Publications    

Machine Learning / Cybersecurity:

Journal Publications:

1. Farrukh, Y.A., Wali, S., Khan, I. and Bastian, N.D., 2023. SeNet-I: An approach for detecting network intrusions through serialized network traffic images. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 126, p.107169.
   (Impact Factor = 8.0)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0952197623013532?dgcid=coauthor
   
   
2. Imteaj, Ahmed, Irfan Khan, Javad Khazaei, and Mohammad Hadi Amini. "Fedresilience: A federated learning application to improve resilience of resource-constrained critical infrastructures." Electronics 10, no. 16 (2021): 1917.
   (Impact Factor = 2.397)
   Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/16/1917 

2. Taheri, Seyed Iman, Mauricio BC Salles, and Irfan Ahmad Khan. "Supporting distributed energy resources with optimal placement and sizing of voltage regulators on the distribution system by an improved teaching‐learning‐based optimization algorithm." International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems 31, no. 8 (2021): e12974.
   (Impact Factor = 2.86)
   Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2050-7038.12974 

3. Devaraj, Jayanthi, Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan, G. M. Shafiullah, Taskin Jamal, and Irfan Khan. "A holistic review on energy forecasting using big data and deep learning models." International Journal of Energy Research 45, no. 9 (2021): 13489-13530.
   (Impact Factor = 5.164)
   Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/er.6679 

4. Devaraj, Jayanthi, Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan, Rishi Pugazhendhi, G. M. Shafiullah, Sumathi Ganesan, Ajay Kaarthic Jeysree, Irfan Ahmad Khan, and Eklas Hossain. "Forecasting of COVID-19 cases using deep learning models: Is it reliable and practically significant?." Results in Physics 21 (2021): 103817.
   (Impact Factor = 4.62)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379721000048

Conference Publications:

1. S. Wali, I. Khan, YA. Farrukh, MA. Fasih, M. Kazmi, “Development of Open-Source, Edge Energy Management System for Tactical Power Networks”, International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT), 2022.
   
   
2. YA. Farrukh, I. Khan, S. Wali, DA Bierbrauer, J. Pavlik, ND Bastian, “Payload-Byte: A Tool for Extracting and Labeling Packet Capture Files of Modern Network Intrusion Detection Datasets”, International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT), 2022.
   
   
3. Wali, Syed, and Irfan Khan. "Explainable Signature-based Machine Learning Approach for Identification of Faults in Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems." In 2022 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14842 

2. Farrukh, Yasir Ali, and Irfan Khan. "An Autonomous Self-Incremental Learning Approach for Detection of Cyber Attacks on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)." arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.11219 (2021).
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11219 

3. Wali, Syed, and Irfan Khan. "Explainable AI and random forest based reliable intrusion detection system." (2021).
   Link: https://www.techrxiv.org/articles/preprint/Explainable_AI_and_Random_Forest_Based_Reliable_Intrusion_Detection_system/17169080 

4. Farrukh, Yasir Ali, Zeeshan Ahmad, Irfan Khan, and Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan. "A sequential supervised machine learning approach for cyber attack detection in a smart grid system." In 2021 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00476 

5. Asalapuram, VidyaSagar, Irfan Khan, and Kotesh Rao. "A novel architecture for condition based machinery health monitoring on marine vessels using deep learning and edge computing." In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics (ISMCR), pp. C1-3. IEEE, 2019.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8955729 

6. Rao, Kotesh, Irfan Khan, and Vidyasagar Asalapuram. "Fault Detection and Harmonics Mitigation in Diesel Electric Ships Using IIOT Edge Devices." In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics (ISMCR), pp. C1-2. IEEE, 2019.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8955730

Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Solutions:

Journal Publications:

1. Deshmukh, Sheetal, Atif Iqbal, Shirazul Islam, Irfan Khan, Mousa Marzband, Syed Rahman, and Abdullah MAB Al-Wahedi. "Review on classification of resonant converters for electric vehicle application." Energy Reports 8 (2022): 1091-1113.
   (Impact Factor = 6.87)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484721014517 

2. Khalid, Mohd Rizwan, Irfan A. Khan, Salman Hameed, MS Jamil Asghar, and Jong-Suk Ro. "A comprehensive review on structural topologies, power levels, energy storage systems, and standards for electric vehicle charging stations and their impacts on grid." IEEE Access (2021).
   (Impact Factor = 3.367)
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9536577 

