Archives for March 2015

 Professor Deepa Kundur serves as General Chair for  the International Conference on Smart Grids for Smart Cities (SGSC), which is collocated with Smart City 360 Summit 2015 in Toronto, Canada from October 13 to October 16. SGSC 2015 focuses on utilizing new ideas and technologies in the field of smart grid to make our urban environment more sustainable, increasing quality of life and efficiency of urban infrastructure, operation, services, and competitiveness while meeting the needs of present and future generations with respect to economic, social and environmental aspects in smart cities.

The CFP is found here. The submission deadline is May 31, 2015.

The GlobalSIP’15 Symposium on Signal and Information Processing for Optimizing Future Energy Systems invites papers on cutting-edge optimization techniques, approaches and theory for cyber-physical energy systems, as well as new analytical insights for traditional and modern power grid problems. The CFP is here! The submission deadline is: May 25, 2015.

For inquiries and questions please contact the Symposium Chairs: Nikolaos Gatsis, Hao Zhu, Abdallah Farraj or Deepa Kundur.

Doctoral Candidate, Eman Hammad (left), was the recipient of the J.L. Allen Yen Scholarship for demonstrating high academic achievement in Electrical Engineering. Masters Candidate, Joseph Dongchan Lee (right), won the H.W. Price Research Fellowship in Electrical Engineering for demonstrating academic excellence in an area relevant to Hydro One. Yay, Eman and Joseph! We are indeed proud to have you in the group!

UofT Engineering has featured Ten female students to watch as well as Female professors advancing four key areas in engineering research in honour of International Women’s Day. Professor Deepa Kundur was featured along Professors Emma Master, Keryn K. Lian and Jennifer Drake.