IEEE Lebanon Section

Abstract:

This talk will begin by introducing the control of microgrids, the parallelisms with the human brain and the research for possible sources of inspiration in last frontiers of neuroscience. Then, control in electric power systems of satellites and space platforms will be presented, showing approaches that are extended from terrestrial microgrids and explaining the differences and challenges when it comes to apply them out in the space. Further, multi-microgrid systems will be discussed for moon craters in future lunar manmade bases. Finally, the extension from the hierarchical control of microgrids to bioastronautics in the control of closed ecological systems to support with oxygen, water, and food to the astronauts and creating thus creating new ecosystems for the moon and future mars bases.

Biography:

Josep M. Guerrero (S’01-M’04-SM’08-FM’15) received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering, the M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in power electronics from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, in 1997, 2000 and 2003, respectively. Nowadays he is working towards the M.Sc. Degree in Psychobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, where he is responsible for the Microgrid Research Program. From 2019, he became a Villum Investigator by The Villum Fonden, which supports the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM) at Aalborg University, being Prof. Guerrero the founder and Director of the same center (www.crom.et.aau.dk).

His research interests is oriented to different microgrid frameworks in applications like microgrid clusters, IoT-based and digital twin, maritime microgrids for electrical ships, vessels, ferries and seaports, and space microgrids applied to nanosatellites and closed ecological systems. Prof. Guerrero is an Associate Editor for a number of IEEE TRANSACTIONS. He has published more than 700 journal papers in the fields of microgrids and renewable energy systems, which are cited more than 70,000 times. During seven consecutive years, from 2014 to 2020, he was awarded by Clarivate Analytics (former Thomson Reuters) as Highly Cited Researcher with 50 highly cited papers. In 2021, he received the IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems, for his pioneering contributions to renewable energy based microgrids.

Abstract:

Big Data has become a reality that no one can ignore. Big Data is our environment whenever we need to make decision. Big Data is a buzz word that makes everyone understands how important it is. Big Data shows a big opportunity for academia, industry and government. Big Data then is a big challenge for all parties. This talk will discuss some challenges of Big Data analysis as well as Data Science, the scientific issues behind Big Data. Then, this talk will provide several real-life Big Data Applications.

Biography:

Yong Shi, a professor at College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the elected member of the International Eurasian Academy of Science (2017), and elected fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for Advancement of Science in Developing Countries (2015). His research interests include business intelligence, data mining, and multiple criteria decision making. He has published more than 28 books, over 300 papers in various journals and numerous conferences/proceedings papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (SCI), Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Data Science (Springer) and a member of Editorial Board for a number of academic journals. Dr. Shi has received many distinguished awards including the WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award, 2018; the Georg Cantor Award of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), 2009; Fudan Prize of Distinguished Contribution in Management, Fudan Premium Fund of Management, China, 2009; and Speaker of Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP) for 1997-2000, IEEE Computer Society. He has also consulted or worked on business projects for many international companies in data mining and knowledge management.

Abstract:

Impedance measurement is one of the most promising topics in research fields because of its wide range of applications such as, fruits growth monitoring, plants modelling, damage detect, and other applications, in this chapter we will discuss one of the embedded measurement devices for bioimpedance.
Bio-impedance is the ability of a biological tissue to resist an AC current. Bio-impedance measurement values for biological tissue depends on many parameters such as tissue type, age, time variation, composition, water content, tissue structure, tissue damage and any other parameter that may affect the biological tissue. Bio-impedance body analysis has been widely used in biomedical applications to estimate body parameters such as fat content, fluid content, total body water and lean body mass. Recently, the ability to relate between electrical and physical properties of food products has gained focus on research. This approach will reduce the investigation time and increase the accuracy compared to conventional chemical methods.
Different attempts have been applied to address a relation between physical and electrical properties. Bio-impedance analysis in food industry is relatively a new method for monitoring food properties change and its relation to food quality. Many attempts performed to study the relation between electrical and physical properties. In this tutorial, we will learn about different systems architectures used for bioimpedance measurements, performance parameters and measurements techniques.

Biography:

Ahmed Madian (SM’12) received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2007 and 2002, respectively. He is currently Professor at the Department of Electronics and computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and applied science, NILE University, Giza, Egypt. He is the director of Microelectronics System Design Master Program since sept. 2015. Also, He is the director of Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research center (NISC) since 2016. He has published more than 140 papers in international conferences and journals. His H-index is currently 18. Also, he served in the many technical and organizing committee of many international conferences. He received many research grants as Principle Investigator (PI), CO-PI, or Consultant from different national/international organizations. He won the best researcher award (Dr. Hazem Ezzat award 2017) for his outstanding research profile. His research interests are in circuit theory; low-voltage analog CMOS circuit design, current-mode analog signal processing, Memristors, Fractional systems, VLSI, Encryption systems and mixed/ digital applications on field programmable gate arrays. Also, he is member of the national radio of science committee (NRSC) since 2018. Dr. Madian is actively serving as a reviewer in several journal and conference publications including IEEE conferences and journals. He served as guest associate editor for many international journals. He is the founder of IEEE Circuits and systems (CASS) Egypt technical chapter and co-founder of the IEEE Robotics and automations (RAS) Egypt technical chapter. He is currently the IEEE Egypt Section Secretary and member of Ex-COM.