ADVANCED LOCAL PREDICTORS FOR SHORT TERM ELECTRIC LOAD

RESUME Ehab E. Elattar Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, college of Engineering Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Phone: (+966) 549394587 (Mobile) E-mail: dr.elattar10@yahoo.com or e.elattar@tu.edu.sa PERSONAL DETAILS: Full Name : Ehab Elsayed Aly Elattar Current Address : Abo Bakr street, Taif, Saudi Arabia Permanent Address: Arab Elramel, Quesna, Menofia, Egypt Nationality : Egyptian Date of Birth : 28-09-1976 EDUCATION: (1) PhD in Electrical Engineering on July 2010, University of Liverpool, UK. PhD thesis title: ADVANCED LOCAL PREDICTORS FOR SHORT TERM ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTIG (2) M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering on April 2003, Menofia University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt. M. Sc. thesis title: STATIC STATE ESTIMATION FOR ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS (3) B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering on May 1999, Menofia University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt, with degree of Very good with honor degree. FIELD TRAINING:- In Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) from 1997 to 1999 in summer on parallel to my study for a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: September 2012 till now February 2011- till January 2012 August 2010 till now June 2006 June 2010 May 2003 June 2006 Delegation as assistance professor to Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Taif university, KSA. Delegation as assistance professor to Electrical Engineering Department, Lebanese International University, Lebanon. Assistance professor at Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Menofia University, Egypt. Teaching Assistant, part-time, at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (during my study for PhD). Lecturer assistant at Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Menofia University, Egypt.

January 2001 May 2003 January 2000 January 2001 Demonstrator at Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Menofia University, Egypt. Electrical Engineering, full time, at Electrical Power systems and High Voltage Department, Shaker Consultancy group, Cairo, Egypt. SKILLS: I have good teaching skills. Moreover, I have the ability to collaborate well with colleagues. I have good skills with regard to management of teaching issues in large or small class learning environment. This is because of the long time I spent in dealing with university students and their teaching aspects. Also, I gained a good experience with blackboard learning system. My experience includes several university courses spanning four different universities in four different countries. Thus I have been exposed to many different teaching styles. I gained a good experience in research from my study and work in UK and Egypt. I m motivated to apply this experience. In addition, I am a member of Accreditation Steering Committee (to get ABET accreditation), at Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Taif University, KSA. Regarding language, I speak English on top of my mother language which is Arabic. TEACHING EXPERIANCE: From 2001 till now, I involved in teaching, teaching assistance, exams preparation and marking for the following modules: Undergraduate Courses Undergraduate Laboratories 1- Electrical Power and Networks. 1- Electric Circuits laboratory. 2- Renewable Energy 2- Power System Simulator. 3- High Voltage Engineering. 3- Power System laboratories. 4- Energy Conversion and Utilizations 4- Computer Laboratory. 5- Introduction to Power Systems. 5-6- Electrical Power System Stations. 6- High Voltage Engineering Laboratory. 7- Power Systems Economics. 6- Digital Electronics laboratory. 8- Power Systems Distribution 9- Energy Conversion. 10- Electromagnetic Fields. 11- Digital Electronics. 12- Electrical Machines (1) 13- Electrical Circuits Theory. 14- Electric Circuits for the non-electrical Engineering Students. Graduate Courses 1- Power Systems Analysis (Master students). 2- Power Electronics (Master students). 3- Power Systems Dynamics (Master students). 4- Power System Transmission (Master students). 5- Power System Protection and Switchgear (Master students).

ACADEMIC SUPERVISION I have been involved in the activities related to the teaching and research operation such as: 1- Supervising the graduation project of the final year students of the Department of Electrical Engineering- Faculty of Engineering- Menofia University- Egypt, Electrical Engineering Department- Lebanese International University- Lebanon and Department of Electrical Engineering- College of Engineering Taif University, KSA. 2- Supervising technical visits for senior students of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Menofia University and Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Taif University: "Electrical Power Station" in Shobra Al-Khimah, Egypt. Al-Alamiah for Cables, industrial area, 10th Ramadan City, Egypt. Suez cement company, Egypt. Underground metro, Cairo, Egypt. "Electrical Power Station" Jeddah, KSA RESEARCH INTERESTS 1- Power system analysis and stability 2- Power system planning and operation. 3- Artificial intelligence and optimization methods and their applications to power systems. 4- Local predictors based support vector machine or group method of data handling and their applications to power systems load forecasting. 5- Economic operation of power systems. 6- Wind power prediction based on local predictors. 7- Currently I involved in new research areas including, FACTS and integration of wind farms into the power systems. RESEARCH PROJECTS FUNDED 1- Genetic Programming Design of Locally Weighted GMDH for Wind Power Generation Prediction funded by Taif University, January 2013 to October 2013, Principal Investigator: Dr. Ehab Elattar. 2- Effect of Metallic Structures and Measuring Method on the Measured Value of Soil Resistivity funded by Taif University, January 2013 to October 2013, Co. Investigator: Dr. Ehab Elattar. 3- Security-Constrained Unit Commitment Based Load and Price Forecasting Using Evolutionary Optimized LSVR funded by Taif University, January 2014 to October 2014, Principal Investigator: Dr. Ehab Elattar. 4- Modern Optimization Techniques Based Security Constraint Economic Dispatch with the Impact of Wind Power Plant funded by Taif University, Principal Investigator: Dr. Ehab Elattar. (Under revision) REVIEWER OF TECHNICAL JOURNAL/MAGAZINE: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems since 2010 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy since 2011 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems since 2011 European Transactions on Electrical Power since 2011 Neurocomputing Journal since 2013 IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution since 2013 Electric Power System Components since 2014

