Dr. Iswadi Hasyim Rosma, S.T., M.T., Ph.D, MIEEE was born in Kampar county, Riau province, Indonesia in 1978. He received his bachelor (Sarjana Teknik:ST) and master degree (Magister Teknik: MT) all in electrical engineering from the University of Diponegoro (supervised by Juningtyastuti Astika and Mochammad Facta ) and Bandung Institute of Technology (supervised by Redy Mardiana), all in Indonesia in 2002 and 2007, respectively. His bachelor’s and master’s degree studies were supported by the student aid scholarship (bantuan belajar mahasiswa) and the postgraduate program scholarship (BPPs DIKTI) of Indonesian government, respectively.
Since 2003, he has been an instructor/junior lecturer (asisten ahli) in electrical engineering at the University of Riau (UNRI), Indonesia. In 1st June 2010, he was promoted as a senior lecturer (lektor) at the same university. He has been teaching in different subjects, namely: electric machinery, transformer, electric circuit 2, power system protection, engineering mathematics 1 and 2 at the University of Riau. He was also giving a part-time lectures (between 2003 until 2007) at several universities in Riau province, namely: State Islamic University of Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau (UIN SUKSA), University of Muhammadiyah Riau (UMRI), and Politeknik Caltex Riau (PCR). He has supervised a number of diploma III and sarjana degrees (vocational/undergraduate) at the University of Riau. His research interest includes power system protection, automation, control, electric machine, Internet of Things, applied photovoltaics, etc.
Iswadi joined the Energy, Power and Intelligent Control (EPIC) research cluster at Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom in September 2012. His Ph.D. research topic was Phasor Measurement and Stability Analysis of Power System with Renewable Energy Sources. He utilized two approaches for analyzing the small-signal stability, namely: PMU and modal analysis based of small-signal stability while he used frequency transient event from actual PMU and simulation model to analyze the frequency transient stability. He also utilized frequency disturbance data from PMU at generator location to estimate synchronous generator inertia constant. His PhD study was supported by the Directorate General of Higher Education of Republic of Indonesia Scholarship (BSLN DIKTI) for 3 years period. He has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in front of internal examiner Dr. Tim Littler and external examiner Prof. Gareth Taylor from Brunel University, London on 24th March 2016 and graduated on 6th July 2016. His Ph.D. study supervisors are Prof. D. John Morrow and Dr. Robert J. Best from EPIC, QUB. He is also known as Iswadi HR; HR Iswadi; IH Rosma and Iswadi, H. R. Dr. Iswadi is an active member of IEEE, IEEE Power Engineering Society, and the Indonesian Power Engineers Association.