موقع حكومي رسمي تابع لحكومة المملكة العربية السعوديةكيف تتحقق
موقع حكومي رسمي تابع لحكومة المملكة العربية السعوديةكيف تتحقق
هاني عوض خلف البلوي
Associate Professor at Electrical Engineering Department
السيرة الذاتية
جدول الدراسة
الابحاث والمؤلفات
المشاريع البحثية
الجوائز
الخبرات والمناصب الإدارية
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المؤهلات العلمية
BSc Degree in Electrical Engineering from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
MSc Degree in Automatic Control System Engineering from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
الاهتمامات البحثية
Renewable energy, Energy storage, power system quality, power system planning and operation, and power system control, Power System Economics, Reliability and Planning and Modeling and Simulation of Electrical Machines and Drives, and Renewable Energy
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الكلية
كلية الهندسة
التخصص العام
الهندسة الكهربائية
التخصص الدقيق
هندسة القوى الكهربائية
الدرجة العلمية (المرتبة)
دكتوراه
الجنسية
السعودية
المسمى الوظيفي
استاذ مشارك
2026/01/25 - 12:04 م06/شعبان/1447 - 15:04
Academic Appointments
Director, Renewable Energy and Environmental Technology Center, University of Tabuk March 2020 – Present (Formerly: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Center)
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Tabuk January 2023 – Present
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Tabuk April 2017 – December 2022
Chairman, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Tabuk September 2017 – July 2023
Head of Scientific Research & Consultant, Renewable Energy and Environmental Technology Center September 2018 – September 2019
Lecturer, University of Tabuk November 2011 – March 2017
Patents
Reducing the Required Capacitance of Ultracapacitors in Hybrid Energy Storage Systems Using Optimal Controllers U.S. Patent No. 12,494,647, December 9, 2025
Publications
Journal Publications:
Albalawi, H., & Makram, E. (2015). Power Quality Study of an Isolated Northwest Grid of Saudi Arabia with PV and Storage. Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 3(06), 54.
Albalawi, Hani, Karthikeyan Balasubramaniam, and Elham Makram. "Secure Operation and Optimal Generation Scheduling Considering Battery Life for an Isolated Northwest Grid of Saudi Arabia." Journal of Power and Energy Engineering 5, no. 01 (2017): 41.
Abdlrahem, Abdlmnam, and Hani Albalawi. "A Multi-Model Approach to Design a Robust SVC Damping Controller Using Convex Optimization Technique to Enhance the Damping of Inter-Area Oscillations Considering Time Delay." Energy and Power Engineering 9.12 (2017): 750.
Albalawi, Hani. "Potential of Rooftop PV Systems on Weekly Peak Load Shaving in Saudi Arabia." Smart Grid and Renewable Energy 9.02 (2018): 33.
Tang, Ke, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, and Hani Albalawi. "Wide-Area Measurements based Multi-Objective SmartPark Controllers for a Power System with a Wind Farm." Journal of Electrical Systems 14, no. 4 (2018).
Albalawi, Hani, and Sherif Zaid. "An H5 Transformerless Inverter for Grid Connected PV Systems with Improved Utilization Factor and a Simple Maximum Power Point Algorithm." Energies 11.11 (2018): 2912.
Sherif A. Zaid, Hani Albalawi"Application of Model Predictive Control to Ultra Sparse Matrix Rectifier" International Review of Electrical Engineering, vol 13, no 5, 2018.
Albalawi, Hani, and Sherif A. Zaid. "Performance Improvement of a Grid-Tied Neutral-Point-Clamped 3-φ Transformerless Inverter Using Model Predictive Control." Processes 7, no. 11 (2019): 856.
Albalawi, Hani, Sherif A. Zaid, and Yonis M. Buswig. "Simulation Study of Two Torque Optimization Methods for Direct Torque-Controlled Induction Motors." Applied Sciences 9, no. 24 (2019): 5547.
Buswig, Yonis M., Azuka Affam, Hani Albalawi, Norhuzaimin bin Julai, and Al-Khalid bin Hj. "Development and Modelling of Three Phase Inverter for Harmonic Improvement using Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) Control Technique." International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering Volume-8 Issue-4, November 2019.
