Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar B.Sc. M.S. PhD

Research ScholarSymbiosis Institute of Telecom ManagementSymbiosis International UniversityPune, Maharashtra, India

Senior Research FellowSchool of Information Systems Curtin Business SchoolCurtin University, Perth, Australia

Curtin Business School

Curtin Business School

Qualifications

•PhD (Information Security) ▫Curtin University, Perth, Australia

•Masters (Software Engineering)▫University of Newcastle, Newcastle,

Australia•Bachelor (Science)

▫Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India

Key Achievements

•Best Researcher of the Year Award in 2010, 2011

•Funding around $1 million dollars•5 PhD Completions (1 received chancellors commendation award)

•125 scientific publications (IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier, etc.)

•2 Keynote Presentations (UIC 2009, IEEE DEST 2011)

•1087 Citations, H Index 18, i10 Index 31•12 International Journal Publications in 2013•Youngest PhD in Curtin University till 2012•13 years of full time research experience•25 International Workshops in IEEE, ACM

Experience

• Senior Research Fellow▫ 2010 – till date▫ School of Information Systems, Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Australia

• Head Policy, Planning & Business Strategy▫ 2006 – 2010▫ Digital Ecosystems & Business Intelligence Institute

Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Australia

• Associate Lecturer▫ 2003 – 2006▫ Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Australia

• Sessional Lecturer & Tutor▫ 2001-2003▫ University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

List of Selected Collaborators• Professor Emeritus William F Smyth, McMaster University, Canada • Professor Elizabeth Chang, University of New South Wales, Australia • Professor Tharam Dillon, La Trobe University, Australia, IEEE Fellow• Professor Ian Sommerville, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK • Professor Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan • Professor Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan • Professor Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy • Professor Emeritus Chem Nayar, Curtin University, Australia • Professor Achim Karduck, Germany • Professor Arno Scharl, MODUL University, Austria • Professor Chang-Tsun Li, University of Warwick, UK • Professor Jayanta Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Technology, India • Professor Costas Iliopoulos, Kings College London, UK • Professor Sunil Patil, Symbiosis International University, India 

List of Selected Collaborators• Professor Pritam Shah, Sri Visvesvaraya Technological University,

India • Professor Robert Meersman, Vrije University, Brussels. Belgium • Professor Peter Ellyard, Chairman at Preferred Futures Institute • Professor Song Han, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China• Dr. Michael L. Brodie, Visiting Scientist, MIT, USA • Professor Sajal Kabiraj, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics,

China • A/Professor David Taniar,  Monash University, Australia • A/Professor Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe, University, Australia • A/Professor Ljiljana Brankovic, University of Newcastle, Australia • Dr. Angela Wardell-Johnson, University of the Sunshine Coast,

Australia (Senior CRN Fellow) • Dr. Alex Talevski, Chief Technology Officer, Blue Ant Wireless, Australia • Dr. George Fodor, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden• Dr. Behrang Zadjabbari, Senior BI Consultant,  InfoCentric, Australia• Dr. Pedram Hayati, Principal Security Consultant, BAE Systems,

Australia• Dr. Atif Sharif, Project Manager, Overflow Industrial Pty Ltd, Australia

Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre

Organizational Structure

Research Domains

Research Area Management

HDR = Higher Degree by Research i.e. PhD

ResearchResearch

Administration

Research

Broad Research Areas

• Information Security ▫ Anti Spam▫ Steganography, Digital Watermarking

• Information Quality ▫ Web 2.0▫ Social Media ▫ User Generated Content

• Cyber Physical Systems▫ Smart Grids▫ Wireless Sensor Networks, RFID ▫ Web of Things, Internet of Things▫ Energy Management▫ Smart Home Automation▫ Sustainability▫ Emission Management

Anti Spam Research• Awareness, Knowledge and Perception of Online

Spam• Characterisation of web spambots using self-

organising maps• How much money do spammers make from your

website? • Spamming for science: Active measurement in Web

2.0 abuse research• Rule-Based On-the-fly Web Spambot Detection

Using Action Strings• Web Spambot Detection Based on Web Usage

Behaviour• Behaviour-Based Web Spambot Detection by

Utilising Action Time and Action Frequency• Definition of Spam 2.0: New Spamming Boom• Spam 2.0: The Problem Ahead• HoneySpam 2.0: Profiling Web Spambot Behaviour

