Recently, Dr. Rabiul Islam from Australian University of Wollongong with his team members Ashok Ghosh and Shuvra Prokash Biswas, visited our institute. They delivered keynote lectures and presented on the development of smart grid technology in Australia. This facilitated productive academic and technical exchanges between both parties.
The Australian National ARC Future Grids Training Centre, which has focus on energy technologies for future grids, was established by Professor Kashem Muttaqi, who had previously visited our institution in 2018 during the IEEE ASEMD conference hosted by our university. During that visit, Professor Muttaqi engaged in detailed discussions with our faculty staffs, expressing interest in collaborating on future smart grid developments. Subsequently, in 2019, he returned to our institute again for further in-depth discussions with Professor Jianxun Jin. These exchanges on future power grid technologies led to the integration of advanced concepts in superconducting smart grids and energy networks, significantly enhancing Australia’s forward-looking proposals and solutions for future generation power systems. This collaboration substaintially enhanced Professor Muttaqi proposal to secure his Australian proposal to establish the Australian national centre on smart grids. Additionally, Professor Muttaqi highly commended and adopted the internation conference model with SCI-index special issue pioneered by Professor Jianxun Jin for international conference publication. Inspired by this approach, he later founded a smart grid-focused international conference in Australia featuring a SCI-indexed special issue.
Our school platform of smarit grids and energy storage shares a common vision with the Australian National ARC Future Grids Training Centre, both platforms advance power grid innovation and energy storage technologies while cultivating talent, and each maintains distinct characteristics. Our productive international exchanges have already benefitted each side substaintially, and will foster more effective collaboration and outcomes in smart grid research.
Professors Hongjie Jia, Yunfei Mu, Chao Li, and Hongwei Fang, along with several graduate students, have provided support and ssistance in facilitating this visiting.
