Rate My Professor Kashem Muttaqi

Professor Kashem Muttaqi is a Senior Professor and Discipline Leader in Electrical Engineering in the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of Wollongong, where he also directs the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Energy Technologies for Future Grids. With more than 25 years of academic experience, he joined the University of Wollongong in 2008 as Associate Professor, advancing to Professor in 2016 and Senior Professor in 2022. His prior appointments include Research Fellow, Lecturer, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania (2002–2008), Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (2000–2002), Lecturer at Multimedia University, Malaysia (1997–2000), and industry roles as Electrical Executive at KTA Tenaga Nasional and Researcher at University of Malaya. Professor Muttaqi holds a PhD (2001) from Multimedia University, Malaysia; MEngSc in Electrical Power Engineering (1997) from University of Malaya; and BScEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1993) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

His research specializations lie in electrical power engineering, focusing on modelling and control of renewable and distributed energy resources, including wind turbines, rooftop solar PV, energy storage systems, distributed generation, power converters, and solid-state transformers. Professor Muttaqi has authored or co-authored over 500 papers in international journals and conferences, including highly influential works such as “A novel control strategy for a variable-speed wind turbine with a permanent-magnet synchronous generator” (IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2010), “Distribution system planning with incorporating DG reactive capability and system uncertainties” (IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2012), and “Mitigation of rooftop solar PV impacts and evening peak support by managing available capacity of distributed energy storage systems” (IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2013). He has supervised more than 29 higher degree research students. Among his honors are elevation to IEEE Fellow (2022) for contributions to renewable and distributed energy resource modelling and control, Fellowship of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and Fellowship of Engineers Australia (FIEAust). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (since 2024), Executive Board Member of IEEE Industry Applications Society, and holds various editorial and committee roles. His pioneering work has influenced grid codes and standards for variable power-factor operation of distributed generation.