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Dr. Md. Sohel Rana

ড. মো: সোহেল রানা

Professor

  •  Room No:  209, First Floor, Academic Building 2
  •  Phone:   880-1725431631
  •  PABX:   431
  •  Email:   sohel.unsw@gmail.com
  • sohel@eee.ruet.ac.bd
  •  Website:   https://www.eee.ruet.ac.bd/sohel
Field of Research
  •  Control Theory and Control Applications
  •  Nanopositioning
  •  Mechatronics
  •  Renewable Energy Integrations
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  •  First Joined: 18th Dec, 2008
  •      Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Position

Education

Book / Book Chapter
3
Journal Articles
20
Conference Papers
42
SL Authors Title Publisher Details Publication Year Type
1 Md Mahmudul Hasan, MS Rana, Fariya Tabassum, HR Pota, Md Hassanul Karim Roni Optimizing the initial weights of a PID neural network controller for voltage stabilization of microgrids using a PEO-GA algorithm Applied Soft Computing 2023 Journal
2 Anupom Devnath, M. A. Rahman, and M. S. Rana International Journal of Dynamics and Control Impact analysis of cyber-attack on MMC-HVDC control system with countermeasures International Journal of Dynamics and Control 2023 Journal
3 Md. Hassanul Karim Roni and M. S. Rana Bio-Inspired Meta-Heuristic Optimization Techniques for Designing DC-DC Boost Converter Controller in a DC Microgrid System Applied Informatics for Industry 4.0, Taylor and Francis' Publication 2022 Book Chapter
4 Fariya Tabassum, Md. Shajid Hossain, M. S. Rana Design a Robust Control Platform for Grid Connected Synchronous Generator Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer 2022 Book Chapter
5 Md. Hassanul Karim Roni, M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Shajid Hussain Recent trends in bio-inspired meta-heuristic optimization techniques in control applications for electrical systems: a review International Journal of Dynamics and Control (Springer Nature) 2022 Journal
6 M. M. Hasan, M. S. Hussain, M. S. Rana and M. H. K. Roni Population Extremal Optimization Based 2-DOF Control Strategy for Field Oriented Control of Induction Motor 3rd International Conference on Electrical & Electronic Engineering (ICEEE), 2021, pp. 117-120 2021 Conference
7 M. F. Ishraque, M. S. Hussain, M. S. Rana, M. H. Karim Roni and S. A. Shezan Design and Assessment of a Standalone Hybrid Mode Microgrid for the Rohingya Refugees Using Load Following Dispatch Strategy 6th International Conference on Development in Renewable Energy Technology (ICDRET), 2021, pp. 01-06 2021 Conference
8 Md Mahmudul Hasan and M. S. Rana Modified Population Extremal Optimization Based PID Neural Network for Islanded Microgrid System IEEE 4th International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), pp. 1-6, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2021 Conference
9 Md. Hassanul Karim Roni and M. S. Rana Optimized PID Control Scheme for Three Phase Micro-grid System 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Electrical and Signal Processing Techniques 2021 (ICREST 2021), AIUB, Bangladesh 2021 Conference
10 Md. Hassanul Karim Roni and M. S. Rana Genetic Algorithm Based Data-Driven ILQR Control Scheme for Three-Phase Microgrid System IEEE International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Computing, Communications and Sustainable Technologies (IEEE ICAECT 2021), Bhilai, India 2021 Conference
11 Md. Hassanul Karim Roni and M. S. Rana Data-Driven Linear Quadratic Control Scheme for Three-Phase Microgrid System Optimized by Genetic Algorithm 3rd IEEE Conference on Emerging Smart Computing & Informatics 2021, Pune, India 2021 Conference
12 Md. Fatin Ishraque, Sk. A. Shezan, Md. Sohel Rana, Akhlaqur Rahman, S. M. Muyeen *, Liton Chandra Paul, Md. Shafiul Islam Optimal Sizing and Assessment of a Renewable Rich Standalone Hybrid Microgrid Considering Conventional Dispatch Methodologies Sustainability (MDPI) 2021 Journal
13 Fariya Tabassum and M. S. Rana Robust Control of Frequency for Multi-Area Power System IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 5-7 June, 2020, Dhaka, pp. 88-89 2020 Conference
14 M. A. Rahman, M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota Mitigation of Frequency and Voltage Disruptions in Smart Grid during Cyber-Attack Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems (Springer) 2020 Journal
15 M. S. Rana Improved 3D Imaging Performance of AFM Journal of Mechatronics and Robotics 2020 Journal
16 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Compensation of Motion Coupling Effect in AFM Imaging Micro & Nano Letters, IET 2020 Journal
17 M. A. Rahman and M. S. Rana Compensation for Voltage Disruption in a Smart Grid during Cyber–Attack 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology 2019 (ICASERT 2019), pp. 1-5 2019 Conference
18 Fariya Tabassum and M. S. Rana Robust Control of Terminal Voltage of an Isolated Electric Power Generating Unit 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology 2019 (ICASERT 2019), May 3-5, 2019, pp. 1-5 2019 Conference