3. Tahir, Yameena, Irfan Khan, Syed Rahman, Muhammad Faisal Nadeem, Atif Iqbal, Yinliang Xu, and Mohammad Rafi. "A state‐of‐the‐art review on topologies and control techniques of solid‐state transformers for electric vehicle extreme fast charging." IET Power Electronics 14, no. 9 (2021): 1560-1576.
   (Impact Factor = 2.48)
   Link: https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/pel2.12141?af=R

Conference Publications:

1. Rahman, Syed, Ahmed Imteaj, Irfan Khan, and M. Hadi Amini. "Cascaded Solid State Transformer Structure to Power Fast EV Charging Stations from Medium Voltage Transmission Lines." In 2020 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1359-1364. IEEE, 2020.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9443388 

2. Zaman, Taimur, Irfan Khan, and Nasim Ullah. "Voltage Stabilization of DC-Link in EVs using DAB Converter based on Higher-Order SMC approach." In 2021 IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech), pp. 215-221. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9458579 

3. Khalid, Mohd Rizwan, Irfan A. Khan, Nimra Idris Siddiqui, Salman Hameed, and MS Jamil Asghar. "Performance Evaluation of Multilevel DC-AC Converter To Interface EV Battery For V2H Application." In 2021 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9654685

Impact of Adding Charging Loads to Low-Voltage Distribution Systems:

Journal Publications:

1. Islam, Shirazul, Atif Iqbal, Mousa Marzband, Irfan Khan, and Abdullah MAB Al-Wahedi. "State-of-the-art vehicle-to-everything mode of operation of electric vehicles and its future perspectives." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 166 (2022): 112574.
   (Impact Factor = 14.98)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032122004701 

2. Rahman, Syed, Irfan Ahmed Khan, Ashraf Ali Khan, Ayan Mallik, and Muhammad Faisal Nadeem. "Comprehensive review & impact analysis of integrating projected electric vehicle charging load to the existing low voltage distribution system." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 153 (2022): 111756.
   (Impact Factor = 14.98)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032121010273 

3. Ahmad, Fareed, Atif Iqbal, Imtiaz Ashraf, and Mousa Marzband. "Optimal location of electric vehicle charging station and its impact on distribution network: A review." Energy Reports 8 (2022): 2314-2333.
   (Impact Factor = 6.87)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722001809 

4. Ahmad, Fareed, Atif Iqbal, Imtiaz Ashraf, Mousa Marzband, and Irfan Khan. "Placement of electric vehicle fast charging stations in distribution network considering power loss, land cost, and electric vehicle population." Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects 44, no. 1 (2022): 1693-1709.
   (Impact Factor = 3.447)
   Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15567036.2022.2055233 

5. Rasheed, Muhammad Babar, Muhammad Awais, Thamer Alquthami, and Irfan Khan. "An optimal scheduling and distributed pricing mechanism for multi-region electric vehicle charging in smart grid." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 40298-40312.
   (Impact Factor = 3.367)
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9016233

Conference Publications:

1. S. Rahman, I. A. Khan, and A. Iqbal, "Impact of Harmonics of Distributed Generators on the Harmonic Profiling of Distribution Networks," 2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078476
   
   
2. Ahmad, Fareed, Atif Iqbal, Imtiaz Ashraf, Mousa Marzband, and Irfan Khan. "Placement of Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Stations using Grey Wolf Optimization in Electrical Distribution Network." In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2022.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9715842 

2. Ahmed, Abdellahi, Atif Iqbal, Irfan Khan, Abdulla Al-Wahedi, Hasan Mehrjerdi, and Syed Rahman. "Impact of EV charging station penetration on harmonic distortion level in utility distribution network: a case study of Qatar." In 2021 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9384952 

3. Rahman, Syed, Irfan Ahmad Khan, and M. Hadi Amini. "A review on impact analysis of electric vehicle charging on power distribution systems." In 2020 2nd International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems (SPIES), pp. 420-425. IEEE, 2020.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9243118 

4. Ali, Hayder, Sajid Hussain, Hassan A. Khan, Naveed Arshad, and Irfan Ahmad Khan. "Economic and environmental impact of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) integration in an intermittent utility grid." In 2020 2nd International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems (SPIES), pp. 345-349. IEEE, 2020.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9242992

Cold Ironing of Marine Vessels to Reduce Near-Sea Emissions:

Conference Publications:

1. I. Ullah, S. Rahman and I. A. Khan, "SST-Based Marine Shipboard System to Achieve Improved Performance & Easy Renewable Energy Integration," 2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078485
   