EDITOR OF TECHNICAL JOURNAL/MAGAZINE: International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Mechanical Fundamentals (IJEEMF) [ISSN 2278-3989] since 2014. SCHOLARSHIPS / HONORS A full scholarship from the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education to study the Ph.D. in University of Liverpool, UK, from 06-06-2006 to 18-06-2010. Distinguished Publication Award, Menofia University, Egypt, 2012. ROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMEBERSHIPH Member, Egyptian Engineering Syndicate since 1999. Student member in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) from 2008 to 2010. Member in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2011. Member in IEEE Power and Energy Society since December 2012. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES Member of Accreditation Steering Committee (to get ABET accreditation), Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Taif University, KSA, September 2012 till now. Member of Program Committee which developed the study plans of the electrical program, Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Taif University, KSA, Academic Year 2012-2013. Member of Career advisory committee, Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Taif University, KSA, Academic Year 2012-2013. Member of Curriculum and Course Committee which continuously monitoring the content and quality of courses being taught in the program, Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Taif University, KSA, Academic Year 2013-2014. Member of a number of technical committees responsible for proposing the specifications of new Power System and Power Electronics laboratories in the Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Taif University, KSA. Member of Continuous Improvement and Qualifying for Accreditation Project (CIQAP), Faculty of Engineering, Menofia University, Egypt, August 2010 till September 2012. Member of Management Committee of the MEPCON Conference 2003, Menofia University. Member of Editing Committee of the Engineering Research Journal (ERJ), Faculty of Engineering, Menofia University, Egypt, 2003-2006. PROFESSIONAL AND COMPUTER SKILLS Programming by different languages: (BASIC, FORTRAN, and MATLAB). Power systems modeling and simulation using MATLAB toolboxes. Power system simulation tools: ETAP Optimization techniques (Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm). Machine learning algorithms (ANN, SVM, GMDH). Learning Management Systems: Excellent Dealing with LMS systems such as Blackboard.

TRAINING COURSES Demonstration and Laboratory teaching methods workshop, University of Liverpool, 2006. (8 Hours) University of Liverpool Postgraduate Research Development Training Programme, 2006. (30 Hours) Cisco training programme (Wireless, IP telephony, Network security and Professional development courses) at the Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt from December 12 to December 16, 2010. OTHER EXPERIENCES: Holding the ICDL certificate. Holding a TOEFL certificate. Attending several English and IT courses at the University of Liverpool, UK. Attending the Intercultural course from 12/04/2006 to 10/05/2006 with the British Council Agouza, Egypt. Participation in Organizing the MEPCON Conference 2003 (Member of Management Committee). Attending several Faculty and Leadership Development Center (FLDC) courses (Effective teaching, effective presentation, scientific publications, staff members code of ethics, scientific research ethics and student evaluation and Examinations techniques), Menofia University, Egypt. Preparing of the study plan and time tables for undergraduate and post graduate stage in Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Menofia University, Egypt. Member of Continuous Improvement and Qualifying for Accreditation Project (CIQAP), Faculty of Engineering, Menofia University, Egypt. Attending Strategic Planning Workshop, Taif University, 2012 (10 hours) Attending Learning outcomes for Programs and Courses Workshop, Taif University, 2012 (10 hours) PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journals [1] E. E. Elattar, A hybrid genetic algorithm and bacterial foraging approach for dynamic economic dispatch problem, Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Elsevier), vol. 69, pp. 18-26, 2015. [2] E. E. Elattar and T. A. Farrag, Security constrained unit commitment based load and price forecasting using evolutionary optimized LSVR, International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 723-732, 2014. [3] A. A. Mousa and E. E. Elattar, Best compromise alternative to EELD problem using hybrid multiobjective quantum genetic algorithm, International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1-14, 2014. [4] E. E. Elattar, Prediction of Wind Power Based on Evolutionary Optimized Local General Regression Neural Network, IET Gen., Trans., and Dist, vol. 8, no. 5, pp.916-923, 2014. [5] E. E. Elattar, Day-Ahead Price Forecasting of Electricity Markets Based on Local Informative Vector Machine, IET Gen., Trans., and Dist., vol. 7, no. 10, pp.1063-1071, 2013. [6] E. E. Elattar, Local General Regression Neural Network for Prediction of Wind Power, International Journal of Advance Research, vol. 1, no. 10, pp.8-15, 2013.