19 Fariya Tabassum and M. S. Rana Compensation of Frequency Fluctuation in a Single Area Power System Using LQR-VC 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology 2019 (ICASERT 2019), May 3-5, 2019, pp. 1-5 2019 Conference
20 Fariya Tabassum and M. S. Rana Design an Optimal LQG Control for Maintaining Nominal Frequency of a Single Area Power System 5th International Conference on Computer, Communication, Chemical, Materials and Electronic Engineering (IC4ME2-2019) , July 11-12, 2019, pp. 1-4 2019 Conference
21 Fariya Tabassum and M. S. Rana An Optimal LQG-DC Control for Compensating Voltage Fluctuation in a Single Area Power System 5th International Conference on Computer, Communication, Chemical, Materials and Electronic Engineering (IC4ME2-2019), July 11-12, 2019, pp. 1-4 2019 Conference
22 Fariya Tabassum and M. S. Rana Terminal Voltage Control of Multi-area Power Systems Using Optimal Control Approach 5th International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE-2019), 26-28 September, 2019, pp.496-501 2019 Conference
23 Mst. Farzana Khatun, M. S. Rana, Tahasin Ahmed Fahim, and Syed Tauhid Zuhori Mathematical Models for Extracellular Fluid Measurement to Detect Hydration Level Based on Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis 32nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)-2019, Canada, pp. 1-5 2019 Conference
24 Md. Kamruzzaman, Shanta Saha; and M. S. Rana Eliminating Frequency Deviation and Restoring Terminal Voltage of an Electric Power Generating Unit using Model Predictive Control International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), 7-9 February, 2019 2018 Conference
25 M. S. Hosen, M. Z. Islam Abir, M. S. Rana, and M. M. Ali An Optimal Control of Three Phase Islanded Microgrid System International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering (ECCE), 7-9 February, 2019 2018 Conference
26 Mst. Farzana Khatun, M. S. Rana and A. K. Sarkar Linear Regression Models for Total Body Water Measurement with Better Accuracy Based on Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis 1st International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology (ICASERT 2019), May 3-5, 2019, pp. 1-5 2018 Conference
27 Mst. Farzana Khatun, Tahasin Ahmed Fahim, Sajib Sen, and M. S. Rana Estimation of Total Body Water using Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis 16th IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI), 2019, USA 2018 Conference
28 Mst. Farzana Khatun, Tahasin Ahmed Fahim, Sajib Sen, and M. S. Rana Linear Regression Models for Extracellular Fluid Measurement Based on Biomedical Impedance Analysis 16th IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI), 2019, USA. 2018 Conference
29 Mst. Farzana Khatun, Tahasin Ahmed Fahim, Sajib Sen, and M. S. Rana Mathematical Models for Intracellular Fluid Measurement Based on Biomedical Impedance Analysis 16th IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI), 2019, USA 2018 Conference
30 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen A survey of methods used to control piezoelectric tube scanners in high-speed AFM imaging Asian Journal of Control, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 1379-1399 2018 Journal
31 M. A. Rahman and M. S. Rana Indemnity for Frequency Disruption in a Smart Grid during Cyber–Attack 2nd International Conference on Electrical & Electronic Engineering (ICEEE 2015) 4-6 November, 2017 2017 Conference
32 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Improvement in Imaging Performance of Atomic Force Microscopy: A Survey IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1265 - 1285 2017 Journal
33 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Development of Scanning Methods in AFM Imaging International Conference on Electrical Electronics and Industrial Automation (ICEEIA)-2016, Pattaya, Thailand, November 23-24, 2016, pp. 97-106 2016 Conference
34 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen MPC in High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy 6th Australian Control Conferences (AUCC)-2016, Australia, November 2-3, 2016, pp. 135-140 2016 Conference
35 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Limiting Factor for a Piezoelectric Tube Scanner American Control Conferences (ACC)-2016, Boston, USA, July 6-8 2016, pp. 7402-7407 2016 Conference
36 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Nonlinearity Effects Reduction of an AFM Piezoelectric Tube Scanner Using MIMO MPC IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 1458–1469 2016 Journal
37 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Errors Compensation in an AFM Scanned Images Micro & Nano Letters, IET, vol. 11, no. 1 2016 Journal
38 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Improved 3D Imaging Performance of MPC 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Osaka, Japan, December 15-18, 2015, pp. 7359-7364 2015 Conference
39 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Nanopositioning Performance of MIMO MPC 10th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Malaysia, May, pp. 1-6, 2015 2015 Conference
