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IEEEQUEENSLAND SECTION
NEWSLETTER
April 2015Volume 18 - Issue 1Print Post Approval No. PP4458860011Acting editor: Mike Robinson ([email protected])
In this issue:
Section Chair’s report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Section Vice-chair’s report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Webmaster’s report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Professional Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Women In Engineering Affinity Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Young Professionals Program Affinity Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Computer Society Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Control Systems/Robotics and Automation Societies Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Power & Energy/Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation Societies Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Queensland Section Office Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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GARRY EINICKE, CSIRO [email protected]
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Section Chair’s report
Engineers are innovators. Innovation is underpinned bymany things including documentation, communicationand networking. That is, the accumulation of previouscontributions and ways to solve problems need to be doc-umented and shared. This is what the IEEE does. Up-wards of 400,000 volunteers review and post millions ofsolution designs on-line. Engineers everywhere are ableto punch in some keywords into IEEExplore to canvassthe state of the art.
Standards have evolved so that we are able to followestablished protocols. For example, protocols have beendevised for injecting genetic materials into cells. Perhapsthe most famous standard is IEEE 802.11, commonlyknown as Wi-Fi (invented at the CSIRO) which allows usto connect laptops, tablets and phones to our networks.
Not everyone has time to attend overseas events andkeep up-to-date. We have an energetic IEEE Queenslandteam to organise conferences, workshops, courses andseminars for our local members.
The Queensland Sectio has had a great 2015 first quar-ter. Our highlights include the three 30-year-celebrationevents that were held on 18th February 2015.
The first event of the day was a Student Poster Compe-tition in which undergraduate and graduate students fromthe University of Queensland, the Queensland Univer-sity of Technology, Griffith University, the University ofSouthern Queensland and Central Queensland Universitypresented their work. IEEE Queensland congratulatesthe following prizer winners. First prize: Marie-LuiseWille (QUT). Second prizes: Nahid-al Masood (UQ) andJunhyuck Seo (UQ). Third prizes: Shohana Deeba (UQ),Alina Bialkowski (QUT) and Mehdi Mosadeghy (UQ).
The second event commemorated our IEEE activitiessince the Queensland Section was established thirty years
ago. Our first section chairs - Professors David Thiel,Miles Moody and Matt Darveniza - each spoke abouttheir experiences from the mid-1980’s to the present.
Professors Miles Moody, David Thiel and Matt Darveniza
The third celebration event was a dinner which washeld at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centrein the very room where world leaders recently gatheredfor the G20 Summit. We thank the Chair of the 30-Year-Celebration Organising Committee Professor TapanSaha, our archivist Mike Robinson, and the sponsors:The University of Queensland, Queensland University ofTechnology, University of Southern Queensland, Ground-Probe and NOJA Power.
The Queensland Section’s next major event will be In-ternational Conference on Acoustics Speech and SignalProcessing (ICASSP). This is the Signal Processing So-ciety’s largest and most comprehensive conference. Theconference will held on 29 24 April 2015 at the BrisbaneConvention and Exhibition Centre. See icassp2015.organd please contact the co-chair, Vaughan Clarkson, forfurther information.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of assis-tance to you.
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DR. DANIEL (MEHDI) [email protected]
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Section Vice-chair’s report
Senior Membership Elevation Program
In 2014, the Queensland Section launched its inaugu-ral Senior Membership Elevation BBQ event to encour-age and assist eligible members to elevate their mem-bership to senior grade. By December 2014, a total of40 applications were nominated and endorsed by theQueensland Section.
The majority of applications have been approved anda few are still being reviewed. This will increase thenumber of senior members in QLD section by 50% in asingle year. While, only 7% of IEEE members world-wide are senior members, we are pleased to announcethat in Queensland about 10% of our members are nowsenior members.
The Queensland Section is planning to organise atleast one Senior Membership Elevation event in 2015.More information will be emailed to all membersshortly. Meantime, if you would like to elevate yourmembership you will find all the details on the section’swebsite here.
