Publications

My publication list can also be found on Google Scholar and ReseachGate.

Journal Papers

  1. Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, and Jonathan W. Kimball, “Reinforcement Learning Applications in Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure: State-of-the-art, Challenges, and Prospects,”. (In preparation).

  2. Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, and Jonathan W. Kimball, “Multi-Period Planning of BESS-Assisted Extreme Fast Charging Infrastructure in Coupled Transportation and Power Networks,”. (Submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journal).

  3. Waqas ur Rehman, Jonathan W. Kimball, and Rui Bo, “Multi-layered Energy Management Framework for Extreme Fast Charging Stations Considering Demand Charges, Battery Degradation, and Forecast Uncertainties,”. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 2023. [Link] [PDF]

  4. Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, Hossein Mehdipourpicha, and Jonathan W. Kimball, “Sizing battery energy storage and PV system in an extreme fast charging station considering uncertainties and battery degradation,” Applied Energy, vol. 313, p.118745, 2022. [Link] [PDF]

  5. Ronit Das, Rui Bo, Haotian Chen, Waqas Ur Rehman, and Donald Wunsch, “Forecasting Nodal Price Difference Between Day-Ahead and Real-Time Electricity Markets Using Long-Short Term Memory and Sequence-to-Sequence Networks,” IEEE Access, vol. 10, p.832-843, 2021. [Link] [PDF]

  6. Aliasghar Baziar, Rui Bo, Misagh Dehghani Ghotbabadi, Mehdi Veisi, and Waqas Ur Rehman, “Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Adaptive Robust Optimization for AC Security Constrained Unit Commitment Considering Renewable Energy Sources and Shunt FACTS Devices,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, p.123575-123587, 2021. [Link] [PDF]

  7. Waqas Ur Rehman et al., “The penetration of renewable and sustainable energy in Asia: A state-of-the-art review on net-metering,” IEEE Access, vol.8, p.170364-170388, 2020. [Link] [PDF]

  8. Muhammad Umar Afzaal, Intisar Ali Sajjad, Muhammad Faisal Nadeem Khan, Shaikh Saaqib Haroon, Salman Amin, Rui Bo, and Waqas ur Rehman, “Inter-temporal characterization of aggregate residential demand based on Weibull distribution and generalized regression neural networks for scenario generations,” Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 39, no. 3, p.4491-4503, 2020. [Link] [PDF]

  9. Muhammad Umar Afzaal, Intisar Ali Sajjad, Ahmed Bilal Awan, Kashif Nisar Paracha, Muhammad Faisal Nadeem Khan, Abdul Rauf Bhatti, Muhammad Zubair, Waqas ur Rehman et al, “Probabilistic generation model of solar irradiance for grid connected photovoltaic systems using weibull distribution,” Sustainability 12, no. 6, p.2241, 2020. [Link] [PDF]

  10. Waqas ur Rehman, Muhammad Faisal Nadeem Khan, Intisar Ali Sajjad, and Muhammad Umar Afzaal, “Probabilistic generation model for grid connected wind DG” Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 11, no. 4, p.045301, 2019. [Link] [PDF]

Conference Papers

  1. Haotian Chen, Rui Bo, and Waqas ur Rehman, “Developing Optimal Energy Arbitrage Strategy for Energy Storage System Using Reinforcement Learning,” In CIRED 2021-The 26th International Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution, vol. 2021, pp. 2266-2270, IET, 2021. [Link] [PDF]

  2. Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, Hossein Mehdipourpicha, and Jonathan W. Kimball, “Sizing Energy Storage System for Energy Arbitrage in Extreme Fast Charging Station,” in 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), pp. 01-05, IEEE, 2021. (Best Paper Award, top 3%) [Link] [PDF]

  3. Waqas Ur Rehman, Amirhossein Moeini, Oroghene Oboreh-Snapps, Rui Bo, and Jonathan W. Kimball, “Deadband Voltage Control and Power Buffering for Extreme Fast Charging Station,” In 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech, pp. 1-6, IEEE, 2021. [Link] [PDF]

  4. Ronit Das, Rui Bo, Waqas Ur Rehman, Haotian Chen, and Donald Wunsch. “Cross-market price difference forecast using deep learning for electricity markets,” In 2020 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT-Europe), pp. 854-858, IEEE, 2020. [Link] [PDF]

  5. Mehar-un-Nisa Khursheed, Nadeem, M. Faisal, Ahmed Khalil, I. A. Sajjad, Amir Raza, Muhammad Qasim Iqbal, Rui Bo, and Waqas ur Rehman, “Review of flower pollination algorithm: Applications and variants,” In 2020 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET), pp. 1-6, IEEE, 2020. [Link] [PDF]

  6. Waqas ur Rehman, Intisar Ali Sajjad, and Muhammad Faisal Nadeem Khan, “Assessment of demand flexibility potential of residential consumers in pakistan,” In 2018 2nd International Conference on Energy Conservation and Efficiency (ICECE), pp. 77-85, IEEE, 2018. [Link] [PDF]

  7. Waqas ur Rehman, Intisar A. Sajjad, Tahir N. Malik, Luigi Martirano, and Matteo Manganelli, “Economic analysis of net metering regulations for residential consumers in Pakistan,” In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2017 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEICI&CPS Europe), pp. 1-6, IEEE, 2017. [Link] [PDF]

Poster Presentations

  1. Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, “Multi-layered Framework for Energy Management of Extreme Fast Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles”, in the 2022 Missouri S&T Graduate Poster Contest. (Won First Place).

  2. Waqas ur Rehman, Rui Bo, “Sizing Energy Storage System for Energy Arbitrage in Extreme Fast Charging Station”, in Student Poster Session at 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), IEEE, 2021. (Won Second Place) [Link]

Preprints