Rate My Professor Muhammad Irfan

Irfan's research specializations include renewable energy, electric vehicles, home energy management systems, energy policies, net zero energy buildings, and smart grids. He serves as Primary Chief Investigator for the project "Development of Energy Management Systems and Economic Models for Nearly Zero Energy Homes with Electric Vehicle Charging Stations," running from April 2022 to April 2025. His key publications demonstrate expertise in optimizing energy systems with solar PV and EV integration. These include "Novel control-based design optimization of Smart Energy Distribution and Management in vehicle-to-grid integrated microgrid" (Applied Energy, 2026), "Optimizing residential energy costs: a novel machine learning approach for solar PV and EV integration through heuristic price signal dispatch" (IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2025), "Optimizing load frequency control in microgrid with vehicle-to-grid integration in Australia: based on an enhanced control approach" (Applied Energy, 2024), "A novel data-driven optimization for cost-effective home energy management with PV-EV integration" (2024 IEEE 34th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, 2024), "Rooftop Solar and Electric Vehicle Integration for Smart, Sustainable Homes: A Comprehensive Review" (Energies, 2023), and earlier works such as "Thermal performance analysis of net zero energy home for sub zero temperature areas" (2018) and "Net zero energy buildings (NZEB): A case study of net zero energy home in Pakistan" (2018).