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Experience:
Lecturer Electrical Engineering Department QUEST 09 July 2007 to 18 July, 2012
Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering Department QUEST 19 July 2012 to 01 December 2018
Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering Department QUEST 02 December 2018 to date

Current Research:
Application of artificial intelligence and optimization techniques in electrical power system, smart grid, power quality, power system stability

Theses Supervised / Co-supervised to M.E. Students
1. Mr Suhail Mustafa 14MPE07
Title: Computational Intelligence based detection and classification of faults in transmission lines
2. Muhammad Basheer Wafi 15MPE08
Title: Application of Artificial Neural Network in Voltage variation and transient control of buck converter
3. Mr Arslan Memon 15MPE03
Title: Classification of Power Quality Disturbances using Empirical Mode Decomposition and Support Vector Machine
4. Mr Afaque Manzoor 15MPE18
Title: Modelling, Simulation and comparative assessment of single-phase multi-level H-bridge inverter using various sinusoidal pulse width modulation techniques
5. Mr Shafquat Rasool 16MPE20
Title: Application of Neural Network for shunt active power filter
6. Mr Ali Nasir Adnan 16MPE06
Title: Modelling and Simulation of Power Converters for Photovoltaic system using MATLAB / Simulink
7. Mr Gul Hassan Soomro 15MPE06
Title: Analysis of voltage sag mitigation technique using dynamic voltage restorer
8. Mr Imtiaz Ali Zardari 11MPE04
Title: Classification of Faults in Transformer by using Wavelet transform and Artificial Neural Network
9. Mr Fayyaz Ali Jandan K14MEELP13
Title: Automatic Pattern Recognition of Power Quality Disturbances using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Support Vector Machine

Courses Currently Teaching:
1. Advanced Electrical Machines & Drives
2. High Voltage Engineering

Courses Taught Previously:
1. Power system stability
2. Power System Planning & Management
3. Linear Electric Circuits
4. Network and Circuit Theory
5. Electrical Power Transmission
6. Feedback Control System
7. Power Electronics