A full list of Fellows and Senior Members can befound here.
2015 IEEE Region 10 Annual Meeting
The 2015 IEEE Region 10 annual meeting was heldin Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 6th-8th. These an-nual meetings provide a great opportunity for all sectionleaders within region 10 to share experience, ideas anddiscuss their challenges face-to-face.
It was my first time attending such an IEEE eventrepresenting the Queensland Section. Professor TapanSaha, Queensland Section’s immediate past chair andcurrent Australia Council Chair also attended the meet-
ing. I met many section chairs and some IEEE head-quarters office bearers.
I also attended the Australia Council meeting inDhaka, a perfect opportunity to meet other AustralianSection chairs and discuss Australia-wide activities suchas student paper competitions and the DistinguishedLecturer program.
I picked up many good ideas from the presentationsand from talking to other IEEE section leaders. A copyof all presentations can be downloaded from Region 10’swebsite. I encourage Queensland IEEE volunteers to re-view the presentation slides relevant to your chapter/affinity group.
After attending the 2015 annual meeting, I am verypleased to share with you the fact that the Queenslandsection is one of the more active sections in Region 10.However, we can always perform better, provide moreservices to our members, and improve our membershipengagement. I will provide the section with a more de-tailed report shortly, but meantime I would like to sharethese important points with you:
• Region 10 is the largest region in the IEEE, andincreasing membership benefits is one of the mainfocuses of the Region 10 executive committee.
• The Young Professionals Program Affinity Grouphas 34,924 members in Region 10 and forms 30%of Region 10’s membership. Region 10 is provid-ing support funds for proposals focused on YoungProfessionals (IEEE members who graduated withtheir first professional degree within the last 15years).
• Student members are the future leaders of our so-ciety. Recruiting new student members as wellas retaining student members after graduation is
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very important. Region 10 encourages all sectionsto promote student activities and to provide sub-sidised membership fees.
• In 2016, IEEE Region 10 celebrates its 50th an-niversary. This is a great milestone for Region 10and for us.
• IEEE has launched an integrated online communitywhere technology professionals can network, col-laborate, and create, all in one central hub. IEEE
members as well as non-members can join forfree. I encourage you to register and start buildingyour professional network today.
• The IEEE Awards and Recognition program is de-signed to recognise the valuable service that IEEEvolunteers provide to the community in differentcapacities and categories. The Queensland sectionencourages you to nominate IEEE volunteers whoyou believe have made outstanding contributionsto our community.
Region 10 meeting, Dhaka 2015
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MIKE [email protected]
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Webmaster’s report
In mid-2014 I began work on a new Queensland Sec-tion website. The previous website dated from around2010, and though it was easy to maintain it lacked fa-cilities to place graphics on a page with precision, aswell as being monochrome and tedious to navigate.
As an interim measure I gave the old website amakeover that included a coloured background and bet-ter page layout. I created an archive section and addedapproximately 100 pages of section history that I foundon old websites and in the IEEE archives.
Then I designed the new website around modern tech-nology in a new web domain, iee-qld.org. A dropdownmenu on the front page solved the old navigation prob-lems as well as providing direct access to the olderwebsite until such time as its content could be refor-matted and migrated to the new site. New home pagesfor each of the chapters and affinity groups were alsocreated, but I didn’t take their development very far.
Planning for the section’s 30th anniversary becamemore important than web development in the latterhalf of 2014. One of my tasks was to produce asouvenir booklet. When designing the booklet I tookadvantage of the information I discovered while creat-ing the archives mentioned above and laced the bookletwith historical data about the section’s foundation andsubsequent development.
Now it is time to return to the new website. On mybrief stint last year I discovered that the art of webdevelopment has become very complicated. In 1999,
when I created a fairly sophisticated web-based ac-counting system in another life, it was all done withHTML and JavaScript. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)had not come into vogue and mobile phones were partlynovelty items, partly status symbols.
