Faculty Proflle

Biography:

Dr. Ali Arshad Uppal received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan in 2016. During his PhD he worked as a visiting scholar at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA from 2015—2016. From 2020—2021, he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. He is currently working as a Tenured Associate Professor at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CUI. His research interests include nonlinear control/estimation, sliding mode control, process control, optimal control, learning based control and control of infinite-dimensional systems. He has mainly applied his research skills to the energy conversion systems: underground coal gasification (UCG) process, airborne wind energy system (AWES), surface coal gasifiers, drum boiler turbine system and fuel cell system. He is currently working on the modeling estimation and control of battery management systems for electric vehicles. So far, he has authored/co-authored more than 30 research papers in peer reviewed journals and international conferences. Some of his work has been published in top ranked journals of control systems and energy, which include IEEE control systems technology, journal of process control, international journal of controls, journal of the Franklin institute and Energy. He has also served as a reviewer for various journals and conferences related to control systems. Moreover, he has managed a special issue: sliding mode control in dynamic system, MDPI Electronics as a guest editor. He has been elected to the grade of senior member, IEEE as a recognition of his research contributions in the area of control systems in June 2022.

Educational Information

Year	Degree	Board / University

2012-2016	Ph. D	COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
2009--2012	MS	University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Taxila, Pakistan
2003--2006	BE	University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Taxila, Pakistan
2020-2021	Postdoc	University of Porto

Academic Experience

From	To	Post Held	Organization

2016	Date	Assistant Professor	CIIT Islamabad
01-01-2014	30-06-2023	Assistant Professor	CIIT Islamabad
2008	2014	Lecturer	CIIT Islamabad
17/9/2020	15/9/2021	Postdoctoral researcher	University of Porto
01-07-2023	Date	Tenured Associate Professor	COMSATS University Islamabad

