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Dr. Muhammad Ashraf is a Professor at Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. He completed his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, M.Sc. in Systems Engineering from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. He has served in Pakistan Atomic Energy, NUST, Elixir Technologies, and Enabling Technologies, Islamabad. Seven students have successfully completed their Ph.D. under his supervision.He has provided consultancy services to MTC, NESCOM, and completed many projects for Pakistan Navy. He was awarded an Honorarium for Successful Nuclear explosions by Pakistan. He generated funds for NUST by providing consultancy services in the field of power electronics to Locomotive factory, Risalpur. Additionally, he generated funds for NUST by offering an Embedded Systems course at PNEC. He completed and successfully installed the project of weather monitoring systems funded by Pakistan Science Foundation.Dr. Muhammad Ashraf was awarded the Fellowship for Ph.D. by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Pakistan, in 1991. He was also awarded the Fellowship for MSc in Systems Engineering at CNS (PIEAS) Islamabad in 1998.

QUALIFICATION
PhD	Systems Engineering	University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.	1995
MSc	Systems Engineering	Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.	1989

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad	Since – 2018
Associate Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad	2015- 2018
Associate Professor	Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad.	2007 – 2015
Associate Professor	College of E&ME, NUST, Rawalpindi	2005 – 2007
Associate Professor	Navy Engineering College, NUST, Karachi	2002 – 2005
Assistant Professor	National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Karachi Campus	1998 – 2000

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Sr. Member Tech	Enabling Technologies, Software Technology Park	2001 – 2002
Consultant	Consultant/Systems Integrator, Elixir Technologies, Software Technology Park, Sec	2000 – 2001
In-Charge	Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Faisalabad	1998 – 2000
HoD	Electronics and Computer Division, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission	1989 – 1996

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
PAEC	Senior Engineer Government of Pakistan(PAEC), Islamabad
NESCOM	Consultant NESCOM, H-8, Islamabad.

RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
1.	Power electronics and Power flow control for Distributed Generation in Smart Grids.
2.	Systems Engineering and Industrial Electronics
3.	Electrical Machines

RESEARCH SUPERVISION
1.	PhD	Harmonics Mitigation in Power Systems using Shunt Active Power Filter
2.	PhD	Fixed Frequency Sliding Mode Control for Power Electronic Converters
3.	PhD	Synchronization Control for Master-Slave Systems Subject to Nonlinearities and Time Delay
4.	PhD	Proportional Load Sharing and Stability of DC Microgrid
5.	PhD	A Robust Virtual Synchronous Machine for the Integration of Solar Power Plant into Power Grid
6.	PhD	Design of High Frequency PWM Inverter as a Part of 100kVA Solid State Transformer
7.	PhD	Energy Optimization with Bio-Inspired Heuristic Techniques in Smart Grid

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SR.	JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS	YEAR
1	W. A. Toor and M. Ashraf, “Performance analysis of learning-based disturbance observer for pulsed superconducting cavity field control,” Electronics, vol. 12, no. 7, p. 1556, 2023.	2023
2	M. Naeem, M. Ashraf, and U. A. Khan, “A robust auto-synchronizer for synchronverter,” Computers & Electrical Engineering, vol. 98, p. 107661, 2022.	2022
3	I. Ullah and M. Ashraf, “Sliding mode control for performance improvement of shunt active power filter,” SN Applied Sciences, vol. 1, no. 6, p. 531, 2019.	2019
4	R. Irfan, H. ur Rasheed, W. A. Toor, and M. Ashraf, “Performance analysis of adaptive algorithms for space-time adaptive processor (STAP) in phased array radar,” The Journal of Engineering, vol. 2019, no. 19, pp. 6313–6317, 2019.	2019
5	C. D. G˘al˘at¸anu, M. Ashraf, D. D. Lucache, D. Beu, and C. Ciugudeanu, “Optical utilization factor for architectural lighting,” Light & Engineering, vol. 27, no. 6, 2019.	2019
6	A. Rehman and M. Ashraf, “Design and analysis of pwm inverter for 100kva solid state transformer in a distribution system,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 140152–140168, 2019.	2019
7	I. Ullah and M. Ashraf, “Comparison of synchronization techniques under distorted grid conditions,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 101345–101354, 2019.	2019
8	A. R. Yasin, M. Ashraf, and A. I. Bhatti, “A novel filter extracted equivalent control based fixed frequency sliding mode approach for power electronic converters,” Energies, vol. 12, no. 5, p. 853, 2019.	2019
9	A. R. Yasin, M. Ashraf, A. I. Bhatti, and A. A. Uppal, “Fixed frequency sliding mode control of renewable energy resources in dc micro grid,” Asian Journal of Control, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 2074–2086, 2019.	2019
10	A. R. Yasin, M. Ashraf, and A. I. Bhatti, “Fixed frequency sliding mode control of power converters for improved dynamic response in dc micro-grids,” Energies, vol. 11, no. 10, p. 2799, 2018.	2018
11	M. Rashad, U. Raoof, M. Ashraf, and B. A. Ahmed, “Proportional load sharing and stability of dc microgrid with distributed architecture using sm controller,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2018, no. 1, p. 2717129, 2018.	2018
12	M. Rashad, M. Ashraf, A. I. Bhatti, and D. M. Minhas, “Mathematical modeling and stability analysis of dc microgrid using sm hysteresis controller,” International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 95, pp. 507–522, 2018.	2018
13	M. Asad, M. Ashraf, S. Iqbal, and A. I. Bhatti, “Chattering and stability analysis of the sliding mode control using inverse hyperbolic function,” International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, vol. 15, pp. 2608–2618, 2017.	2017
14	M. Riaz, M. Rehan, and M. Ashraf, “Synchronization of nonlinear master–slave systems under input delay and slope-restricted input nonlinearity,” Complexity, vol. 21, no. S1, pp. 220–233, 2016.	2016
15	M. Riaz, M. Rehan, K.-S. Hong, M. Ashraf, and H. U. Rasheed, “Static and adaptive feedback control for synchronization of different chaotic oscillators with mutually lipschitz nonlinearities,” Chinese Physics B, vol. 23, no. 11, p. 110502, 2014.	2014
16	M. H. Zaheer, M. Rehan, G. Mustafa, and M. Ashraf, “Delay-range-dependent chaos synchronization approach under varying time-lags and delayed nonlinear coupling,” ISA transactions, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1716–1730, 2014.	2014