The advent of smartphones and tablets means the webis now available on mobile devices. Designers musttake this into account and create web applications thatadjust to the size of the viewing screen. This is knownas responsive web design (RWD). If you want to expe-rience RWD open www.microsoft.com simultaneouslyon a smartphone and on a laptop or PC. You can’t helpnoticing the difference.
My task now is to make the new section website respon-sive to the size of the viewing screen. It is not an easytask as CSS alone will not accomplish the transforma-tion, and RWD is an evolving concept without a fixedway of accomplishing a given result. Browser compati-bility is also a problem: what works on Browser X maynot be implemented on Browser Y, and it may workdifferently on Browser X’s smartphone implementationthan it does on its desktop implementation.
Dropdown menus are one of the major stumblingblocks on a smartphone. Notice how they are han-dled on the Microsoft website: they are converted to adifferent presentation style on a smaller screen.
Once I get over the RWD hurdle I will have muchwork still to do: the old website has over 100 pages onit. 2015 should be an interesting year.
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ALIREZA [email protected]
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Professional Activities
My name is Alireza Jolfaei, born in Tehran, the cap-ital and largest city of Iran. I have done both bache-lor (Biomedical Engineering) and master (Telecommu-nication Engineering) degrees in my hometown, andcame to Australia about 3 years ago to pursue Ph.D.studies in Applied Cryptography.
My work focuses on the design and analysis of 3Dcontent encryption schemes. I have a strong passionfor programming and solving math problems. My aca-demic journey has been a challenging one, but eachmilestone I have overcome has made me more deter-mined to reach my goals, and encouraged me to pursuemy passions as a crypto scientist.
I am a committee member of the Gold Coast Asso-ciation of Postgraduate Students (GCAP) and GriffithInternational, where I am actively involved in providingacademic services and support to postgraduate studentsof Griffith University. I’ve done well in this role as Ienjoy engaging in professional programs for studentcommunities.
I joined IEEE in 2012 and this year I was appointedChair of the IEEE Queensland Section’s ProfessionalActivities committee. I am very excited about this roleand look forward to promoting Professional Activi-ties at the pre-university, university and engineeringprofessional levels; working together to advance pro-fessionalism within the IEEE Queensland Section.
To commence my work in my new role, I would liketo cordially invite you to attend a seminar by Dr Gwe-nael Doerr from Technicolor R&D France, which willbe held at Griffith University, Gold Coast campus on
April 20th at 1:30pm.
This talk is dedicated to informing enthusiastic IEEEmembers on why and how the entertainment industryinvests considerable amounts of money in multimediaforensics. The event will be beneficial to members ofboth IEEE signal processing and computer societies.Please see the details below, and forward the informa-tion to colleagues who may be interested.
The exact location will be confirmed to atten-dees approximately one week prior to the talk.For more details please feel free to contact me [email protected]. Thank you in ad-vance for attending this event, and I hope you willenjoy this exciting talk.
Date: 1:30pm April 20th, 2015Place: Griffith University, Gold Coast campusTitle: Watermarking-based Traitor Tracing to DeterPiracy of Entertainment ContentSpeaker: Dr Gwenael DoerrAffiliation: Technicolor R&D France
Abstract: This talk will be organized in three mainparts. To begin with, I will review the ecosystem ofthe Entertainment industry, survey the different toolsavailable to combat piracy and introduce the multime-dia forensics workflow typically in use today.
Next, I will focus on digital watermarking, a technol-ogy used to introduce imperceptible machine-readablemarkers in multimedia content. After briefly goingthrough the fundamentals I will describe in more detailthe 2-step watermarking strategy adopted by Techni-
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color R&D France and discuss its pros and cons, e.g. toaccommodate for HTTP adaptive streaming transmis-sion.
In the last part I will discuss how recent passiveforensics techniques could prove useful in the contextof watermarking-based traitor tracing. In particular, Iwill showcase how the low-power flicker signal createdby the interplay between a LCD screen and a cam-corder could serve as a powerful tell-tale indicator tohelp forensic investigations. To wrap up, I will discussenduring challenges in watermarking research and sug-gest potential avenues for research.