Publications

Key Publications

U. Javed, A. Mehmood,J. Iqbal and A.A.Uppal''Neural network and URED observer based fast terminal integral sliding mode control for energy efficient polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell used in vehicular technologies'',Energy,2023.
Ahmad, S.,A.A.Uppal, Azam, M.R. and Iqbal J. ''Chattering Free Sliding Mode Control and State Dependent Kalman Filter Design for Underground Gasification Energy Conversion Process'',Electronics,2023.
Ahmed A,Javed SB,A.A.Uppal and Iqbal J''Development of CAVLAB_A Control-Oriented MATLAB Based Simulator for an Underground Coal Gasification Process'',Mathematics,2023.
Ali Arshad Uppal (E&CE, CUI),M. R. Azam (E&CE, CUI) ,Jamshed Iqbal ''Sliding Mode Control in Dynamic Systems'',MDPI,2023.
Afaq Ahmed (E&CE, CUI),Ali Arshad Uppal (E&CE, CUI),Syed Bilal Javed Total: 03, CUI: 01''Nonlinear-Control-Oriented Modeling of the Multi-Variable Underground Coal Gasification Process for UCG Project Thar: A Machine Learning Perspective'',Elsevier,2023.
Ali Arshad Uppal (E&CE, CUI),Syed Bilal Javed ,Qadeer Ahmed ''Power Losses Aware Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Design for Active Cell Balancing'',IEEE,2023.
U. Javaid,J. Iqbal,A. Mehmood and A. A. Uppal''Performance improvement in polymer electrolytic membrane fuel cell based on nonlinear control strategies—A comprehensive study'',PLOS ONE,2022.
M. Hassam,M. K. Ishak,A. Hanif, A. A. Uppal, A. I. Bhatti, and N. A. M. Isa''Virtual Sensor Using a Super Twisting Algorithm Based Uniform Robust Exact Differentiator for Electric Vehicles'',Energies,2022.
I. U. Rehman,S. B. Javed,A. M. Chaudhry, M. R. Azam and A. A. Uppal''Model-Based Dynamic Sliding Mode Control and Adaptive Kalman Filter Design for Boiler-Turbine Energy Conversion System'',Journal of Process Control,2022.
S. B. Javed,A. A. Uppal,M. R. Azam, K. Shahzad and Q. Ahmed''Model-Based Quantitative Analysis of a Capacitive Cell Balancing Technique using SoC Estimator'',2022 IEEE conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA),,2022.
S. Bano,M. R. Azam,A. A. Uppal, S. B. Javed and A. I. Bhatti''Robust p53 recovery using chattering free sliding mode control and a gain-scheduled modified Utkin observer'',Journal of Theoretical Biology,2022.
S. B. Javed,V. I. Utkin,A. A. Uppal, R. Samar and A. I. Bhatti''Data-Driven Modeling and Design of Multivariable Dynamic Sliding Mode Control for the Underground Coal Gasification Project Thar'',IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology,2022.
M. Khattak,A. A. Uppal,Q. Khan, A. I. Bhatti, Y. M. Alsmadi, V. I. Utkin & I. Chairez''Neuro-adaptive sliding mode control for underground coal gasification energy conversion process'',International Journal of Control,2021.
A. Mohsin,Y. M. Alsmadi,A. A. Uppal, S. M. Gulfam''A modified simplex based direct search optimization algorithm for adaptive transversal FIR filters'',Science Progress,2021.
19. A. M. Chaudhry,A. A. Uppal,S. Bram''Model Predictive Control and Adaptive Kalman Filter Design for an Underground Coal Gasification Process'',IEEE Access,2021.
M. Riaz,A. R. Yasin,A. A. Uppal and A. Yasin''A novel dynamic integral sliding mode control for power electronic converters'',Science Progress,2021.
A. A. Uppal,M. C. R. M. Fernandes,S. Vinha, and F. A. C. C. Fontes''Cascade Control of the Ground Station Module of an Airborne Wind Energy System'',Energies,2021.
S. B. Javed,,A. A. Uppal,R. Samar and A. I. Bhatti''Design and implementation of multi-variable H8 robust control for the underground coal gasification project Thar'',Energy,2021.
Y. M. Alsmadi,I. U. Rehman,A.A.Uppal, V. I. Utkin, I. Chairez and M. Ibbini,''Super- Twisting Based Sliding Mode Control of Drum Boiler Energy Conversion Systems'',International Journal of Control,2021.
Q. Irum,S. A. Khan,A.A.Uppal and L. Krivodonova,''Galerkin Finite Element Based Modeling of One Dimensional Packed Bed Reactor for Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Process'',IEEE Access,2020.
AM Chaudhry,VI Utkin,AM Chaudhry, AA Uppal, YM Alsmadi, AI Bhatti''Robust Multi-Objective Control Design for Underground Coal Gasification Energy Conversion Process'',Taylor and Francis Online,2020.
Usman Javed,Jamshed Iqbal,U. Javaid, A. Mehmood, A. Arshad, F. Imtiaz and J. Iqbal''Operational Efficiency Improvement of PEM Fuel Cell--A Sliding Mode Based Modern Control Approach'',IEEE,2020.
M. Ilyas,Jamshed Iqbal,M. Ilyas, J. Iqbal, S. Ahmad, A. A. Uppal, W. A. Imtiaz and R. A. Riaz''Hypnosis regulation in propofol anesthesia employing super-twisting sliding mode control to compensate variability dynamics'',IEEE,2020.
Yasin AR,Yasin AR,Yasin AR, Ashraf M, Bhatti AI, Uppal AA.''Fixed frequency sliding mode control of renewable energy resources in DC micro grid'',Wiley Online Library,2020.
Yazan M Alsmadi,Yazan M Alsmadi,Yazan M Alsmadi, Alaa M Abdelhamed, Abo Eleyoun Ellissy, Amged S El-Wakeel, Al- moataz Y Abdelaziz, Vadim Utkin and Ali Arshad Uppal,''Optimal Configuration and Energy Management Scheme of an Isolated Micro-Grid using Cuckoo Search Optimization Algorithm'',Elsevier,2019.
Ali Arshad Uppal,Ali Arshad Uppal,Ali Arshad Uppal, Saif Siddique Butt, Qudrat Khan, Harald Aschemann''Robust tracking of the heating value in an underground coal gasification process using dynamic integral sliding mode control and a gain-scheduled modified Utkin observer'',Elsevier,2019.
Muhammad Rizwan Azam,Muhammad Rizwan Azam,Muhammad Rizwan Azam, Vadim Utkin, Ali Arshad Uppal and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti,''A Sliding Mode Controller-Observer Pair for p53 Pathway'',IEEE,2019.
Syed Bilal Javed,Syed Bilal Javed,Syed Bilal Javed, Ali Arshad Uppal, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti and Raza Samar''Prediction and Parametric Analysis of Cavity Growth for the Underground Coal Gasification Project Thar'',Elsevier,2019.
A. A. Uppal,VI Utkin,A. A. Uppal, Y. M. Alsmadi, V. I. Utkin, A. I. Bhatti and S. A. Khan''Sliding Mode Control of Underground Coal Gasification Energy Conversion Process'',IEEE,2018.
Ali Arshad Uppal,Saif Siddique Butt,Aamer Iqbal Bhatti''Integral Sliding Mode Control and Gain-Scheduled Modified Utkin Observer for an Underground Coal Gasification Energy Conversion Process'',IEEE,2018.
Imran Khan,Imran Khan,Imran Khan, A.I. Bhatti, Ali Arshad, and Qudrat Khan''Robustness and performance parameterization of smooth second order sliding mode control'',Springer,2017.
G. Murtaza,A. I. Bhatti,Q. Ahmed''Nonlinear Robust Control of Atkinson Cycle Engine'',IFAC,2017.
Ali Arshad Uppal, A.I. Bhatti, E. Amir, R. Samar and Shahid A. Khan''Optimization and control of one dimensional packed bed model of underground coal gasification'',Journal of Process Control,2015.
Ali Arshad Uppal,Ali Arshad Uppal,Ali Arshad Uppal, A.I. Bhatti, E. Amir, R. Samar and Shahid. A. Khan''Control oriented modeling and optimization of one dimensional packed bed model of underground coal gasification'',Journal of Process Control,2014.
Rizwan Azam,A. I. Bhatti,Ali Arshad Uppal''Sensitivity analysis of Wnt Signaling Pathway'',IEEE,2013.
Ali Arshad Uppal,A. I. Bhatti,R. Samar''Model Development of UCG and Calorific Value Maintenance via Sliding Mode Control'',IEEE,2012.