   
2. Syed Rahman, Jonathan Ghering, Nicolas Elizondo, and Irfan Ahmad Khan, “Intelligent Filtering Solutions for Improving Power Quality in Marine Shipboard Systems,” In 2022 Kansas Power and Energy Conference, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2022.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9814803 

2. Rahman, Syed, Roberto Cervantes, Irfan A. Khan, Atif Iqbal, and Shahrin Ayob. "Active Power Filtering Solution for Improving Power Quality in Cold Ironed Electric Ships." In 2021 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9627303 

3. Khan, Irfan Ahmed, and Syed Rahman. "Review and Analysis of Blockage of Suez Canal Region Due to Giant Container Ship." Marine Technology Society Journal 55, no. 5 (2021): 39-43.
   Link: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mts/mtsj/2021/00000055/00000005/art00004 

5. Tariq, M. Zeeshan, Syed Rahman, Irfan A. Khan, and Faisal Nadeem Khan. "PV Fed Battery and Ultra-Capacitor Based Hybrid Energy Storage for Powering Marine Loads." In 2021 International Conference on Digital Futures and Transformative Technologies (ICoDT2), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9441479 
6. Rahman, Syed, and Irfan A. Khan. "Investigation of Power Quality Issues in Cold Ironed (Shore Connected) Grid Connected Electric Ships." In 2020 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1353-1358. IEEE, 2020.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9443569

Design of Power Dense Military Aircraft Power System to Improve Performance and Dynamic Imbalance:

1. S. Rahman, I. Khan, S. Dey, and A. Mallik, "Triple-Active Bridge-based Dynamic Power Balancing Solution for Minimizing Overdesigning in Military Aircraft Power System," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2023.3323538.
   (Impact Factor = 6.8)
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10275060
   
   
2. Syed Rahman, Shima Hassanpour, Irfan Khan, Hamid Toliyat, "Power Dense High-Speed Motor-Generator System for Powering Futuristic Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)", Accepted for Publication in IECON 2022 - 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2022.
   
   
3. Rahman, Syed, Jonathan Ghering, Irfan A. Khan, Mohd Tariq, Akhtar Kalam, and Atif Iqbal. "Novel dynamic power balancing solution for minimization overdesigning in military aircraft power system architecture." In IECON 2021–47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9589867
   
   
4. Irfan Khan, Syed Rahman, “Detailed Modeling and Investigation of Impact of Transient Loading on Electrical Power System of Military Aircraft F – 35”, In IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2022.

Renewable Energy Integration, Microgrids & Climate Change:

Journal Publications:

1. Ishaq, Saima, Irfan Khan, Syed Rahman, Tanveer Hussain, Atif Iqbal, and Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan. "A review on recent developments in control and optimization of micro grids." Energy Reports 8 (2022): 4085-4103.
   (Impact Factor = 8.67)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722000804 

2. Elavarasan, Rajvikram Madurai, Rishi Pugazhendhi, Muhammad Irfan, Lucian Mihet-Popa, Irfan Ahmad Khan, and Pietro Elia Campana. "State-of-the-art sustainable approaches for deeper decarbonization in Europe–An endowment to climate neutral vision." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 159 (2022): 112204.
   (Impact Factor = 14.98)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032122001277 

3. Elavarasan, Rajvikram Madurai, Rishi Pugazhendhi, Muhammad Irfan, Lucian Mihet-Popa, Pietro Elia Campana, and Irfan Ahmad Khan. "A novel Sustainable Development Goal 7 composite index as the paradigm for energy sustainability assessment: A case study from Europe." Applied Energy 307 (2022): 118173.
   (Impact Factor = 9.746)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261921014446 

4. Zou, Shangyan, Xiang Zhou, Irfan Khan, Wayne W. Weaver, and Syed Rahman. "Optimization of the electricity generation of a wave energy converter using deep reinforcement learning." Ocean Engineering 244 (2022): 110363.
   (Impact Factor = 3.795)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0029801821016590 

5. Gilani, Imtiaz H., Mohsin Amjad, Saad S. Khan, Irfan Khan, Stephen Larkin, Brendon Raw, and Zeshan Abbas. "PEMFC application through coal gasification along with cost-benefit analysis: A case study for South Africa." Energy Exploration & Exploitation 39, no. 5 (2021): 1551-1587.
   (Impact Factor = 2.139)
   Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0144598721999720 

