Rate My Professor Kamyar Mehran

Dr. Kamyar Mehran is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Electrical Power Engineering at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, where he joined in 2015 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2020. He also serves as Programme Coordinator for the MSc in Advanced Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Industry Lead for the Centre for Electronics. His academic background includes a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Newcastle University in 2010, with a thesis titled 'TS Fuzzy Approach for Modelling, Analysis and Design of Non-smooth Dynamical Systems'; an MSc in Control and Automation (Distinction) from Newcastle University in 2004; a BSc (Hons) in Computer Hardware Engineering from the University of Tehran in 1998; and a PGCert in Business and Entrepreneurship from Durham University in 2010. Prior appointments include Research Fellow at the University of Warwick from 2013 to 2015 on an EPSRC-funded project for next-generation engine management systems; Research Associate at Newcastle University from 2010 to 2013 on the EU FP7 Optoneuro project; and Chief Technical Officer at OptoNeuro Ltd, a Newcastle University spin-off, from 2011 to 2013.

Mehran founded and directs the Real-time Power and Control System (RPCS) Laboratory since 2016, focusing on hardware-in-the-loop research for energy management in electric vehicles and microgrids. His research specializations encompass power electronics, microgrid control and energy management, electric and hybrid powertrains, system modelling and control, and battery management systems, with emphasis on novel control methodologies for islanded DC microgrids, energy storage, and SiC-based power electronics. He has authored key publications such as 'An Algorithmic Framework for Full-order Physics-based Simulations of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy' in Nature Communications Chemistry (accepted 2024), 'Short-term solar PV forecasting in microgrids using cloud top temperature and vision transformer-based models' in Frontiers in Energy Research (2025), 'Membership-dependent polynomial fuzzy control of a positive discrete time system' in ISA Transactions (2024), 'Stability Analysis of Discrete-Time Polynomial Fuzzy-Model-Based Control Systems with Time Delay and Positivity Constraints' in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (2020), and 'A Distributed Event-Triggered Control Strategy for DC Microgrids' in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2019). As Principal Investigator, he has secured over £423,000 in grants from EPSRC, Innovate UK Faraday Challenge (£455,271 in 2018), GCRF, and others. Honors include Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE), Member of IET (MIET), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), guest editor for IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (2019), and part of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering teaching team awarded QMUL Education Excellence Award in 2025.