Conferences

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Awards

Year	Awarding Organization	Description

2012	CIIT	In-house Ph. D scholarship

Memberships

From	To	Title	Organization

2017	Date	Member	IEEE
2012	2016	Student Member	IEEE
June 2022	present	Senior Member	IEEE

Courses Taught

Course Code	Type	Title	University

EEE371	Under Graduate	Electric Machines	CIIT, Islamabad
EEE325	Under Graduate	Control Systems	CIIT, Islamabad
ECI665	Graduate	Linear Systems Theory	CIIT, Islamabad
ECI765	Graduate	Robust Control Systems	COMSATS University Islamabad

Supervisions

Title	From	To	Organization / Institute	Type

Optimal Placement of Distributed Energy Resources in Distribution Network	2019	present	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Battery management system design for electric vehicles	2019	present	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Cascade control of integrated gasification combined cycle turbine power plant	2021	present	COMSATS University Islamabad	Project Supervision
State estimation of electric vehicle battery	2021	2022	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Multi-variable control of underground coal gasification process	2021	2022	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Nonlinear control of PEM fuel cell power system	2016	2023	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Galerkin based finite dimensional approximation of underground coal gasification	2016	2022	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Cavity prediction and control of underground coal gasification process	2016	2021	COMSATS University Islamabad	Project Supervision
Sliding mode based control protocol for hybrid electric vehicle	2021	2022	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Model based control for p53 recovery	2020	2021	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Model based controller for drum boiler system	2019	2020	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Estimation and control of underground coal gasification	2019	2020	COMSATS University Islamabad	Project Supervision
Modeling, simulation and control of surface coal gasification	2018	2020	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Modeling and control of underground coal gasification	2017	2018	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Simulation and control of drum boiler system	2017	2018	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision
Control of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell	2015	2016	COMSATS University Islamabad	Research Supervision

Services

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Books

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Fundings

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Active Collaborations

From	To	Type	Country	Organization

2015	2022	Research	United States	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
2018	2020	Research	Germany	Chair of Mechatronics, University of Rostock
2010	present	Research	Pakistan	Control and Signal Processing Research (CASPR) Group, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad
2021	present	Research	United States	Center of Automotive Research (CAR), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
2020	present	Research	Portugal	Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Industrial / Consulting Experience

From	To	Post Held	Organization

2007	2008	Assistant Manager	National Development Complex

Extracurricular Activities

Hobbies	Interests

1. Watch and playing cricket. 2. Playing Badminton	Travelling

Languages and Skills

Languages	Skills

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Publication Year	Key Publications

