Biography:

SADIQ AHMAD (Member, IEEE) is currently serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Cantt., Pakistan. He obtained his MS and Ph.D. degrees both in Power Engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Cantt, in 2014 and 2020, respectively. He obtained his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan in 2009. He served in water and power development authority (WAPDA) Pakistan for one year and then joined Etisalat Telecommunication Company, where he served till April 2012. He won the best research paper award (2015) under the patronage of the Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan. His research interests include energy efficiency, green energy generation, resource optimization in power system engineering, control and optimization of microgrids/smartgrids, privacy preservation in smart meter, blockchain in smartgrid, security and privacy issues in smartgrid, cognitive radio networks,  and optimization issues in power systems and smartgrid. He is a reviewer of renowned international journals, such as IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Applied Energy, Energies, Wiley International Transaction on Electrical Energy System, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Computers & Electrical Engineering and Energy & Building, Transaction on Big Data, Transaction on Cloud Computing, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, IET Energy System