Charlotte, NC
December 14-16, 2020
December 14-16, 2020
keynote speakers
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Dr. Glenn Boreman
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Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour
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Dr. Octavian Postolache
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Engr. Fawzi Behmann
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Title: UNC Charlotte Optical Science & Engineering Research Highlights and Role of Centers | ||
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Abstract: We will give an overview of our department's latest research projects in metamaterials, freeform optics, photonics, and biophysics. |
Dr. Glenn Boreman
Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Optical Science Director, Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications UNC Charlotte, NC, USA |
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Speaker Biography: Glenn D. Boreman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics & Optical Science and Director of the Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. From 1984 to 2011 he was on the faculty of the University of Central Florida, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He has supervised to completion 35 MS and 27 PhD students. He received the BS in Optics from the University of Rochester, and the PhD in Optics from the University of Arizona. Prof. Boreman served as Editor-in-Chief of Applied Optics from 2000 to 2005 and Deputy Editor of Optics Express from 2014 to 2019. He is coauthor of the graduate textbooks Infrared Detectors and Systems and Infrared Antennas and Resonant Structures, and author of Modulation Transfer Function in Optical & Electro-Optical Systems and Basic Electro-Optics for Electrical Engineers. He has published more than 200 refereed journal articles in the areas of infrared sensors and materials, optics of random media, and image-quality assessment. He is a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical Society (OSA). Prof. Boreman served as the 2017 President of SPIE. | ||
Title: Power System Resilience in Ice Storms by Optimal Routing of Mobile De-Icing Devices on Congested Roads | ||
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Abstract: The emergence of atmospheric changes has seriously threatened the power network resilience in recent years. In 2019, a major ice-storm in the midwestern region of the United Stated caused major blackout in metropolitan cities. In 2018, a severe ice storm stroke China, which damaged thousands of transmission and distribution lines and resulted in $50 billion economic loss. This presentation introduces robust resilience strategies against ice storms, where the real-time de-icing of ice-covered equipment can maintain the infrastructure security. |
Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour
IEEE Fellow Bodine Chair Professor, ECE Director of the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA |
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A two-stage robust optimization model is proposed to manage long-term, mid-term, and real-time operations of power distribution and urban transportation networks. We demonstrate that the pre-positioning, routing, and de-icing schedules using emergency mobile DC de-icing devices (MDIDs), and the coordination of power distribution and urban transportation system operations will maximize the distribution system security in ice storms. Using the proposed model, the power grid operator applies emergency preparedness for long-term line hardening and managing ice-storm uncertainties, while the emergency recovery determines the real-time power system dispatch to minimize the loss of load as lines are de-iced. The transportation system operator applies emergency preparedness to determine the optimal pre-positioning of emergency mobile DC de-icing devices (MDIDs), and the emergency recovery determines the local routing of MDIDs when the vehicles are called upon. The proposed two-stage optimization model is reformulated as a mixed-integer second-order cone programming problem. Benders decomposition and column-and-constraint generation algorithms are utilized to solve the proposed coordination problem. The simulation results will be presented for a practical system.