40 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen An Improved Controller Design for Reducing Errors in AFM Imaging 5th Australian Control Conference-2015, Australia, November 4-6 2015, pp. 263-268 2015 Conference
41 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Relative Performance of Spiral Scan Over Raster Scan in the AFM Imaging International Conference on Electrical & Electronic Engineering (ICEEE 2015) 4-6 November, 2015, pp. 217-220 2015 Conference
42 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, I. R. Petersen, and Habibullah Effect of Improved Tracking for Atomic Force Microscope on Piezo Nonlinear Behavior Asian Journal of Control, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1–15 2015 Journal
43 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Performance of Sinusoidal Scanning with MPC Scheme in AFM Imaging IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 73–83 2015 Journal
44 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Cross-coupling Effect Compensation of an AFM Piezoelectric Tube Scanner for Improved Nanopositioning American Control Conference, June 4-6, 2014, USA, pp. 2456-2461 2014 Conference
45 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Creep, Hysteresis, and Vibration Effects Attenuation in an AFM PTS European Control Conference (ECC), June 24-27, 2014, France, pp. 2022-2027 2014 Conference
46 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen The Design of Model Predictive Control for an AFM and its Impact on Piezo Nonlinearities European Journal of Control, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 188–198, July 2014 2014 Journal
47 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Spiral Scanning with Improved Control for Faster Imaging of AFM IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 541–550 2014 Journal
48 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Approach for Improved Positioning of an Atomic Force Microscope Piezoelectric Tube Scanner Micro & Nano Letters, IET, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 407–411 2014 Journal
49 A.S.M. Bakibillah and M. S. Rana Effect of Oxide Charge and Interface Traps on Drain Current Degradation of Vertical Silicon Tunneling Field Effect Transistors International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications 2014 Journal
50 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, I. R. Petersen, and Habibullah Spiral Scanning of Atomic Force Microscope for Faster Imaging 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Italy, December 10-13, 2013, pp. 354-359 2013 Conference
51 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen On the Performance of an MPC Controller Including a Notch Filter for an AFM Australian Control Conference (AUCC), Australia November 4-5, 2013, pp. 485-490 2013 Conference
52 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, I. R. Petersen, and Habibullah Nonlinearity Compensation for Improved Nanopositioning of Atomic Force Microscope IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Hyderabad, India, 2013, pp. 461-466 2013 Conference
53 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, I. R. Petersen, and Habibullah Control of Resonant Modes of a Smart Structure Using OMPC 9th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Istanbul, 2013, pp. 1-6 2013 Conference
54 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, I. R. Petersen, and Habibullah Improvement of the Tracking Accuracy of an AFM Using MPC 8th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) Melbourne, Australia, 2013, pp. 1681-1686 2013 Conference
55 H. Habibullah, H. R. Pota, I. R. Petersen, and M. S. Rana LQG Controller with sinusoidal reference signal modeling for spiral scanning of atomic force microscope 8th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA) Melbourne, Australia, 2013, pp. 1474-1479 2013 Conference
56 H. Habibullah, H. R. Pota, I. R. Petersen, and M. S. Rana Reduction of cross-coupling between X-Y axes of piezoelectric scanner stage of atomic force microscope for faster scanning IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Hyderabad, India, 2013, pp. 455-460 2013 Conference
57 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Advanced Control of Atomic Force Microscope for Faster Image Scanning Applied Methods and Techniques for Mechatronic System, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 371-388 2013 Book Chapter
58 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen High-speed AFM Image Scanning Using Observer Based MPC-Notch Control IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 246–254 2013 Journal
59 H. Habibullah, H. R. Pota, I. R. Petersen, and M. S. Rana Tracking of Triangular Reference Signals Using LQG Controllers for Lateral Positioning of an AFM Scanner Stage IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 2013 Journal