Buswig, Yonis M. Yonis, Ohirul Qays, Azuka Affam, Hani Albalawi, Al-Khalid Othman, Norhuzaimin Julai, and Sim Sy Yi. "Designing a control system based on SOC estimation of BMS for PV-Solar system." International Journal of Integrated Engineering 12, no. 6 (2020): 148-157.
Yunus, AM Shiddiq, A. Abu-Siada, Mohamed I. Mosaad, Hani Albalawi, Mansour Aljohani, and Jian Xun Jin. "Application of SMES Technology in Improving the Performance of a DFIG-WECS Connected to a Weak Grid." IEEE Access 9 (2021): 124541-124548.
11. Mosaad, Mohamed I., Ahmed Abu-Siada, Mohamed M. Ismaiel, Hani Albalawi, and Ahmed Fahmy. "Enhancing the Fault Ride-through Capability of a DFIG-WECS Using a High-Temperature Superconducting Coil." Energies 14, no. 19 (2021): 6319.
12. Zaid, Sherif A., Hani Albalawi, Khaled S. Alatawi, Hassan W. El-Rab, Mohamed E. El-Shimy, Abderrahim Lakhouit, Tareq A. Alhmiedat, and Ahmed M. Kassem. "Novel Fuzzy Controller for a Standalone Electric Vehicle Charging Station Supplied by Photovoltaic Energy." Applied System Innovation 4, no. 3 (2021): 63.
Albalawi, Hani, Mohamed E. El-Shimy, Hosam AbdelMeguid, Ahmed M. Kassem, and Sherif A. Zaid. "Analysis of a Hybrid Wind/Photovoltaic Energy System Controlled by Brain Emotional Learning-Based Intelligent Controller." Sustainability 14, no. 8 (2022): 4775.
Zaid, Sherif A., Ihab S. Mohamed, Abualkasim Bakeer, Lantao Liu, Hani Albalawi, Mohamed E. Tawfiq, and Ahmed M. Kassem. "From MPC-Based to End-to-End (E2E) Learning-Based Control Policy for Grid-Tied 3L-NPC Transformerless Inverter." IEEE Access (2022).
H. Albalawi, A. M. Kassem, S. A. Zaid, A. Lakhouit and M. A. Arshad, "Energy management of an isolated wind/photovoltaic microgrid using cuckoo search algorithm," Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, vol. 34, no.3, pp. 2051–2066, 2022.
H. Albalawi, A. Eisa and el-Hadi Aggoune, Bankruptcy problem in energy warehouse: Applications and challenges, Ain Shams Engineering Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asej.2022.102011.
El-Hageen, Hazem M., Hani Albalawi, Aadel M. Alatwi, Walaa R. Abd Elrahman, and Sultan T. Mohammed Faqeh. "Agile Lossless Compression Algorithm for Big Data of Solar Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Network." Sensors and Materials 34, no. 11 (2022): 4095-4111.
Affam, Azuka, Yonis M. Yonis Buswig, Al-Khalid Hj Othman, Norhuzaimin Julai, and Hani Albalawi. "A battery integrated multiple input DC-DC boost converter." Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics 12, no. 2 (2023): 677-688.
Zaid, Sherif A., Abualkasim Bakeer, Gaber Magdy, Hani Albalawi, Ahmed M. Kassem, Mohmed E. El-Shimy, Hossam AbdelMeguid, and Bassel Manqarah. 2023. "A New Intelligent Fractional-Order Load Frequency Control for Interconnected Modern Power Systems with Virtual Inertia Control" Fractal and Fractional 7, no. 1: 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract7010062
Chojaa, Hamid, Aziz Derouich, Othmane Zamzoum, Said Mahfoud, Mohammed Taoussi, Hani Albalawi, Habib Benbouhenni, and Mohamed I. Mosaad. "A novel DPC approach for DFIG-based variable speed wind power systems using DSpace." IEEE Access (2023).
Albalawi, Hani, Sherif A. Zaid, Mohmed E. El-Shimy, and Ahmed M. Kassem. "Ant Colony Optimized Controller for Fast Direct Torque Control of Induction Motor." Sustainability 15, no. 4 (2023): 3740.