Biography: After a journey oscillating between theacademic and the industry worlds (NEC, UniversityCollege London, HP), Gwenael Doerr eventually set-tled in Technicolor R&D France where he works asa Principal Scientist on content protection. He has a
well-established track record in watermarking researchand now leads research activities on video forensics,whose findings are expected to sustain ContentArmorproduct line - Technicolor’s in-house watermarking-based traitor tracing solution for entertainment content.
He is a Distinguished Member of Technicolor’s Fel-low Network, a group of scientific and technical expertswithin the company who contribute to technology-related strategic decision making, and leverage Techni-color’s scientific and technical excellence.
He is also the Chair of the IEEE SPS Technical Com-mittee on Information Forensics and Security, an AreaChair for Columns & Forum for the Signal ProcessingMagazine, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans-actions on Information Forensics and Security and theEURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.
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ALEXANDRA [email protected]
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Women In Engineering Affinity Group
Committee:Chair: Alexandra PosoldovaVice-chair: Bafrin ZareiSecretary: Marie Luise Wille
I am a PhD student in my second year of study atGriffith University, School of Information and Commu-nication Technology.
My research involves designing a recommendationsystem for a smart television. It includes pattern recog-nition, classification, and other machine learning areas.I am also passionate about fuzzy logic, artificial intelli-gence, and personal development.
I come from Slovakia, where I got my bachelor andmasters degrees in engineering.
I have been involved in different fields of engineeringfor 8 years and have noticed that women are always inthe minority in these areas of technology. For some rea-
son women do not see themselves as logical, thinkingpersons who prefer creative careers.
Personally, I find engineering and doing research verycreative. Therefore I would like to encourage morewomen to relinquish their negative perceptions and findtheir own way.
Last year was great for Women in Engineering andthis year will be just as fantastic, if not better. Thereare some interesting events coming up, like 3-minute’pitch your work’ events, which will be a wonderful op-portunity for building professional networks, buildingself-confidence, and practising presentation skills.
The WIE committee would love to see you all there!
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MOHAMMAD (MO) [email protected]
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Young Professionals Program Affinity Group
Committee:Chair: Mo AmanzadehVice-chair Reuben Peterkin
Hello and welcome to 2015 from the new Young Pro-fessionals Program team. We have Reuben Peterkin(Vice-cair) and Mohammad (Mo) Amanzadeh (Chair)as the committee of The Young Professionals ProgramQueensland for 2015.
ANZSCON conference was a major achievement for2014 and we are going to have an even more excitingyear in 2015.
We are in the planning stages of a career develop-ment series. The series includes events such as profes-sional talks from industry members on career develop-ment, workshops to introduce IEEE tools and benefits
of LinkedIn to advance your career, and more social andnetworking sessions. We will soon announce more de-tails about the series. So, please keep looking for ouremails.
Also, don’t forget to join the IEEE Queensland YoungProfessionals Facebook group to stay up to date and getinteresting news from other IEEE young members.
At present, the role of secretary is vacant. If youwould like to volunteer for the role please contact meat [email protected]. If you have any sugges-tions, please feel free to pass them on to me on the sameemail address.
A typical session at ANZSCON2014 ANZSCON2014 organisers and attendees
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DR. TOMASZ [email protected]
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Computer Society Chapter
Committee:Chair: Dr. Tomasz Bednarz (Queensland University of Technology)Vice-chair: Dr. Ruslan Puscasu (The University of Queensland)Secretary: Mike Robinson
The Computer Society chapter held its first planningmeeting for 2015 on March 27th, when the committeemet to discuss present issues and future activities.
Mike Robinson presented a report detailing the chap-ter’s status and the special problems it faced. Theseinvolved lack of communication with the membershipin recent years, struggling to hold a minimum of twoprofessional events each year, a distributed member-ship with diverse interests and requirements, lack of aCBD venue for functions, and inactive committees forthe last five years.
