimation, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016

Adil Khurram, Habibur Rehman And Shayok Mukhopadhyay. A high performance speed regulator design for AC machines, March 2016

Habibur Rehman. Detuning minimization of induction motor drive system for alternative energy vehicles, Energies, 2015

Habib-ur Rehman. In-Vehicle Performance Validation of the Semi-Active Hybrid Energy Storage System, 2015

Roufin Mahmood, Taimoor Shah And Habibur Rehman. A hybrid PWM approach for the traction motor control of Alternative Energy Vehicles, 2014

Habibur Rehman, Roufin Mahmood And Taimoor Shah. A torque discontinuity free new hybrid PWM approach for high speed induction motor drives, Advances In Power Electronics, 2014

Habibur Rehman. A Robust Sensorless Induction Motor Drive for Alternative Energy Vehicular Application, 2013

Roufin Mahmood, Taimoor Shah And Habibur Rehman. High speed control of induction machines, 2013

Habibur Rehman. Detuning minimization for alternative energy vehicular drive system, 2012

Habib-ur Rehman, Yousef Al-assaf And Rached Dhaouadi. Introducing the Guided Design Experience in the Engineering Education, International Journal Of Engineering Education, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012

Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Rached Dhaouadi And Habibur Rehman. Single input fuzzy controller (SFLC) based maximum power point tracking, 2011

Habib-ur Rehman And Longya Xu. Alternative energy vehicles drive system: Control, flux and torque estimation, and efficiency optimization, Ieee Transactions On Vehicular Technology, 2011

Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Muneer Al Sabbagh, Rached Dhaouadi And Habibur Rehman. A 300 watt cascaded boost converter design for solar energy systems, 2009

Muneer Al Sabbagh, Ahmad Al Nabulsi, Rached Dhaouadi And Habibur Rehman. Design and Control of a Novel Sun Tracking System, 2009

Habib-ur Rehman. Incorporating the thermal effects and flux setting in the vehicular drive system, 2009

Habib-ur Rehman, Ra'a, A Said And Yousef Al-assaf. An integrated approach for strategic development of engineering curricula: Focus on students' design skills, Ieee Transactions On Education, 2009

Habib-ur Rehman And Rached Dhaouadi. A fuzzy learning—Sliding mode controller for direct field-oriented induction machines, Neurocomputing, 2008

Habib-ur Rehman. An integrated starter--Alternator and low-cost high-performance drive for vehicular applications, Ieee Transactions On Vehicular Technology, 2008

Habib-ur Rehman And Hazem Nounou. Performance Enhancement of Field Oriented AC Drives using Adaptive Controllers, 2007

Hazem Nounou And Habib-ur Rehman. Application of adaptive fuzzy control to ac machines, Applied Soft Computing, 2007

Habib-ur Rehman And Waqar Mahmood. A fuzzy model reference learning controller based direct field oriented control of induction machine, 2006

Qurban Memon And Habib-ur Rehman. Intelligent approach towards network communications for process control, 2006

Qurban Memon And Habib-ur Rehman. Distributed control system for process control using intelligent agents., Wseas Transactions On Systems, 2006

Michael Jacobson, Ra'a Said And Habib-ur Rehman. Introducing design skills at the freshman level: Structured design experience, Ieee Transactions On Education, 2006

Mohammad Laghari, Qurban Memon And Habib Rehman. Advising for course registration: a uae university perspective, 2005

Qurban Memon And Habib-ur Rehman. Customized Design and Development of Distributed Control System for Process Control, 2005

Habibur Rehman And Ra Said. Development of students' design skills using an integrated learning approach, 2005

Habib-ur Rehman. Elimination of the stator resistance sensitivity and voltage sensor requirement problems for DFO control of an induction Machine, Ieee Transactions On Industrial Electronics, 2005

Habibur Rehman. A torque controlled induction motor drive system, 2004

Habibur Rehman. Design of voltage model flux observer, Iee Proceedings-electric Power Applications, 2004

Habibur Rehman. Fuzzy logic enhanced robust torque controlled induction motor drive system, Iee Proceedings-control Theory And Applications, 2004

Habibur Rehman And Longya Xu. A voltage model flux observer design requiring no stator resistance or voltage signal information, 2002

Habibur Rehman, Adnan Derdiyok, Mustafe Guven And Longya Xu. A new current model flux observer for wide speed range sensorless control of an induction machine, Ieee Transactions On Power Electronics, 2002