[7] E. E. Elattar, and I. Taha, Genetic Programming Design of Locally Weighted GMDH for Wind Power Generation Prediction, International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 1607-1616, 2013. [8] E. E. Elattar, I. Taha and Kamel A. Shoush, Improved Short Term Wind Power Prediction Using A Combined Locally Weighted GMDH and KPCA, International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 1216-1224, 2013. [9] E. E. Elattar, Advanced Local Predictors Based Short-Term Load Forecasting for Unit Commitment Scheduling, International Journal of Engineering Innovation & Research, vol. 2, no. 5, pp.447-452, 2013. [10] E. E. Elattar, Price Forecasting of Electricity Markets Based on Local Gaussian Process, International Journal of Engineering Innovation & Research, vol. 2, no. 5, pp.453-458, 2013. [11] E. E. Elattar, J. Y. Goulermas, and Q. H. Wu, Generalized locally weighted GMDH for short term load forecasting, IEEE Trans. Syst., Man and Cyber. C, Appl. and Rev., vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 345 356, 2012. [12] E. E. Elattar, J. Y. Goulermas, and Q. H. Wu, Electric load forecasting based on locally weighted support vector regression, IEEE Trans. Syst., Man and Cyber. C, Appl. and Rev., vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 438 447, 2010. [13] A. M. Kinawy, T. A. Mohammed, and E. E. El-Attar, Application Of fast super decoupled state estimator on ill-conditioned power systems, Engineering Research Journal (ERJ), Faculty of Engineering, Menofia University, Vol. 26, No. 1, Jan. 2003. International Conferences [14] E. E. Elattar, A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Bacterial Foraging Approach for Unit Commitment, The 1st International Workshop on Mechatronic Education, Taif University, Saudi Arabia, March 8-10, 2015, pp. 1 9. [15] E. E. Elattar and T. Fetouh, Unit Commitment Scheduling Using LWSVR Based Short-Term Load Forecasting, The 15th IEEE International Middle East Power System Conference, MEPCON 2012, Alex. University, Egypt, Dec. 23-25, 2012, pp. 1 6. [16] E. E. Elattar, Short term wind power prediction using evolutionary optimized local support vector regression, Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT2011), Manchester, UK, Dec. 5-7, 2011, pp. 1 7. [17] E. E. Elattar, J. Y. Goulermas, and Q. H. Wu, Evolutionary design of the modified locally weighted GMDH for short term load forecasting. The 14th IEEE International Middle East Power System Conference, MEPCON 2010, Cairo University, Egypt, Dec. 19-21, 2010, pp. 1-7. [18] E. E. Elattar, J. Y. Goulermas, and Q. H. Wu, Integrating KPCA and locally weighted support vector regression for short-term load forecasting, in the 15th IEEE Miditerranean Electrotechnical Conf. (MELECON 2010), Valletta, Malta, Apr. 25 28, 2010, pp. 1528 1533. [19] E. E. El-Attar, J. Y. Goulermas, and Q. H. Wu, Forecasting electric daily peak load based on local prediction, in IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM09), Calgary, Canada, Jul. 26 30, 2009, pp. 1 6. [20] E. E. El-Attar, A. M. Kinawy and T. A. Mohammed, Determination of the best rotation angles for the fast super decoupled state estimator, The 9th International Middle East Power System Conference, MEPCON 2003, Menofia University, Egypt, Dec. 2003.

CONFERENCES PRESENTATIONS: I participated by attending and lecturing in the following conferences: The 1st International Workshop on Mechatronic Education, Taif University, Saudi Arabia, March 8 10, 2015. Second Symposium on Wireless Sensors and Cellular Networks, Jeddah, KSA, December 13-16, 2013.(Attending only) The 15 th International Middle East Power System Conference, MEPCON 2012, Alex. University, Egypt, December 23-25, 2012. The Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT-EUROPE 2011), Manchester, UK, December 5-7, 2011. The 14 th International Middle East Power System Conference, MEPCON 2010, Cairo University, Egypt, December 19-21, 2010. The 15 th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conf. (MELECON 2010), Valletta, Malta, April 25-28, 2010. The IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting (PESGM 2009), Calgary, Canada, July 26-30, 2009. The 9 th International Middle East Power System Conference, MEPCON 2003, Menofia University, Egypt, December 16-18, 2003.