Speaker Biography: Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour is a University Distinguished Professor, Bodine Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director of the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). His project on Perfect Power Systems has converted the entire IIT Campus to an islandable microgrid. Dr. Shahidehpour was the recipient of several technical awards including of the IEEE Burke Hayes Award for his research on hydrokinetics, IEEE/PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, IEEE/PES Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award, IEEE/PES Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award, and the Edison Electric Institute’s Power Engineering Educator Award. He has co-authored 6 books and 750 technical papers on electric power system operation and planning, and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Dr. Shahidehpour is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He is listed as a highly cited researcher on the Web Science (ranked in the top 1% by citations demonstrating significant influence among his peers). He is the recipient of the 2009 honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. | ||
Title: Smart Sensing for Physical Therapy in IoT Era | ||
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The convergence of healthcare, instrumentation and measurement technologies will transform healthcare as we know it, improving quality of healthcare services, reducing inefficiencies, curbing costs and improving quality of life. Smart sensors, wearable devices, Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, and big data offer new and exciting possibilities for more robust, reliable, flexible and low-cost healthcare systems and patient care strategies. These may provide value-added information and functionalities for patients, particularly for those with neuro-motor impairments. |
Dr. Octavian Postolache IEEE IMS TC-13 Chair, IEEE IMS Disttinguished Lecturer Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, IT-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal |
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It has great importance in developed countries in the context of population ageing. In this invited talk the focus will be on: hardware and software infrastructure for neuro-motor rehabilitation; highlighting the developed solutions for motor rehabilitation based on virtual reality and serious games. As part of these interactive environments, 3D image sensors for natural user interaction with rehabilitation scenarios and remote sensing of user movement, as well as thermographic camera for remote evaluation of muscle activity will be presented. Additionally technologies for unobtrusive monitoring of patient posture, balance and walking gait monitoring during neuro-motor rehabilitation as so as the developed prototypes such as smart walkers and force platform that provide quantitative information associated with physical rehabilitation process outcome will be presented. Elements regarding remote sensing for physical therapy effectiveness evaluation based on thermography will be considered in the presentation. Challenges related to data representation, data analysis including the development of specific metrics that can be used to evaluate the progress of the patients and to create ML models associated with rehabilitation process will be discussed. Speaker Biography: Dr Octavian Adrian Posolache (M’99, SM’2006) graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Gh. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 1992 and he received the PhD degree in 1999 from the same university, and university habilitation in 2016 from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. In 2000 he became principal researcher of Instituto de Telecomunicações where he is now Senior Researcher. He joined Instituto Universitario de Lisboa/ ISCTE-IUL Lisbon where he is currently Associate Professor. His fields of interests are smart sensors for biomedical and environmental applications, pervasive sensing and computing, AR and VR for healthcare applications, wireless sensor networks, signal processing for biomedical applications and computational intelligence with application in automated measurement systems. He is active member of national and international research teams involved in Portuguese and EU and International projects. Dr. Postolache is author and co-author of 10 patents, 10 books, 21 book chapters, more than 380 papers in international journals and proceedings of international conference with peer review He is IEEE Senior Member I&M Society, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE IMS, chair of IEEE I&MSTC-13 Wireless and Telecommunications in Measurements and chair of IEEE IMS Portugal Chapter. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, Sensors MDPI. He was general chair of IEEE MeMeA 2014, IEEE ISSI 2018, IEEE ISSI2019 and ISSI 2020, and TPC chair of ICST 2014, Liverpool, ICST 2017, in Sydney, ICST2018 in Limerick and ICST 2019 in Sydney. He received IEEE best reviewer and the best associate editor in 2011, 2013 and 2017, and other awards related to his research activity in the field of smart sensing and IoT. | ||
Title: The Future of smart ecosystem is empowered by IoT Collaborative Technologies | ||
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IoT and several collaborative technologies of sensors, wearables, communications protocols and analytics are gradually becoming an integral part of smart ecosystem solutions. Such a solution can offer new classes of applications and services which were not feasible before. |
Engr. Fawzi Behmann President, TelNet Management Consulting Inc. IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer and NA Regional Director & BoG member |
