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Publications

[1]     S. A. Saleh, *J. Wo, X. F. St-Onge, and E. Castillo-Guerra, “A New Approach for Estimating Frequency Variations Due to Smart Grid Functions”, Accepted for Publication in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 2292-2303, Feb. 2020.

[2]     S. A. Saleh and E. Castillo-Guerra, “Developing and Testing a Unit Commitment-Based Controller of Bus-Split Aggregated Residential Electric Water Heaters, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 1124-1135, Dec. 2019.

[3]     X. Gong; J.L. Cardenas-Barrera, E Castillo-Guerra, B. Cao, S. A. Saleh, L. Chang; “Bottom-Up Load Forecasting with Markov-Based Error Reduction Method for Aggregated Domestic Electric Water Heaters”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 6401-6413, Nov. 2019.

[4]     S. A. Saleh, C. Richard, *X. F. St. Onge, J. Meng, and E. Castillo-Guerra, “Comparing the Performance of Protection Coordination and Digital Modular Protection for Grid-Connected Battery Storage Systems", IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, vol. 55, No. 3, 2019.

[5]     *A. M. Mezher, J. Cardenas-Barrera, *N. Rajedran, J. Meng, E. Castillo-Guerra, "Optimized Routers Positions for Large-Scale RF Mesh Networks based on Clustering Algorithms", Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier), vol. 93, 2019, (101901)

[6]     S. A. Saleh, *P. Pijnenburg, E. Castillo-Guerra, ``A Modified Bus-Split Method for Aggregating Distributed Generation Units", IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 1080-1091, 2018.

[7]     Saleh, S., Pijnenburg, *P., Castillo-Guerra E., Load Aggregation From Generation-Follows-Load to Load-Follows-Generation: Residential Loads, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 833-842, 2017.

[8]     Saleh, S., *Aljankawey S., Errouissi R., Castillo-Guerra E., “Extracting the Phase of Fault Currents: A New Approach for Identifying Arc Flash Faults, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 1226, April 2016.

[9]     *Sherwood N., Cardenas Barreras, J., Castillo-Guerra, E., Meng J., “SNR Dependent Temporal Structure Normalisation for Robust Mobile Speech Recognition,” Int. Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Systems, Vol. 16 (1), 2013.

[10] Saleh S. A., *Arbolaez D. M., Castillo-Guerra E., Meng J., “Newton-Phaselet Method for Calculating the Power Factor in Single Phase Systems” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG-00372-2012), 2012.

[11] *Amiri Farhani, M., Castillo-Guerra, E., Colpitts, G.B., “A Detailed Evaluation of the Correlation-Based Method Used for Estimation of the Brillouin Frequency Shift in BOTDA Sensors”, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 13 No. 12, pp. 4589-4598, 2013.

[12] *Amiri Farhani, M., Castillo-Guerra, E., Colpitts, G.B., “Acceleration of Measurements in BOTDA Sensors Using Adaptive Linear Prediction,” IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 13 (1), pp. 263-272, 2013.

[13] *Amiri Farhani, M., Castillo-Guerra, E., Colpitts, G.B., “Reduction in the Number of Averages Required in BOTDA Sensors Using Wavelet Denoising Techniques,” IEEE/OSA Journal of the Lightwave Technology, vol. 30(8), pp. 1134-1142, 2012.

[14] *Amiri Farhani, M., Castillo-Guerra, E., Colpitts, G.B., “Accurate Estimation of Brillouin Frequency Shift in BOTDA Sensors Using Cross Correlation,” Optics Letters, vol. 36(21), 2011.

[15] Mohsen Amiri Farhani, Castillo-Guerra, E., Colpitts, G.B., “Reduction in the Number of Averages Required in BOTDA Sensors Using Wavelet
Denoising Techniques,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 29, No. 20, 2011.

[16] Castillo-Guerra, E., “Acoustic study of dysarthria,” To appear in Special issue on “Decision Support in Medicine”, International Journal on Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 2009.

[17] Castillo-Guerra, E., *Ruiz, A., “Automatic modeling of acoustic perception of breathiness in pathological voices,” IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, No. 4, April 2009.

[18] Díaz-Amador R., Castillo-Guerra E., Cárdenas-Barreras J., “Adaptive re-estimation of speaker verification thresholds,” POMA , Vol. 4, 060002, 2008.

