Muhammad A.
Power Systems Engineer (Postdoctoral Fellow)
Experience
Jan 2025 - Present
1 yearWaterloo, Canada
Power Systems Engineer (Postdoctoral Fellow)
University of Waterloo
- Model data-center and district-heating integration for IESO studies to quantify load shapes and flexibility, supporting early-stage assessments of large customer connections and DSM potential.
- Build simplified electrical and cooling models (heat pumps, TES, chillers) and evaluate operating scenarios to show how control strategies affect peak demand, ramping, and contingency behavior.
- Summarize simulation results into utility-ready technical notes, SLD-based diagrams, and decision-focused slide decks highlighting key constraints, risks, and feasible operating envelopes.
Jan 2021 - Dec 2025
5 yearsWaterloo, Canada
Power Systems Analyst (PhD Researcher)
University of Waterloo
- Developed and validated a 300 MW BWRX-300 SMR dynamic model (within 5% of SBWR benchmarks) for a $250k IESO-funded interconnection and stability study, including a novel UDM model for DSATools suitable for industry RMS studies.
- Executed power-flow and RMS dynamic studies on a detailed Ontario transmission model to evaluate SMR dispatch ramps and N-1/N-1-1 contingencies, defining operating envelopes for frequency performance and ramp limits used in planning assessments.
- Built an integrated SMR–DHN–TES–heat-pump cogeneration model and demonstrated that centralized heat pumps with SMR cogeneration required 75 MWh vs. 221 MWh for distributed HP systems under winter conditions (approx. 3× efficiency improvement) while maintaining acceptable frequency performance.
- Developed the dynamic model of a remote microgrid with district heating (Kasabonika Lake First Nation), showing that waste-heat recovery avoided 1.8 MW of peak electrical load and captured 1.2 MW of thermal energy, removing the need for an additional diesel generator.
- Created detailed RMS and EMT-reduced models of inverter-based resources (IBRs)—grid-following PV and Type-4 wind—implementing industry-standard controls (PLL, current limitation, voltage/reactive controllers). Assessed IBR performance under weak-grid conditions, faults, and large load steps, with a focus on stability and protection margins.
- Designed and tested a primary/secondary frequency-control strategy using heat-pump demand response, maintaining frequency close to 60 Hz and restoring it within 15 s after a 250 kW PV generation loss.
- Contributed as a power systems specialist in the $3.74M NSERC CREATE HyTEM program, providing modeling and control expertise for hybrid thermal–electric microgrids within a 9-university research consortium.
Summary
- Power & Energy Systems Engineer (PhD) with experience in interconnection studies, dynamic simulation, RMS/EMT modeling, microgrid analysis, and data-center electrical systems for utility and industry-sponsored projects.
- Key technical contributor and power systems specialist on a $0.25M IESO-sponsored SMR cogeneration project, responsible for developing and validating dynamic models used to assess system performance and support planning-level stability evaluations.
- Power systems specialist in the $3.74M NSERC CREATE HyTEM program, providing modeling and control expertise for remote microgrids, inverter-based resources, and hybrid thermal–electric system integration.
- Experienced in transforming complex study results—frequency response, contingency analysis, and electrification impacts—into clear engineering insights, comparative options, and actionable recommendations for project teams and decision-makers.
Languages
Arabic
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2021 - Jun 2025
University of Waterloo
PhD · Electrical and Computer Engineering (Power & Energy Systems) · Waterloo, Canada
Oct 2015 - Jun 2018
Assiut University
MSc · Electrical Engineering (Power Systems) · Asyut, Egypt
Oct 2008 - Jun 2013
Assiut University
BSc · Electrical Engineering · Asyut, Egypt
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