News 2015

1 Apr 2015 

PhD student Mr Jia Youwei supervised by Prof. Zhao XU, has been awarded as Third Prize in 2014 IEEE Hong Kong Student Paper Contest

The paper entitled “A Hybrid Approach for k-way Partitions in Smart Grid based on Laplacian Spectrum and Self-Organizing Map” by the PhD student Mr Jia Youwei supervised by Prof. Zhao XU, has been awarded as Third Prize in 2014 IEEE Hong Kong Student Paper Contest. This paper reports a newly proposed partitioning approach featuring high clustering accuracy and computational efficiency, which successfully lays out a promising groundwork for smart grid planning and control with “self-healing” capability enabled.

This competition was organized by IEEE Hong Kong Section. It was well participated by a significant number of undergraduate and graduate students from Hong Kong University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, City University of Hong Kong, Open University of Hong Kong, etc. Only top-3 ranked papers were shortlisted and finally receive the awards. An award certificate was presented to Mr Jia Youwei at the IEEE Hong Kong Section EXCO Meeting on 27 Mar, 2015.

This award reflects the significant achievement of the research group supervised by Prof. Zhao XU in the development of novel and effective approaches to support smart grid planning and operation.