[19] Lee, W & Castillo-Guerra E., “Automatic assessment of perturbations produced by audible inspirations in pathological voices,” POMA, Vol. 4, 055002, 2008.

[20] Cardenas Barreras, J.L., Castillo-Guerra, E., Kizhanatham, A. & Reynolds, R., "Performance enhancements to TD speaker recognition system using novel speech segmentation techniques,” to appear in: Electronics, Automatics and Computing Engineering, CUAJE, Vol. I (2), 67-71, Cuba, 2007.

[21] Erik Scheme, Eduardo Castillo-Guerra , Kevin Englehart, Arvind Kizhanatham, “Practical Considerations for Real-time Implementation of Speech-based Gender Detection”, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 4225, J.F. Martínez-Trinidad et al. (Eds.): CIARP 2006, pp. 426 – 436, 2006.© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.

[22] Eduardo Castillo Guerra & Dennis F Lovely, "Suboptimal classifier for Dysarthria assessment”, Lecture Notes on Computer Science 2905 (Progress in Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis), IAPR, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, New York, November 2003, ISSN: 0302-9742, ISBN: 3-540-20590-X, pp. 314-321.

[23] Eduardo Castillo Guerra , "State of the Art and Trends in Dysarthria Classification", Monograph, Feijoo Eds., Santa Clara , Cuba , June 2003, ISBN: 959-250-094-0.

[24] Eduardo Castillo Guerra & Carlos A. Ferrer Riesgo. "Analysis of Monopith in pathological speech", Electronics, Automatics and Computing Engineering Journal, vol. XXII, No.2, p.p. 75-78, de 2001.

Conferences and workshops

[1]     S. A. Saleh, E. Castillo-Guerra, E. Ozkop, P. Pijnenburg, “Unit Commitment-Based Control of Bus-Split Aggregated Electric Water Heaters”, In Proc. of the 54-th IEEE IAS'19 Annual Meeting Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 2019.

[2]     *A. M. Mezher, *N. Rajendran, *P.E. Iturria Rivera, *C.L. Dueñas Santos, J. Meng, E. Castillo-Guerra, “Optimization of Key Devices Positions in Large-Scale RF Mesh Networks ” in Proc. 16th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN' 2019), Miami, Fl, submitted.

[3]     *A. M. Mezher, *P.E. Iturria Rivera, *C.L. Dueñas Santos, J. Cardenas-Barrera, J. Meng, E. Castillo-Guerra, “Minkowski Distance Order Effect on the Optimization of Key Devices Positions in Large-Scale RF Mesh Networks ” in Proc. 16th ACM Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Networls (PE-WASUN' 2019), Miami, Fl.

[4]     *A. M. Mezher, L. L. Cárdenas, J. Cardenas Barrera, E. Castillo-Guerra, J. Meng, M. Aguilar Igartua, “Improved Selection of the Best Forwarding Candidate in 3MRP for VANETs ” in Proc. 24th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2019), Barcelona, Spain.

[5]     *X. Gong, E. Castillo Guerra, J. L. Cardenas Barrera, B. Cao, L. Chang, and S. A. Saleh, ``A Generic Load Forecasting Method for Aggregated Thermostatically Controlled Loads Based on Convolutional Neural Networks", In Proc. of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE'19), Baltimore, MD, October 2019.

[6]     *J. Buckler, S. Ray, E. Castillo-Guerra, “Scalable Local Short-Term Energy Consumption Forecasting, 32nd Canadian Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Edmonton, Canada, May 2019.

[7]     S. A. Saleh, J. Wo, X. F. St. Onge, and E. Castillo-Guerra, “Estimating Frequency Changes Due to Smart Grid Functions”, In Proc. of the 55-th IEEE IAS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (ICPS 2019), Calgary, AB, May 2019.

[8]     *X. Gong, E. Castillo-Guerra, J. Cardena-Barrera, L. Chang B. Cao and S. A. Saleh, “Integrated Multi-Horizon Power and Energy Forecast Aggregated Electric Water Heaters”, 10th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Portland, OR, September 2018.

[9]     S. A. Saleh, C. Richard, *X. F. St. Onge, J. Meng, and E. Castillo-Guerra, “On the Comparison Between the Protection Coordination and Digital Modular Protection for Grid-Connected Battery Storage Systems”, 53-th IEEE IAS Annual Meeting Conference (IAS'18), Portland, OR, September 2018.