1 2023	1 U. Javed, A. Mehmood,J. Iqbal and A.A.Uppal''Neural network and URED observer based fast terminal integral sliding mode control for energy efficient polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell used in vehicular technologies'',Energy,2023.
2 2023	2 Ahmad, S.,A.A.Uppal, Azam, M.R. and Iqbal J. ''Chattering Free Sliding Mode Control and State Dependent Kalman Filter Design for Underground Gasification Energy Conversion Process'',Electronics,2023.
3 2023	3 Ahmed A,Javed SB,A.A.Uppal and Iqbal J''Development of CAVLAB_A Control-Oriented MATLAB Based Simulator for an Underground Coal Gasification Process'',Mathematics,2023.
4 2023	4 Ali Arshad Uppal (E&CE, CUI),M. R. Azam (E&CE, CUI) ,Jamshed Iqbal ''Sliding Mode Control in Dynamic Systems'',MDPI,2023.
5 2023	5 Afaq Ahmed (E&CE, CUI),Ali Arshad Uppal (E&CE, CUI),Syed Bilal Javed Total: 03, CUI: 01''Nonlinear-Control-Oriented Modeling of the Multi-Variable Underground Coal Gasification Process for UCG Project Thar: A Machine Learning Perspective'',Elsevier,2023.
6 2023	6 Ali Arshad Uppal (E&CE, CUI),Syed Bilal Javed ,Qadeer Ahmed ''Power Losses Aware Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Design for Active Cell Balancing'',IEEE,2023.
7 2022	7 U. Javaid,J. Iqbal,A. Mehmood and A. A. Uppal''Performance improvement in polymer electrolytic membrane fuel cell based on nonlinear control strategies—A comprehensive study'',PLOS ONE,2022.
8 2022	8 M. Hassam,M. K. Ishak,A. Hanif, A. A. Uppal, A. I. Bhatti, and N. A. M. Isa''Virtual Sensor Using a Super Twisting Algorithm Based Uniform Robust Exact Differentiator for Electric Vehicles'',Energies,2022.
9 2022	9 I. U. Rehman,S. B. Javed,A. M. Chaudhry, M. R. Azam and A. A. Uppal''Model-Based Dynamic Sliding Mode Control and Adaptive Kalman Filter Design for Boiler-Turbine Energy Conversion System'',Journal of Process Control,2022.
10 2022	10 S. B. Javed,A. A. Uppal,M. R. Azam, K. Shahzad and Q. Ahmed''Model-Based Quantitative Analysis of a Capacitive Cell Balancing Technique using SoC Estimator'',2022 IEEE conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA),,2022.
11 2022	11 S. Bano,M. R. Azam,A. A. Uppal, S. B. Javed and A. I. Bhatti''Robust p53 recovery using chattering free sliding mode control and a gain-scheduled modified Utkin observer'',Journal of Theoretical Biology,2022.
12 2022	12 S. B. Javed,V. I. Utkin,A. A. Uppal, R. Samar and A. I. Bhatti''Data-Driven Modeling and Design of Multivariable Dynamic Sliding Mode Control for the Underground Coal Gasification Project Thar'',IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology,2022.
13 2021	13 M. Khattak,A. A. Uppal,Q. Khan, A. I. Bhatti, Y. M. Alsmadi, V. I. Utkin & I. Chairez''Neuro-adaptive sliding mode control for underground coal gasification energy conversion process'',International Journal of Control,2021.
14 2021	14 A. Mohsin,Y. M. Alsmadi,A. A. Uppal, S. M. Gulfam''A modified simplex based direct search optimization algorithm for adaptive transversal FIR filters'',Science Progress,2021.
15 2021	15 19. A. M. Chaudhry,A. A. Uppal,S. Bram''Model Predictive Control and Adaptive Kalman Filter Design for an Underground Coal Gasification Process'',IEEE Access,2021.
16 2021	16 M. Riaz,A. R. Yasin,A. A. Uppal and A. Yasin''A novel dynamic integral sliding mode control for power electronic converters'',Science Progress,2021.
17 2021	17 A. A. Uppal,M. C. R. M. Fernandes,S. Vinha, and F. A. C. C. Fontes''Cascade Control of the Ground Station Module of an Airborne Wind Energy System'',Energies,2021.
18 2021	18 S. B. Javed,,A. A. Uppal,R. Samar and A. I. Bhatti''Design and implementation of multi-variable H8 robust control for the underground coal gasification project Thar'',Energy,2021.
