Ahmed Ali A. Mohamed (El-Tallawy) is the Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), City College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the director of the CUNY Smart Grid Interdependencies Laboratory (http://smartgrid.ccny.cuny.edu). Prof. Mohamed serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, IEEE Access, and a moderator for IEEE TechRxiv.

Prof. Mohamed received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Florida International University in 2013. His research work is supported through funds from various companies and national funding agencies, e.g. Con Edison, the National Science Foundation, and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. His research interests include critical infrastructure interdependencies, smart grid resilience, microgrids, and transportation electrification. He has numerous publications in these fields as book chapters, and articles in premier journals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Mohamed is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, among several other honors and awards. Several of Prof. Mohamed's papers received prestigious awards, such as the IEEE Electric Machinery Committee Best Paper Award.

Prof. Mohamed served on review panels for several national and international funding agencies, e.g. the US Department of Energy, the US National Science Foundation, and the Chilean National Science and Technology Commission. He is the Advisor of the CCNY chapters of IEEE PES/IAS/PELS and HKN. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has held several IEEE executive positions.

Undergraduate Courses:

• Elements of Power Systems (EE 455)
• Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy Systems (EE 59894/ME 59905/CSC 59920/ECO 41250)

Graduate Courses:

• Power Systems (EE I3301)
• Renewable Energy (EE I6910)
• Power Electronics (EE I3303)

Power and Energy Systems, Smart Grids, Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies, Microgrids, and Transportation Electrification.

Selected publications:

• Ahmed Mohamed (CUNY City College), A. Khan (CNH Industrial), A. Elsayed (Boing), M. Elshaer (Ford), “Transportation Electrification: Breakthroughs in Electrified Vehicles, Aircraft, Rolling Stock, and Watercraft,” published by IEEE Press Series on Power and Energy Systems and Wiley, January 2023.
• Mohammed Elsayed, Kirn Zafar, Yusef Esa, Tafadar Soujad, Ahmed Mohamed, “Impact of 100% vehicle electrification on the distribution grid in dense urban regions,” Energy Reports, Vol. 11, 2024, Pages 5315-5322, ISSN 2352-4847.
• M. Kamaludeen, K. Zafar, Y. Esa, A. Mohamed, E. Nyemah, L. Salmeron, S. Odie, “Common direct current (DC) bus integration of DC fast chargers, grid‐scale energy storage, and solar photovoltaic: New York City case study” IET Smart Grid, Volume 9, Jan. 2024.
• Ahmed Mohamed, Ondrea Kanwhen, and Michael Bobker, “Distributed Energy Resources for Water Resource Recovery Facilities: A Metropolitan City Case Study” Applied Energy, Volume 327, 1 December 2022, 1200592022.
• T. M. S. Ibrahim, T. T. De Rubira, A. Del Rosso, M. Patel, S. Guggilam and A. Mohamed, “Alternating Optimization Approach for Voltage-Secure Multi-Period Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 3805-3816, Sept. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2021.3133358.
• Raghul Elangovan, Ondrea Kanwhen, Ziqian Dong, Ahmed Mohamed and Roberto Rojas-Cessa, “Comparative Analysis of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emission of Diesel and Electric Trucks for Food Distribution in Gowanus District of New York City,” Frontiers in Big Data, Research Topic on Food-Energy-Water Nexus’ Effects on Urban Infrastructure, Vol. 4, July 2021.
• O. Dutta and A. Mohamed, “Reducing the Risk of Cascading Failure in Active Distribution Networks Using Adaptive Critic Design,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 14, no. 13, pp. 2592-2601, July 2020.
• M. Saleh, Y. Esa and A. Mohamed, “Impact of Communication Latency on the Bus Voltage of Centrally Controlled DC Microgrid during Islanding,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1844-1856, Oct. 2019.
• M. Khodaparastan, O. Dutta, M. Saleh and A. Mohamed, “Modeling of DC Electric Rail Transit Systems with Wayside Energy Storage,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol.68, no. 3, pp. 2218-2228, March 2019.
• M. Khodaparastan, W. Brandauer and A. Mohamed, “Recuperation of Regenerative Braking Energy in Electric Rail Transit Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 2831-2847, Jan. 2019.