Dr Yi Cui

Name | Dr Yi Cui |
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Email Address | yi.cui@usq.edu.au |
Job Title | Senior Lecturer (Electrical Engineering) |
Qualifications | BEng Southwest Jiao Tong, MEng Southwest Jiao Tong, PhD Qld |
Department | School of Engineering |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0973-708X |
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Biography
Yi Cui received his B. Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2009 and 2012, respectively, and received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, in 2016.
Dr. Cui has been a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA since 2016. Currently, he is Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering, University of Southern Queensland. He also holds a Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia.
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Research Fellow | University of Tennessee | 2016 | 2019 |
Research Fellow | University of Queensland | 2019 | 2022 |
Senior Lecturer | University of Southern Queensland | 2022 |
Expertise
renewable energy integration
wide-area monitoring and control
data analytics and cyber-security of smart grids
condition assessment and fault diagnosis of power transformers
Teaching
ELE4804 - Power Systems Protection
ELE4807 - Power Systems Analysis
ELE2704 - Electricity Supply Systems
Fields of Research
- 400803. Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)
- 400804. Electrical energy storage
- 400808. Photovoltaic power systems
- 460403. Data security and protection
Professional Membership
Professional Membership | Year |
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IEEE Senior Member | |
IEEE PES Member | |
CIGRE Next Generation Network |
Supervision Interests
renewable energy integration
wide-area monitoring and control
data analytics and cyber-security of smart grids
condition assessment and fault diagnosis of power transformers
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Analysis of power system stability with both grid-following and grid forming renewable energy sources | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Data Analytics to Improve the Visibility of Power System Asset Health Condition | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Project title | Details | Year |
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Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Data Source Authentication of Smart Grids | UQ Early Career Researcher AI Collaboration Seed Funding Grant | 2022 |
Power and Water Network Analytics Trial | Northern Territory Power and Water Corporation | 2022 |
A New Testing Platform for Hybrid Solar Farm Pre-commissioning | Australian Renewable Energy Agency | 2022 |
Reconfigurable Power Converter Platform | UQ Equipment and Minor Works Funding | 2021 |
Real-time Research Platform for Energy System of the Future | UQ Research Infrastructure Investment Scheme | 2021 |
Adding Power of Artificial Intelligence to Situational Awareness of Modern Power Networks | UQ Research Support Funding | 2021 |
Cybersecurity Defence Strategies of Distribution Synchrophasor in Smart Grids | UQ Cyber Security Transdisciplinary Research Seed Funding | 2021 |
Real-time Hardware-in-the-loop Testing of Power Quality Meters for Large-Scale Solar Farms | Consulting project with EPEC Group | 2020 |
Adaptive Mitigation of Sustained Oscillations in Renewable Energy Hubs | UQ Early Career Researcher Philanthropic grant | 2020 |
Smart PV Inertia Control based on Real-time System Inertia Awareness | US Department of Energy | 2018 |
DarkNet Initiatives: Data Authentication Using Data Source Signatures | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | 2017 |
Power Grid Measurement Data Cyber Security Improvement | Industry Partnership Program of CURENT, USA | 2017 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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2013 | Best Presentation Prize for the paper "Condition Assessment for Power Transformer Based on Support Vector Machine with Particle Swarm Optimization and Genetic Algorithm" in EAIT Engineering Postgraduate Research Conference | University of Queensland | |
2015 | CEED Prize of Best Industry Based Project "Power Transformer Condition Monitoring" | University of Queensland | |
2016 | Dean's Award for Outstanding Higher Degree Research Thesis | University of Queensland | |
2016 | Travel Award for the paper "Evolutionary Bayesian Fusion for Transformers Fault Detection" | Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference | |
2016 | Invited speaker on "Preliminary Oscillations Analysis from FNET/GridEye Data" | North American Synchronized Measurement Subcommittee Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA | |
2016 | Invited speaker on "Statistic Algorithm for Oscillation Event Identification" at Year 5 Annual Industry Conference & NSF-DOE Site Visit | CURENT Research Centre | |
2017 | Best Presentation Award at Year 6 Annual Industry Conference & NSF-DOE Site Visit | CURENT Research Centre | |
2018 | Invited speaker on "Condition Assessment of Power Transformers using Ambient Synchrophasor Measurement" | CURENT Research Centre | |
2018 | Invited speaker on "Spatial Characteristics-based Measurement Source Identification for Power System Cyber Security" at Year 7 Annual Industry Conference & NSF-DOE Site Visit | CURENT Research Centre | |
2020 | Invited speaker on "Statistical Learning for Power Transformer Condition Assessment" | IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference, Chengdu, China | |
2022 | Invited speaker on "Extraction of Dynamic Response Characteristics of Modern Residential Appliances" | Energy Queensland | |
2022 | Invited speaker on "Hardware Testing of Large-Scale Solar Plant Controllers" | Engineers Australia | |
2022 | Best Paper Award for paper "Feasibility Study on Condition Monitoring of Power Network Asset Using PMU Measurements" | IEEE IAS Industrial & Commercial Power System Asia | |
2019 | Power System Disturbance Localization Using Recurrence Quantification Analysis and Minimum-volume-enclosing Ellipsoid | US Patent Grant No. 10,371,740 | |
2021 | Power System Inertia Estimation Using Synchrophasor Frequency Measurements | US Patent Grant No. 10,884,042 | |
2021 | Editor member | IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution | |
2021 | Editor member | Processes | |
2022 | Magnetic Field Based Wireless GMD/EMP-E3 Impact Monitoring Device | US Patent Grant No. 11,372,038 |