Department of
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Faculty & Staff

• MSc.: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
• B. Tech: Jawharlaal Nehru Technological University

Mr Syed Faizullah Faisal obtained Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlaal Nehru Technological Univeristy, India and MSc. in Power and Control from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. At KFUPM apart from master studies he has taught Labs in power engineering to undergraduate students. He has worked on various research projects in Power Systems and Controls. He also has some journal and conference publications to his credit. He was awarded gold medal on securing highest marks in B.Tech. After B.Tech he has worked as a lecturer in Syed Hashim College of Science and Technology, where his main job was to teach undergraduate Labs in Electrical Engineering.

HONORS and AWARDS

• Received Research Assistantship at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals .
• Received Graduate Assistantship at Universitat Gesamthochschule Kassel , Germany.
• First division with distinction holder in Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India.
• Gold medal on securing highest marks in B.Tech with an aggregate GPA of 4.0 on 4.0 scale.

CURRENT/MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• IEEE member.
• IEEE power engineering society member.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE 

• Dynamic modeling of Power Systems installed with FACTS devices.
• Design of Controllers for Damping Enhancement of power system.
• Power System Optimization and Control.
• Application of Heuristics iterative optimization algorithms to design controllers.
• Applications of AI techniques in Power Systems and FACTS.
• Robust and Adaptive Control.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Z. Al-Hamouz, S. F. Faisal, S. Al-Sharif, “Application of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Reactive Power Planning”, In Press, J. of Control and Intelligent Systems, 2005.
• Syed F.F, A.H.M.A. Rahim and J.M. Ba-Khashwain, “Robust STATCOM controller design using PSO based automatic loop-shaping procedure”, IEEE conference on control applications, August 2005, pp 440-445.
• Syed F.F and A.H.M.A. Rahim, “A robust STATCOM damping controller for a multi-machine power system” accepted in 7-th international power engineering conference IPEC 2005, Singapore.
• Syed F.F, A.H.M.A. Rahim and J.M. Ba-Khashwain, ”Robust STATCOM Controller Design of a Multi-Machine Power System through PSO Based Loop-Shaping Method”, submitted to WSEAS transactions on Power Systems.
• S.F. Faisal, N.A Al –Musabi, A.H.M.A. Rahim, " Robust STATCOM Controller Design Using Genetic Algorithms", published in the conference proceedings of 2nd International conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, March 2007, Abu Dhabi.
• A.H.M.A. Rahim , M. Baber Abbas, S.F. Faisal "Damping Control through STATCOM Using Adaptive Pole-shift Method"", published in the conference proceedings of 2nd International conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, March 2007, Abu Dhabi.