
PROFILE SUMMARY
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• Muhammad Ashraf received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, in 1988, the M.S. degree in systems engineering from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from the University of Liverpool, Liver pool, U.K., in 1995. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. His research interests include power electronics, power quality, and renewable energy systems.
QUALIFICATION | |||
PhD | Systems Engineering | University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. | 1995 |
MSc | Systems Engineering | Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. | 1989 |
BSc | Electrical Engineering | University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. | 1988 |
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Associate Professor Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad Since – 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 Associate Professor Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad.
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE | |||
Senior member technical staff | Enabling Technologies, Software Technology Park, S | 2001 – 2002 | |
Consultant/Systems Integrator | Elixir Technologies, Software Technology Park, Sec | 2000 – 2001 | |
Incharge Regional Maintenance Labs | Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Faisalabad | 1998 – 2000 | |
Head Electronics and Computer Division | Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission | 1989 – 1996 |
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES | |||
Senior Engineer | Government of Pakistan(PAEC), Islamabad | ||
Consultant | NESCOM, H-8, Islamabad. |
HONORS & AWARDS | |||
1. | Completed and installed successfully the project of weather monitoring systems funded by Pakistan Science Foundation. | ||
2. | My proposal for joint venture with china “R&D in the field of VLSI was approved by Most. | ||
3. | Generated funds for NUST by offering Short courses on Mat Lab at PNEC. | ||
4. | Generated funds for NUST by offering Embedded Systems course at PNEC. | ||
5. | Completed many projects for Pakistan Navy and recently providing consultancy services for their setup at Islamabad. | ||
6. | Generated funds for NUST by providing consultancy services in the field of power electronics to Locomotive factory, Risalpur. | ||
7. | First Class degree in Electrical Engineering, 1988. | ||
8. | Awarded the Fellowship for PhD of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Pakistan, 1991. | ||
9. | Work published in leading International conferences of International repute. A list of these publications is available on request. |
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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 1. M. Riaz, M. Rehan, K-S. Hong, M. Ashraf, H. Rasheed, “Static and adaptive feedback control for synchronization of different chaotic oscillators with mutually Lipschitz nonlinearities”, , Chinese Physics B, Volume 23, Number 11, 24 September 2014 2. Muhammad Hamad Zaheer, Muhammad Rehan, Ghulam Mustafa and Muhammad Ashraf “Delay-range-dependent chaos synchronization approach under varying time-lags and delayed nonlinear coupling”, ISATransactions, ELSEVIER, Volume 53, Issue 6, November 2014, Pages 1716-1730. 3. M. Riaz, M. Rehan, M. Ashraf, “Synchronization of nonlinear master -slave systems under input delay and slope-restricted input nonlinearity”, Complexity, 13 October 2015 Volume 21, Issue S1, September/October 2016 , Pages 220–233. 4. Muhammad Asad, Muhammad Ashraf, Sohail Iqbal and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti “Chattering and Stability Analysis of the Sliding Mode Control Using Inverse Hyperbolic Function” IJCAS (International Journal of control automation and systems) Springer Vol. 15, No. 6, December 2017 ,Pages 2608-2618 5. Muhammad Rashad, Muhammad Ashraf , Aamer Iqbal Bhatti , Daud Mustafa Minhas and Bilal Ashfaq Ahmed , “Mathematical modeling and stability analysis of DC microgrid” International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, ELSEVIER, Volume 95,February 2018, pages 507-522. 6. Muhammad Rashad, Uzair Raoof, Muhammad Ashraf and Bilal Ashfaq “Proportional Load Sharing and Stability of DC Microgrid With Distributed Architecture Using SM Controller”. “Mathematical Problems in Engineering” Journal, Volume 2018, 8 January 2018. 7. Ullah and M. Ashraf, “Comparison of synchronization techniques under distorted grid conditions,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 101345-101354, 2019 8. I. Ullah and M. Ashraf, “A novel filter extracted equivalent control based fixed fre¬quency sliding mode approach for power electronic converters conditions,” Energies, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 853-866, 2019 9. 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. 10. 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 11. A. R. Yasin, M. Ashraf, and A. I. Bhatti, “A novel Filter Extracted Equivalent Con¬trol based Fixed Frequency Sliding Mode Approach for power electronic converters,” Energies, vol. 12, no. 5, p. 853, 2019 11. 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
