Trainings & Talks
Professional Training Workshops Delivered
Ordered most recent first. All trainings are in power systems, energy, or related technical domains.
⚡ Kenya Energy Market Overview & Role of Solar PV / BESS
Organiser: KenGen Feasibility Study (Seven Forks 100 MW Project) | Year: 2026 | Location: Kenya
Delivered capacity-building workshops for ~30 KenGen staff as part of the Seven Forks Solar Extension feasibility study, covering:
- Kenya energy market overview, regulatory dynamics, and reserve analysis
- Role of solar PV and BESS in the energy market as evaluated per the Least Cost Development Plan of Kenya
- BESS sizing, technology selection, and integration strategy for the 100 MW solar plant
⚡ Power System Losses Reduction Consultancy Training
Organiser: World Bank / KPLC | Date: August 2025 | Location: Kenya
Delivered hands-on training to KPLC utility engineers covering:
- DIgSILENT PowerFactory modelling techniques for distribution networks
- Loss analysis methodologies at feeder level (11 kV, 33 kV, 66 kV)
- Network reconfiguration strategies and infrastructure upgrade planning
- Technical reporting for international funding agencies
📊 Energy Data Analytics for Utility Operations
Organiser: World Bank / KPLC | Date: August 2025 | Location: Kenya
Training for KPLC engineers on data-driven approaches to power system operations, including energy balance analysis, loss allocation, and scenario-based planning.
🔒 Cyber Security, Kubernetes, and Hypervisor for Enterprise Data
Organiser: NADRA (National Database and Registration Authority) | Date: December 2024 | Location: Pakistan
Workshop covering enterprise-grade IT security and infrastructure: cybersecurity fundamentals, Kubernetes container orchestration, and Type-1 hypervisor deployment for mission-critical data environments.
⚡ Advanced Power System Analysis (DIgSILENT PowerFactory)
Organiser: Sino-Pak Center for AI, Pak-Austria Fachhochschule | Year: 2023 | Location: Pakistan
Delivered workshop on advanced power system modelling using DIgSILENT PowerFactory, covering:
- Distribution system modelling (LV, MV, HV networks)
- Hosting capacity analysis for distributed PV and wind
- Stability assessment and renewable energy integration
⚡ Power System Operation and Control
Organiser: Sino-Pak Center for AI, Pak-Austria Fachhochschule | Year: 2023 | Location: Pakistan
Workshop on power system operation fundamentals including load frequency control, voltage regulation, SCADA systems, economic dispatch, and unit commitment techniques.
📈 SDDP-Based Energy Market Design and Simulation
Topic: Energy market design and simulation using SDDP; OptGen for optimal dispatch of generation; medium- to long-term transmission expansion planning and least-cost development strategies.
Talks
🤖 AI in Power System Planning and Operation
Date: December 2023 | Venue: Online – Global
Explored the transformative role of AI in power system planning and operation, providing direction for research and development in AI-enabled grid management.
References & Resources:
- G-PST Research Agenda: Link
- AI in Optimal Power Flow – Google Colab Notebook
- Smart Meter Data Analytics – Google Colab Notebook
- Electric Vehicles Integration in Energy Systems – Google Colab Notebook
- Reinforcement Learning Control for Grid-Interactive Buildings – Google Colab Notebook
- ML for Predicting Solar Irradiance – Google Colab Notebook
- Open Discussion: The AI Opportunity for Grid Operators – YouTube
- G-PST/ESIG Webinar: AI for Power System Transformation – YouTube
🖥️ Type-1 Hypervisor and Container Orchestration on HPC for AI and Big Data
Date: April 2024 | Venue: Online – Global
Presented best practices for deploying Type-1 hypervisors and Kubernetes on High-Performance Computing clusters to support large-scale simulation, generative AI, and machine learning workloads.
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Teaching (2020 – 2024)
Courses delivered as Associate Professor at Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences & Technology, Sino-Pak Center for Artificial Intelligence, Pakistan. Power system courses listed first.
⚡ ECE-823 – Advanced Power System Operation and Controls
Level: Postgraduate | Semester: Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Covers power system operation, economic dispatch, unit commitment, load frequency and voltage control, SCADA, small signal stability analysis, and voltage stability. Includes simulation and modelling of single-area and two-area frequency control systems.
Reference Texts: Wood & Wollenberg – Power Generation, Operation, and Control (3rd ed.); Crow – Computational Methods for Electric Power Systems (3rd ed.)
⚡ ECE-822 – Advanced Power System Analysis
Level: Postgraduate | Semester: Spring 2023
Rigorous treatment of power system analysis: per-unit system, transformer and generator modelling, bus admittance matrix, load flow analysis (Gauss-Seidel, Newton-Raphson), symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis, symmetrical components, optimal power flow, and AI in power systems.
Reference Texts: Saadat – Power System Analysis (2010); Glover, Sarma & Overbye – Power Systems Analysis and Design (6th ed.)
🔋 AI for Smart Energy Systems
Level: Postgraduate | Semesters: Fall 2023, Fall 2024
Covers digitalisation of the energy system, computational methods for energy networks, decision support in integrated energy systems, and AI/ML approaches for prediction and control. Topics: digital transformation of grids, blockchain, co-simulation, reinforcement learning for energy, and machine learning for load and generation forecasting.
🤖 RSE-871 – Artificial Intelligence in Railways
Level: Postgraduate | Semester: Fall 2023
Application of AI in optimising rail infrastructures: graph search algorithms, classification, optimisation, and ML applied to rail operations, scheduling, and safety, using Python and ML libraries.
Reference Texts: Chowdhury et al. – Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems (2017); Bazzan & Klügl – Introduction to Intelligent Systems in Traffic and Transportation (2013)
💻 COMP201 – Data Structures and Algorithms
Level: Undergraduate | Semester: Fall 2023
Core computing course: lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, sorting, searching, complexity analysis, hashing, and shortest path algorithms. Combines theory with practical C++/Python implementation.
🔌 ECE-261 – Introduction to Embedded Systems
Level: Undergraduate | Semester: Spring 2024
AVR microcontroller architecture, assembly language, I/O programming, timers, interrupts, PWM, UART, ADC, and interfacing with sensors and actuators.
🤖 Introduction to Robotics
Level: Undergraduate | Semester: Spring 2024
Fundamentals of robotic systems including kinematics, dynamics, sensors, actuators, and control strategies.
🧠 Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Level: Undergraduate | Semester: Spring 2024
Logic-based and probabilistic approaches to knowledge representation, inference, planning, and reasoning under uncertainty in AI systems.