Adnan Derdiyok, Mustafa Guven, Habibur Rehman, Nihat Inanc And Longya Xu. Design and implementation of a new sliding-mode observer for speed-sensorless control of induction machine, Ieee Transactions On Industrial Electronics, 2002

Mk Guven, Habibur Rehman, A Derdiyok And L Yu. A high performance adaptive parallel distributed compensator for induction machine drives, 2001

A Derdiyok, Mk Guven, Habibur Rehman And Longya Xu. A new approach to induction machine flux and speed observer with on-line rotor time constant estimation, 2001

Habibur Rehman, M.k. Gilven, A. Derdiyok And Longya Xu. A new current model flux observer insensitive to rotor time constant and rotor speed for DFO control of induction machine, 2001

M.k. Guven, Habibur Rehman, A. Derdiyok And Longya Xu. A new robust flux, speed and rotor time constant estimation for wide range sensorless control of an induction machine, 2001

Adnan Derdiyok, Habib-ur Rehman, Mustafa Guven, Nihat Inanc And Longya Xu. A robust sliding mode observer for speed estimation of induction machine, 2001

Habibur Rehman, A. Derdiyok, M.k. Guven And Longya Xu. An MRAS scheme for on-line rotor resistance adaptation of an induction machine, 2001

Habibur Rehman. On the analysis, estimation and control of field oriented induction motor drives, 2001

Adnan Derdiyok, Mustafa Guven, Nihat Inanc, Habibur Rehman And Longya Xu. A DSP-based indirect field oriented induction machine control by using chattering-free sliding mode, 2000

Habib-ur Rehman And Richard Hampo. A flexible high performance advanced controller for electric machines, 2000

Nihat Inanc, Mustafa Guven, Habib-ur Rehman, Adnan Derdiyok And Longya Xu. A new sliding mode flux and speed observer for speed sensorless control of induction machine, 2000

Mustafa Giiven, Habib-ur Rehman, Adnan Derdiyok, Nihat Inane And Longya Xu. An Induction Motor Drive System Performance Enhancement Using Dynamically Focused Learning Fuzzy Controller, 2000

Gurinder Kahlon, Robert Mohan, Ning Liu And Habibur Rehman. A case study of starting power requirement: for Visteon integrated starter-alternator system, 1999

Habibur Rehman, Xiaobo Xu, N Liu, Gurinder Kahlon And R Mohan. Development and Implementation of Visteon Integrated Starter-Alternator System with Ultracapacitors, 1999

Habib-ur Rehman, Xingyi Xu, Ning Liu, Gs Kahlon And Rj Mohan. Induction motor drive system for the Visteon Integrated Starter-Alternator, 1999

Conference Presentations

Cascaded Fuzzy Controller for Electric Vehicle Traction System Battery Energy Management, Aegean Conference On Electrical Machines And Power Electronics, 27 August 2019

Comparison of PI and FOPI Based Voltage and Current Controlled DC Motor Drive System, Aegean Conference On Electrical Machines And Power Electronics, 27 August 2019

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Development of a detailed state-space electro-thermal Li-ion battery model, and designing strategies for estimating the associated battery model parameters., American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2025

Grant, MRAC based battery energy management and cascaded FOPI motor controllers for the electric vehicle traction system energy optimization., American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2025

Grant, A novel DC/DC converter based automatic voltage regulator design for the synchronous generators, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2021 - 31 May 2022

Grant, Electric Vehicle Traction System Energy Management and Performance Comparison, Using Advanced Battery State of Charge and State of Health Aware Controller Designs, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2020 - 31 May 2022

Grant, Using IoT and Big Data to Monitor Large-scale Distributed Solar Farms in Smart Cities, Smart City Research Institute (SCRI) Grant 2018, 1 January 2019 - 31 May 2022

Grant, Modular Multi Level Converters Design, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2018 - 31 May 2019

Grant, Investigating thermal behavior of Li-ion batteries onboard hybrid electric vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2017 - 31 May 2019

Grant, A Li-ion Battery based Traction System Development for Electric Vehicle, Dubai Road and Transport Authority (RTA), 1 June 2017 - 1 June 2017

Grant, Bi-directional DC-DC converter design and implementation, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2016 - 31 May 2017

Grant, Hybrid energy systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and hybrid electric vehicles, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2015 - 31 May 2017

Grant, An Efficient Renewable Energy System with Maximum Solar Power Point Tracking, Emirates Foundation, 1 March 2009 - 1 March 2009

Grant, Lighting Decoration System Integrated on the Street Poles, Alico Industries Co. Ltd, 1 December 2008 - 1 December 2008