Dr.
Ayman
Faza
academic
Biography:
Dr. Ayman Faza is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT). He earned his PhD and Master’s in Computer Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO, USA, in 2010 and 2007, respectively. His doctoral research area was in reliability modeling for Cyber Physical Systems, focusing on the reliability of the Smart Grid. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan in 2003.
He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Missouri University of Science and Technology, specializing in Audio Signal Processing, and has also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at La Spienza University in Rome, focusing on Wireless Networks Technologies for Smart Grid implementations. His current research interests include Power Systems Modeling and Operation, Smart Grids, Renewable Energy Systems, and Reliability Modeling. Dr. Faza is a senior member of the IEEE. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program Fellowship, the Erasmus Mundus Exchange Scholarship for postdoctoral studies, and has also received two best paper awards for research papers.
Academic Rank:
Associate professor
Faculty:
King Abdullah II School of Engineering
KAE Departments:
Electrical Engineering
Phone:
535 9949
Extension:
216
Office:
EE323
Email:
Curriculum Vitae:
Publications:
Journal Papers
- Ayman Faza and Amjed Al-Mousa. PSO-Based Optimization toward Intelligent Dynamic Pricing Schemes Parameterization. Sustainable Cities and Society, 51, November 2019 .
- Amjed Al-Mousa and Ayman Faza. A fuzzy-based customer response prediction model for a day-ahead dynamic pricing system. Sustainable Cities and Society, 44:265-274, January 2019.
- Ayman Faza. A probabilistic model for estimating the e ects of photovoltaic sources on the power systems reliability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 171:67-77, March 2018.
- Fadi AlAlamat and Ayman Faza. Distributed pv hosting capacity estimation and improvement: 33kv distribution system case study. Jordan Journal of Electrical Engineering, 3(4):224-234, December 2017.
- Ayman Faza, Majd Batarseh, and Wejdan Abu-Elhaija. Upgrading power and energy engineering curricula in jordanian universities: A case study at psut. The International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, 54(1):57-81, January 2017.
- Pratik Shah, Ayman Faza, Raghavendra Nimmala, Steven Grant, William Chapin, and Robert Montgomery. The immersive audio environment - implementation, subjective tests and results. International Journal of Multimedia Technology, 3(1):18-26, March 2013.
Refereed Conference Papers
- Ayman Faza. Improving power system reliability using distributed wind generation. In Proceedings of the IEEE Southeastcon Conference, Raleigh, NC, USA, March 2020.
- Fares S. El-Faouri, Munther Sharaiha, Daoud Bargouth, and Ayman Faza. A smart street lighting system using solar energy. In Proceedings of the IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid
Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2016. - S. Lauria, M. Maccioni, M. Schembari, A. Codino, and Ayman Faza. Optimal power flow application to ehvac interconnections for gw-sized o shore wind farms. In Proceedings of
the 16th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC'16),
Florence, Italy, 2016. - Ayman Faza. Analysis of the effects of distributed generation sources on power grid reliability. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS'15), Sharjah, UAE, 2015.
- Mageda El-Moubarak, Mahmoud Hassan, and Ayman Faza. Performance of three islanding detection methods for grid-tied multi-inverters. In Proceedings of the IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC'15), Rome, Italy, June 2015.
- Ibrahem Totonchi, Hussain Al Akash, Abdelhadi Al Akash, and Ayman Faza. Sensitivity analysis for the IEEE 30 bus system using load flow studies. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Electric Power and Energy Conversion Systems (EPECS'13), Istanbul, Turkey, 2013.
- Ayman Faza, Steven Grant, and Jacob Benesty. Adaptive regularization in frequency domain nlms lters. In Proceedings of the 20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'12), pages 2625-2628, 2012.
- Pratik Shah, Ayman Faza, Raghavendra Nimmala, Steven Grant, William Chapin, and Robert Montgomery. On infrared tracking, tests, and results in the immersive audio environment. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2012), 2012.
- Pratik Shah, Ayman Faza, Raghavendra Nimmala, Steven Grant, and William Chapin. The immersive audio environment - implementation, subjective tests and results. In The 17th International Conference on Auditory Displays (ICAD'11), June 2011.
- Ayman Faza, Sahra Sedigh, and Bruce McMillin. Integrated cyber-physical fault injection for reliability analysis of the smart grid. In Proc. of the Int'l Conf. on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP '10), 2010.
- Ayman Faza, Sahra Sedigh, and Bruce McMillin. Reliability modeling for the advanced electric power grid: A proposal for doctoral research. In Proc. of the 33rd Annual Int'l Computer Software and Applications Conf. (COMPSAC '09), pages 672{675, July 2009.
- Ayman Faza, Sahra Sedigh, and Bruce McMillin. Reliability analysis for the power grid; from cyber control and communication to physical manifestations of failure. In The Int'l Conf. on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP'09) (Winner of Best Paper Award), pages 257-269, Sept. 2009.
- Ayman Faza, Sahra Sedigh, and Bruce McMillin. The advanced electric power grid: Complexity reduction techniques for reliability modeling. In Proc. of the Int'l Conf. on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP'08), pages 429-439, Sept. 2008.
- Ayman Faza, Sahra Sedigh, and Bruce McMillin. Reliability modeling for the advanced electric power grid. In Proc. of the Int'l Conf. on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP'07), pages 370{383, Sept. 2007.
- Ayman Faza and Sahra Sedigh. General purpose framework for wireless sensor network applications. In Proc. of the 30th Annual Int'l Computer Software and Applications Conf. (COMPSAC '06)(Winner of Best Student Paper Award), pages 356-358, Sept. 2006.