Dr Wayes Tushar

Senior Lecturer

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
w.tushar@uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 69180

Overview

Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer at the School of EECS of the University of Queensland (UQ). Before joining UQ, I was at SUTD as a Research Scientist at SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC) from March 2015 to July 2017, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Engineering Product Development Pillar from September 2013 to February 2015. My previous employment also includes Visiting Research at NICTA, Australia (January 2013 - June 2013), Visiting Student Research Collaborator at Princeton University, USA (Summer 2011), and Lecturer at Presidency University, Dhaka (June 2007 - March 2009).

I received my B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2007, and my Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2013.

Research

Wayes's research focuses on different aspects of energy management for the smart grid. Examples include peer-to-peer energy trading, storage management, home energy management, electric vehicles, and transactive energy. He is also interested in the application of game theory, auction theory, data science, and design thinking for energy management.

Research Grants and Management

  1. AQRF11016-17RD2: Peer-to-peer energy trading schemes for sustainable cities, Advance Queensland (2017-2020), CI.
  2. IDG31700103: Consumer-centric energy management for buildings: Design innovation technique for sustainability, SUTD-MIT International Design Centre Pilot (2017-2019), Co-CI.
  3. NRF2015ENC-GBICRD001-028: Green building management system - An open IoT platform approach, Singapore National Research Foundation (2016-2019), Co-CI.
  4. IDG31500106: A pilot project for developing a smart energy management system prototype, SUTD-MIT International Design Centre Pilot (2015-2017), CI.
  5. IDG21500111: Building a toolset for energy audit systems, SUTD-MIT International Design Centre Pilot (2016-2016), CI.
  6. IDSF1200115OH: A general grant for IDC leveraged pilot project, SUTD-MIT International Design Centre Pilot (2015-2016), CI.
  7. NRF2012EWT-EIRP002-045: Demand-focused smart energy management in end-user environments for sustainable cities, Singapore National Research Foundation (2013-2016), Co-CI.

The details of my research activities can also be found on my personal homepage.

Publications

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Supervision

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Bashir, Noman, Hassan, Naveed Ul, Yuen, Chau and Tushar, Wayes (2017). Smart grid communications and standard. Communication, control and security challenges for the smart grid. (pp. 45-92) edited by S. M. Muyeen and Saifur Rahman. London, United Kingdom: The Institution of Engineering and Technology. doi: 10.1049/PBPO095E_ch3

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Azim, M. Imran and Tushar, Wayes (2021). P2P negawatt trading: a potential alternative to demand-side management. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia) Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 5-8 December 2021. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISGTASIA49270.2021.9715612

  • Azim, M. Imran, Tushar, Wayes and Saha, Tapan K. (2020). Regulated P2P energy trading: A typical australian distribution network case study. 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, QC Canada, 2-6 August 2020. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9282128

  • Li, Wen-Tai, Tushar, Wayes, Yuen, Chau, Wong, Ngian Chung and Tai, Stewart (2019). Efficiency improvement of a solar water heating system: an IoT data-driven approach. 2019 Grand International Conference and Exposition Asia (GTD Asia), Bangkok, Thailand, 19-23 March 2019. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/GTDAsia.2019.8715882

  • Kannan, Thirugnanam, Lork, Clement, Tushar, Wayes, Yuen, Chau, Wong, Ngian Chung and Tai, Stewart (2019). Energy management strategy for zone cooling load demand reduction with occupancy thermal comfort margin. IEEE PES GTD Grand International Conference and Exposition Asia (GTD Asia 2019), Bangkok, Thailand, 19-23 March 2019. New York, NY, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/GTDAsia.2019.8715879

  • Azim, M. Imran, Pourmousavi, S. A., Tushar, Wayes and Saha, Tapan K. (2019). Feasibility Study of Financial P2P Energy Trading in a Grid-tied Power Network. 2019 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Atlanta, GA United States, 4-8 August 2019. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/PESGM40551.2019.8973809

  • Lan, Lan, Yuen, Chau, Tushar, Wayes, Wood, Kristin L., Sng, Karen Hui En and Saha, Tapan (2018). Design innovation approaches for sustainable smart energy systems. ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2018, Quebec City, QC, Canada, 26-29 August 2018. Piscataway, NJ, United States: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). doi: 10.1115/DETC2018-85422

  • Islam, Shama Naz, Mahmud, Apel, Oo, Aman Maung Than, Yuen, Chau and Tushar, Wayes (2017). Interference management for cognitive radio enabled smart grid communication. 2017 IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2017, Bangalore, India, 8-10 November 2017. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/APPEEC.2017.8308945

  • Chai, Bo, Tushar, Wayes, Hassan, Naveed Ul, Yuen, Chau and Yang, Zaiyue (2017). Managing energy consumption in buildings through offline and online control of HVAC systems. IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Singapore, 22-25 November 2016. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/TENCON.2016.7848677