Publications:
Journals
1. S. Khokhar, A. A. M. Zin, A. P. Memon, and A. S. Mokhtar, "A new optimal feature selection algorithm for classification of power quality disturbances using discrete wavelet transform and probabilistic neural network," Measurement,Vol. 95, 2017, Page No. 246-259. (JCR Impact Factor 2.359)
2. S. Khokhar, A. A. B. Mohd Zin, A. S. B. Mokhtar, and M. Pesaran, "A comprehensive overview on signal processing and artificial intelligence techniques applications in classification of power quality disturbances," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 51, , 2015, Page No 1650-1663. (JCR Impact Factor 8.050)
3. A. Aftab, A. R. Ismail, S. Khokhar, and Z. H. Ibupoto, "Novel zinc oxide nanoparticles deposited acrylamide composite used for enhancing the performance of water-based drilling fluids at elevated temperature conditions," Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 146, 2017 Page No. 1142-1157. (JCR Impact Factor 1.873)
4. M. Rafique, N.H. Mirjat, A.M. Soomro, S. Khokhar, and Shuai Y., "Manipulation of inherent characteristics of graphene through N and Mg atom co-doping; a DFT study," Physics Letters A, Vol.382 No.16 2018, Page No. 1108-1119 (JCR Impact Factor 1.772)
5. N.H. Bhangwar, I. A. Halepoto, I.H. Sadhayo, S. Khokhar, and Laghari A. A., "On Routing Protocols for High Performance," Studies in Informatics and Control, V.26 No.4, Page No. 441-448, 2017. (JCR Impact Factor 1.020)
6. A. Manzoor, I. A. Halepoto, S. Khokhar, N. H. Phulpoto and M. S. Memon, “Formalization of Behavior Change Theories to Accomplish a Health Behavior” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 9 No.5, Page No. 177-182, 2018.
7. S. Khokhar, A. A. B. Mohd Zin, M. A. Bhayo, A. S. Mokhtar, "Automated recognition of single & hybrid power quality disturbances using wavelet transform based support vector machine," Jurnal Teknologi, Vol. 79, No.1 Page No. 97-105, 2017.
8. N. Zareen, M. Mustafa, S. Khokhar, and U. Sultana, "A Reliability-Cost–Benefits (RCB) Model for the Addition of DG to Independent Micro-Grid Networks," Jurnal Teknologi, Vol. 69, No.1 Page No.81-88 2014.
9. S Khokhar, AP Memon, MU Keerio, AS Memon, S Ali, A simple methodology for the automatic classification of waveform distortion problems using wavelet transform and PNN-RBF-MLP neural networks, Science International (Lahore), Vol. 26 No. 5, Page No. 2359-2367
10. AP Memon, S Khokhar, ZA Memon, AA Bhatti Discrete wavelet transform and multiresolution analysis algorithm with appropriate feedforward neural network classifier for power system transient disturbances, Science International (Lahore), Vol. 26 No. 5, Page No. 2231-2238,
11. S. Khokhar, A. P. Memon, and M. U. Keerio, "Multilayer Perceptron Feedforward Neural Network Based Power System Stabilizer For Excitation Control System," QUEST Research Journal, Vol. 2, Page No. 14-21, 2013. ISSN: 1605-8607
12. Ahmed A., Haseeb K., and Khokhar S.,"A Light-weighted Trust Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network," Gomal University Journal of Research, Vol.33, No.1, Page No.102-112, 2017.
13. L A Zardari1, M A Kamboh, H R Nodeh, A J Laghari, M Y Khuhawar, S Khokhar, Capillary Gas Chromatographic Determination of Gamma Aminobutyric acid and Putrescine in Cerebrospinal Fluid using Trifluoroacetylacetone as Derivatizing Reagent, “Pakistan Journal of Analytical & Environmental Chemistry” Vol. 19, No. 1, Page No. 28-35, 2018.
14. S. Khokhar, A. A. Mohd Zin, A. S. Mokhtar, and N. Zareen, "Automatic Pattern Recognition of Single and Multiple Power Quality Disturbances," Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,Vol. 13 Page No. 43-53 2016.
Conferences
1. S. Khokhar, A. A. M. Zin, A. S. Mokhtar, M. A. Bhayo, and A. Naderipour, "Automatic classification of single and hybrid power quality disturbances using Wavelet Transform and Modular Probabilistic Neural Network," in 2015 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON), Johor baharu Malsysia, 2015, pp. 457-462
2. M. A. Bhayo, A. H. M. Yatim, S. Khokhar, M. J. A. Aziz, and N. R. N. Idris, "Modeling of Wind Turbine Simulator for analysis of the wind energy conversion system using MATLAB/Simulink," in 2015 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON), Johor baharu Malsysia, 2015, pp. 122-127
3. A. Naderipour, A. A. M. Zin, M. H. Habibuddin, S. Khokhar, and A. Kazemi, "Improved control of shunt active power filter using harmony search algorithm," in 2015 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON), Johor baharu Malsysia, 2015, pp. 90-95
4. S. Khokhar, A. A. M. Zin, A. S. Mokhtar, and N. A. M. Ismail, "MATLAB/Simulink based modeling and simulation of power quality disturbances," in 2014 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON), , Johor Baharu, Johor baharu Malsysia, 2014, pp. 445-450
5. S. Khokhar, A. A. Mohd. Zin, A. S. Mokhtar, N. A. M. Ismail, and N. Zareen, "Automatic classification of power quality disturbances: a review," IEEE student conference on research & development, Putrajaya Malsysia, 2013 pp. 427-432, 2013
6. N. Ismail, A. Zin, A. Khairuddin, and S. Khokhar, "A comparison of voltage stability indices," in Power Engineering and Optimization Conference (PEOCO), 2014 IEEE 8th International, Langkawi Malsysia, 2014, pp. 30-34.

Professional Memberships:
Member of Pakistan Engineering Council
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers