Dr Lee Yee Hui of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based radionavigation system that relies on multiple satellite signals to provide accurate positioning. GPS systems incudes GNSS from the US, GLONASS from Russia, BeiDou from China, Galileo from Europe, and NavIC from India. The number of navigation satellites continues to increase and therefore, the number of visible satellites from ground receivers increases too. From these GPS signals, parameters such as Precipitable Water Vapour (PWV), Liquid Water Content (LWC) and gradient profile can be derived. There is a high correlation between these parameters and rainfall. Therefore, in this talk, we examine how the GPS signals can be effectively used for rainfall prediction. This includes both nowcasting and looking at temporal and spatial effects of GPS signals for rainfall prediction applications.

Biography:

Dr. Lee Yee Hui received the B.Eng. degree and the M.Eng. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Ph.D. degree from University of York, England, in 1996, 1998 and 2002, respectively. All degrees are in electronic engineering. She joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as an Assistant Professor in 2002. She is currently an Associate Professor at the same school. She is a senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Her current research is in GPS derived weather parameters and weather prediction for energy management. She has been working on rainfall prediction and weather prediction using microwave and deep learning since 2004.

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Address:School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Renewables’ Integration & Microgrids​; Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N); S2-B2C-81, Singapore, Singapore

Prof Guan Yong Liang of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

V2X (vehicle to everything) communication refers to a new wireless communication paradigm that allows moving vehicles to communicate directly with each other, or with access points installed on roadside infrastructure, without human in the loop. This technology promises to enhance road safety, cut driving time, save fuel, augment GPS, redefine traffic and fleet management, enable gantry-less toll charging and parking, support cooperative AV and EV, etc. In this lecture, I will give an overview of the V2X technology, protocol standards, applications, adoption around the world, industry and market outlook.  Selected research problems will also be discussed.

Biography:

Dr. Yong Liang Guan obtained his Bachelor of Engineering at the National University of Singapore and PhD degree from the Imperial College London. He is the Associate Vice President (Infrastructure and Programmes) of NTU, and a Professor of Communication Engineering with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore. He is also the Co-Director of the Continental-NTU Corporate Lab. His research focus are in the areas of coding and signal processing for communication systems and information storage systems. He has published an invited monograph, 2 books and more than 450 journal and conference papers. He has secured over S$70 million of external research funding. He established the Continental-NTU Corporate Lab, Schaeffler Hub for Advance Research at NTU, and the NTU-NXP V2X Testbed Lab. He has 11 filed patents and 3 granted patents, one of which was licensed to NXP Semiconductors. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

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Address:School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, S1-B1C-100, Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Dush Nalin Jayakody of Lusófona University, Portugal

The Age of Information has ushered in a new era of technological progress, particularly in the realm of wireless networks, where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity for their versatility in applications such as environmental monitoring, search and rescue missions, and aerial photography. However, UAV wireless networks are constrained by factors such as battery life and interference, which limit their efficiency and reliability. One potential solution to these challenges is Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT), which enables devices to use the same frequency band for both data transmission and power transfer, effectively reducing the need for batteries and improving the overall reliability of wireless networks. During this presentation, we will introduce a unified energy harvesting scheme for UAV-assisted wireless networks and discuss a study that combines Age of Information (AoI) and full-duplex enabled UAVs as a promising solution to enhance the latency and spectrum efficiency of a wireless powered sensor network. The sensor node (SN) located in a transport infrastructure harnesses energy from radio frequency signals transmitted by the FD-UAV to transmit real-time sensor observations to the data sink via the same UAV. This talk will highlight the future directions and challenges of green UAV and its integration to 6G Wireless.

Biography:

Dr. Dush Nalin Jayakody,  received the  MSc degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the  Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey (under the University Graduate Scholarship) and ranked as the first merit position holder of the department. He received the Ph. D. degree in  Electronics and Communications Engineering, from the University College Dublin, Ireland under the supervision of Prof.  Mark Flanagan (under the Science Foundation Ireland Grant).  From 2014- 2016, he has held  Postdoc position at the  Coding & Information Transmission group,  University of Tartu, Estonia and University of Bergen, Norway. Since 2016, he is a professor at Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia. From 2021, he is a professor at Autonoma TechLab, Department of Engineering & Computer Science, Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2019, he is also with the Centre for Telecommunication Research as founding head, Sri Lanka Technological Campus, Sri Lanka. From 2016-2021, he was a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Robotics, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia. Dr.  Jayakody is a Senior Member of IEEE and Fellow of IET  and he has served as session chair or technical program committee member for various international conferences, such as Globecom 2018/19/20/21, IEEE PIMRC  2014, IEEE WCNC 2014/2016/2019/2020, IEEE VTC 2015 etc. 

Address:Lusófona University, , Portugal

Mr. Nitesh Agrawal of Tata Elxsi, Pune

Control engineering plays an important role in the different system development and it is one of the challenging area for designer to tune the perfect or near ideal controller. An automotive system contains multi-physics system which deals with the mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical and on top of that human behaviour. The major bottleneck is to select the most appropriate controller for specific application. This challenge become more complex when we look for high speed system where controller needs to act faster to maintain the system stability. After discussing the objective and categories for the controller, this presentation will address the specific controller to handle a specific objective. In power electronic system the controller performance dictates the overall efficiency of the system along with the desired performance.

Biography:

Mr. Nitesh Agrawal, currently contributing as system engineer with Tata Elxsi, Pune. He has completed M.Tech from National Institute of Technology, Raipur in Power System and Control specialization in year 2016 and pursuing his PhD from National Institute of
Technology Rourkela. His research is focused on control system architecture for power electronic converters. Linear and nonlinear optimal control, design of dc/dc converters-inverters, automotive electrification being some of the research interest. He has published articles with reputed journal like IEEE-Transaction on Industrial Electronics and IEEE-Transaction on Circuit Systems. He served as reviewer for many reputed conferences, and across domain journal including but not limited to IEEE Transaction on industrial Electronics, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, IEEE Transaction on Cybernetics, IEEE Transaction on Circuit System etc.

Address:Tata, Elxsi, , Pune, India