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                IEEE Signal Processing Society Japan Chapter
                         Chair       貴家 仁志 (首都大学東京)
                         Vice Chair  守谷 健弘 (NTT)




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7月15日(火)に東京農工大学で下記の講演会を開催します。
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      IEEE SPS Japan Chapter 講演会

(1)Date and Place (日時・場所)
7月15日(火) 10:30-11:30 

東京農工大学
小金井キャンパス 講義棟L0031
〒184-8588 東京都小金井市中町2-24-16


(2)Program (プログラム)

■10:30〜11:30

・Speaker 講演者:
Anthony Kuh
University of Hawai’i at Manoa

・Talk Title 講演題目:

Renewable energy, smart grids, and solar forecasting in Hawai’i


・Talk Abstract (講演概要):


This talk discusses starts by discussing Hawai’i’s energy landscape 
and the Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability (REIS) program. The 
state of Hawai’i and the US Department of Energy (DOE) signed a 
memorandum of understanding in 2008 known as the Hawai’i Clean Energy 
Initiative (HCEI) requiring 70% of Hawaii’s energy come from clean 
sources by 2030.  At the beginning of 2009 we formed a 
multidisciplinary research and education program at the University of 
Hawai’i at Manoa, (REIS) to focus on renewable energy, 
sustainability, and smart grids. The REIS group won an internal UHM 
sustainability competition in 2009 and in 2010 won a DOE work force 
training grant in the Strategic Training and Education in Power 
Systems.  We discuss goals of our group including building the REIS 
program,  research and education activities, and interfacing with 
other UHM sustainability efforts,  outside academic institutions,  
industry, and government.

One of the big issues in Hawai’i is the high penetration of 
distributed solar.  On Oahu currently 10% of households now have 
rooftop solar as Hawaiian Electric Company has the highest penetration 
of solar of any utility company in the US.  There are serious concerns 
about the stability of the electrical grid given the high penetration 
of renewable sources in Hawai’i.  Our research group is looking into 
solar forecasting using signal processing and machine learning 
methods.   We will discuss various approaches including using the 
solar zenith angle to represent solar data, using adaptive FIR and IIR 
filters, and using unbalanced costs functions.  We discuss why it is 
advantageous for grid operators to use unbalanced cost functions (we 
consider LinLin and LinEX cost functions) and implement these cost 
functions on both batch and online solar forecasting algorithms.




Speaker’s Bio:
Bio: Anthony Kuh received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and 
Computer Science at the University of  California, Berkeley in 1979, 
an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 
and  a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 
1987.  Dr. Kuh previously worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and has 
been
on the faculty in Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawai’i 
since 1986.   He is currently a Professor in the Department and is 
also currently serving as director of the interdisciplinary renewable 
energy and island sustainability (REIS) group.  Previously, he served 
as Department Chair of Electrical Engineering Dr.  Kuh's research is 
in the area of neural networks and machine learning, adaptive signal 
processing, sensor networks, communication networks, and renewable 
energy and smart grid applications. 

Dr. Kuh won a National Science Foundation Presidential Young 
Investigator Award
and is an IEEE Fellow.   He was also a recipient of  the Boeing A. D. 
Welliver Fellowship and received a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar’s 
Award working at Imperial College in London.   Dr. Kuh was an 
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 
served on the IEEE Neural Networks Administrative Committee,  served 
on the IEEE Neural Networks for Signal Processing Committee, and was a 
Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. 
Kuh co-chaired the 1993 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory 
and Its Applications (NOLTA) and served as the technical co-chair for 
the 2007  IEEE ICASSP both held in Honolulu.  He is currently serving 
as the IEEE Signal Processing Society Regions 1-6 Director at Large,  
on the Board of Governors of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information 
Processing Association, and as a senior editor of the IEEE Journal of 
Selected Topics in Signal Processing.