Badi, Nacer, Saleh A. Alghamdi, Hazem M. El-Hageen, and Hani Albalawi. "Onsite enhancement of REEEC solar photovoltaic performance through PCM cooling technique." Plos one 18, no. 3 (2023): e0281391.
El-Hageen, Hazem M., Vishal Sorathiya, Sunil Lavadiya, Nandini Mehata, Vaibhav Katariya, Shobhit K. Patel, Hani Albalawi et al. "Multilayered gold, MgF2 and tungsten based ultra wide band infrared absorber for solar cell applications." Materials Chemistry and Physics 301 (2023): 127680.
Zaid, Sherif A., Abualkasim Bakeer, Hani Albalawi, Adel M. Alatwi, Hassan Abdeldaim, and Bassel Manqarah. "Model-Free Predictive Current Control of a 3-φ Grid-Connected Neutral-Point-Clamped Transformerless Inverter." Energies 16, no. 7 (2023): 3141.
Albalawi, Hani, Abualkasim Bakeer, Sherif A. Zaid, El-Hadi Aggoune, Muhammad Ayaz, Ahmed Bensenouci, and Amir Eisa. "Fractional-Order Model-Free Predictive Control for Voltage Source Inverters." Fractal and Fractional 7, no. 6 (2023): 433.
Zaid, Sherif A., Ahmed M. Kassem, Aadel M. Alatwi, Hani Albalawi, Hossam AbdelMeguid, and Atef Elemary. "Optimal Control of an Autonomous Microgrid Integrated with Super Magnetic Energy Storage Using an Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm." Sustainability 15, no. 11 (2023): 8827.
Abid, Abderahmane, Abualkasim Bakeer, Hani Albalawi, Laid Zellouma, Mansour Bouzidi, Abderezak Lashab, Boualaga Rabhi, and Andrii Chub. "Optimized Modulation Scheme for Four-Leg Quasi Z-Source Inverter: Reducing Power Loss and Improving Output Quality." IEEE Access (2023).
Zaid, Sherif A., Abualkasim Bakeer, Hani Albalawi, Aadel M. Alatwi, Hossam AbdelMeguid, and Ahmed M. Kassem. "Optimal Fractional-Order Controller for the Voltage Stability of a DC Microgrid Feeding an Electric Vehicle Charging Station." Fractal and Fractional 7, no. 9 (2023): 677.
El-Hageen, Hazem M., Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed, Hani Albalawi, Aadel M. Alatwi, Mohammed A. Alhartomi, Yousef H. Alfaifi, Madhi Tarikham Alsubaie, and Mohamed A. Mead. "Flexible Broadband Solar Plasmonic Absorber Based on Graded Bandgap Multilayer for the Solar Cells Energy Harvesting with High Conversion Efficiency Sensitivity." Plasmonics (2023): 1-15.
El-Hageen, Hazem M., Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed, Hani Albalawi, Mohammed A. Alhartomi, Yousef H. Alfaifi, Madhi Tarikham Alsubaie, and Mohamed A. Mead. "Performance Signature of the Best Candidate-Graded Bandgap Materials for Solar Cells with Steady-State Conversion Efficiency." Energies 16, no. 19 (2023): 7001.
Shahid, Muhammad Awais, Fiaz Ahmad, Rehan Nawaz, Saad Ullah Khan, Abdul Wadood, and Hani Albalawi. "A Novel False Measurement Data Detection Mechanism for Smart Grids." Energies 16, no. 18 (2023): 6614.
Abdelsalam, Hany A., Abdelrahman Eldosouky, Ahmed E. ElGebaly, Mohsen Khalaf, Ahmed A. Zaki Diab, Shriram S. Rangarajan, Sultan Alghamdi, and Hani Albalawi. "A cyber-layer based on weighted average consensus in blockchain environment for accurate sharing of power systems’ dynamic states." International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 155 (2024): 109558.
Waqar, Hamza, Syed Basit Ali Bukhari, Abdul Wadood, Hani Albalawi, and Khawaja Khalid Mehmood. "Fault identification, classification, and localization in microgrids using superimposed components and Wigner distribution function." Frontiers in Energy Research 12 (2024): 1379475.