  • Li, Wen-Tai, Thirugnanam, Kannan, Tushar, Wayes, Yuen, Chau and Wood, Kristin L. (2017). Optimizing energy consumption of hotwater system in buildings with solar thermal systems. 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2017, Porto, Portugal, 22-24 April 2017. Setúbal, Portugal: SciTePress. doi: 10.5220/0006309402660273

  • Tushar, Wayes, Yuen, Chau, Smith, David B., Hassan, Naveed Ul and Poor, H. Vincent (2016). A canonical coalitional game theoretic approach for energy management for nanogrids. IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia, ISGT ASIA 2015, Bangkok, Thailand, 3-6 November 2015. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2015.7387081

  • Gubba, Sai Ram, Li, Wen-Tai, Tushar, Wayes, Yuen, Chau, Hassan, Naveed Ul, Wood, Kristin, Wen, Chao-Kai and Poor, H. Vincent (2016). Energy management by controlling air conditioning systems in residential settings. EESMS 2016 - 2016 IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems, Bari, Italy, 13-14 June 2016. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/EESMS.2016.7504808

  • Shabbir, Ali, Ul Hassan, Naveed, Yuen, Chau, Ahmad, Ayaz and Tushar, Wayes (2016). Multi-tier incentive scheme for residential customer participation in demand response management programs. 2015 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia, ISGT ASIA 2015, Bangkok, Thailand, 3-6 November 2015. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2015.7387044

  • Tushar, Wayes, Zhang, Jian A., Yuen, Chau, Smith, David B. and Poor, H. Vincent (2016). Smart grid energy management for a shared facility controller with renewables. IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2015, Miami, FL, United States, 1-5 November 2015. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/SmartGridComm.2015.7436307

  • Tushar, Wayes, Huang, Shisheng, Yuen, Chau, Zhang, Jian Andrew and Smith, David B. (2015). Synthetic generation of solar states for smart grid: a multiple segment Markov chain approach. 2014 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe, ISGT-Europe 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, 12- 15 October 2014. New York, NY, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ISGTEurope.2014.7028832

  • Tushar, Wayes, Chai, Bo, Yuen, Chau, Smith, David B. and Poor, H. Vincent (2014). Energy management for a user interactive smart community: a Stackelberg game approach. 2014 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia, ISGT Asia 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia, 20-23 May 2014. Piscataway, NJ USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2014.6873879

  • Tushar, Wayes, Yuen, Chau, Chai, Bo, Smith, David B. and Poor, H. Vincent (2014). Feasibility of using discriminate pricing schemes for energy trading in smart grid. 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2014, Austin, TX, United States, 8-12 December 2014. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037288

  • Tushar, Wayes, Zhang, Jian A., Smith, David B., Thiebaux, Sylvie and Poor, H. Vincent (2013). Prioritizing consumers in smart grid: energy management using game theory. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, 9-13 June 2013. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . doi: 10.1109/ICC.2013.6655229

  • Tushar, Wayes, Zhang, Jian, Smith, David B., Poor, H. Vincent, Platt, Glenn and Durrani, Salman (2012). An efficient energy curtailment scheme for outage management in smart grid. 2012 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, CA United States, 3 - 7 December 2012. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503583

  • Tushar, Wayes, Smith, David and Lamahewa, Tharaka (2012). Distributed transmit beamforming: data funneling in wireless sensor networks. 2012 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, AusCTW'12, Wellington, New Zealand, 30 January - 2 February 2012. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/AusCTW.2012.6164905

  • Tushar, Wayes, Smith, David B., Saad, Walid and Poor, H. Vincent (2012). Distributed transmit beamforming: performance improvement using a two-bit feedback scheme. 2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 2-5 October 2012. doi: 10.1109/ISCIT.2012.6380949

  • Tushar, Wayes, Smith, David B., Zhang, Andrew, Lamahewa, Tharaka A. and Abhayapala, Thushara (2012). Distributed transmit beamforming: phase convergence improvement using enhanced one-bit feedback. 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2012, Shanghai, China, 1-2 April 2012. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214424

  • Tushar, Wayes, Smith, David, Lamahewa, Tharaka A. and Zhang, Jian (2012). Non-cooperative power control game in a multi-source wireless sensor network. 2012 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, AusCTW'12, Wellington, New Zealand, 30 January - 2 February 2012. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/AusCTW.2012.6164904

  • Tushar, Wayes and Smith, David B. (2010). Distributed transmit beamforming based on a 3-bit feedback system. doi: 10.1109/SPAWC.2010.5670903

  • Islam, Ashraf Bin, Mostqfa, Salwa, Tushar, Wayes and Rashid, A. B.M.H. (2007). Effect of variation of thickness on integrated antenna system in silicon. ICICT 2007: International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, , , March 7, 2007-March 9, 2007. doi: 10.1109/ICICT.2007.375366

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

Completed Supervision