November 2022

I am honored and humbled by my dear friend’s, Dr. Philip Pong‘s, invitation to offer the keynote speech at the 1st edition of the North Jersey Research Student Conference. The Conference will be held on December 9th at the Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. I am particularly happy, as this initiative aims first and foremost to promote and encourage students’ research at all levels within the dept. of ECE at NJIT; postdocs, PhD, MSc and undergraduate students will be presenting their most recent research results in the aims of exploring collaborations and impactful outreach!

My keynote speech will be on my recent work on digital twins for near real time sensing and monitoring of – mostly – distribution grid components (transformers and overhead conductors) for security and power quality. I will also be sitting in the committee of the Awards & Certificates of Merit of the presented students’ works.

I hope and wish that more and more ECE departments will organize similar conferences to empower their students and inspire them to engage and collaborate across seniority.