60 H. Habibullah, H. R. Pota, I. R. Petersen, and M. S. Rana Creep, Hysteresis, and Cross-coupling Reduction in the High-precision Positioning of the Piezoelectric Scanner Stage of an Atomic Force Microscope IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 2013 Journal
61 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota and I. R. Petersen Model predictive control of Atomic force microscope for fast image scanning 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Hawaii, USA, December 10-13, 2012, pp. 2477-2482. 2012 Conference
62 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota and I. R. Petersen High performance control of Atomic Force Microscope for high-speed image scanning 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, (ICARCV),Guangzhou, China, December 5-7, 2012, pp. 1187–1192. 2012 Conference
63 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen High performance control of a PZT scanner for fast nanoscale positioning of Atomic Force Microscope in Australian Control Conference (AUCC), Sydney, Australia, November 15-16, 2012, pp. 464-469 2012 Conference
64 M. S. Rana and H. R. Pota Faster scanning performance of OMPC controlled AFM 7th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), pp. 779-782, 2012 2012 Conference
65 M. S. Rana, H. R. Pota, and I. R. Petersen Improved control of Atomic Force Microscope for high-speed image scanning in Australian Control Conference (AUCC), Sydney, Australia, November 15-16, 2012, pp. 470-475 2012 Conference
  •  2021: Best Paper Session Award in the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Smart Computing and Informatics (IEEE-ESCI 2021) , Maharashtra, India
  •  2017: Best Paper Award in the 2nd International Conference of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (ICEEE-2017), RUET Bangladesh
  •  2015: Best Paper Award in the Australian Control Conference (AUCC), 2015, Australia
  •  2014: Award for Excellence in High Impact Journal Publications, SEIT, UNSW, Australia
  •  2013: Honorable Mention Award for Excellence in High Impact Journal Publications, SEIT, UNSW, Australia
  •  2017: Visiting Fellowship, SEIT, UNSW, Australia
  •  Nov. 2014-Nov. 2015: Research Associate, SEIT, UNSW, Australia
  •  Aug. 2014-Nov. 2014: Research Publications Fellow, SEIT, UNSW, Australia
  •  2013: IEEE Student Travel Grant from Control System Society (CSS) to attend in the Australian Control Conference (AUCC), 2013
  •  2012: Postgraduate Research Student Support (PRSS) Travel Grant from the SEIT, UNSW, Australia to attend in the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Hawaii, USA, 2012
  •  Mar. 2014-Aug. 2014: Top up scholarship funded by Australian Research Council (ARC)
  •  Feb. 2011- Aug. 2014: TFS Scholarship from UNSW, Australia (for 3.5 Years)
  •  Feb. 2011- Aug. 2014: UCPRS Scholarship from UNSW, Australia (for 3.5 Years)
  •  2003-2008: H.S.C Government Scholarship for excellent performance at Higher Secondary level, Bangladesh
  •  2001-2003: S.S.C Government Scholarship for excellent performance at Secondary School level, Bangladesh
  •  1998-2001: Junior Scholarship (Talent pool)
  •  Joint Secretary of 4th International Conference of Electrical, Computer & Telecommunication Engineering (ICECTE-2022) , RUET, Bangladesh
  •  Joint Secretary of 3rd International Conference of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (ICEEE-2021) , RUET, Bangladesh
  •  Conference Session Co-Chair of 2nd International Conference of Electrical, Computer & Telecommunication Engineering (ICECTE-2016)
  •  Conference Session Chair of 3rd International Conference of Electrical, Computer & Telecommunication Engineering (ICECTE-2019) , RUET, Bangladesh
  •  Conference Session Chair of 9th Asian Control Conference (ASCC-2013) (Linear control (II))
  •  Member of International Advisory Committee of 17th Asian Simulation Conference (AsiaSim-2017), Malaysia
  •  Joint Secretary of 2nd International Conference of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (ICEEE-2017) , RUET, Bangladesh
  •  Joint Secretary of 3rd International Conference of Electrical, Computer & Telecommunication Engineering (ICECTE-2019) , RUET, Bangladesh
Phd Students
IdNameThesis workCurrent Position
Masters Students
IdNameThesis workCurrent Position
1604101016Fariya TabassumDesign a Robust Platform to Enhance the Stability of Power Generating System (Degree Awarded on 2019)Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE, RUET
1704101007Md. Hassanul Karim RoniDevelopment of A Robust Control Approach for Improving the Stability of Microgrid System (Degree Awarded on 2021)Lecturer, Dept. of EEE, HSTU
1804101013Md. Fatin IshraqueTechno-economic Analysis of Load Dispatch Strategies for an Islanded Microgrid Connected with Renewable Energy Sources (Degree Awarded on 2022)Faculty of ECE, PUST
1804101004Mst. Farzana KhatunDevelopment of Mathematical Models for Measuring Human Body Cellular Fluids to Detect Diseases Based on Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (Degree awarded on 2019)Faculty of RUET
Undergraduate Students
IdNameThesis workCurrent Position
Activity Description
Postgraduation Thesis Evaluation