19 2021	19 Y. M. Alsmadi,I. U. Rehman,A.A.Uppal, V. I. Utkin, I. Chairez and M. Ibbini,''Super- Twisting Based Sliding Mode Control of Drum Boiler Energy Conversion Systems'',International Journal of Control,2021.
20 2020	20 Q. Irum,S. A. Khan,A.A.Uppal and L. Krivodonova,''Galerkin Finite Element Based Modeling of One Dimensional Packed Bed Reactor for Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) Process'',IEEE Access,2020.
21 2020	21 AM Chaudhry,VI Utkin,AM Chaudhry, AA Uppal, YM Alsmadi, AI Bhatti''Robust Multi-Objective Control Design for Underground Coal Gasification Energy Conversion Process'',Taylor and Francis Online,2020.
22 2020	22 Usman Javed,Jamshed Iqbal,U. Javaid, A. Mehmood, A. Arshad, F. Imtiaz and J. Iqbal''Operational Efficiency Improvement of PEM Fuel Cell--A Sliding Mode Based Modern Control Approach'',IEEE,2020.
23 2020	23 M. Ilyas,Jamshed Iqbal,M. Ilyas, J. Iqbal, S. Ahmad, A. A. Uppal, W. A. Imtiaz and R. A. Riaz''Hypnosis regulation in propofol anesthesia employing super-twisting sliding mode control to compensate variability dynamics'',IEEE,2020.
24 2020	24 Yasin AR,Yasin AR,Yasin AR, Ashraf M, Bhatti AI, Uppal AA.''Fixed frequency sliding mode control of renewable energy resources in DC micro grid'',Wiley Online Library,2020.
25 2019	25 Yazan M Alsmadi,Yazan M Alsmadi,Yazan M Alsmadi, Alaa M Abdelhamed, Abo Eleyoun Ellissy, Amged S El-Wakeel, Al- moataz Y Abdelaziz, Vadim Utkin and Ali Arshad Uppal,''Optimal Configuration and Energy Management Scheme of an Isolated Micro-Grid using Cuckoo Search Optimization Algorithm'',Elsevier,2019.
26 2019	26 Ali Arshad Uppal,Ali Arshad Uppal,Ali Arshad Uppal, Saif Siddique Butt, Qudrat Khan, Harald Aschemann''Robust tracking of the heating value in an underground coal gasification process using dynamic integral sliding mode control and a gain-scheduled modified Utkin observer'',Elsevier,2019.
27 2019	27 Muhammad Rizwan Azam,Muhammad Rizwan Azam,Muhammad Rizwan Azam, Vadim Utkin, Ali Arshad Uppal and Aamer Iqbal Bhatti,''A Sliding Mode Controller-Observer Pair for p53 Pathway'',IEEE,2019.
28 2019	28 Syed Bilal Javed,Syed Bilal Javed,Syed Bilal Javed, Ali Arshad Uppal, Aamer Iqbal Bhatti and Raza Samar''Prediction and Parametric Analysis of Cavity Growth for the Underground Coal Gasification Project Thar'',Elsevier,2019.
29 2018	29 A. A. Uppal,VI Utkin,A. A. Uppal, Y. M. Alsmadi, V. I. Utkin, A. I. Bhatti and S. A. Khan''Sliding Mode Control of Underground Coal Gasification Energy Conversion Process'',IEEE,2018.
30 2018	30 Ali Arshad Uppal,Saif Siddique Butt,Aamer Iqbal Bhatti''Integral Sliding Mode Control and Gain-Scheduled Modified Utkin Observer for an Underground Coal Gasification Energy Conversion Process'',IEEE,2018.
31 2017	31 Imran Khan,Imran Khan,Imran Khan, A.I. Bhatti, Ali Arshad, and Qudrat Khan''Robustness and performance parameterization of smooth second order sliding mode control'',Springer,2017.
32 2017	32 G. Murtaza,A. I. Bhatti,Q. Ahmed''Nonlinear Robust Control of Atkinson Cycle Engine'',IFAC,2017.
33 2015	33 Ali Arshad Uppal, A.I. Bhatti, E. Amir, R. Samar and Shahid A. Khan''Optimization and control of one dimensional packed bed model of underground coal gasification'',Journal of Process Control,2015.
34 2014	34 Ali Arshad Uppal,Ali Arshad Uppal,Ali Arshad Uppal, A.I. Bhatti, E. Amir, R. Samar and Shahid. A. Khan''Control oriented modeling and optimization of one dimensional packed bed model of underground coal gasification'',Journal of Process Control,2014.
35 2013	35 Rizwan Azam,A. I. Bhatti,Ali Arshad Uppal''Sensitivity analysis of Wnt Signaling Pathway'',IEEE,2013.
36 2012	36 Ali Arshad Uppal,A. I. Bhatti,R. Samar''Model Development of UCG and Calorific Value Maintenance via Sliding Mode Control'',IEEE,2012.

Dr. Ali Arshad

Tenured Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CUI Islamabad Campus