CESPE2024

Akhtar Kalam

Professor, IEEE Life Senior Member, Victoria University, Australia.

Professor Akhtar Kalam is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Head of External Engagement in the College of Engineering and Science at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the former Discipline Group Leader – Engineering in the College of Engineering and Science from 2016-2018. He has been Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Health, Engineering & Science at Victoria University for 7 years since 1999. He has wide experience in educational institutions and industry across four continents. He has conducted research, provided consultancy and has over five hundred publications primarily on power system protection and independent power generation. In 2016, he was the recipient of the John Madsen Medal, Engineers Australia. - The John Madsen Medal is awarded for the best paper written by a current member of Engineers Australia and published in The Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The paper "Generation modelling of residential rooftop photovoltaic systems and its applications in practical electricity distribution networks” was jointly authored by P.K.C. Wong, R.A. Barr and A. Kalam. Again in 2019, he received the John Madsen Medal, Engineers Australia. High professional qualifications in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, (FIET, CEng, FAIE, FIEAust, CPEng, PEV, NER, APEC Engineer, IntPE(Aus), MCIGRE, Life Senior Member of IEEE); Editor in Chief of EA’s Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Deputy Chair of the Engineering Institute of Technology’s Academic Board; and a Chair of the Academic Board for Texila College Australia.