Dr Sajeeb Saha received his PhD degree in in Electrical and Electronic from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is currently a Senior Lecturer of Electrical Engineering at the School of Science and Engineering at University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC).
Prior joining UniSC, Dr Saha served as a Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Deakin University from year 2016 to 2021. He also worked as a research fellow at National ICT Australia, Victoria Research Laboratory (2012-2014) and at the School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne (2014-2016). His research interests include power system modelling, analysis and control, fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control, renewable energy sources, battery and Hydrogen fuel cell, smart grid, cyber security of power system, etc.
Dr Saha has published more than 75 research articles in high impact journals and international refereed conferences. He has been a part of externally (government and industry) funded research funds worth more than 7 million. He has supervised 2 PhD students to completion. Dr Saha served as the Chair, IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS), Victorian Chapter from 2020-2021.
He is a member of IEEE Power and Energy Society and Engineers Australia. He serves on the editorial board or committees of several journals and international conferences.
Professional Memberships
- IEEE Industry Application Society
- IEEE Power and Energy Society
- Engineers Australia
Professional Social Media
Research Grants
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Grant/Project name |
Investigators |
Funding body & A$ value |
Year(s) |
Focus (of research grant) |
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Gap Analysis and Development of a Performance standard for Battery Storage Employed in a domestic/Commercial Solar Battery Applications. |
Enamul Haque, M.A.Mahmud, S.Saha, S.N.Islam, DNVGL, CSIRO |
ARENA, VIC Government |
2018-2020 |
Rooftop Battery Energy Storage Standard |
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Intelligent network control device to capture real-time data on energy networks. |
A.M.T.Oo, S.N.Islam, S.Saha, Enamul Haque, M.A.Mahmud, M.T.Arif, A.Gargoom, Noja Power, Ausnet Services, UQ, Energy Queensland. |
ARENA |
2019-2021 |
Application PMU for grid stability and performance enhancement. |
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A Real-Time Testbed for Cyber Security Risk Assessment and Mitigation to Ensure the Resiliency of Smart Grids. |
Enamul Haque, S.Saha, A.M.T.Oo, Tansu Alpcan |
OCEANIA Cyber Security Research centre |
2018-2019 |
Smart Grid Cyber Security Risk Assessment |
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Enhancing the energy efficiency of Midfield Meat Processing Plant. |
A.M.T.Oo, S.Saha, , M.T.Arif, Enamul Haque |
Midfield Meat Processing Plant, Warrnambool, Victoria. |
2017-2018 |
Recommended Practice for enhancing the energy efficiency of the Meat Processing Plant |
Potential Research Projects for HDR & Honours students
- Assessment and Mitigation of Cyber Security Risks and Vulnerabilities for Smart Power Grid
- Remaining Useful life Estimation of Batteries
- Assessment of Challenges in Grid Integration of Inverter Based Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Vehicles
Research areas
- Smart Power Grid dynamic modelling, control, and stability analysis
- Modelling, analysis and control of renewable energy sources (Solar, Wind) and energy storage devices (Battery and Hydrogen)
- Cyber security of smart power grids
- Fault diagnosis and mitigation of smart power grid
- Fault tolerant control of electrical machines and renewable energy sources.
Teaching areas
- ELC202 Electrical Circuits and Systems
- ELC203 Power Systems
- ELC205 Control Systems
- ELC402 Power System Design and Analysis
Research Publications
- Rahman S, Saha S, Islam SN, Arif M, Mosadeghy M, Haque E, Oo AM. Analysis of Power Grid Voltage Stability with High Penetration of Solar PV Systems. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 2021 Mar 26.
- Hassan MU, Saha S, Haque ME. PVAnalytX: A MATLAB toolkit for techno-economic analysis and performance evaluation of rooftop PV systems. Energy. 2021 May 15;223:120074.
- Hassan MU, Saha S, Haque ME. A framework for the performance evaluation of household rooftop solar battery systems. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 2021 Feb;125:106446.
- Hossain M, Saha S, Arif MT, Oo AM, Mendis N, Haque ME. A Parameter Extraction Method for the Li-Ion Batteries With Wide-Range Temperature Compensation. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 2020 Jul 23;56(5):5625-36.
- Taghvaie A, Haque ME, Saha S, Mahmud MA. A new step-up switched-capacitor voltage balancing converter for NPC multilevel inverter-based solar PV system. IEEE Access. 2020 May 4;8:83940-52.
- Rahman MS, Orchi T, Saha S, Haque ME. Cooperative Multiagent Based Distributed Power Sharing Strategy in Low-Voltage Microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 2020 Apr 13;56(4):3285-96.
- Tavakoli A, Saha S, Arif MT, Haque ME, Mendis N, Oo AM. Impacts of grid integration of solar PV and electric vehicle on grid stability, power quality and energy economics: a review. IET Energy Systems Integration. 2019 Dec 17;2(3):243-60.
- Chua WS, Chan JC, Tan CP, Chong EK, Saha S. Robust fault reconstruction for a class of nonlinear systems. Automatica. 2020 Mar 1;113:108718.
- Saha S, Haque ME, Tan CP, Mahmud MA, Arif MT, Lyden S, Mendis N. Diagnosis and mitigation of voltage and current sensors malfunctioning in a grid connected PV system. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 2020 Feb 1;115:105381.
- Mahmud MA, Roy TK, Saha S, Haque ME, Pota HR. Robust nonlinear adaptive feedback linearizing decentralized controller design for islanded DC microgrids. IEEE transactions on industry applications. 2019 Jun 5;55(5):5343-52.
- Moghaddam MJ, Kalam A, Nowdeh SA, Ahmadi A, Babanezhad M, Saha S. Optimal sizing and energy management of stand-alone hybrid photovoltaic/wind system based on hydrogen storage considering LOEE and LOLE reliability indices using flower pollination algorithm. Renewable energy. 2019 May 1;135:1412-34.
- Saha S, Haque ME, Tan CP, Mahmud MA. Sensor fault resilient operation of permanent magnet synchronous generator based wind energy conversion system. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 2019 Apr 11;55(4):4298-308.
- Ahmadi A, Nezhad AE, Siano P, Hredzak B, Saha S. Information-gap decision theory for robust security-constrained unit commitment of joint renewable energy and gridable vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2019 Apr 2;16(5):3064-75.
- Islam SN, Mahmud MA, Saha S, Haque ME. Linear precoder design for base station energy cooperation in DC microgrids. IET Renewable Power Generation. 2019 Jan 17;13(7):1076-86.
Dr Sajeeb Saha received his PhD degree in in Electrical and Electronic from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is currently a Senior Lecturer of Electrical Engineering at the School of Science and Engineering at University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). Prior joining USC, Dr Saha served as a Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Deakin University from year 2016 to 2021. He also worked as a research fellow at National ICT Australia, Victoria Research Laboratory (2012-2014) and at the School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne (2014-2016). His research interests include power system modelling, analysis and control, fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control, renewable energy sources, battery and Hydrogen fuel cell, smart grid, cyber security of power system, etc. Dr Saha has published more than 80 research articles in high impact journals and international refereed conferences. He has been a part of externally (government and industry) funded research funds worth more than 7 million in the areas of power and energy systems.