Namal University

DR. WAHAB ALI SHAH

Assistant Professor
  • Department of Electrical Engineering
  • 169
  • wahab@namal.edu.pk
Summary
Wahab Ali Shah received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from CECOS University, Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2011. He earned his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Power Systems from Near East University (NEU), Turkey, in 2016, and completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in High Voltage Engineering and Insulation Technology at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China. Since 2019, he has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Namal University, Mianwali, Pakistan. He has also been affiliated with Hubei University of Technology (HBUT), Wuhan, China, and is currently engaged in teaching and research at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT), China. His research interests include long air-gap discharge observation and simulation (electrical discharge, lightning discharge, lightning attachment), electrical insulation (transient voltages and overvoltage protection), high-voltage engineering (testing and measurement techniques, UHV transmission), and renewable energy systems
Academic Background
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (High Voltage Engineering) (Experimental Study on the Final Jump Phase in Long Air Gap Discharges) Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, P.R. China 2019
MS in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems) ( Analysis and Design of IPT Systems for Automotive Battery Charging Applications ) Near East University (NEU), Mersin -10 Turkey 2016
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Control of Home Appliances Using Voice) CECOS University of Information Technology and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan 2011
Experience
Senior Lecturer Detroit Green Technology Institute, Hubei University of Technology (HBUT), Wuhan, China 01-Sep-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
Lecturer Government Polytechnic Institute at GTTTC Hayatabad Phase VII, Peshawar, Pakistan 01-Nov-2011 - 30-Oct-2013
Honours and Awards
The Academic Excellence Award Honored with The Academic Excellence Award in the year 2018 by Deanship of Graduate Studies, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) Wuhan, China in appreciation for Publishing in reputed SCI Journals. 01-Nov-2018
Journal Publications
Analysis of MoS2 as the electron transport layer in cd-free Sb2(S,Se)3 thin-film solar cells by numerical simulation 17-Nov-2025 Materials Science and Engineering: B
Blue light communication for wireless air-underwater interconnection 10-Oct-2025 Optics Express
Study on the melting characteristics of icing on overhead contact lines using high-power fiber laser 29-May-2025 Optics & Laser Technology
Optimization of optical storage VSG control strategy considering active power deviation and virtual inertia damping parameters 05-Nov-2024 Ain Shams Engineering Journal
Speech Emotion Recognition Using Convolution Neural Networks and Multi-Head Convolutional Transformer 07-Jul-2023 Sensors
Design of high gain base station antenna array for mm-wave cellular communication systems 25-Mar-2023 Scientific Reports
A High-Gain and Wideband MIMO Antenna for 5G mm-Wave-Based IoT Communication Networks 22-Sep-2022 Applied Sciences
High-performance visible-light active Sr-doped porous LaFeO3 semiconductor prepared via sol–gel method 21-Aug-2022 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews
A Novel Method for Gender and Age Detection Based on EEG Brain Signals 09-Feb-2022 International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT)
Metasurface-Based Wideband MIMO Antenna for 5G Millimeter-Wave Systems 16-Sep-2021 IEEE Access
Optimal Economic Modelling of Hybrid Combined Cooling, Heating, and Energy Storage System Based on Gravitational Search Algorithm-Random Forest Regression 15-May-2021 Complexity
Efficient Energy Planning with Decomposition Based Evolutionary Neural Networks 21-Jul-2020 IEEE Access
Experimental study on the final jump phase in long air gap discharges 27-Apr-2020 Journal of Electrostatics
On the stem diameter under positive impulses in long air gaps 03-Jun-2019 Physics of Plasmas
Effective bulk energy consumption control and management for power utilities using artificial intelligence techniques under conventional and renewable energy resources 11-Feb-2019 International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
Emotion Assessment Using EEG Brain Signals and Stacked Sparse Autoencoder 01-Jan-2019 Journal of Information Assurance & Security
Continuous and Discontinuous Streamer Leader Propagation Phenomena under Slow Front Impulse Voltages in a 10-meter Rod-Plane Air Gap 02-Oct-2018 Energies
Conference Publications
Experimental Data Analysis of Positive Streamer-Leader Dynamics in Long Air Gaps Under Slow Front Impulse Voltages Using Machine Learning 15-Jun-2025 2025 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS)- IEEE
Study of Peak Point Detection Voltages in Smart Grid Using AMPD Technique 14-Jul-2023 2023 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC) Quebec City, QC, Canada
Improved coordinated protection scheme for DFIG based wind turbines 02-Feb-2023 44th IAEE International Conference: Pathways to a Clean, Stable, and Sustainable Energy Future
Use of Wavelet Transform to Analyze Leakage Current of Silicone Rubber Insulators Under Polluted Conditions. In 2022 2nd International Conference of Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies 04-Aug-2022 IEEE
Analysis of Power-Efficient High Torque Solar Tracker through PID Controller 28-May-2020 IEEE
An experimental study on the positive streamer leader propagation under switching impulse voltages in a 10m Rod-Plane Air Gap 29-Aug-2019 IEEE
ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF A MODULAR 100 kW STAND ALONE POWER SYSTEM 27-Jun-2019 IEEE
Emotion Assessment Based on EEG Brain Signals 14-Apr-2019 Springer International Publishing
Analysis and Design of Inductive Power Transfer Systems for Automotive Battery Charging Applications 02-Jul-2017 International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering Vol:11, No:9, 2017
Relaxation Phase of the Discharge Channel in the vicinity of the Anode under Positive Impulse 01-May-2017 IEEE
Courses
  • Renewable Electrical Energy Systems
  • Power System Operation & Control
  • Electrical Network Analysis & Design
  • Smart Grid System
  • Power System Protection
  • Introduction to Power Engineering