Staff Profile

Background

Osama Abushafa received the B.Sc. degree from Sirt University, Albregah, Libya, in 2001, the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees from Newcastle University, in 2010 and 2017, respectively, all in electrical and electronic engineering. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Lab Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Department, Zawia University. In 2013, he joined the Electrical Power Research Group, Newcastle University, as a PhD researcher in Power Electronics. From November 2017 to June 2020, he was working with Turbo Power Systems LTD company. From January 2021 to October 2021 he worked for Lyra Electronics Company, Dr. Osama has recently been a regular reviewer for IEEE and Elsevier journals and he is a member of IET and IEEE institutions.

Research

Research interests:

- Power electronics control strategies for low and high level converters

- Modular multilevel converter

- Online and offline estimation schemes

- Health monitoring

- Battery management

Publications

Abushafa O, Gadoue S, Dahidah MSA, Atkinson D, Missailidis P. Capacitor Voltage Estimation Scheme with Reduced Number of Sensors for Modular Multilevel Converters. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics 2018, 6(4), 2086-2097.
Abushafa O SH M, Dahidah MSA, Gadoue S, Atkinson D. Submodule Voltage Estimation Scheme in Modular Multilevel Converters with Reduced Voltage Sensors Based on Kalman Filter Approach. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2018, 65(9), 7025-7035.
Abushafa O, Gadoue S, Dahidah M, Atkinson D. A New Scheme for Monitoring Submodule Capacitance in Modular Multilevel Converter. In: 8th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2016). 2016, Glasgow, UK: IET.
Abushafa O, Gadoue S, Dahidah M, Atkinson D, Ethni S. Control Strategies for Capacitor Voltage Balancing in Modular Multilevel Converters. In: 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2016, Hammamet, Tunisia: IEEE.
Abushafa O, Gadoue S, Dahidah M, Atkinson D. Capacitor voltage estimation in Modular Multilevel Converters using a Kalman filter algorithm. In: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology. 2015, Seville, Spain: IEEE.

Dr Osama Abushafa

Research Associate