Biography
Professor David Hill is currently Professor of Electrical Power and Energy Systems at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He held the Chair of Electrical Engineering at The University of Hong Kong during 2013-2020. He was the Project Coordinator for the RGC Theme-based Research Scheme (Round 4) Project total funding HK$50.4M on Sustainable Power Delivery Structures for High Renewables (with Co-Is from HKU, HK University of Science and Technology, HK Polytechnic University, Imperial College London and the University of Sydney), 2015-2019. Since 2021 he is Emeritus and Honorary Professor at HKU. During 2021-22 before taking up the position at Monash he was a Program Leader in The Reliable Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030 CRC) where resources of about A$350million have been obtained from industry and Government.
Prior to joining HKU, he held the Chair of Electrical Engineering at The University of Sydney, Australia, initially during 1994-2002 and again 2010-2013, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He established the Centre for Future Energy Networks and was Director, 2010-2018. During 1996-1999, he served as Head of the School of Electrical and Information Engineering (now Electrical and Computer Engineering). He has twice held Australian Research Council (ARC) Professorial Fellowships. During 2005-2010, he was an ARC Federation Fellow (only 25 awarded internationally per year for all areas) at the Australian National University and, from 2006, also a Theme Leader (Complex Networks) and Deputy Director in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems. During 2010-2013, he held an ARC Professorial Fellowship at the University of Sydney.
He has been continuously associated with Hong Kong universities since 2001 when he was a visiting Professor at City University of HK (CityU). During 2001-2004, he was Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Electronic Engineering (now Electrical Engineering) at CityU. During 2012-2013, he held a visiting Chair Professorship under the Distinguished Scholars Scheme in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at PolyU.
He has also held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, California (Berkeley), Newcastle (Australia), Lund (Sweden), Munich (Technical University) and UNSW Sydney. He has numerous international professional involvements, mainly with IEEE and IFAC as well as independent conferences and workshops including PSCC, IREP and IWCSN.
He has been invited to speak at many panels and workshops and to give keynote addresses at international conferences including workshops in the series Mathematics of Energy Systems, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK 2019 and plenary speeches at MTNS2018, Hong Kong; PSCC, Dublin, 2018; PowerTech, Milan, 2019 and IEEE CDC 2022, all on aspects of power grids and system theory. He has several editorial roles including: an Editor for the Springer Book Series on Power Electronics and Power Systems; the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (IJEPES), Foundations and Trends in Electric Energy Systems and Journal of Control and Decision (China). He has several other advisory editor roles.
Professor Hill is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA, the International Federation of Automatic Control, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
He received the 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award and the 2022 IEEE Control System Society Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize.
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Selected Publications
- B.Liu, D.J.Hill, Z.Sun, “Stability of impulsive dynamical networks with different impulse time sequences and application to event-triggered impulsive control,” Applied Mathematical Modelling, Special issue on Impulsive Control, Vol.118, pp.128-151, 2023.
- T.Han and D.J.Hill,” Learning-based topology optimization of power networks,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vpl.38, No.2, March 2023, pp.1366-1378.
- B.Liu, D.J.Hill, Z.Sun and P.Xiao, “Stability of impulsive dynamical networks with different impulse time sequences and application to event-triggered impulsive control,” Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol.118, 2023, pp.128-151.
- T.Han, D.J.Hill and Y.Song, “Optimal topology transition,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.38, No.4. July 2023, pp.3029-3042.
- X.Zhang, D.J.Hill, and Y.Song, “Load dynamic stability index for short-term voltage stability assessment and control,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.38, No.4, July 2023, pp.3304-3316.