1)    Sancoy Barua (Student ID: 18MEE005P; Year: 2022, Institute: CUET) --- "Optimization based Energy Management System to Minimize Electricity Bill for Residential Customer"

2)    Md. Abu Hanif Pramanik (Student ID: 1904101007; Year: 2022, Institute: RUET) --- "Designing Nonlinear Controllers Using Higher Order Dynamics for Power System Transient Stability Improvement"

3)    Shuvra Prokash Biswas (Student ID: 1704101013; Year: 2021, Institute: RUET) --- "Advanced PWM Techniques for Multilevel Inverters to Improve Power Quality"

4)    Dristi Datta (Student ID: 1404101014; Year: 2019, Institute: RUET) --- "Robust Voltage Control of Islanded Microgrid Using Positive Position Feedback Controller"

5)    Mosst Tasnim Binte Shawkat (Student ID: 1604101001; Year: 2019, Institute: RUET) --- "Sub-diffraction Imaging with Hyperbolic Metamaterials: Theory, Simulation and Numerical Methods"

6)     Tahasin Ahmed Fahim (Student ID: 1604101003; Year: 2019, Institute: RUET) --- "Evaluation of Electrical Characteristics of Cell Membrane and Fat Free Mass of Human Body by Non-invasive Way"

7)    Md. Abdul Munjer (ID: 1404101003; Year: 2018, Institute: RUET) --- "Improvement of a Grid Connected PV System with Modular Cascaded Multilevel Inverter"

8)    T. H. M. Sumon Rashid (ID: 1304101003; Year: 2017, Institute: RUET) --- "Optimized Design of a Hybrid PV-Wind- Diesel System for Sustainable Living at Coastal Areas in Bangladesh"

9)    Sarafat Khan (ID: 1104101032; Year: 2017, Institute: RUET) --- "Estimation of Potential and Electric Field for Sphere and Plane Electrodes by Using Matlab Simulation"