Alatwi, AadelM, Abualkasim Bakeer, Sherif A. Zaid, Ibrahem E. Atawi, Hani Albalawi, and AhmedM Kassem. "Intelligent Fractional-Order Controller for SMES Systems in Renewable Energy-Based Microgrid." CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 140, no. 2 (2024).
Zaid, Sherif A., Hani Albalawi, Aadel M. Alatwi, and Atef Elemary. "Performance Improvement of an Electric Vehicle Charging Station Using Brain Emotional Learning-Based Intelligent Control." Processes 12, no. 5 (2024): 1014.
Badi, Nacer, Ali Hatem Laatar, Anouar Ben Mabrouk, Abdulrhman M. Alsharari, Saleh A. Alghamdi, and Hani Albalawi. "Effects of nonlinear thermal radiation on the efficiency of building integrated photovoltaic systems with nanofluid cooling." PLOS ONE 19, no. 6 (2024): e0304685.
Abid, Abderahmane, Abualkasim Bakeer, Hani Albalawi, Mansour Bouzidi, Abderezak Lashab, Andrii Chub, and Sherif A. Zaid. "Model-Free Predictive Control for Improved Performance and Robustness of Three-Phase Quasi Z-Source Inverters." IEEE Access (2024).
Wadood, Abdul, Babar Sattar Khan, Hani Albalawi, and Aadel Mohammed Alatwi. "Design of the Novel Fractional Order Hybrid Whale Optimizer for Thermal Wind Power Generation Systems with Integration of Chaos Infused Wind Power." Fractal and Fractional 8, no. 7 (2024): 379.
Nawaz, Rab, Hani Albalawi, Syed Basit Ali Bukhari, Khawaja Khalid Mehmood, and Muhammad Sajid. "Timeseries Fault Classification in Power Transmission lines by Non-intrusive Feature Extraction and Selection using Supervisare Machine Learning." IEEE Access (2024).
Bakeer, A., Abid, A., Albalawi, H.A., Magdy, G., Chub, A. and Zaid, S.A., 2024. Robust Operation of Four-Leg Voltage Source Inverter Using Model-Free Predictive Control. Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, pp.1-18.
El-Hageen, Hazem M., Yousef H. Alfaifi, Hani Albalawi, Ahmed Alzahmi, Aadel M. Alatwi, Ahmed F. Ali, and Mohamed A. Mead. "Chaotic Zebra Optimization Algorithm for Increasing the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network." Journal of Network and Systems Management 32, no. 4 (2024): 85.
Albalawi, Hani, Yasir Muhammad, Abdul Wadood, Babar Sattar Khan, Syeda Taleeha Zainab, and Aadel Mohammed Alatwi. "Leveraging the Performance of Integrated Power Systems with Wind Uncertainty Using Fractional Computing-Based Hybrid Method." Fractal and Fractional 8, no. 9 (2024): 532.
Alatwi, Aadel Mohammed, Hani Albalawi, Abdul Wadood, Hafeez Anwar, and Hazem M. El-Hageen. "Deep Learning-Based Dust Detection on Solar Panels: A Low-Cost Sustainable Solution for Increased Solar Power Generation." Sustainability 16, no. 19 (2024): 8664.
Albalawi, Hani, Abdul Wadood, Shahbaz Khan, and Aadel Mohammed Alatwi. "Harmonic Mitigation in Multi-Pulse Rectification: A Comparative Study of 12-, 18-, and 24-Pulse Systems." Mathematics 12, no. 20 (2024): 3257.
Albalawi, Hani, Abdul Wadood, and Herie Park. "Economic Load Dispatch Problem Analysis Based on Modified Moth Flame Optimizer (MMFO) Considering Emission and Wind Power." Mathematics 12, no. 21 (2024): 3326.
Albalawi, Hani, Sherif A. Zaid, Aadel M. Alatwi, and Mohamed Ahmed Moustafa. "Application of an Optimal Fractional-Order Controller for a Standalone (Wind/Photovoltaic) Microgrid Utilizing Hybrid Storage (Battery/Ultracapacitor) System." Fractal and Fractional 8, no. 11 (2024): 629.
