Dr I. Safak Bayram
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Personal statement
I am a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I joined Strathclyde as a Chancellor's Fellow in 2020 and prior to this, I was a Scientist/Asst. Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. My research interests span multidisciplinary areas and are focused on system-level modelling, management, and control frameworks to advance sustainability, reliability, and efficiency in societal infrastructures such as intelligent power grids and transportation networks. I am particularly interested in optimal integration of key disruptive technologies such as plug-in electric vehicles, renewable energies, demand-side management, and energy storage systems (ESS) to decarbonize transportation and electricity sectors. I have a rich and diverse educational background: I obtained my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2014) and MSc degree in Telecommunications from University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2010), and BSC degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkiye (2007). I have teaching and curriculum development experience in the UK, USA, and Qatar on various topics on sustainable energy and transportation system. In addition to teaching and research activities, I am engaged in organizing international conferences. I am the TPC co-chair for IEEE SmartGridComm’23 and co-chaired the data analytics symposium at IEEE SmartGridComm’22 and '23. Furthermore, I regularly participate in major international conferences: I delivered tutorials at major IEEE Conferences (IEEE SmartGridComm’20, IEEE ITEC’20). I organized special issues for journals (MDPI Sensors and Energies), and currently serve as an editor for IET Electrical Systems in Transportation and Energies Journal (Electric Vehicles Section).
Prize And Awards
- Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 6/2024
- Adjunct Faculty Member
- Recipient
- 2020
- Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 31/10/2018
- Best Paper Award
- Recipient
- 18/3/2015
- Best Readings in Smart Grid Communications
- Recipient
- 2014
Publications
- Voltage stability enhancement in IEEE 14-bus system using deep deterministic policy gradient for EV charging management
- Mousaei Arash, Naderi Yahya, Arif Syed Muhammad, Bayram I Safak
- 2025 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID) 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid IEEE Electronic Power Grid (eGrid) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/eGRID63452.2025.11255115
- Exploring the potential of machine learning methods for predicting charging power curves
- Jovanovic Raka, Bayhan Sertac, Bayram I Safak
- 2025 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID) 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid IEEE Electronic Power Grid (eGrid) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/eGRID63452.2025.11255577
- Impacts of extreme ambient temperatures on electric vehicle charging demand : a case study in Qatar
- Gurkaynak Irfan Alp, Bayram I Safak, Bayhan Sertac, Zafar Usman
- 2025 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID) 10th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid IEEE Electronic Power Grid (eGrid) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/eGRID63452.2025.11255066
- Harmonics-aware smart charging of electric vehicles
- Bayram I Safak, Senol Murat, Jovanovic Raka, Shi Xiang
- 2025 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC) 2025 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo + Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC63604.2025.11098041
- Transformer aging under harmonic emissions from electric vehicle smart charging
- Senol Murat, Bayram I Safak, Shi Xiang
- 2025 IEEE/AIAA Transportation Electrification Conference and Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (ITEC+EATS) 2025 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo + Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium 2025 IEEE/AIAA Transportation Electrification Conference and Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (ITEC+EATS) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC63604.2025.11098129
- Stochastic modeling of EV on-board chargers for V2G services
- Shi Xiang, Bayram I Safak
- 2025 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC) 2025 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo + Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC63604.2025.11098127
Professional Activities
- IEEE Global Communications Conference
- Member of programme committee
- 12/2025
- IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids
- Organiser
- 9/2025
- IEEE (External organisation)
- Member
- 2/2025
- Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (Journal)
- Associate Editor
- 2025
- IEEE Communications Society (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2025
- IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2025
Projects
- Off-grid EV Charging Infrastructure
- Ahmed, Khaled (Principal Investigator) Bayram, I. Safak (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Optimal Planning and Operation of Social and Responsible V2G hubs at Motor-Retail Sites for a Net-Zero Power Grid (ETP Studentship)
- Bayram, I. Safak (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2027
- Modular EV Charging - BumblebeeEV and ETP
- Bayram, I. Safak (Principal Investigator)
- 14000 GBP award for KE project to design smart charging algorithm for modular EV chargers
- 16-Jan-2022 - 15-Jan-2022
- ASSURE CHARGE
- Coffele, Federico (Principal Investigator) Bayram, I. Safak (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in Qatar: Charger Design, Grid Integration, and Cost Quantification
- Bayram, I. Safak (Principal Investigator)
- 06-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2023
Contact
Dr
I. Safak
Bayram
Senior Lecturer
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Email: safak.bayram@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted