Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar B.Sc. M.S. PhD Research Scholar Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management Symbiosis International University Pune, Maharashtra, India Senior Research Fellow School of Information Systems Curtin Business School Curtin University, Perth, Australia Curtin Business School Curtin Business School Qualifications • PhD (Information Security) ▫ Curtin University, Perth, Australia • Masters (Software Engineering) ▫ University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia • Bachelor (Science) ▫ Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India Key Achievements • • • • • • • • • • Best Researcher of the Year Award in 2010, 2011 Funding around $1 million dollars 5 PhD Completions (1 received chancellors commendation award) 125 scientific publications (IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier, etc.) 2 Keynote Presentations (UIC 2009, IEEE DEST 2011) 1087 Citations, H Index 18, i10 Index 31 12 International Journal Publications in 2013 Youngest PhD in Curtin University till 2012 13 years of full time research experience 25 International Workshops in IEEE, ACM Experience • Senior Research Fellow ▫ 2010 – till date ▫ School of Information Systems, Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Australia • Head Policy, Planning & Business Strategy ▫ 2006 – 2010 ▫ Digital Ecosystems & Business Intelligence Institute Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Australia • Associate Lecturer ▫ 2003 – 2006 ▫ Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Australia • Sessional Lecturer & Tutor ▫ 2001-2003 ▫ University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia List of Selected Collaborators • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Professor Emeritus William F Smyth, McMaster University, Canada Professor Elizabeth Chang, University of New South Wales, Australia Professor Tharam Dillon, La Trobe University, Australia, IEEE Fellow Professor Ian Sommerville, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK Professor Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan Professor Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Professor Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Professor Emeritus Chem Nayar, Curtin University, Australia Professor Achim Karduck, Germany Professor Arno Scharl, MODUL University, Austria Professor Chang-Tsun Li, University of Warwick, UK Professor Jayanta Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Technology, India Professor Costas Iliopoulos, Kings College London, UK Professor Sunil Patil, Symbiosis International University, India List of Selected Collaborators • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Professor Pritam Shah, Sri Visvesvaraya Technological University, India Professor Robert Meersman, Vrije University, Brussels. Belgium Professor Peter Ellyard, Chairman at Preferred Futures Institute Professor Song Han, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China Dr. Michael L. Brodie, Visiting Scientist, MIT, USA Professor Sajal Kabiraj, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China A/Professor David Taniar, Monash University, Australia A/Professor Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe, University, Australia A/Professor Ljiljana Brankovic, University of Newcastle, Australia Dr. Angela Wardell-Johnson, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia (Senior CRN Fellow) Dr. Alex Talevski, Chief Technology Officer, Blue Ant Wireless, Australia Dr. George Fodor, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden Dr. Behrang Zadjabbari, Senior BI Consultant, InfoCentric, Australia Dr. Pedram Hayati, Principal Security Consultant, BAE Systems, Australia Dr. Atif Sharif, Project Manager, Overflow Industrial Pty Ltd, Australia Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre Organizational Structure Research Domains Research Area Management HDR = Higher Degree by Research i.e. PhD Research Research Administration Research Broad Research Areas • Information Security ▫ Anti Spam ▫ Steganography, Digital Watermarking • Information Quality ▫ Web 2.0 ▫ Social Media ▫ User Generated Content • Cyber Physical Systems ▫ ▫ ▫ ▫ ▫ ▫ ▫ Smart Grids Wireless Sensor Networks, RFID Web of Things, Internet of Things Energy Management Smart Home Automation Sustainability Emission Management Anti Spam Research • Awareness, Knowledge and Perception of Online Spam • Characterisation of web spambots using selforganising maps • How much money do spammers make from your website? • Spamming for science: Active measurement in Web 2.0 abuse research • Rule-Based On-the-fly Web Spambot Detection Using Action Strings • Web Spambot Detection Based on Web Usage Behaviour • Behaviour-Based Web Spambot Detection by Utilising Action Time and Action Frequency • Definition of Spam 2.0: New Spamming Boom • Spam 2.0: The Problem Ahead • HoneySpam 2.0: Profiling Web Spambot Behaviour Prof. Emeritus William F Smyth McMaster Uni Canada Dr. Kevin Chai, Research Fellow Uni. Of New South Wales, Australia Dr. Pedram Hayati. Senior Security Consultant Stratsec, Australia Dr. Alex Talevski CTO, BlueAnt Wireless, Australia Dr. Farida Ridzuan, Senior Lecturer, Malaysia Anti Spam Research Smart Grid Research • Design of Smart Grid Prosumer Communities via Online Social Networking Communities • A Methodology to find Influential Prosumers in Prosumer-CommunityGroups • Goal Oriented Prosumer Community Groups for Smart Grid • Framework for Formation of Prosumer Community Groups in Smart Grids • Framework to Manage Multiple Goals in Community based Energy Sharing Network in Smart Grid Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University Prof. Tharam Dillon La Trobe Uni Australia Dinusha Rathnayaka PhD Scholar Curtin University Dr. Omar Hussain Research Fellow Curtin University Utility Grid Power Distribution and Transmission Renewable and nonrenewable power generation Smart Grid Research Smart-grid system operation/management Smart -grid Energy requiremet Accumulative energy supply Community Management Platform Energy goal Accumulative energy supply Energy goal Community Gateway Smart storage Accumulative energy supply Community Gateway Smart storage HAN HAN SMI 20kWh SMI HAN HAN 30kWh Community group1 : 1050kWh, Solar sources Prosumer community groups SMI SMI 60kWh 80kWh Community group1 : 51100kWh, Solar+Wind sources Prosumer Community Groups Proposals to address the challenges in prosumer community based smart grid Input 1.Definition of community-groups 2. Prosumer Recruitment Historic energy profiles New prosumers Segmentation of profiles Characterize groups with prequalification criteria Output Effective prosumercommunity groups Prosumer Evaluation Identify dynamic prosumers Sustainable group formation and growth 3. Goal definition Multiple conflicting objectives Negotiation Achievable goal for each community-group Inspired goal oriented members 4. Ranking of members Prosumers’ Assessment behaviours criteria Prosumer ranking Identify influential members by ranking Fair privilege assignment Proposal 2: Prosumer recruitment to prosumer community groups (PCGs) Proposal 1:Definition of prosumer community-groups (PCGs) Registered Prosumers Prosumers’ energy behaviour data Time series data Clustersers Flexible Community Membership Evaluation 1 Feasible number of prosumer community groups (PCGs) Data Filtering Data conversion A. J. D. Rathnayaka and V. Potdar, 2013. Goal Oriented Prosumer Community Groups for Smart Grid -Issues, Challenges and Proposals, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, ERA Level B, Accepted, Impact Factor 0.542, IEEE Evaluation period Time-series clustering Data Acquisition Prequalification criteria Membership Evaluation 2 PCGn PCG n Prequalification criteria definition Evaluation n PCG2 Membership Categories PCG1 Proposal 3: Mutual goal definition Complying Vs. Noncomplying members PCG coordinator Overall evaluation Fixed Community Membership PCG2 PCG1 Cost objective Customer Objective PCG1 1 goa al- Su b- -g o l-2 Goal Programming Model Demand Objective b Su Participation Objective PCG coordinator PCG2 Energy buying member Standalone member Intra-group energy sharing Resource Objective Income Objective Su b -go A. J. Rathnayaka, V. Potdar, T. Dillon, 2013. A Methodology to find Influential Prosumers in Prosumer-CommunityGroups. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Special Issue on Building Automation, Smart Homes, and Communities, Issue 99. ERA Level A, Impact Factor 3.381, Accepted for Publication, IEEE Transactions A. J. D. Rathnayaka, V. Potdar, 2013. Prosumer Recruitment Framework for Prosumer Community Groups in Smartgrid. International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering. Accepted Impact Factor 0.314 Proposal 4: Ranking of members Surplus energy from members after fulfilling the local demand Sustainability Objective Concise overview of proposed methodologies Energy selling member Prosumer-community-group A. J. D. Rathnayaka and V. Potdar, 2013. An Innovative Framework for Formation of Prosumer Community Groups in Smart Grids, Journal of Grid & Utility Computing (currently under review), SCOPUS, Compendex, ACM DL, DBLP, Inspec, ERA Journal A J. D Rathnayaka, V. Potdar, T. Dillon, 2013. Framework to Manage Multiple Goals in Community based Energy Sharing Network in Smart Grid, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (currently under review) ERA Journal Prosumer Assessment and Ranking Scheme al 4 Assessment criteria definition Criterion Criterion Criterion Criterion A. Meet the energy agreement B. Produce excess energy than agreed C. Offering energy to the members in need D. Long term historic energy behaviors PCG n Prosumer-community-groups (PCGs) A. J. Dinusha Rathnayaka, Vidyasagar M. Potdar, Samitha J. Kuruppu, 2012. Design of Smart Grid Prosumer Communities via Online Social Networking Communities,International Journal for Infonomics (IJI), Volume 5, Issue 1/2, March/June 2012, pp.544-556. Criteria prioritization Point allocation Prosumer ranking A. J. Rathnayaka, V. Potdar, M. H. Ou, 2012. Prosumer management in socio-technical smart grid. International Information Technology Conference (CUBE 2012), pp. 483-489, Pune, India, 3-5 September 2012. ACM Digital Library, DBLP, SCOPUS Cyber Physical Systems Research Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University Keynote Presentations Dillon, T., Potdar, V., Singh, J., Talevski, A., 2011. Cyber Physical Systems: Challenges in Sensor Actuator Networks, In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Ecosystems & Technologies (DEST2011), June 2011. Dillon, T., Talevski, A., Potdar, V., Chang, E., 2009. Web of things as a framework for ubiquitous intelligence and computing, In: Proceedings of the Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5585, pp. 2-13. Prof. Tharam Dillon La Trobe Uni Australia Sustainability Research • Analysis of an Airport Ecosystem from Emissions Perspective. • Evaluation of Wireless Home Automation Technologies for Smart Mining Camps in Remote Western Australia. • Energy Resource Management in Smart Home: State of the Art and Challenges Ahead. Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University Dinusha Rathnayaka PhD Scholar Curtin University Yee Wen Lo Valencia Masters Scholar Curtin University Smart Homes & Energy Management Evaluation of Wireless Home Automation Technologies Transport & Logistics Research Transport & Logistics Research $404,000 Congestion Management using Wireless Sensor Networks & Data Mining Energy Management & Emission Control Research Research Management & Administration Research Management Activities • Cultivate a strong research culture at Curtin • Train selected faculty members from all over Curtin in their respective areas of research ▫ Increase the ratio of staff vs. number of publications • Secure external funding • Supervise PhD students • Build a strong publication record for Curtin University • Organize or Host World Class International Conferences Research Management Activities • Organized Staff Retreat for Research Staff • Organized Retreat for PhD Student • Develop research policies • Develop research handbook • Develop institution governance structure • Drive research commercialization • Drive Industry Projects Research Management Activities • Recruit high quality international PhD students • Develop research focus areas and research centers under the umbrella of DEBII • Coordinate and Collaborate with Professors in Curtin, across Australia and around the globe and conduct joint research projects • Invite renowned international researchers at Curtin University Research Management Activities • Developed partnerships with International Universities and signed MoU • Developed a advisory committee for DEBII and organize board meetings • Liaise with the relevant departments at Curtin University • Developed research KPIs for research active staff • Developed incentive structure to support research • Guidance in Journal and Conference Selection Thank you very much v.potdar@curtin.edu.au vidyasagar.potdar@gmail.com www.potdar.info Request a copy of this slides by email Visit my website www.potdar.info Thank you Vidyasagar Potdar Download this presentation