M A Hannan is employed as Distinguished Professor & Professor of Intelligent Systems in Energy and Power Applications in the School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, Malaysia. He is an Adjunct Professor at School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Korea and Visiting Professor at Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. He was a Visiting Professor at School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering University of Wollongong, Australia. Prior to join Sunway University, Prof Hannan was with College of Engineering, The National Energy University, Malaysia as a Senior Professor and Advisor for research and publication in Innovation and Research Management Centre, UNITEN since Sept 2016 to May 2023. He was also with the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, National University of Malaysia as a full Professor before joining to UNITEN since 2013. His research interest is on intelligent systems in energy and power applications related to renewables integration, energy storage system, hydrogen storage, smart grid, energy management system, building energy efficiency, battery controller and BEMS, HEV energy management system, inverter controller, MPPT, FACTS and custom power devices, power quality and intelligent embedded system development in academic and industrial (national and international) level of research and development.
His aspiration is to provide leadership of research governance, funding, high quality training and mission, aimed at embedding a strong culture of research integrity, excellence, and impact towards achieving the championship and global standing. He is leading academic and industrial research on national and international funding arrangement in both fundamental and applied research, directing pre-commercialized products, high quality research outputs and building collaborations. Also, transforming academic and industrial research technologies into teaching and learning process to ensure appropriate learning methods in higher education.
He is awarded as a Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) 2022 & 2023 in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics which is based on multiple top 1% citated papers in the Web of Science™ and truly 1 in 1,000 (0.01%) of the world’s scientists. He has been obtained about RM 23.86M research funds, supervised 6 post-doctoral fellows, 23 PhD and 23 master by research students and his scholarly output in SCOPUS is 400+, citation is 17,828, H-Index 63 and in Google Scholar, citation is 23,947,
H-Index: 73.
He is a member of many professional organizations such as Senior Member, IEEE, IEB, IAENG, BCS etc. He is serving as editor-in-chief of Journal of Energy and Environment, associate editor in IEEE Access/IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications/Energy Conversion and Economics, served as program examiner, funding proposal evaluator, thesis examiner, editorial board members as well as in the committee of many Elsevier Science and IEEE Transactions.
He has been awarded many times for research and contributions, just a few such as, Gold medals in MTE, 2017; Gold medals in ITEX 2017; Gold medals PERINTIS, 2016; Gold Medal with Outstanding Achievement in International Innovation Festival, 2014; Runner up in Schneider Electric University Challenge “Go Green in Malaysia” 2012; Runner up in the DIGI Challenge “Change for Social Venture Competitions” 2011; Excellent Scientist for outstanding research in 2005 by MOHE, Malaysia; Gold medal in SIIF 2004, Korea etc.