6. Yadav, Amit Kumar, Hasmat Malik, S. S. Chandel, Irfan Ahmad Khan, Sattam Al Otaibi, and Hend I. Alkhammash. "Novel Approach to Investigate the Influence of Optimum Tilt Angle on Minimum Cost of Energy-Based Maximum Power Generation and Sizing of PV Systems: A Case Study of Diverse Climatic Zones in India." IEEE Access 9 (2021): 110103-110115.(Impact Factor = 3.367)
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9504483 

7. Taheri, Seyed Iman, Mauricio BC Salles, and Irfan Ahmad Khan. "Supporting distributed energy resources with optimal placement and sizing of voltage regulators on the distribution system by an improved teaching‐learning‐based optimization algorithm." International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems 31, no. 8 (2021): e12974.
   (Impact Factor = 2.86)
   Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2050-7038.12974 

8. Ahmed, Ali, Muhammad Faisal Nadeem Khan, Irfan Khan, Hani Alquhayz, Muhammad Adnan Khan, and Arooj Tariq Kiani. "A novel framework to determine the impact of time varying load models on wind DG planning." IEEE Access 9 (2021): 11342-11357.
   (Impact Factor = 3.367)
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9321316 

9. Chang, Xinyue, Yinliang Xu, Hongbin Sun, and Irfan Khan. "A distributed robust optimization approach for the economic dispatch of flexible resources." International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 124 (2021): 106360.
   (Impact Factor = 4.63)
   Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0142061520308231 

10. Nazir, Muhammad Shahzad, Ahmad N. Abdalla, Yeqin Wang, Zhang Chu, Ji Jie, Peng Tian, Mingxin Jiang, Irfan Khan, P. Sanjeevikumar, and Yongfeng Tang. "Optimization configuration of energy storage capacity based on the microgrid reliable output power." Journal of Energy Storage 32 (2020): 101866.
    (Impact Factor = 8.78)
    Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352152X20317035 

11. Shah, Syed Faizan Ali, Irfan A. Khan, and Hassan Abbas Khan. "Performance evaluation of two similar 100MW solar PV plants located in environmentally homogeneous conditions." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 161697-161707.
    (Impact Factor = 3.367)
    Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8891704 

12. Khan, Irfan, Yinliang Xu, Soummya Kar, Mo-Yuen Chow, and Vikram Bhattacharjee. "Compressive sensing and morphology singular entropy-based real-time secondary voltage control of multiarea power systems." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 15, no. 7 (2018): 3796-3807.
    (Impact Factor = 11.648)
    Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8533417 

13. Bhattacharjee, Vikram, and Irfan Khan. "A non-linear convex cost model for economic dispatch in microgrids." Applied energy 222 (2018): 637-648.
    (Impact Factor = 9.746)
    Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261918305439 

14. Khan, Irfan, Yinliang Xu, Hongbin Sun, and Vikram Bhattacharjee. "Distributed optimal reactive power control of power systems." IEEE Access 6 (2017): 7100-7111.
    (Impact Factor = 3.367)
    Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8186156 

15. Khan, Irfan, Zhicheng Li, Yinliang Xu, and Wei Gu. "Distributed control algorithm for optimal reactive power control in power grids." International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 83 (2016): 505-513.
    (Impact Factor = 5.659)
    Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0142061516306366 

16. Khan, Irfan, Yinliang Xu, Soummya Kar, and Hongbin Sun. "Compressive sensing-based optimal reactive power control of a multi-area power system." IEEE Access 5 (2017): 23576-23588.
    (Impact Factor = 3.367)
    Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8037967

Conference Publications:

1. S. Rahman, H. Shehada and I. A. Khan, "Review of Isolated DC-DC Converters for Applications in Data Center Power Delivery," 2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078490
   
   
2. Sadaf, Shima, Atif Iqbal, Mohammad Meraj, Pandav Kiran Maroti, Md Samiullah, and Irfan Khan. "A New Type of Boost Converter with Dual Duty and High Gain for DC Microgrid Applications." In 2022 Second International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2022.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9776823 

2. Ahmed, Ali, Muhammad Faisal Nadeem, Arooj Tariq Kiani, and Irfan Khan. "An overview on optimal planning of distributed generation in distribution system and key issues." In 2021 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9384976 

3. Khan, Shahrukh, Arshad Mahmood, Mohd Tariq, Mohammad Zaid, Irfan Khan, and Syed Rahman. "Improved dual switch non-isolated high gain boost converter for DC microgrid application." In 2021 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2021.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9384956 

4. Wan, Qiang, WenPing Zhang, Yinliang Xu, and Irfan Khan. "Distributed control for energy management in a microgrid." In 2016 IEEE/PES transmission and distribution conference and exposition (T&D), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2016.
   Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7519897