Faculty Qazi Shahzad Ali

Qazi Shahzad Ali

Assistant Professor
Summary

Qazi Shahzad Ali did B.Sc. Engineering in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and M.Sc. Engineering in Mechanical Design Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore in 2006 and 2014, respectively. He secured a KNU Scholarship and completed Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Kyungpook National University (KNU), Daegu, South Korea in 2022. He has worked as Process Engineer in the Manufacturing Department of Sanpak Engineering Industries Kasur between 2006 and 2009. He has worked as a faculty member at the University of Gujrat (UOG) Gujrat from 2009 to 2017. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Thermal Energy Engineering (TEE) at the U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E) at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad. His areas of research interests include airborne wind energy, aerodynamics of ducted wind turbines, blade design, wind harvesting technologies, numerical modeling, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), performance analysis and fluid-structure interaction (FSI).

Academic Background
PhD (Mechanical Engineering) Kyungpook National University March 02, 2017 - February 18, 2022
Honours and Awards
Publications
Parametric analysis and prototype development of smog-free tower for sustainable urban environment July 30, 2025 Separation and Purification Technology - Volume 362, Part 2, Article Number 131776
Quantifying impacts of shell augmentation on power output of airborne wind energy system at elevated heights January 15, 2022 Energy - Volume:239, Article Number: 121839
Power conversion performance of airborne wind turbine under unsteady loads January 01, 2022 Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews - Volume:153, Article Number:111798
Design and performance analysis of an airborne wind turbine for high-altitude energy harvesting September 01, 2021 Energy - Volume:230,
Unsteady aerodynamic performance analysis of an airborne wind turbine under load varying conditions at high altitude April 15, 2020 Energy Conversion and Management - Volume:210, Article Number:112696
A systematic failure finding model of wind turbine drive train based on interfaces February 12, 2018 World Journal of Engineering - Volume:15, Issue:1, Page:86-90
Assessment of solar cooling technologies using the analytical hierarchical process February 13, 2017 World Journal of Engineering - Volume:14, Issue:1, Page:84-90
Conferences
2D Formulation of Crack model by using the Smeared Material Properties February 01, 2018 - February 02, 2018 Qazi Shahzad Ali, Man-Hoe Kim, ISER 105th International Conference, Kuala Lumpur
Lecturer cum Lab Engineer University of Gujrat June 03, 2009 - March 04, 2017
Process Engineer Sanpak Engineering Industries Pvt (Ltd) October 10, 2006 - May 31, 2009