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This talk will introduce the concept and vision of IoT and architectural evolution including collaborative technologies including 5G, Analytics impacting many markets. 5G/6G & AI/ML empowered IoT will have greater impact in building smart cities and communities. The talk include the following:
Speaker Biography: Fawzi is visionary, innovative, thought leader, author, results driven with unique blend of business acumen, marketing and technology skills. Core technical skills is communications and networking specializes in disruptive technology positioning such as IoT, AI, 5G in developing smart ecosystem solutions in key markets such as health & and wellness, public safety, smart homes/building, smart energy and mobility. Fawzi held variety of leadership positions with Tier 1 companies such as Teleglobe International carrier, Nortel Network systems, Motorola/Freescale semiconductor. He founded TelNet Management Consulting Inc. 2009 and Co-authored book on “Collaborative IoT” by Wiley. Fawzi volunteered at IEEE and currently he is a member of IEEE Future Direction on security, applications and services. He is IEEE WCNC 2022 chair, ComSoc North America Regional Director (serving over 10,000 members) and BoG member. He chairs multiple joint chapters on Communications, signal processing, Computer, EMBS and Consumer technology. Prior, Fawzi was Region 5 conference committee chair and Central Texas chair. As a distinguished member of the IEEE.org organization, Fawzi, has toured and lectured in many parts of the world including Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Togo, Singapore, Malaysia, Morocco, Tunisia, Abu Dhabi, India, Mexico, Croatia, Dublin, and many cities in US and Canada in the last few years. Fawzi is a member of several boards and is the Co-Chair of the Intelligent Health Association's "I oT in healthcare Consortium". He is a keynote speaker at several international conferences. Fawzi received multiple awards including IEEE MGA Section Leadership (2017-2018), IEEE USA professional leadership award for 2017, ComSoc Chapter of the year awards for 2017, 2015 and Regional outstanding Member for 2013, 2014 and 2015. Fawzi has MBA, Masters in Computer Science, Bachelor in Science with honors in Mathematics with distinction. | ||
invited speakers
Title: AlGaN nanostructure modification for red light emitting applications | ||
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The incorporation of rare earth (RE) atoms into solid hosts, especially wide bandgap III−N semiconductors, have received increasing attention in the last decades [1,2] due to the potential applications of RE-doped materials in optoelectronic semiconductor devices such as: light emitting diodes (LEDs), solid-state lasers and color displays. Micro-LED array devices are considered as next-generation displays with high extraction efficiency, high viewing angles and high graphic resolution. The realization of such devices requires the monolithic integration of red-green-blue (RGB) LEDs to achieve high emission efficiency and high temperature stability. |
Dr. Nabiha Ben Sedrine I3N, Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal |
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Blue and green light are obtained by bandgap engineering of InGaN, while commercially available red LEDs are GaP-based. Therefore it is necessary to obtain efficient red emission using III-N for monolithic RGB LEDs. A possible approach for achieving the red light is the RE doping of europium (Eu) into III-N hosts, with luminescence arising from Eu3+ intra-ionic transitions [3,4]. Ion implantation is a convenient method to introduce RE ions into a host matrix in a controlled manner with a reproducible profile [1]. However, a lattice damage is inevitably caused by energetic heavy ions as they penetrate a crystalline host. The crystalline quality is usually recovered by thermal annealing at high temperatures. AlGaN/GaN superlattice-based diode structure as well as AlxGa1-xN/GaN nanowires are studied in detail allowing optimization of Eu implantation/annealing conditions in order to achieve efficient solid-state red emitters and nano-emitters. Speaker Biography: Nabiha Ben Sedrine is a Researcher at the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro and Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication (I3N) in Aveiro (Portugal). Her research interests are devoted to study key issues in semiconductor (III-V, III-N, dilute nitrides/antimonides/bismides) and oxide (ex. Ga2O3, NiO, TiO2) nanosctructures, by probing their optical properties and correlating with their structural, electrical and magnetic properties for different applications (optoelectronics, spintronics and quantum technology). Her recent research activities focus on the development and characterization of AlGaN-based nanostructures for light-emitting diodes. She has 65 publications (including peer-review papers, book and book-chapter), several invited talks and over 100 participations in international conferences. She is actively collaborating with international experts from Europe, USA and Asia. She is involved in pedagogic activities (teaching, mentoring, and supervision); evaluation of manuscripts, proposals and academic degrees; associations and physics societies (Sweden, Tunisia and Portugal); as well as editorial activities (Guest Editor of "Progress in Optical Characterization of Semiconductor Nanomaterials and Devices" in Materials Journal). | ||
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conference program
conference program
invited speakers:
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Dr. Nabiha Ben Sedrine
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