Smart Grid Technologies

Biography

M. M. Eissa (M’96–SM’01) was born in Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, on May 17, 1963. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Helwan University, Cairo, in 1986 and 1992, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Research Institute for Measurements and Computing Techniques. Hungarian Academy of Science Budapest, Hungary, in 1997 (PhD Study is cooperated with Duisburg University-Institute of Electrical Engineering-GERMANY). Currently, he is a Professor with Helwan University. In 1999, he was invited to be a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. He was a chair Prof. at King Abdul-Aziz University-KSA for sponsored project "Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency" from Saudi Electricity Company during period 2008-2010. From 2012, he is the PI for the large scale project "SMART GRID FREQUENCY MONITORING NETWORK (FNET) ARCHITECTURE AND APPLICATIONS-220kV/500kV" NTRA-Egypt (www.helwan-ntra.com)-2012, END-USER Egyptian Electricity Company. From 2013, he is the Co-PI for "NOVEL OPTIMAL WIDE AREA COORDINATING PROTECTION AND CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON WIDE-AREA SYNCHRONIZED MEASUREMENTS IN S YSTEMS WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES AND MULTIPLE FACT S EFFECT", KACST-KSA, End-USER Saudi Electricity Company. Also, he participated in EU Erasmus project, Capacity building in Higher Education (Smart Grid Technology - A Master Programme [SGT-MAP]) with many other Partners. He has FY2017 JSPS fellowship –Japan, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual Fellowships European-2017. He is the PI for the Newton-Mosharafa Fund - Project “Institutional Link” UK, H2020.

Research Interest

Digital Protection, Smart Grids, Wireless application on power system, Wide area Protection, and Automation system