IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Malaysia would like to invite all IEEE members to PES Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) by Prof. Ambrish Chandra, IEEE Fellow from the Universié du Québec, Montréal, Canada..

The details of this event:

Title:  Hybrid Renewable Energy Standalone Systems

Date: 16th December 2015 (Wednesday)

Time: 8.30AM – 1.00PM (Lunch is provided)

Venue: Putra 2, Palm Garden Hotel, IOI Resort, PUTRAJAYA.

Talk Synopsis:

Several isolated areas in the world currently use only diesel generators (DGs) to serve their require-ments of electrical energy. However, the use of DGs has many drawbacks:

1) high cost of electricity,

2) air and noise pollution,

3) Loss in fuel efficiency and maintenance cost.

To remedy those problems it is better to generate power from a cost-effective, environmental friendly renewable energy sources (RESs) such as wind, solar, hydro, biomass, etc. RESs are clean and almost available all over the planet but are intermittent in nature, especially wind and solar power generations. This makes their integration to micro-grid with DG difficult, especially if the local grid is not connected to the main grid. Hybrid standalone system consists of many elements such as photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, DG, energy storage system, AC and DC loads, dump load etc. Most of these elements are connected to the AC or DC bus via power electronic devices. In this presentation many possible hybrid renewable energy standalone systems will be discussed. Control of some of the systems will be discussed in detail.

This presentation will also include the control and grid integration of wind energy. Control and integration of Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) and Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) based wind energy systems (WESs) with power quality improvement features without any additional device will be discussed.

Note:

1. Lunch will be provided
2. Please register at Registration for Distinguished Lecture Program
3. This event is supported by IEM and IET.

We look forward to meeting all of you at the aforementioned event.

Regards,

Zaipatimah Ali

Secretary

IEEE PES Malaysia 2015

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14 November 2015, Lab 15, Faculty of Computer & Mathematical Sciences, UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor

Course Topics
1. Introduction to the world of Arduino, how to start working on Arduino.
2. Brief introduction to Arduino coding and installation of new libraries.
3. Different kind of sensors, and how quickly you can get a real-time plot from Arduino.
4. Programming Python to off-load complex and large codes away from Arduino.
5. Integration of Arduino with 3D environment.
6. Several example of communication project – Bluetooth LE, RF radio, Wi-Fi and direct communication.

RM 700 per person (inclusive of Arduino board and accessories)

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———————– Short-Course Announcement ———————–

Advanced Statistical Biomedical Signal Processing

Applications to fMRI, EEG and PCG Signals

Dewan Ilmuan 2, Aras 2, Menara Razak

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Campus,

Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur.

10^th Dec 2015 (Thursday)

Speakers: Dr Abd-Krim Seghouane, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne

Prof. Ir. Dr. Sheikh Hussain Shaikh Salleh and Dr. Chee-Ming Ting,

Center for Center for Biomedical Engineering

Organizer: Center for Biomedical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Advisor: Dato’ Prof Ir Dr Alias Mohd Noor

Organizing Chair: Prof. Ir. Dr. Sheikh Hussain Shaikh Salleh

Dear Prof/Dr/Mr/Mrs/Miss,

We cordially invite you to a one-day short course entitled “Advanced Statistical Biomedical Signal Processing: Applications to fMRI, EEG and PCG Signals” which will be held on 10^th Dec 2015 (Thursday) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

This short course will introduce the fundamentals of a range of statistical signal processing techniques for analyzing biomedical signals, in terms of modeling, estimation, inference and prediction of bio-signals. The methods will be illustrated with three important types of bio-signals, i.e. functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalogram (EEG) and phonocardiogram (heart sound) with state-of-the-art applications to neuroimaging, brain connectivity analysis, brain-computer interface and cardiac diseases diagnostics.

The course is organized into four lecture sessions:

Session I and II review the main statistical techniques used to analyze fMRI data for human brain mapping.  The first tutorial will give an overview on parametric and semi-parametric models for hemodynamic response function (HRF) estimation and activation detection of neural activity. Session II presents major modeling and estimation techniques for functional and e­ffective brain connectivity analysis from fMRI data. Session III presents a covariance analysis of the dynamics across multiple-trials bio-signals, applied on multi-channel heart-sounds from di­fferent auscultation points. Session IV will introduce state-space approach to modeling EEG, for estimation of event-related potentials (ERPs) and desynchronization (ERD) for brain-computer-interface, using Kalman filtering and the particle filtering.

COURSE SCHEDULE

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0800 – 0900 – Registration

0900 – 1030 – Session I: HRF Estimation and Activation Detection in fMRI

(Dr. Abd-Krim Seghouane)

1030 – 1045 – Tea Break

1045 – 1215 – Session II: Brain Connectivity Analysis (Dr. Abd-Krim Seghouane)

1215 – 1415 – Lunch

1415 – 1530 – Session III: Analyzing Dependence in Multi-Auscultation Heart-Sound Signals (Prof. Ir. Dr. Sheikh Hussain Shaikh Salleh)

1530 – 1545 – Tea Break

1545 – 1700 – Session IV: State-space Analysis of Non-stationary Neural Signals

(Dr. Chee-Ming Ting)

1700            – Closing

SPEAKER SHORT BIOGRAPHY

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Dr. Abd-Krim Seghouane

PhD, University Paris Sud (Paris XI)

ARC Future Fellow, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Uni. of Melbourne.

Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Victorian Chapter, Australia

Areas of Expertise: physiological signals, biomedical image analysis and statistical signal and image processing.

Prof. Ir. Dr. Sheikh Hussain Shaikh Salleh

PhD, Uni.of Edinburgh

Deputy Director of Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE), UTM

Chairman of National Technical Committee on Biometrics

Areas of Expertise: biomedical signal processing and instrumentation, cardiac signals, speech and speaker recognition and biometrics.

Dr. Chee-Ming Ting

PhD (Statistics), UTM

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Biosciences and Medical Engineering, UTM

Research Fellow, Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE), UTM.

Areas of Expertise: Statistical signal processing, time-series analysis, and high-dimensional statistics, neural signals.

REGISTRATION FEE

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Each participant: RM 490.00

(The registration fee includes lunch and printed lecture slides)

Registration Deadline: 5^th Dec 2015

For detailed information, enclosed is the short-course announcement pamphlet.

For registration, please fill up the attached registration form at this link

https://docs.google.com/a/utm.my/forms/d/13nU44T9a-IiuM_WSct9tQqF95Fro2T9sgqspY3Q57qA/viewform?c=0&w=1

and send the proof of payment to cmting@utm.my.

If you have any inquiries, please contact me. We are looking forward to your participation. Thank you.

Yours Sincerely,

—–

Chee-Ming Ting, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer
Center for Biomedical Engineering

Faculty of Biosciences & Medical Engineering

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

http://fbme.utm.my/tingcheeming/

INVITATION 
MTSF GRANT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 

DATE         :  25 NOVEMBER 2015 (Wednesday)
TIME          :  8.30 AM TO 1.30 PM 
                :  (light snack and lunch will be served)
VENUE        :  UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA, KUALA LUMPUR 
           Auditorium, Ground Floor,
High Impact Research (HIR) Building
           
FREE ADMISSION –
Open to all Researchers & Postgraduate Students