Magdy, G., Bakeer, A., Bakeer, M. et al. A new intelligent approach for frequency controller of autonomous hybrid power systems. Neural Comput & Applic 37, 17473–17492 (2025)
Wadood, A.; Albalawi, H.; Alatwi, A.M.; Anwar, H.; Ali, T. Design of a Novel Fractional Whale Optimization-Enhanced Support Vector Regression (FWOA-SVR) Model for Accurate Solar Energy Forecasting. Fractal Fract. 2025, 9, 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract9010035
R. Nawaz, Wadood. A, Khawaja Mehmoo., Syed Bukhari., Albalawi, H.; Alatwi, A.M "Gradient Boosting Feature Selection for Integrated Fault Diagnosis in Series-Compensated Transmission Lines," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 63640-63670, 2025.
A. Wadood, H. Albalawi, A. Mohammed Alatwi and H. Park, "Modified Swarm-Based Artificial Intelligence Optimization for Optimal Coordination of Directional Overcurrent Relays in Power System," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 71007-71026, 2025.
H. Albalawi, A. Wadood, S. B. A. Bukhari and A. M. Alatwi, "Design of a Novel Adaptive Weighted Multiview Deep Neural Network for Enhanced Islanding Detection in Smart Distribution Systems," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 90333-90344, 2025
Gaber Magdy, Mahmoud Bakeer, Hani Albalawi, Sherif A. Zaid, Abualkasim Bakeer, An accurate model of SMES for load frequency control in renewable power systems, Ain Shams Engineering Journal, Volume 16, Issue 10, 2025.
Albalawi, H., Bukhari, S.B.A., Alatwi, A.M. et al. Superimposed modal voltage based passive islanding detection of grid tied distributed generation using Wigner distribution function. scientific reports15, 28478 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-13244-4
Zaid, Sherif A., Hani Albalawi, Hazem M. El-Hageen, Abdul Wadood, and Abualkasim Bakeer. 2025. "Stabilization of DC Microgrids Using Frequency-Decomposed Fractional-Order Control and Hybrid Energy Storage" Fractal and Fractional 9, no. 10: 670. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract9100670
Bukhari, Syed Basit Ali, Hani Albalawi, Abdul Wadood, and Aadel Mohammed Alatwi. "Deep learning-driven fault detection and classification in microgrids using Temporal Convolutional Network." Computers and Electrical Engineering 129 (2026): 110777.
Alatwi, Aadel Mohammed, Hani Albalawi, Abdul Wadood, Ibrahem E. Atawi, and Khaled Saleem S. Alatawi. 2025. "Novel GBest–Lévy Adaptive Differential Ant Bee Colony Optimization for Optimal Allocation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and Distributed Generators in Smart Distribution Systems" Energies 18, no. 22: 6018. https://doi.org/10.3390/en18226018
Zaid, Sherif A., Gaber Magdy, Hani Albalawi, Omar A. Alatawi, Abderrahim Lakhouit, and Ayman E. M. Ahmed. 2025. "An Advanced Control Framework for Frequency Regulation in Renewable-Dominated Power Systems: Fractional-Order Virtual Primary–Secondary Control with Synthetic Inertia Control" Fractal and Fractional 9, no. 12: 766. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract9120766
Wadood, Abdul, Hani Albalawi, Shahbaz Khan, Bakht Muhammad Khan, and Aadel Mohammed Alatwi. 2025. "Fractional-Order African Vulture Optimization for Optimal Power Flow and Global Engineering Optimization" Fractal and Fractional 9, no. 12: 825. https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract9120825
Conference Publications:
Albalawi, Hani, Elham Makram, and Talal Alogla. "PV penetration with battery storage for an isolated northwest Grid of Saudi Arabia." In North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2015, pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2015.
Albalawi, Hani, and Amir Eisa, el-Hadi M. Aggoune "Energy Warehouse-A New Concept for NEOM Mega Project." In 2019 IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (JEEIT), pp. 215-221. IEEE, 2019.
Funded Projects
Principal Investigator / Co-PI on 12 funded projects
Total funding exceeds SAR 5 million, including:
Smart inverters for PV systems
Hybrid renewable microgrids
Energy Warehouse concept for NEOM
EV charging stations powered by renewable energy
Real-Time Digital Simulation Labs (RDIA, 2024–2027)
