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Saifur Rahman, Joseph Loring Professor of ECE
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Director
Virginia Tech - Advanced Research Institute
4300 Wilson Blvd., Suite 750
Arlington, VA 22203
Phone: 703-387-6027
Fax: 703-528-5543
E-Mail: srahman@vt.edu

Director
Northern Virginia Engineering
Northern Virginia Graduate Center
7054 Haycock Road
Falls Church VA 22043 - 2311

Tel: 703-538-8435
Fax: 703-538-8450




Research Interests:

Energy and Global Environment, Alternate Energy, Critical Infrastructure Assessment and Modeling, Uncertainty Evaluation

 

Current or Recent Research Sponsors:

National Science Foundation
Academic Liaison Office (USAID)
US Department of Energy
Virginia Department of Minerals, Mines and Energy.

 

Teaching Interests/Courses:

Critical infrastructures, Alternate Energy, Environmental Studies
ECE4364: Alternate Energy Systems
ECE5364: Electrical Energy and Environmental Systems

 

Publications/Reports:

"The telecommunication infrastructure: A model for optimum voice-data coverage", M. Pipattanasomporn and S. Rahman, Utilities Policy, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 24 July 2006.

"Intelligent Distributed Autonomous Power Systems (IDAPS) and their Impact on Critical Electrical Loads", M. Pipattanasomporn and S. Rahman, Proceedings 1st IEEE International Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection, Nov 3-4, 2005, pp. 101-109.

"Implications of On-Site Distributed Generation for Commercial/Industrial Facilities", M. Pipattanasomporn, M. Willingham and S. Rahman, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 20, no. 1, Feb 2005, pp. 206-212.

Invited lecture at the University of Electronic Sciences and Technology of China, IT Now and Future Forum, Chengdu, China, "Critical Information Infrastructure Assurance: Its Challenges and Opportunities", by S. Rahman, Sep 2006.

Invited talk at the IEEE Richmond Section, Richmond, Virginia, "Wind Energy: Opportunities and Challenges for Offshore Applications", by S. Rahman, G. Hagerman and M. Pipattanasomporn, Sep 2006.

Invited lecture at the 4th EAPC/PfP Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection & Civil Emergency Planning: Building Bridges between Stakeholders to Mitigate Disasters, Zurich, Switzerland, "Energy Networks for Sustainable Communication Systems and Mitigation of Civil Disasters", by S. Rahman, Aug 2006.

Keynote address at the 4th EAPC/PfP Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection & Civil Emergency Planning: Building Bridges between Stakeholders to Mitigate Disasters, Zurich, Switzerland, "ICT-Integrated Energy Infrastructure", by S. Rahman, Aug 2006.

Invited lecture to the South Africa Section of IEEE and the South Africa Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) at Wits University, West Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa, "Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change", by S. Rahman, May 2006.

Keynote address at the International Conference on Industrial and Commercial User of Energy (ICUE), Cape Town, South Africa, "Energy Use and National Energy Efficiency Strategies in China, India, USA and the EU", by S. Rahman, May 2006.

Invited presentation at the China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing, China, "Global Energy Use, Distributed Generation and Energy Efficiency", by S. Rahman, Apr 2006.

More publications and presentations

 

Education:

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1978
MS, Electrical Engineering, State Univ. of New York, 1975

BSc, Electrical Engineering, Bangladesh Univ. of Engineering & Technology, 1973

 

Professional Appointments and Activities:

Director, Center for Energy and the Global Environment
Director, Virginia Tech - Advanced Research Institute
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES)
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Power Engineering

Vice President, IEEE Publications Board, 2006
Member, IEEE Board of Governors, 2006
Member, Editorial Board, Proceedings of the IEEE, 2004-2006
Vice Chair, IEEE Publications Board, 2004-2005
Vice President, IEEE Power Engineering Society, 1999-2003

 

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