Mike Robinson pointed out that most Computer So-ciety chapters around the world were facing similarproblems in respect of membership engagement, butthere were ways to conquer the difficulties. The com-mittee discussed several suggestions for improvementand settled on a course of action.
Using their industry and academic contacts TomaszBednarz and Ruslan Puscasu proposed to stage a se-ries of monthly activities, starting at the end of May.The venues would be the three Brisbane universi-ties, with functions being held in rotation at eachvenue. QUT would serve as an ideal CBD venue toattract city-based chapter members. The first function,
Bayesian Statistics for the Big Data Age is scheduledfor May 21st at QUT.
The functions would be designed to attract a broadspectrum of members, and would be based aroundemerging technologies such as Big Data, or establishedareas like High-Performance Computing, Business In-telligence, Data Modelling, Statistical Learning andComputer Graphics. The Chapter will also collocatenear future meetings with the Brisbane Khronos Chap-ter and the ACM SIGGRAPH Brisbane Chapter. A talkon responsive web design was planned for later in theyear. Exciting times!
It was also decided to establish at least one CS stu-dent branch at a Brisbane university. There hasn’t beena CS student branch at any university for more than 10years.
Tomasz Bednarz proposed to set up Facebook andTwitter accounts for the chapter as a means of improv-ing communications with the membership.
The committee expressed their confidence in an ac-tive future for the chapter in 2015.
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DR. MICHAEL [email protected]
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Control Systems/Robotics and AutomationSocieties Chapter
Committee:Chair: Dr. Michael Kearney (The University of Queensland)Vice-chair: James Brodie (Carlton and United Breweries)
Welcome to Control Systems Society and Roboticsand Automation Society members in the QueenslandSection. In 2014, we ran 8 events, and are hoping todo more this year. The office bearers for the chapter thisyear are:
• The Chapter Chair is Dr Michael Kearney, Schoolof Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The Uni-versity of Queensland. Michael works in modelpredictive control and its applications to miningautomation, and energy systems. Michael servedas Chair in 2014.
• The Chapter Vice-Chair is James Brodie, Carltonand United Breweries, Yatala. James works withautomation and control systems in their applica-tion of the brewing and packaging of beer, ciderand spirits. James is new to the executive this year,but has been a member of IEEE since the begin-ning of 2009.
We will be in touch soon with upcoming events.
This year has already been big for Robotics withinQueensland with the opening of the Australian Re-search Council Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vi-sion (ACRV) at QUT by the Federal Education MinisterChristopher Pyne. The ACRV is funded by a FederalGovernment grant of $19 Million and its research willfocus on developing robots that can see and comprehendtheir environment using the sense of vision.
“This is a missing capability that currently preventsrobots from performing useful tasks in a complex, un-structured and dynamically changing environment” Pro-fessor Peter Corke, the Centres Director (who is also anIEEE Fellow) said. “The research will turn cameras intopowerful sensing devices allowing robots to understandand respond to their environments and to work safelyside-by-side with humans”.
The ARCV is one of the largest of its kind in theworld, and involves a collaboration between leadingrobot vision researchers from QUT, University of Ade-laide, ANU and Monash University as well as interna-tional partner universities of Oxford, Imperial College,ETH, INRIA and Georgia Tech and will focus on fiveareas of Medical and Healthcare, Smart Manufacturing,Infrastructure Monitoring, Agriculture and Automationin Construction.
Guests at the launch were treated to displays of thisemerging technology with “Baxter”, a research robot,assisting the Education Minister by cutting a ribbon toofficially open the Centre. Earlier in the day, Baxterchallenged Professor Corke to a game of “Connect 4” infront of a large media contingent. Losing the first gameto Professor Corke, undeterred Baxter challenged theProfessor to a rematch which Baxter subsequently won.
We will keep you apprised of the happenings of theACRV and its upcoming events over the year.
