Design, Analysis and Applications of Renewable Energy Systems

Prof. Ahmad Azar is a full Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. He is the leader of Automated Systems and Computing Lab (ASCL), Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia.Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK. He is also the Editor in Chief of International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) and International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) published by IGI Global, USA. From 2013 to 2017, Prof. Azar was an associate editor of ISA Transactions, Elsevier.He is currently an editor for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Springer's Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences.Prof. Azar specializes in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, machine learning, control theory and applications, computational intelligence, reinforcement learning, and dynamic system modeling. He has published or co-published over 550 research papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.Dr. Ahmad Azar has received several awards, including the Benha University Prize for Scientific Excellence (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and the Benha University Highest Citation Award (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018). In June 2018, he was awarded the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. In August 2018, he was elected as a senior member of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS).Prof. Azar was named one of the top computer scientists in Saudi Arabia by Research.com since December 2019. He was awarded the Egyptian President's Distinguished Egyptian Order of the First Class in February 2020. In October 2020, Prof. Azar received Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics. From October 2020 to September 2023, Prof. Azar was recognized as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.In November 2020, October 2021, October 2022, October 2023, September 2024, and September 2025 Prof. Azar was named one of the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence by Stanford University, based on single-year impact and career-long impact. These rankings were published by Stanford University in the PLOS journal and were based on the SCOPUS database.Prof. Ahmad Azar has been recognized as one of the top ten researchers at Prince Sultan University, based on his Scopus H-index. He has also received a university award for being among his top publication of research.Prof. Azar has received Prince Sultan University’s Research Excellence Award. He is also the recipient of the university’s Highest Impact Researcher Award, based on his H-index. Additionally, he has earned a PSU research award for having publications ranked among the top five by impact factor.Prof. Ahmad Azar is the Vice Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee of Control Design, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 4.3 Robotics, Vice chair of IFAC Technical committee 9.3 “Control for Smart Cities”. He is a technical Committee Member of Data Mining and Big Data Analytics of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), IFAC Technical committee Member TC 2.2. Linear Control Systems, IFAC Technical committee Member TC 1.2. Adaptive and Learning Systems.Nashwa Ahmad Kamal has received the M.Sc. degree in 2014 and Ph.D degree in 2019 from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt. Dr. Kamal is the managing editor of some international journals like International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) and International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) published by IGI Global, USA. Also, she is the managing editor of International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK. Dr. Nashwa Ahmad Kamal has worked in the areas of Control Theory & Applications, Process Control, Nonlinear control, Robotics and Renewable Energy and has authored/coauthored some research publications in peer-reviewed reputed journals book chapters and conference proceedings. She is a member of international group of control systems and International Society of Automation (ISA), USA

• 1: Impact on steam generator/boiler operation and control due to renewable energy integration to electrical grid2: Hybrid renewable energy systems for energy supply to autonomous desalination systems on Isolated Islands3: Storage systems in PV plants with delivery limitation4: Soft computing in renewable energy system modelling5: Strategy to support renewable energy sources in Europe6: The dynamics of renewable energy innovation system in Tunisia7: Designing and Performance Analysis of Solar Tracker System: A Case Study of Çukurova Region8: Renewable energy, R&D and economic complexity: new evidence for Latin America using quantile regressions9: Techno-economic comparative assessment of an off-grid hybrid renewable energy system for electrification of remote area10: Dynamic self-recurrent wavelet neural network for Solar Radiation Forecasting11: Developing energy management system considering renewable energy systems in residential complex12: Techno-Economic Performance Evaluation among different Solar Photovoltaic System Configurations13: Assessment and Decision Making of Biomass Energy Conversion System by Big Data and Game Theory Technique14: Assessment of V-I Droop Mechanism to create Power Reserve for Stand-Alone Microgrid15: The Importance of Renewable Energy Expansion in Power Generation Sector in Iran: a Computable General Equilibrium Approach16: Operating Mode Management of Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems using Event-Driven Hybrid Bond Graphs17: A Review on Energy Management Methods for Residential Renewable Energy Systems18: Reliability Effects of the Dynamic Thermal Rating System on Wind Energy Integrations19: Frequency Support by Grid Connected DFIG Based Wind Farms20: A holistic approach of the energy system to frame renewable and energy efficiency models21: Next Generation of Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems22: Quantum computing in renewable energy exploration: Status, opportunities and challenges23: Electric Vehicles charging strategy based on multi-market platforms for photovoltaic powered workplace charging station24: Choice among Alternatives - An Evaluation of Indian Energy Basket25: Renewable Energy in Bangladesh: Status and Potential26: Hybrid Operational Deployment of Renewable Energy - A Distribution Generation Approach27: The role of Distributed Energy systems in enabling electric vehicle wireless charging28: IoT Driven Data Extraction Applications using Common Information Model in a Hybrid Microgrid System29: Metering Architecture of Smart Grid30: Solar Energy Sustainability in Bangladesh: Tackling the Management Challenges