Dr. Farida Ridzuan, Senior

Lecturer, Malaysia

Dr. Alex Talevski

CTO, BlueAnt Wireless, Australia

Dr. Kevin Chai, Research Fellow

Uni. Of New South Wales,

Australia

Dr. Pedram Hayati. Senior

Security Consultant Stratsec, Australia

Prof. Emeritus William F

SmythMcMaster Uni

Canada

Anti Spam Research

Smart Grid Research

• Design of Smart Grid Prosumer Communities via Online Social Networking Communities

• A Methodology to find Influential Prosumers in Prosumer-Community-Groups

• Goal Oriented Prosumer Community Groups for Smart Grid

• Framework for Formation of Prosumer Community Groups in Smart Grids

• Framework to Manage Multiple Goals in Community based Energy Sharing Network in Smart Grid Dinusha

RathnayakaPhD Scholar

Curtin University

Dr. Omar Hussain

Research FellowCurtin University

Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar Senior

Research Fellow, Curtin University

Prof. Tharam Dillon

La Trobe UniAustralia

Utility Grid

Renewable and nonrenewable power generation

Power Distribution and Transmission

Prosumer community groups

Community group1 : 10-50kWh, Solar sources

Community Management Platform

Community Gateway Community

Gateway

Accumulative energy supply

Smart-grid system operation/ management

Smart -grid Energy requiremet

Energy goal

Energy goal

Accumulative energy supply

Accumulative energy supply

Smart storage

SMI

20kWh

HAN

SMI

30kWh

HAN

Community group1 : 51-100kWh, Solar+Wind sources

SMI

60kWh

HAN

SMI

80kWh

HAN

Smart storage

New prosumers

Prosumer Evaluation

Identify dynamic prosumers

Historic energy profiles

Segmentation of profiles

Characterize groups with prequalification

criteria

Negotiation

Achievable goal for each community-group

Prosumers’ behaviours

Prosumer ranking

Assessment criteria

1.Definition of community-groups

Effective prosumer- community groups

Input

2. Prosumer Recruitment

Sustainable group formation and

growth

3. Goal definition

OutputInspired goal oriented

members

4. Ranking of members

Fair privilege assignment

Identify influential members by ranking

Multiple conflicting objectives

Smart Grid Research

Prosumer Community Groups

Proposals to address the challenges in

prosumer community based smart grid

Prosumer-community-groups (PCGs)

Sub-goal-1

Sub

-goa

l-2

Sub-goal-4

PCG2 PCG n

Proposal 3: Mutual goal definition

Prosumer Assessment and Ranking Scheme

Assessment criteria definition

Criterion A. Meet the energy agreementCriterion B. Produce excess energy than agreedCriterion C. Offering energy to the members in needCriterion D. Long term historic energy behaviors

Point allocation

Prosumer ranking

Intra-group energy sharing

Energy selling member

Prosumer-community-group

Energy buying member Standalone

member

Surplus energy from members after fulfilling the local demand

Criteria prioritization

Proposal 4: Ranking of members

Prosumers’ energy behaviour data

Data Acquisition

Data Filtering

Data conversion

Time-series clustering

Prequalification criteria definition

Membership Categories

Membership

PCG1

PCG2

PCG n

Evaluation 2

Evaluation n

Flexible Community Membership

Fixed Community Membership

Overall evaluation

Evaluation period

Complying Vs. Non-

complying members

Registered Prosumers

Pre-qualification

criteria

Evaluation 1

Proposal 1:Definition of prosumer community-groups (PCGs)

Proposal 2: Prosumer recruitment to prosumer community groups (PCGs)

PCG1

PCG coordinator

Clustersers

PCGcoordinator

Income Objective

Customer Objective

Demand Objective

Participation Objective

Sustainability Objective

Resource ObjectiveGoal Programming

Model

Cost objective

Time series data

Feasible number of prosumer

community groups (PCGs)