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Education Minister Christopher Pyne
Professor Corke with Baxter
Baxter meets the press
Professor Corke challenges Baxter
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DR. CHANDIMA [email protected]
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Power & Energy/Dielectrics & ElectricalInsulation Societies Chapter
Committee:Chair: Dr. Chandima EkanayakeVice-chair: Dr. Nilesh ModiSecretary: Dr. Ruifeng Yan
PES/DEIS is one of the most active chapters in theQueensland section. In 2014 PES/DEIS organised 10technical programmes (6 technical seminars, one work-shop and 2 site visits) and one social event for its mem-bers. Two new executive committee members wereelected for PES/DEIS chapter for 2015. The new com-mittee members are:
• Chair Dr. Chandima Ekanayake (M’00)This is Chandima’s second year as the chair ofthe PES Queensland chapter. Chandima receivedhis PhD from Chalmers University of Technology,Sweden in 2006. Currently he is a Lecturer in theSchool of Engineering at Griffith University. Be-fore joining Griffith he was an academic attachedto the power engineering research group at TheUniversity of Queensland.
He is actively engaged in power engineering re-search, including condition-monitoring of powerapparatus and alternatives for petroleum based in-sulating oil. He was Chair of the IEEE Sri LankaSection in 2006 and 2007. In 2012 and 2013 heserved as the Membership Development Chair ofIEEE Queensland Section. Chandima was Vice-chair of the IEEE Queensland PES chapter in2013.
• Vice-chair Dr. Nilesh Modi (S’06, M’09)Nilesh is the new vice-chair of the chapter. Nileshreceived his Bachelor degree and Masters degreefrom Sardar Patel University, India in 2001 and2004 respectively. He completed his PhD from
The University of Queensland in 2013. He hasworked with G. H. Patel College of Engineering& Technology, India from 2004 to 2009.
Currently he is working at Australian Energy Mar-ket Operator. He has been an active IEEE vol-unteer of since 2006. He has served in variouspositions in the IEEE at student branch and sec-tion level. He served as Membership DevelopmentChair and webmaster for the Queensland section.
Vice-chair Nilesh Modi
• Secretary Dr. Ruifeng Yan (S’09, M’12) RuifengYan received the B. Eng. (Hons.) degree in Au-tomation from University of Science and Tech-nology, Beijing, China, in 2004, the M. Engdegree in Electrical Engineering from the Aus-tralian National University, Canberra, Australia,in 2007, and Ph.D degree in Power and EnergySystems from the University of Queensland, Bris-bane, Australia in 2012. Since then he has been aPostdoctoral Research Fellow in the University ofQueensland.
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His research interests include power system op-eration and analysis, and renewable energy inte-gration into power networks. He has been an ac-tive volunteer for IEEE since 2013. In 2013 and2014 he served as treasurer of the IEEE Queens-land Section.
Secretary Ruifeng Yan
Current PES/DEIS activities include:
• Hosting the APPEEC 2015 conference Weare glad to announce that the IEEE QueenslandPES/DEIS chapter won the bid to host the 7thAsia Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Con-ference in Brisbane. The conference will be heldfrom November 15th-18th 2015.
The conference is fully sponsored by IEEE PESand it is one of the major IEEE annual conferencesheld in the Asia-Pacific region. This will be anexcellent opportunity for Queensland PES chaptermembers to meet their peers from the Asia-Pacificregion. More information about APPEEC 2015will be circulated in coming weeks. The confer-ence website is located here.
• Technical co-sponsor of CIDER 2015 CIGREAustralia is organising the inaugural Conferenceon Integration of Distributed Energy Resourcesin the Asia-Pacific region with technical co-sponsorship provided by the PES Queensland andNSW chapters.
The conference will be help in Brisbane from Au-gust 19th-20th 2015. CIDER is a conference for
industry practitioners focusing on the integrationof distributed energy resources into electricity dis-tribution networks. The conference will focus oncurrent problems and on identifying cost-effectivetechnical solutions to overcoming those problems.The conference website is located here.
