Pace

PACE Professor Herbert Iu has been appointed as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS ).

PACE researchers Jason Eshraghian, Ciyan Zheng and Professor Herbert Iu win the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems Prize Paper Award for their paper titled “Neuromorphic Vision Hybrid RRAM-CMOS Architecture”.

PACE Professor Herbert Iu has received a citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (Teaching and Research).

PACE researcher Jason Eshraghian and his team win the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled “Analog Weights in ReRAM DNN Accelerators” at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuit and Systems held in Hsinchu, Taiwan .

PACE Professor Tyrone Fernando is awarded a citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning at the 2018 UWA Teaching Awards. He has also been nominated by the University for the Australian Awards for University Teaching in the same category.

PACE researcher James Fletcher wins the 3^rd prize at the EESA (https://www.eesa.org.au/) poster conference held in the UWA on 29^th Oct, 2018. 

PACE Professor Herbert Iu receives the Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences 2018 Commendation for Excellence in Individual Teaching.

Senior energy analyst Amanda Niklaus from AEMO will be presenting a seminar on the Wholesale Energy Market (WEM).

AEMO is responsible for operating the WEM ensuring energy generation meets expected demand.

Event time: Thursday (26th April) 5 PM – 6.30PM

Event Venue: The Circle, Reid Library, UWA

 

Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1690513494381015/

 

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Renewable Energy and Micro-Grids (REM) Workshop on 3 April 2018 at the University of Western Australia, which will showcase the broad renewable energy and micro-grids research undertaken at UWA. Attendees will also have the opportunity to liaise with like-minded academics in their field and create new networks to expand their own and UWA’s research impact.

This workshop will also serve the proposal of a new ERO research group in Renewable Energy and Micro-Grids (REM).

Students and researchers are very welcome!

For more details, please refer to the following link.
http://pace.ee.uwa.edu.au/event/renewable-energy-micro-grids-rem-workshop/

RSVP: tyrone.fernando@uwa.edu.au by 31 March 2018

 

For more details, please refer to Workshops.

http://pace.ee.uwa.edu.au/events/workshops/

Dr. Samson S. Yu has completed his PhD study within the PACE research group and started working as a postdoctoral Research Fellow in PACE at the School of EECE, UWA, 1st December 2017. Within his PhD study, Samson achieved exceptional research outcome with an international recognition, and has received 1st and 2nd prizes of IEEE Australia Council Paper Competition in 2015 and 2016 respectively. His full research profile can be found on his Google Scholar and also the Publication section of PACE website.

Recognizing his outstanding performances and demonstrated capability in continuing his career in Academia, Professor Tyrone Fernando, the Director of PACE, has appointed the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate for him to continue making contributions to original research, HDR students and funding management and diverse administrative assignments.

 

The special talks at PACE seminar were presented by invited special guests from IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Malaysia Chapter presented two technical reports on (1) Graphene Quantum Dots (GQD) for advancing photovoltaics (PV) material technology and (2) printed sensors for ion detection, both of which were given by postgraduate students from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Dr. Mohd Nazim Mohtar, senior lecturer at UPM also gave a special talk on IEEE CAS for the purpose of promoting the IEEE CAS society in Western Australia.

Professor Tyrone Fernando wins “100 Foreign Experts of Jiangsu Province” research grant from the Department of Foreign Expert, Human Resources and Social Security Agency in China.

PACE researcher Mr. Samson Yu wins the 2nd place in the IEEE Australia Council student paper contest-postgraduate students catagory.

PACE Professor Herbert Iu has been appointed as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

PACE Professor Tyrone Fernando wins the Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence – Individual Teaching.

http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201706239717/awards-and-prizes/2017-faculty-teaching-and-learning-awards-winners

PACE Professor Herbert Iu has been appointed as editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

Dr Zhenyu Shan has won a UWA IAS short staying visiting fellowship. He will be visiting PACE during July, 2017.

PACE research group is a technical sponsor of the 2017 International Conference on Sustainable Energy Engineering (ICSEE 2017) to be held in  Perth, Australia during 12-14 June, 2017.

http://www.icsee.org/

PACE Professor Herbert Iu has been selected as a finalist of the 26^th WAITTA INCITE Awards in the Achiever of the Year category.

PACE PhD student James Fletcher announced as a finalist of the 26th Annual WAITTA INCITE Awards for his PhD project entitled “Distributed Generation for Rural Areas”, supported by Western Power. He received the finalist certificate from Hon. Dave Kelly MLA, Minister for Water, Fisheries, Forestry, Innovation & ICT and Science at the “Innovation Excellence” forum held on 7 April 2017.

Australia can have a 100 per cent renewable energy network that is affordable and secure, according to research.

Source: 100 per cent renewable energy network possible with existing technologies: study

Cost saving innovation tool for electricity networks has been developed through a collaboration between a team from Western Power and PACE researchers.
Click here for the full story.

Regular PACE seminars for 2017 will commence on Wednesday, January 25th, at 3.00pm in the Billings room.
All staff, students and members of the public are welcome to attend. Please refer to the Seminars section for a full schedule of seminars.

The West Australian town of Kalbarri is set to install a $10 million renewable energy-powered microgrid comprising of solar and wind power, as well as a large-scale battery storage, to improve the reliability of the electricity network of the town.

https://news.wa.gov.au/renewable-energy-power-solution-for-kalbarri/