Associate Professor Hemanshu Pota
Associate Professor
UNSW Canberra
School of Eng & Tech
Research Experience
Hemanshu's current research interest is in the areas of:
- Renewable Energy Integration for Smart Grid
- Control of mechanical systems - atomic force microscope and small UAVs
He has sercured close to three million dollars in external researh funding. He has obtained three ARC Discovery grants and one ARC Linkage grant.
His fundamental contributions in the power systems area are: battery and renewable resource integration, vehicle-to-grid for power quality support, analysis of power systems transient stability, robust feedback linearising control of synchronous machines and renewable resources, robust control for low-voltage-ride-through for wind generators, high performance PV system control for real and reactive power support, non-interacting controller design for distribution systems.
His contrbutions in the control of mechanical systems are spatial control, resonant control, and robust control that have been applied to high speed AFM image scanning.
Hemanshu has published over 130 refereed journal papers in high impact journals, one book, fifteen book chapters, and over 270 international conference papers - Google scholar page.
He has supervised fifteen PhD students and eleven Masters students to completion.
Editorships
- Editor-in-Chief of Technology and Economic Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy - A Springer Journal
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Control System Society's (CSS) Conference Editorial Board (CEB),
- Associate Editor of the IFAC Journal of Control Engineering Practice, 2004-10.
International Collaboration
- Columbia University, New York, USA
- The University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
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Aalborg University, Denmark
Awards
- Best Paper Award (with N. K. Roy, M. A. Mahmud, and M. J. Hossain) at the 8th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronis and Applications (ICIEA 2013) held 19-21 June 2013, Melbourne, Australia for the paper entitled, "D-STATCOM Control in Distribution Networks with Composite Loads to Ensure Grid Code Compatible Performance of Photovoltaic Generators".
- Elsevier Prize for Best Applications Paper (with Professor Ian Petersen) at IEE International Conference Control 2000, Cambridge, UK, September 2000.
- UNSW@ADFA Teaching Excellence Award 2006 - Citation and $3000 prize money
Additional Experience
- 1989-Present University College, UNSW
- 1985-86 Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
- 1987-89 Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand
- Associate Professor Pota's main teaching interests are in analogue electronics, circuit theory, control engineering, and power systems.
Consulting Interests
Power systems dynamics and control; currently a consultant with GHD, Australia.
Administration Duties
Phone
+61 2 5114 5197
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Location
Building 16 Room 224
School of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, PO Box 7916, Canberra BC ACT 2610, AUSTRALIA
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