Mohamed Ashraf Hafez

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, (Electrical Engineering)

Mohamed Hafez received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2017 and 2019, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2024. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University, Canada.

Research Interests:

His research interests include control theory applications in modern power systems, renewable energy integration, renewable smoothing, and the modeling and control of hydrogen electrolysis facilities.

E-mail: moh24@yorku.ca

Office location: BRG 312

Refereed Journal:

  1. M. A. Hafez, E. M. Uzeda and M. E. Broucke, “Optimal Steady-State Regulation by State Feedback,” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 6042-6057, Sept. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2024.3393791.  – link
  2. E. Mejia Uzeda, M.A. Hafez, and M.E. Broucke, “Learning and forgetting in systems neuroscience: A control perspective.” Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 56, p.100912, 2023. – link
  3. M. A. Hafez and M. E. Broucke, “Stability of Discrete-Time Switched Systems With Multiple Equilibria Using a Common Quadratic Lyapunov Function,” in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 2497-2502, 2022, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3166852. – link

Refereed Conference:

  1. M. A. Hafez, A. F. El-Hamalawy, and H. E. Z. Farag, “Application of Utility Scale Hydrogen Electrolyzers for Virtual Renewable Power Smoothing.” International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems, 2024.
  2. M. A. Hafez and M. E. Broucke, “Optimal Steady-State Regulation Using an Internal Model and State Feedback,” 2024 American Control Conference (ACC), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2024, pp. 3237-3244, doi: 10.23919/ACC60939.2024.10644515. – link
  3. M. A. Hafez, E. M. Uzeda and M. E. Broucke, “Discrete-time Output Regulation and Visuomotor Adaptation,” 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Austin, TX, USA, 2021, pp. 1391-1398, doi: 10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683247. – link