A team in the University of Macau (UM) State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City (SKL-IOTSC) won a first prize in the algorithm track and the only Best Innovation Award at a national competition on artificial intelligence (AI) application in power dispatching, under the guidance of Chair Professor Yonghua Song and Assistant Professor Zhang Hongcai of the Smart Energy Group of the laboratory. The team is comprised of three members of the SKL-IOTSC, namely PhD students Yu Peipei and Wang Zhenyi, and postdoctoral researcher Hui Hongxun.
The Smart Energy Group is dedicated to studying opportunities and challenges brought by clean energy, controllable loads, energy coupling, and cyber-physical systems. Members of the group carry out cutting-edge research based on the internet of things, with the aim of promoting the development of clean, low-carbon, efficient, and safe smart energy systems. The project is supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund, Macao SAR (file number: 0003/2020/AKP, SKL-IOTSC(UM)-2021-2023).