• PES Student Travel Prize IEEE Queensland Sec-tion’s PES Chapter is calling for applications forthe 2015 Student Conference Travel Prize. This isthe 6th year PES is offering this opportunity forour student members to travel overseas. Closingdate for applications is April 15th 2015. More in-formation on the travel prize is available here.
• Seminars PES/DEIS regularly organizes semi-nars. Last year PES/DEIS received funding of$US2,500 from the IEEE through its PES Mem-ber Driven Initiative program to organise a seriesof workshops. Last year PES/DEIS organized oneworkshop under this program, which was a verysuccessful event with more than 60 participantsfrom industry. Similar events are planned for thisyear. More information will be circulated in duecourse.
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Queensland Section Office HoldersOffice Office holder ContactSection OfficersChair Garry Einicke [email protected] Daniel Eghbal [email protected] Tony Sahama [email protected] Mike Robinson [email protected] Past Chair Tapan Saha [email protected]
Newsletter Editor Hugo Espinosa [email protected] Mike Robinson [email protected] Activities Alireza Jolfaei [email protected] Development Yateendra Mishra [email protected] and Recognition Preethi Preethichandra [email protected] Activities VacantEducational Activities Kalum Udagepola kalum [email protected] Australia Liaison Tapan Saha [email protected] Program Mike Robinson [email protected]
Chapter OfficersAerospace and Electronic Systems SocietyChair Robert Kennedy [email protected] VacantSecretary John Davies [email protected]
Australian Oceanic Engineering SocietyIEEE Queensland Section representative Navinda Kottege [email protected]
Computational Intelligence SocietyChair Andrew Lewis [email protected] Amin Gharipour [email protected] Zahra Jadidi [email protected]
Computer SocietyChair Tomasz Bednarz [email protected] Ruslan Puscasu [email protected] Mike Robinson [email protected]
Control Systems SocietyRobotics and Automation SocietyJoint ChapterChair Michael Kearney [email protected] James Brodie [email protected] Vacant
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Office Office holder ContactEngineering in Medicine and Biology SocietyChair Steve Wilson [email protected] Mohan Karunanithi [email protected] Vacant
Microwave Theory & Techniques SocietyAntennas & Propagation SocietyJoint ChapterChair Greg Hislop [email protected] Konstanty Bialkowski [email protected] Antony Lui [email protected]
Power & Energy SocietyDielectrics and Electrical Insulation SocietyJoint ChapterChair Chandima Ekanayake [email protected] Nilesh Modi [email protected] Ruifeng (Richard) Yan [email protected]
Signal Processing SocietyCommunications SocietyJoint ChapterChair Andrew Bradley [email protected] Vaughan Clarkson [email protected] Dhammika Jayalath [email protected]
Society on Social Implications of TechnologyIEEE Queensland Section representative Samuli Haataja [email protected]
Women in EngineeringChair Alexandra Posoldova [email protected] Bafrin Zarei [email protected] Marie Luise Wille [email protected]
Young Professionals ProgramChair Mohammad Amanzadeh [email protected] Reuben Peterkin [email protected] Vacant
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Office Office holder ContactStudent CounsellorsCentral Queensland University - Brisbane Mary Tom [email protected] Queensland University - Rockhampton Edward Palmer [email protected] University - Gold Coast Jahangir Hossain [email protected] University - Nathan Sascha Stegen [email protected] University of Technology Seyit Camtepe [email protected] University of Queensland Vaughan Clarkson [email protected] University of Queensland (PES) Tapan Saha [email protected] of Southern Queensland Paul Wen [email protected]
Student BranchesThe University of QueenslandChair Jeremy Taylor [email protected] Michael Broe [email protected] Ellie Deeb [email protected] Muhammad Badri Mhd Noor [email protected]
The University of Queensland(Power & Energy Society)Chair Jaroslaw Krata [email protected] Hanxiao Zhang [email protected] VacantTreasurer Vacant
Central Queensland University(Brisbane Campus)Chair Sujan Chowdhury [email protected] VacantSecretary Juan Munoz Carpio [email protected] Arash Daneshvar [email protected]
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