Naheel Faisal Kamal

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
  Aug. 2022 - May 2025
• Master of Science in Computing, Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University
  Aug. 2019 - July 2021
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University
  Aug. 2015 - July 2019

Work Experience

• Research assistant at Texas A&M University
  • Aug. 2022 - present
    Private and secure EV charging communication system development, OCPP backend and frontend software development, and power electronics protocol integration
• Teaching assistant at Qatar University
  • Aug. 2021 - May 2022
    Instructing labs in the Computer Science and Engineering department: Computer Engineering Practicum, Operating Systems, and Programming Concepts
• Research assistant at Qatar University

  • Dec. 2021 - Aug. 2022
    Privacy-preserving data aggregation in smart grids

  • Nov. 2020 - Jan. 2021
    Privacy-preserving crowdsourcing application development of the Qaution project

  • July 2020 - Aug. 2020
    Software debugging and refactoring in the garbled computing project

  • Feb. 2020 - July 2020
    Secure sharing in cloud systems for the SafeDrive project

  • Sept. 2019 - Nov. 2019
    Data extraction from LIFEPAK15 for the EMBIOT project

  • June 2018 - April 2019
    Software development of the secure cloud storage system the SafeDrive project

• Software Developer at Being You QSTP-LLC
  • June 2021 - Aug. 2021
    Development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of company's virtual try-on services
• Intern at Qatar Computing Research Institute
  • July 2018 - Aug. 2018
    Convert semi-structured data to RDF in the Arabic Knowledge Base project
• Technical support at Qatar University IT Services Department
  • Dec. 2016 - May 2018
    Configuring, repairing, and troubleshooting computers hardware and software

Skills and Experiences

• Backend and frontend software development for EV charging stations
• Electric vehicles' communication protocols
• Electronics, microcontrollers, FPGAs, and digital logic
• Machine learning and deep learning
• Blockchain with Ethereum and Solidity
• Linux and Unix-based operating systems, shell scripting, and various development tools
• Web development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in addition to experience in Node.js for backend development
• Various programming languages including C, C++, Java, Python, MATLAB, ARM Assembly, and others

Awards and Recognition

• Best Oral Presentation Award, International Conference on Sustainable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus in Desert Climates (ICSEWEN'23), 30th Oct.-2nd Nov., 2023, Doha-Qatar.
• Third Place, Senior Design Contest, 2019, Qatar University, Qatar.
• Excellence Prize, Huawei ICT Competition, 2017, Huawei HQ, Shenzhen, China.
• Best Design, Carnegie Apps Hackathon, 2016, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar.

Publications

Links: IEEE Xplore - Google Scholar - Research Gate

1. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Novel Adaptive Energy Management Technique for Multi-Port Fast EV Chargers," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 559-569, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2024.3409896.
2. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Private Metering in EV Charging Infrastructure: An OCPP Extension," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 10, pp. 15456-15466, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2024.3403455.
3. N. F. Kamal, et al., "LPPDA: A Light-Weight Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Protocol for Smart Grids," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 95358-95367, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3311140.
4. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Digital-Twin-Based Diagnosis and Tolerant Control of T-Type Three-Level Rectifiers," in IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, vol. 4, pp. 230-241, 2023, doi: 10.1109/OJIES.2023.3290169.
5. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Electric vehicles fast charging stations: Infrastructure, control, and grid interaction - a comprehensive review," Proceedings of the IEEE - Under review.
6. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Communication Based-Control for Parallel Connected Rectifiers," in IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society, vol. 4, pp. 709-719, 2023, doi: 10.1109/OJIES.2023 .3342071.
7. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Enhancing electric vehicle charging predictions: A physics-informed neural network approach," in IECON 2024-50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, pp. 1-6, 2024.
8. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Light-Weight Secure CAN-Bus Communication for Supervisory Control of Power Converters-Based Microgrid Applications," IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, Singapore, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312673.
9. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Low-cost Digital Twin Design for Power Electronics using Deep Neural Networks," 2024 4th International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE), Doha, Qatar, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SGRE59715.2024.10428716.
10. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Decentralized Private Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading using Public Blockchains," 2024 4th International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE), Doha, Qatar, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SGRE59715.2024.10428894.
11. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Scalable Light-weight Anomaly Detection for Data of Individual Smart Meters," 2024 4th International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE), Doha, Qatar, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SGRE59715.2024.10429010.
12. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Open-Switch Fault Detection and Tolerant Control Based on DC Link Voltage Observation for T-type Rectifiers," 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Nashville, TN, USA, 2023, pp. 6595-6599, doi: 10.1109/ECCE53617.2023.10362837.
13. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Light-weight Communication Fault Tolerant OCPP-based EV Supply Equipment," 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG), Tallinn, Estonia, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CPE-POWERENG58103.2023.10227456.
14. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Client-Based Secure IoT Data Sharing using Untrusted Clouds," 2021 IEEE 7th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2021, pp. 409-414, doi: 10.1109/WF-IoT51360. 2021.9595517.
15. N. F. Kamal, et al., "An IoT Reconfigurable SoC Platform for Computer Vision Applications," 2019 International Symposium on Systems Engineering (ISSE), Edinburgh, UK, 2019, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ISSE46696.2019.8984462.
16. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Faheem: A Tablet-Based Application to Improve Receptive Language for Arab Autistic Children," 2018 International Conference on Computer and Applications (ICCA), Beirut, Lebanon, 2018, pp. 248-252, doi: 10.1109/COMAPP.2018.8460413.

Patent Applications

1. N. F. Kamal, et al., "Power electronics protocol translator apparatus for fast electric vehicle chargers." US Patent Appl. 63/662,852, 2024

Reviewer in

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
• IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
• Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON)
• International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-PowerEng)
• International Conference on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (SGRE)

Professional Memberships

• IEEE Membership
• IEEE Industrial Electronics Society