Staff Profile

Prof. Hossam El Din Abdullah Talaat

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Biography

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Dr. Hossam Talaat is currently a Professor of Power Systems at the Electrical Power& Machines Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He received his B.Sc. And M.Sc. degrees from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1975 and 1980 respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from University of Grenoble, France in 1986. He has supervised 50+ Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses in the field of power system operation, control, stability and protection. He has taught tens of undergraduate and graduate courses in this field. He is interested in many research areas such as: Distributed Generation and Microgrids, Application of artificial intelligence techniques (Neural Networks, Knowledge-Based systems, Genetic Algorithms, and Fuzzy Logic) to Power System analysis, control, and protection; Real time applications to electrical power systems and machines; Application of optimal and adaptive control techniques for the enhancement of power system stability. He has authored and co-authored more than 120 technical papers and reports. He has accomplished several research projects as PI and as investigator. He was the Chairman of the Middle East Conference on Power Systems MEPCON 2014 held on 23th-25th December 2014. He was the Chairman of 2 IEC committees (49&93) and was a member of the Egyptian National board of Electricity and Energy Researches– Scientific Research and Technology Academy, 1999-2001. He is a reviewer of many international journals (IEEE, IET, Electric Power System Research, Electrical power and Energy systems, ..). He was the reviewer of a number of academic undergraduate and postgraduate programs for Egyptian and Arabic Universities. He is the Chairman and Co-founder of the engineering office “United Group for Engineering Consultancy (UGEC)” since 2015.