34 listed funded projects and fellowships
Lead-CI clean energy, batteries, VPPs, and resilience programs
ARC / TRaCE major Australian research and translation pathways

Current and Upcoming

Major energy, battery, and VPP programs

2026-2027 | Lead-CI

Trustworthy, Energy-Aware Computing Load Balancing for a Distributed Residential GPU Network

Spinout project. Stage 1: TRaCE Lab to Market fund, Australia, 2,600,000 AUD, confirmed. Stage 2: Energy Innovation Fund, 5,000,000 AUD, confirmed. Stage 3: ARENA, 12,000,000 AUD, EOI accepted.

2026-2027 | Second-CI

Scalable Statistical Integrated Technologies for the Second-Life Utilization of Lithium-Ion Batteries

TRaCE Lab to Market fund, Australia, 1,300,000 AUD.

2026-2027 | Second-CI

Secure Federated Battery Management System for Distributed Energy Storage Assets

TRaCE Lab to Market fund, Australia, 1,300,000 AUD.

2027-2029 | Second-CI

Intelligent and Reliable Monitoring and Prediction of Battery Health State

ARC Linkage Project LP250200747, 904,674 AUD.

2026 | CI

AI-Enabled Smart Energy Hub for Virtual Power Plant Deployment in Residential and Commercial Solar Networks

TRaCE Lab to Market fund, Australia, 1,300,000 AUD.

2026 | Lead-CI

AI-Enabled Resilient Energy Hub: Transforming a Bowral Hotel into a Net-Zero, Community-Sharing Virtual Power Plant

TRaCE Lab to Market fund, Australia, 4,062,500 AUD.

2025-2026 | Lead-CI

Revolutionary AI-Enabled Modular Power Portal System for Urban Clean Energy Distribution

TRaCE Lab to Market fund, Australia, 4,191,250 AUD.

2025-2026 | CI

Health Status Estimation and Resilient Closed-Loop Supply Chain for Retired Electric Vehicle Batteries

AEA Ignite round 1, Australia, 334,052 AUD.

2025-2027 | Lead-CI

Online Health Monitoring and Anomaly Detection in Li-Ion Batteries via Trustworthy AI

Energy Innovation Fund, ACT Government, Australia, 1,223,891 AUD.

2025-2027 | CI

Building Australia's Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure

ARC Linkage Project LP210200473, Australia, 759,510 AUD.

2025-2026 | CI-Manager

Delivering Net-Zero Energy Buildings: A Next-Generation Hybrid Energy System with Demand-Side Management

TRaCE Lab to Market fund, Australia, 2,493,712 AUD.

2025-2027 | CI

Strengthening Health Resilience and Sustainable Marine Biodiversity in Indonesia

Developing innovative nanoliposome product from seagrapes for diabetes treatment. BRIN KONEKSI Joint Call Grants 2024, Australia-Indonesia, 458,650 AUD.

Recent Australian Programs

Resilience, renewable integration, and research infrastructure

2024 | CI

State of the Art High-Speed Camera for Integrated Research Cluster on Advanced Resilience and Sustainable Energy Infrastructure

Research Infrastructure Scheme, UNSW, 298,184 AUD.

2024 | Lead-CI

Robust PV-ESS-EV Operation Strategy for Net-Zero Emission via Stochastic Dynamic Programs

GRIP, Australia, 15,000 AUD.

2024 | CI

Explainable Time Series Analysis and Optimal Decision-Making in Renewable Energy Integration

GRIP, Australia, 20,000 AUD.

2024-2027 | Lead-CI

Building Resilience to Cyber-Physical Power Systems Under Climate-Related Disasters

ARC Research Hub for Resilient and Intelligent Infrastructure Systems, Australia, 450,000 AUD.

2024-2025 | Lead-CI

Understanding Energy: Building an AI Platform to Help Buildings Thrive in a Rapidly Evolving Energy Sector

ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions, Australia, 250,000 AUD.

2023 | CI

A Novel Deep Learning-Based Algorithm for Online Classification, Identification, and Prediction of Cascading Cyber-Physical Failure in Smart Grids

GRIP, Australia, 19,142 AUD.

2023 | CI

Building Resilience to Power and Energy Systems Under Cyber-Related Disasters

GRIP, Australia, 19,173 AUD.

2023 | Lead-CI

Building Resilience to Cyber-Physical Energy Systems Under Climate-Related Disasters

GRIP, Australia, 19,955 AUD.

2023 | Lead-CI

Electric Vehicle and Photovoltaic Hosting Capacity Using Machine Learning

GRIP, Australia, 19,115 AUD.

2023 | CI

Enhancing Solar Panel Reliability: Data-Driven Maintenance, Smart Strategies, and User Acceptance

GRIP, Australia, 20,000 AUD.

2023 | Fellowship

Visiting Research Fellowship

Pre-award of Jean d'Alembert Pour Fellowship, France, 122,263 AUD. One of five awardees.

Earlier and International Projects

Reliability, infrastructure, and energy systems foundations

2022 | CI

Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation System

RG214402, 2022 Research Infrastructure Scheme, UNSW, 100,000 AUD.

2021 | Sole-CI

Mitigating Threats' Impacts on Infrastructure by Reinforcement Learning-Based Decisions

Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia, 20,000 AUD.

2020-2022 | CI

Intelligent Maintenance of Transmission Grid Assets

Swiss Federal Office of Energy. Directed by A/Prof Giovanni Sansavini. 299,594 CHF over 28 months for CI Mo.

2019-2020 | Sole-CI

Risk, Reliability and Optimization of Energy Systems

Special Research Grants of UNSW, 49,485 AUD.

2017-2020 | CI

Risk Assessment in Bulk Energy Grids

Swiss Competence Centers in Energy Research FURIES. Directed by A/Prof Giovanni Sansavini. 243,800 CHF for CI Mo over 48 months.

2014-2017 | CI

The Vulnerabilities of Future Interdependent Energy Network

Swiss National Science Foundation. Directed by A/Prof Giovanni Sansavini, 660,000 CHF.

2013-2017 | CI

Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modeling of Highly Reliable Systems

Asia Pacific Research Committee. Directed by Prof Min Xie, 400,000 HKD.

2015-2018 | CI

Reliability Analysis and Maintenance of Multi-State Repairable Systems

University Grants Committee, Hong Kong. Directed by Prof Min Xie, 695,854 HKD.

2015-2018 | CI

Development of a Framework for Reliability Modelling and Simulation of Human-Machine Systems

Beijing Kenway Technologies Co., Ltd. Directed by Prof Min Xie, 300,000 HKD.

2016-2022 | CI

Safety, Reliability, and Disruption Management of High-Speed Rail and Metro Systems

University Grants Committee, Hong Kong. Directed by Prof Min Xie, 40,000,000 HKD.

2013-2016 | CI

Development of Bi-Level Weibull Model for Two-Level Failure Data

Boeing. Directed by Prof Min Xie, 46,800 HKD.