Birane DIAW

State Engineering Student — Electrical Engineering & Intelligent Systems.

Open the work, follow the assumptions, and see how each system was built: protection, energy conversion, automation, control and embedded electronics. Each selected project leads to a dedicated case study with the problem, solution, build path, discussion and source material.

Contact: diawbirane10@gmail.com.

Research & Publications

Accepted manuscript

Accepted for publication · DOI forthcoming

Grid-Forming Virtual Synchronous Machine Control with DC-Coupled Battery Storage for Frequency Stability in a Multi-Terminal VSC-HVDC Renewable Power System

This paper studies how grid-forming virtual synchronous machine control, supported by DC-coupled battery storage, can improve frequency stability in a renewable multi-terminal VSC-HVDC system. It connects converter behaviour, storage response and disturbance scenarios while keeping the control assumptions explicit.

Journal of Undergraduate Research International, KFUPM · JURI-00314-2026-02 · DOI forthcoming

Selected Projects

Five engineering case studies

Power systems · protection logic

Smart-Grid UFLS Relay — ONEE & SENELEC

UFLS relay model for two grid contexts, with a six-state Stateflow automaton for staged shedding, restoration and validation.

Renewable energy · machine control

Wave-Energy Conversion Chain — FOC & Grid Injection

Simulation of a wave-energy conversion chain using a PMSG, field-oriented control and grid-side injection.

Railway electrification · energy recovery

25 kV AC Railway Traction System

Traction-chain model linking 25 kV AC supply assumptions, train dynamics, catenary behaviour, converter control and regenerative braking.

Battery systems · engineering software

Digital Twin — Li-ion Battery Packs

Battery-pack digital twin around a Thevenin 2RC model, SOC, SOH/RUL, thermal behaviour and a lightweight app layer.

Electric drives · control

Digital Twin — Variable-Speed Electric Drive

Electric-drive digital twin using state-space modelling, numerical integration, H-bridge representation, cascade PI control and signal analysis.

More projects — Additional prototypes and code repositories are available on GitHub.

Open GitHub

Academic Path

Engineering education

State Engineering Student — Electrical Engineering & Intelligent Systems

EMSI Rabat

Engineering cycle focused on electrical engineering, intelligent systems and industrial technologies. The path connects power systems, smart grids, automation, supervision, embedded systems and applied engineering projects.

Oct 2026 — Jun 2028

Bachelor of Science and Technology — Industrial Computing, Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Automation (IEEA)

FST Marrakech · Université Cadi Ayyad

Four-year path combining a common scientific core in mathematics, computer science, physics and chemistry, followed by applied mathematics and a final-year reorientation toward electrical engineering. The degree now bridges modelling, industrial computing, electronics, electrotechnics and automatic control.

Oct 2022 — Jun 2026

Baccalauréat S2, Experimental Sciences

Cours Sainte Marie de Hann, Dakar

Senegalese scientific track centred on experimental sciences, physics and mathematics. It built the base for scientific reasoning, observation, quantitative analysis and the transition toward engineering studies.

Jul 2022

Skills

Tools & methods

Energy & power systems

Smart grids · UFLS · VSC-HVDC · Grid-forming control · PV conversion · Railway traction · Wave energy · Battery systems

Control & simulation

MATLAB/Simulink · Simscape Electrical · Stateflow · dq control · FOC · PID · MPC · Numerical simulation

Industrial automation

Siemens TIA Portal · Siemens PLCs · CODESYS 3.5 · IEC 61131-3 ST · GRAFCET · OpenPLC · SCADA concepts

Embedded & electronics

KiCad · PCB design · ESP32 · C/C++ basics · Sensors · Telemetry · RF concepts

Engineering software

Python · FastAPI · Streamlit · CustomTkinter · Git/GitHub · Data processing · Technical documentation