Professor Michael Negnevitsky is Chair in Power Engineering and Computational Intelligence and the Director of the Centre for Renewable Energy and Power Systems (CREPS).
Career Summary
Michael Negnevitsky received the B.S.E.E. (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from Byelorussian University of Technology, Minsk, Belarus in 1978 and 1983, respectively. From 1978 to 1980 he worked at the Electrical Maintenance, Construction and Commissioning Company in Minsk, Belarus as an electrical engineer. From 1984 to 1991, he was a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Byelorussian University of Technology, Minsk. After his arrival to Australia, Michael Negnevitsky was with Monash University, Melbourne. In 1993, Michael joined the University of Tasmania. Since 1993, Professor Negnevitsky have supervised 12 PhD and 8 MEng.Sc students 9 PhDs and 3 MEng.Sc have been awarrded. Since 2001, he has been the key member of the research team that has generated a research income of over $3.5M. From September 1, 2006 Negnevitsky has been appointed as Adjunct Full Professor in the School of Engineering, at the University of Vermont, Burlington, U.S.A.
Professor Negnevitsky authored and co-authored over 300 research publications including over 50 refereed journal papers, over 180 conference papers, 10 chapters in books, 2 books, 6 edited conference proceedings and 4 patents for inventions.
Professor Negnevitsky was an invited speaker at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (October 1996); Universität Magdeburg, Germany (July 1997); UMIST Manchester, UK (July 1998); University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands (November 1999); IEE Japan, Hiroshima, Japan (June 2000); Boston University, USA (October 2000); Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, (November 2001); Rochester Institute of Technology, USA (November 2004); University of Colorado at Denver, USA (November 2004); Arizona State University, USA (June 2006); University of Birmingham, UK (March 2007); Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (September 2008). He also presented panel papers at the 2005 IEEE/PEC General Meeting (San Francisco, CA, June 2005), the 2006 IEEE/PES General Meeting (Montreal, Canada, June 2006), the IEEE/PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition (Atlanta, Georgia, October 2006), the 2007 IEEE/PEC General Meeting (Tampa, Florida, June 2007), the 2008 IEEE/PEC General Meeting (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, July 2008) and the 2009 IEEE/PEC General Meeting (Calgary, Canada, July 2009).
Since 2001, Professor Negnevitsky organised and chaired two international conferences: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Science and Technology (Hobart, Australia, December, 2004), and the Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (Hobart, Australia, September, 2005). He also organised and chaired the esaa 2007 Residential School in Electric Power Engineering (Hobart, Australia, 21 January - 2 February 2007) and the API 2008 Residential School in Electric Power Engineering (Hobart, Australia, 4 February - 22 February 2008). Professor Negnevitsky is a referee for several international journals including “International Journal of Power and Energy Systems”, “IEEE Transactions on Power Systems”, “IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery”, “IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems”, “Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management”, “Engineering Intelligent Systems” and “Advances in Engineering Software”.
Professor Negnevitsky is Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, Chartered Professional Engineer, Member of the IEEE/PES Intelligent Systems Subcommittee, and Member of the IEEE/PES Task Force on Intelligent Data Mining and Analysis, Member of CIGRE AP C4 (System Technical Performance) and CIGRE AP C6 (Distribution Systems and Dispersed Generation), Australian Technical Committee, and Member of CIGRE Working Group JWG C1/C2/C6.18 (Coping with Limits for Very High Penetrations of Renewable Energy), International Technical Committee. He is also a Member of the Australian Committee for Power Engineering (ACPE).
Research Areas
Centre for Renewable Energy and Power Systems (CREPS)
Research Interests
Power System Analysis
Power Quality
Intelligent system applications in power systems
Distributed and Renewable generation
Expert systems, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms and hybrid systems
Research Areas:- Distributed & Renewable Power Generation
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Teaching
Teaching career of Professor Negnevitsky spans more than 20 years during which he has taught more than a dozen undergraduate and postgraduate subjects in many areas of Electrical Engineering and Computational Intelligence.
UnitsSelected Publications:- Negnevitsky, M, , 2005, 'Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to Intelligent Systems,2nd ed.', Artificial Intelligence: A Guide to Intelligent Systems,2nd ed., Addison Wesley, Harlow, England.
- Negnevitsky, M. and Pavlovsky V., , 2005, '‘Neural Networks Approach to Online Identification of Multiple Failures of Protection Systems’', IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 20, No. 2, pgs. pp. 588 - 594.
- Negnevitsky, M. and Ringrose, M.,, 2005, '‘A Neuro-Fuzzy System for Recognition of Power Quality Disturbances’', Proceedings of the IEEE/PES General Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 12-16 June 2005, CD-ROM, IEEE Catalog Number 05CH37686C, ISBN 0-7803-9157-8, Paper 0-7803-9156-X/05.
- Lim, M., Negnevitsky, M., and Hartnett, J., , 2006, '‘Personality Trait Based Simulation Model of the E-mail System,"', International Journal of Network Security, Vol. 3, No. 2,, pgs. pp. .164-182
- Potter, C. and Negnevitsky, M.,, 2006, '‘Very Short-Term Wind Forecasting for Tasmanian Power Generation’', IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 21, No. 2.
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