Shahnewaz has received his MSc and BSc degree from Kyungpook National University, South Korea and International Islamic University, Chittagong respectively. Prior to joining UCC as a Ph.D. student, he was with Power System and Smart Energy Network Lab at KNU as a research assistant, working on projects primarily focused on Energy Management in Buildings and Machine Learning Applications in Smart Grid.

His research interest includes Building Energy Management, Machine Learning applications in Smart Grid, Energy Economics, V2G technology and Prognostics in Smart Grid.

Shahnewaz’s PhD project will focus on Optimizing Demand Side Response in Smart Grid Applications.