Yousef Mahmoud

Biography

Education: PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Waterloo, Canada 2016 MS Electrical & Computer Engineering Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (with MIT) 2012 Yousef Mahmoud has joined Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Aug/2016 upon obtaining his Ph.D. degree from University of Waterloo, Canada. He has been interested in improving the efficiency, reliability, operation, and control of renewable energy systems. He is also interested in their applications in smart cities. He is an IEEE senior member. He has extensively worked on solar PV systems, and his featured contributions in this area are summarized: 1- A reduction in the heavy computational time needed for simulating large, partially shaded PV systems has been provided by a proposed PV circuit model, which offers comparable accuracy but requires less computational time. 2- The estimation of power peaks for partially shaded PV systems is now possible in a few seconds as opposed to the few hours previously required with existing methods. This was also utilized for the first-time development of a model-based MPPT for partially shaded PV systems which improves the dynamics of the tracking. 3- The use of MPPT methods that combine model-based and heuristic techniques, which feature reduced tracking power losses, has been facilitated by reducing their cost and complexity through the elimination of the previously required temperature measurements. 4- Misleading power losses have been eradicated for partially shaded PV systems through the development, for the first time, of a model-based MPPT method for use with partially shaded PV systems. The new method avoids the curve scanning required with existing MPPT methods. 5- Mismatch power losses in partially shaded PV systems have been minimized by the development of a new reconfiguration algorithm that reduces the time delay inherent in existing methods.

Research Interest

Renewable Energy; Solar Energy Conversion; Smart Cities; Power Electronics