PCG1

PCG2

PCGn

Concise overview of proposed methodologiesA. J. D. Rathnayaka and V. Potdar, 2013. Goal Oriented Prosumer Community Groups for Smart Grid -Issues, Challenges and Proposals, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, ERA Level B, Accepted, Impact Factor 0.542, IEEEA. J. Rathnayaka, V. Potdar, T. Dillon, 2013. A Methodology to find Influential Prosumers in Prosumer-Community-Groups. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Special Issue on Building Automation, Smart Homes, and Communities, Issue 99. ERA Level A, Impact Factor 3.381, Accepted for Publication, IEEE Transactions

A. J. D. Rathnayaka, V. Potdar, 2013. Prosumer Recruitment Framework for Prosumer Community Groups in Smart-grid. International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering. Accepted Impact Factor 0.314

A. J. D. Rathnayaka and V. Potdar, 2013. An Innovative Framework for Formation of Prosumer Community Groups in Smart Grids, Journal of Grid & Utility Computing (currently under review), SCOPUS, Compendex, ACM DL, DBLP, Inspec, ERA Journal

A J. D Rathnayaka, V. Potdar, T. Dillon, 2013. Framework to Manage Multiple Goals in Community based Energy Sharing Network in Smart Grid, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (currently under review) ERA Journal

A. J. Dinusha Rathnayaka, Vidyasagar M. Potdar, Samitha J. Kuruppu, 2012. Design of Smart Grid Prosumer Communities via Online Social Networking Communities,International Journal for Infonomics (IJI), Volume 5, Issue 1/2, March/June 2012, pp.544-556.

A. J. Rathnayaka, V. Potdar, M. H. Ou, 2012. Prosumer management in socio-technical smart grid. International Information Technology Conference (CUBE 2012), pp. 483-489, Pune, India, 3-5 September 2012. ACM Digital Library, DBLP, SCOPUS

Cyber Physical Systems Research

Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar Senior

Research Fellow, Curtin University

Prof. Tharam Dillon

La Trobe UniAustralia

Keynote Presentations

Dillon, T., Potdar, V., Singh, J., Talevski, A., 2011. Cyber Physical Systems: Challenges in Sensor Actuator Networks, In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Ecosystems & Technologies (DEST2011), June 2011.

Dillon, T., Talevski, A., Potdar, V., Chang, E., 2009. Web of things as a framework for ubiquitous intelligence and computing, In: Proceedings of the Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5585, pp. 2-13.

Sustainability Research

• Analysis of an Airport Ecosystem from Emissions Perspective. 

• Evaluation of Wireless Home Automation Technologies for Smart Mining Camps in Remote Western Australia. 

• Energy Resource Management in Smart Home: State of the Art and Challenges Ahead.

Dinusha RathnayakaPhD Scholar

Curtin University

Dr. Vidyasagar Potdar Senior

Research Fellow, Curtin University

Yee Wen Lo Valencia

Masters ScholarCurtin University

Smart Homes & Energy Management

Evaluation of Wireless Home Automation Technologies

Transport & Logistics Research

Transport & Logistics Research $404,000

Congestion Management using Wireless Sensor Networks & Data Mining

Energy Management & Emission Control Research

Research Management & Administration

Research Management Activities• Cultivate a strong research culture at Curtin

• Train selected faculty members from all over Curtin in their respective areas of research ▫ Increase the ratio of staff vs. number of publications

• Secure external funding

• Supervise PhD students

• Build a strong publication record for Curtin University

• Organize or Host World Class International Conferences

Research Management Activities• Organized Staff Retreat for Research Staff

• Organized Retreat for PhD Student

• Develop research policies

• Develop research handbook

• Develop institution governance structure

• Drive research commercialization

• Drive Industry Projects

Research Management Activities• Recruit high quality international PhD students

• Develop research focus areas and research centers under the umbrella of DEBII

• Coordinate and Collaborate with Professors in Curtin, across Australia and around the globe and conduct joint research projects

• Invite renowned international researchers at Curtin University

Research Management Activities• Developed partnerships with International Universities

and signed MoU

• Developed a advisory committee for DEBII and organize board meetings

• Liaise with the relevant departments at Curtin University

• Developed research KPIs for research active staff

• Developed incentive structure to support research

• Guidance in Journal and Conference Selection

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