Professor David Hill
Ausgrid Chair of Electrical Engineering
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Director, The Centre for Future Energy Networks
Director, Centre in Intelligent Electricity Networks
J03 - Electrical Engineering Building
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
David J. Hill received the BE (Electrical Engineering) and BSc (Mathematics) degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1972 and 1974, respectively. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1977.
He is Professor of Electrical Engineering, an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow (2011-15) and Director of the Centre for Future Energy Networks in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at The University of Sydney, Australia. From 2012, he holds a visiting Chair Professorship under the Distinguished Scholars Scheme at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
During 2005-2010, he was an ARC Federation Fellow at the Australian National University and, from 2006, also a Chief Investigator and Theme Leader (Complex Networks) in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems. Since 1994, he has held various positions at the University of Sydney, Australia, including the Chair of Electrical Engineering until 2002, returning to a full-time Chair in 2010. He has held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, California (Berkeley), Newcastle (Australia), Lund (Sweden), Munich, Hong Kong (City University) as well as ANU. He currently holds honorary professorships at City University of Hong Kong, South China University of Technology, Wuhan University, and Northeastern University, China. During 1996-1999 and 2001-2004, he served as Head of the respective departments in Sydney and Hong Kong. During 2010-11, he chaired the Australian National Smart Grid Forum.
His general research interests have been in control systems, complex networks, power systems and stability analysis. His work is now mainly on control and planning of future carbon-constrained energy systems.
Professor Hill is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA, the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Research interests
Professor David Hill has pursued a range of research interests over his distinguished career, all of which converge in his current work on designing electrical power systems for a carbon-constrained future. His ultimate aim is to develop a system that produces minimal carbon emissions while meeting standards of cost efficiency, reliability and sustainability.
"My research involves many technical challenges, as the electrical power system of the future will be enormously complex. I enjoy this work because I'm interested in complex dynamic networks - how they are modelled, analysed, controlled and planned - so a large electrical power system with its associated energy sources, storage and loads provides me with challenges in all these areas.
"My main focus is on what many people call 'smart grids' - power systems with embedded 'intelligence'. This work aims to make the energy grid more automated and efficient, which should ultimately filter through to reduce customer power bills.
"I am very motivated by the idea that debates about climate change and the solutions needed can be settled by science and engineering rather than politics.
"I hope to show that a clean energy system really can provide a stable electricity supply at reasonable cost, which should then have an influence on debate and policy towards making it happen.
"I started working on power systems more than 30 years ago, and first joined the University of Sydney in 1994 as Chair of Electrical Engineering. I left for a period in 2001 but returned in 2010. Now is an exciting time in electrical power systems, and I expect to spend the rest of my career on these problems and related science."
Teaching and supervision
ELEC5203 - Topics in Power Engineering
Selected grants
2013
- Distributed control for wide-area demand response; Hill D, Verbic G; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- Future Grid - Power and Energy Systems Modelling & Security; Vassallo A, Hill D, Dong Z, Foster J, MacGill I; Energy Transformed Flagship/Research Support.
2012
- Australian Centre for Energy Storage Research (ACESeR); Maschmeyer T, Masters A, Vassallo A, Minett A, Lyster R, Crossley P, Hill D, Verbic G, Hyde R, Chester L, Frost G; DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS).
2011
- Modelling and distributed control of large infrastructure networks; Hill D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- Inactive - Power systems with diverse generation - implications, control and capability; Hill D, Parker C, Parker C; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
- Smart House Energy Management System; Verbic G, Hill D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
2000
- Security of open access power systems; Hill D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grant.
- Global control of nonlinear systems; Hill D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grant.
- Walking for the Spinal Cord-Injured; Smith R, Davis G, Hill D, Ronco E; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Spirt Grants.
1999
- Development of adaptive control strategies and techniques for power system operation in a competitive market environment; Hill D, Popovic D, Manglick P, Parker C; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Spirt Grants.
Selected publications
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