Dr. Ching Lai Hor

BEng(Hons), Ph.D., MIET, MIEEE

Lecturer in Renewable Energy

Contact details

Email: C.L.Hor@ex.ac.uk

Tel: 01326 253737

www.geocities.com/chinglaihor

Biography

Chinglai Hor received the BEng(Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (now University of Manchester), Manchester in 1997. He was an Electrical engineer with ALSTOM Power from 1997 to 2000 before pursuing his Ph.D. at UMIST/Queen’s University Belfast in the U.K. He spent the first two years of his Ph.D. study at Manchester Centre for Electrical Energy (MCEE), University of Manchester and his final year Ph.D at Electrical Power and Energy System Research Group, Queen’s University Belfast. He joined the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), Loughborough University in 2003 as a postdoctoral researcher for three years. He was later appointed Lecturer in Renewable Energy at University of Exeter in Cornwall, U.K.

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Electrical Power Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, 2004

B.Eng(Hons) in Electrical and electronic Engineering, University of Manchester (formerly UMIST), 1997

Career Record :

2006 to date: Lecturer in Renewable Energy

2003- 2006: Research Associate, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), University of Loughborough

1997 – 2000: Electrical Power Engineer, ALSTOM Power (formerly known as ABB Power Generation)

Teaching

1st year degree programme:

• CSM1254: Foundation Mathematics
• CSM1259: Electrical & Electronics Principle (Module leader)

2nd year degree programme:

• CSM2276: Mathematics 2B
• CSM2307: Electrical Energy Conversion and Transport. (Module leader)

3rd year degree programme:

• CSM3366: Network Eng., Modelling & Management (Module leader)
• CSM3371: Solar Power. (Module Coordinator)

M.Sc. Programme:

TBC

Ph.D. programme:

TBC

Research Interests

My research interests very much lie in the general fields of power system analysis and renewable energy which can be categorized into the following themes: -

• Economic and technical aspects of the (large-scale) integration of RE sources
• Condition monitoring of marine and wind turbines
• Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on electricity networks and electricity supply industry.
• Substation automation and data mining in power system
• Modelling and simulation of future electricity networks
• Power system dynamic, control and stability analysis
• Reliability assessment of power systems
• Power conversion, HVDC and Flexible AC Transmission Systems
• Wide Area Measurement Systems, Control, Monitoring and Protection
• Distributed Generation and Energy Storage.

Professional Memberships

• Member of IEEE Power Engineering Society (MIEEE)
• Member of Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET)
• Member of Leonardo Energy
• Collective member of CIGRE

External Professional Activities

Consultancy: Technical Insights, Frost & Sullivan for the Study on Substation Automation, Frost & Sullivan, 5 pages of report submitted.

Reviewer for the following scientific publications:

• IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
• IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion and Systems
• IET Proceedings on Generation, Transmission and Distribution
• 9 th Probabilistic Method Applied to Power Systems Conference.
• 8 th IEEE AFRICON Conference 2007

Awards and Honours

• Biography was included in the 2007, 2009 and 25 th Silver Anniversary Edition of Who’s Who in the World published in November 2006 and 2007. Who’s Who in the World is the definitive biographical reference work spotlighting leaders from every significant field of endeavor and from around the globe.
  
• Selected as one of the 10 candidates from the U.K. by British Council Switzerland in participating the Youth Summit on Climate Change and its impact on cities. The summit was organized by British Council Switzerland and partners and was held in Berne, Switzerland on November 20 – 25, 2005.

• Paper titled: ‘ Daily load forecasting and maximum demand estimation using ARIMA and GARCH’ has won a prize paper award in the Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) Conference held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 11-15 2006. The paper was selected as an outstanding paper based on significance of the problem treated, originality, rigor and applicability of the solution approach and contribution to the state of the art.

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles:

• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., ‘Extracting Knowledge from Substations for Decision Support’, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 20 (2), pp 595 - 602, April 2005.
  