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CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS 1. M. Ashraf and J. Lucas, “3D Vision system Using Ultrasonics” Oceans 1994, IEEE, Sep 13,-16 1994 2. S.M.Smith, M. Zahid, M. Ashraf and J. Lucas, “3D imaging for sub sea Systems”, A Joint UsA/ Poetugal Workshop, Isboa Portugal, Mar 2-3, 1995 3. Dr Muhammad Ashraf, Commander (Retd.) Riaz 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 4. Dr Muhammad Ashraf, Commander (Retd.) Riaz Mahmud, “Automatic tuning of digital pid controllers for mimo processes”, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering Saskatoon, IEEE, Canada, May 1-4, 2005 5. Dr Muhammad Ashraf, Commander (Retd.) Riaz Mahmud “Implementation of the Multiplierless Parallel Multiprocessor Interpolating Filter”, OPTIM ‘06 International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Equipment Moeciu, Braşov, Romania, May 18-20, 2006 6. Dr Muhammad Ashraf, Commander (Retd.) Riaz Mahmud “High Accuracy Time of Flight Measurement Using Digital Signal Processing Techniques for Subsea Applications”, 5th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, NESCOM Islamabad, January 08-11, 2007 7. Dr Muhammad Ashraf, Commander (Retd.) Riaz 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 8. Khurram Shahzad, Muhammad Ashraf and Raja Iqbal “Improved Blind Equalization Using Variable Step-Size Scheme”, WSEAS Multiconference, Vouliagmeni Beach, Athens, Greece, August 24-26, 2007 9. Dr Muhammad Ashraf, Cdr Muhammad Aslam and Khurram Shahzad, “Adaptive Towed Array Beamforming of a Turning Vessel”, 6th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, NESCOM Islamabad, January 19-21, 2009. 10. Mr Akhtar Rasheed and Dr Muhammad Ashraf, “High resolution beamforming techniques for target localization” 6th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, NESCOM Islamabad, January 19-21, 2009. 11. H. Qayyum, and Muhammad Ashraf, “Performance Comparison of Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Algorithms” 7th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, NESCOM Islamabad, January 19-21, 2011. 12. H. Qayyum and Dr Muhammad Ashraf, “Performance Comparison of Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Algorithms for Towed Array Sonar System” The International Conference International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications Ostrava, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2011 13. Dr Muhammad Ashraf and Capt. Muhammad Aslam, “Impedance matching for underwater piezoelectric transducers using piezoelectric transformer” 10th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, NESCOM Islamabad, January 15-19, 2013. 14. M. Riaz, M. Ashraf, K-S. Hong, M. Rehan, G-H. Kim, “Adaptive synchronization of two different chaotic systems containing mutually Lipschitz nonlinearities subject to state time-delays. 15th International Conference on Control”, Automation and Control, Oct 2015,Busan, Korea 15. Muhammad Rashad, Daud Mustafa Minhas, Muhammad Ashraf and Sajjad Hussain “PFC Topologies for AC to DC Converters in DC Micro Grid” 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), 2016 16. Daud Mustafa Minhas, Muhammad Rashad, Sajjad Hussain and Muhammad Ashraf , “Cost Effective Bidirectional Power Transactions for Queueing Energy Requests in Smart Micro-grids” 18th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON) , 2016 17. F 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,” International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), Iasi, 2016, pp. 621-625. 18. Muhammad Shahzad ; Muhammad Ashraf An Efficient Intrusion Detection Scheme for Cluster Based AMI Networks, International Conference on Open Source Systems & Technologies (ICOSST),: 15-17 Dec. 2016. 19. Abdul Rehman Yasin, Muhamamd Ashraf, Adrian Plesca, Shahzad Ahmad, Rudania Nasirullah, Huma Naseer and Muhammad Adam. “Camera calibration and tracking for gimballed like eye structure in robots with hardware implementation” Electromechanical and Power Systems (SIELMEN), 2017 International Conference, Iasi, Romania. 11-13 Oct. 2017 20. Ikramullah, MuhammadAshraf and Abdur Rehman” Performance Analysis of Current Injection Techniques for Shunt Active Power Filter” ,IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 168 (2018) 012014, doi :10.1088/1755-1315/168/1/012014, 2018. 20. M. Ashraf, A. Rehman, et al., “Performance analysis of current injection techniques for shunt active power filter,” in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, vol. 168, p. 012014, IOP Publishing, 2018.