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SR.	CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS	YEAR
1	M. Ashraf, A. Rehman et al., “Comparison of reference current generation techniques for shunt active power filter,” in 2018 5th International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering (ICEEE). IEEE, 2018, pp. 62–66.	2018
2	W. A. Toor, M. Ashraf, A. U. Baig, N. Shafqat, R. Irfan, “Development of Atmospheric Pressure MicrowavePlasma System and Applications,” The 45th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science June 24-28, 2018 in Denver, CO, USA.	2018
3	Ikramullah, M. Ashraf and A. Rehman “Performance analysis of current injection techniques for shunt active power filter,” in IOP Conference series: Earth and Environmental science, vol. 168, no. 1. IOP Publishing, 2018, p. 012014.	2018
4	A. R. Yasin, M. Ashraf, A. Plesca, S. Ahmad, R. Nasirullah, H. Naseer, and M. Adam, “Camera calibration and tracking for gimballed like eye structure in robots with hardware implementation,” in 2017 International Conference on Electromechanical and Power Systems (SIELMEN). IEEE, 2017, pp. 026–030.	2017
5	M. Shahzad and M. Ashraf, “An efficient intrusion detection scheme for cluster based ami networks,” in 2016 International Conference on Open Source Systems & Technologies (ICOSST). IEEE, 2016, pp. 95–101.	2016
6	A. R. Yasin, M. Ashraf, A. I. Bhatti, S. Ahmad, and M. Rashid, “Sliding mode control for efficient utilization of renewable energy sources in dc micro grid: A comparison with a linear pid controller,” in 2016 International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE). IEEE, 2016, pp. 621–625.	2016
7	D. M. Minhas, M. Rashad, S. Hussain, and M. Ashraf, “Cost effective bidirectional power transactions for queueing energy requests in smart micro-grids,” in 2016 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON). IEEE, 2016, pp. 1–6.	2016
8	M. Rashad, D. M. Minhas, M. Ashraf, and S. Hussain, “Pfc topologies for ac to dc converters in dc micro-grid,” in 2016 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON). IEEE, 2016, pp. 1–6.	2016
9	M. Riaz, M. Ashraf, K.-S. Hong, G.-H. Kim, and M. Rehan, “Adaptive synchronization of two different chaotic systems containing mutually lipschitz nonlinearities subject to state time-delays,” in 2015 15th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS). IEEE, 2015, pp. 60–65.	2015
10	M. Ashraf and M. Aslam, “Impedance matching for underwater piezoelectric transducers using piezoelectric transformer,” in Proceedings of 2013 10th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology (IBCAST). IEEE, 2013, pp. 308–311.	2013
11	H. Qayyum and M. Ashraf, “Performance comparison of direction of arrival estimation algorithms,” in International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, 2011, pp. 240–243.	2011
12	H. Qayyum, and M. Ashraf, “Performance Comparison of Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Algorithms” 7th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, NESCOM Islamabad, January, pp. 19-21, 2011.	2011
13	A. Rasheed and M. Ashraf, “High resolution beamforming techniques for target localization” 6th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, NESCOM Islamabad, January 19-21, 2009.	2009
14	M. Ashraf, M. Aslam and K. Shahzad, “Adaptive Towed Array Beamforming of a Turning Vessel”, 6th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, NESCOM Islamabad, January 19-21, 2009.	2009
15	K. Shahzad, M. Ashraf and R. Iqbal “Improved Blind Equalization Using Variable Step-Size Scheme”, WSEAS Multiconference, Vouliagmeni Beach, Athens, Greece, August 24-26, 2007	2007
16	M. Ashraf, R. Mahmud “Impedance matching in the design of broadband electroacoustic transducers”, 5th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, NESCOM Islamabad, January 08-11, 2007	2007
17	M. Ashraf and H. Qayyum, “High accuracy time of flight measurement using digital signal processing techniques for subsea applications,” Journal of Signal and Information Processing, vol. 2, no. 4, p. 330, 2011.	2011
18	M. Ashraf, R. Mahmud “Implementation of the Multiplierless Parallel Multiprocessor Interpolating Filter”, OPTIM ‘06 International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Equipment Moeciu, Bra¸sov, Romania, May 18-20, 2006	2006
19	M. Ashraf, R. Mahmud, “Automatic tuning of digital pid controllers for mimo processes”, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering Saskatoon, IEEE, Canada, May 1-4, 2005	2005
20	M. Ashraf, R. Mahmud “Polyphase interpolating filter implementation for enhanced performance and reconstruction of the recorded signals”, 3rd International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, Bhurban, Pakistan. June 07-12, 2004	2004
21	S. M. Smith, M. Zahid, M. Ashraf and J. Lucas, “3D imaging for sub sea Systems”, A Joint UsA/ Portugal Workshop, Isboa Portugal, Mar 2-3, 1995	1995
22	M. Ashraf and J. Lucas, “3D Vision System Using Ultrasonics” Oceans 1994, IEEE, Sep 13-16, 1994	1994

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