  
• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., ‘Knowledge Extraction from Intelligent Electronic Devices', Transaction on Rough Sets III, LNCS 3400-0082, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Journal Subline, Springer-Verlag, vol. 1, pp 82-111, 2005.
  
  
• Hor C.L., Watson S.J., Majithia S., ‘Analyzing the Impact of Weather Variables on Monthly Electricity Demand', IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 20 (4), pp 2078 - 2085, November 2005.
  
  
• Hor CL, Crossley PA, ‘Substation Event Analysis using Information from Intelligent Electronic Devices’, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy System, Vol. 28(6), pp 374-386, Jul 2006.
  
  
• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., ‘Unsupervised Event Extraction within Substations Using Rough Classification', IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery , vol. 21(4), pp 1809-1816, Oct 2006.
  
  
• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., Watson S.J., ‘Building Knowledge for Substation based Decision Support using Rough Sets', IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery , vol 22(3), pp. 1372 – 1379, July 2007.

Conference Papers

• Hor C.L., Dharma A., Crossley P., ‘Underground cable fault location using a single terminal voltage and current data', 35th Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC2000), Belfast, UK, September 6-8, 2000.
  
  
• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., Dunand F., ‘Knowledge Extraction within Distribution Substation using Rough Set Approach’, IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, New York, USA, January 27 – 31, 2002.

• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., Dunand F. ‘Intelligent Information Retrieval and Fault Classification In Distribution Substation Using Rough Set Approach’, IEE Conference on Power System Management and Control, London, UK, April 17 - 19, 2002.

• Hor C.L., Shafiu A., Crossley P.A., Dunand F., ‘Modelling a Substation in a Distribution Network: Real time Data Generation for Knowledge Extraction’, IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 21 – 25, 2002.
  
  
• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., Dunand F., ‘Knowledge Discovery Technique for Data Analysis and Reduction in a Distribution Substations’, 7 th Probabilistic Methods applied to Power System Conference, Naples, Italy, September 22 – 26, 2002.

• Hor C.L., Kangvansaichol K., Crossley P.A., Shafiu A., ‘Relay Models for Protection Studies’, IEEE Power Tech Conference, Bologna, Italy, July 21 - 25 2003.

• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., ‘Substation Data Analysis with Rough Sets’, 8 th IEE Development in Power System Protection Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 5 – 8, 2004.

• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A. ‘Knowledge Extraction from Intelligent Electronic Devices’, Proceeding of the 1 st International Conference on Advanced Power System Automation and Protection (APAP2004), Jeju Island, Korea, October 25 – 28, 2004.

• Hor C.L., Watson S.J., ‘Analysing the Responses of Electricity Demand to Changing Climate’, First Division Conference, Sutton Bonington Hall, Loughborough, April 8, 2005.

• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A. ‘Analysis of Substation Data for Knowledge Extraction’, IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, San Francisco, USA, June 12 – 16, 2005.

• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., ‘The use of Intelligent Data Reduction technique in analysing Substation Events’, IEEE Power Tech Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 27 – 30, 2005.

• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A. ‘Reasoning Applied to Substation Data Extracted from Relays and Circuit Breakers’, 15th Power Systems Computation Conference, Lige, Belgium, August 22 – 26, 2005.

• Hor C.L., Watson S.J., Majithia, S., ‘Daily Load Forecasting and Maximum Demand Estimation using ARIMA and GARCH’, 9th Probabilistic Methods applied to Power System Conference (PMAPS), Stockholm, Sweden, June 11 – 15, 2006.
  
  
• Hor C.L., Crossley P.A., Millar D.L., ‘Application of Genetic Algorithm and Rough Set for Knowledge Extraction’, IEEE Power Tech Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1st − 5th July (2007).
  
  
• Hor C.L., Watson S.J., Infield D.G., Majithia S., 'Assessing Load Forecast Uncertainty using Extreme Value Theory'. 16th Power System Computations Conference 2008, Glasgow, Scotland, 14th-18th July 2008.

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