[10] S. A. Saleh, *P. Pijnenburg, E. Castillo-Guerra, L. Chang, “The Application of Bus-Split Method for Aggregating Distributed Generation Unit”, 52-nd IEEE IAS Annual Meeting Conference (IAS'17), Cincinati, OH, October 2017.

[11] S. A. Saleh, *A. A. Aldik, and E. Castillo-Guerra, “Distributed Energy Storage Unit-Based Active Demand Response for Residential Loads”, 52-nd IEEE IAS Annual Meeting Conference (IAS'17), Cincinati, OH, October 2017.

[12] Saleh S. A., *Pijnenburg P., and Castillo-Guerra E., “Load Aggregation From Generation Follows Load to Load Follows Generation”, 51-th IEEE IAS'16 Annual Meeting Conference, Portland, OR, October 2016.

[13] Errouissi R., Cardenas-Barrera J., Meng J., Castillo-Guerra E., *Gong X. and Chang L., “Bootstrap Prediction Interval Estimation for Wind Speed Forecasting,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress, Montreal, Sept. 2015.

[14] Saleh S. A., Aljankawey A. S., Errouissi R., and Castillo-Guerra E., ``Extracting the Phase of Fault Currents: A New Approach for Identifying Arc Flash Faults", In Proc. of the 51-th IEEE IAS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (ICPS 2015), Calgary, AB, May 2015.

[15] *Masouri A., *Cardenas Barreras, J., Castillo-Guerra, E., “A Study on Dimensions of Feature Space for Text-Independent Speaker Verification Systems” CCECE, Halifax, pp. 1464-1469, May 2015.

[16] S. A. Saleh, A. S. Aljankawey, R. Errouissi, and E. Castillo-Guerra “Experimental Performance of the Phase-Based Digital Protection Against Arc Flash Faults”, IEEE Industry Applications Society, 2015.

[17] *Cardenas Barreras, J., Castillo-Guerra, E., Meng J., Chang L., “A Neural Network Approach to Multi-Step-Ahead, Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting”, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December 2013.

[18] *Cardenas Barreras, J., Castillo-Guerra, E., Meng J., Chang L., “Multi-Step-Ahead, Short-Term Prediction of Wind Speed Using a Fusion Approach”, 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, November 2013.

[19] Saleh S., *Arbolaes D., Castillo-Guerra E., Meng J., “Real-Time Testing Of Newton-Phaselet Method for Calculating the Power Factor of Single Phase Loads”, IEEE Industry Applications Society, Florida, October 2013.

[20] Haque A.U., Errouisi R., Mandal P., Castillo-Guerra E., Meng J., Walsh T., “Real Time Implementation of Wind Power Forecasting,” Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) 28th Annual Conference, Toronto, Oct. 14-17, 2012.

[21] *Sherwood N., Cardenas Barreras J., Castillo-Guerra E., “Noise-Robust Speech Recognition Based on SNR Dependent Temporal Structure Normalisation,” 3rd Regional Bio-engineering Conference, Cuba, Dec. 2012.

[22]   *Cardenas Barreras J., Castillo-Guerra E., Meng J., “Noise-Robust Speech Recognition System Based on Power Spectral Subtraction”, International Conference Acoustics, Hal-00811318, France, April 2012.

[23] Ul Haque A., Erroussi R., Mandal P., Castillo-Guerra E., Meng J., *W.T. Walsh, “Real Time Implementation of Wind Power Forecasting,” Canada Wind Energy Association (CANWEA)’s Annual Conference and Exhibition, October 2012, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[24] Amiri Farahani M., Castillo-Guerra, E., Bruce G. Colpitts, “A New Algorithm for Implementation of Multiple Constant Multiplications”, Accepted to International Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, Proceedings of the DASIP, Tampere, Finland, November 2011.

[25] Losier T., Meng J. , Castillo-Guerra E. , Abhishek K., Perez Ramos Y., “Distribution Automation: Sensors and Condition Monitoring”, Poster accepted for SmartGrid Canada 2011: Creating Smart Grid Value for Canadian Consumers, October, 2011.

[26] Amiri Farahani Mohsen, Bruce G. Colpitts, Castillo-Guerra, E., “Reduction of Measurement Time in BOTDA Sensors Using Wavelet Shrinkage”, International Conference in Optical Fiber Sensors, Ottawa, 2011.

[27] Mohsen Amiri Farahani, Castillo-Guerra, E., Colpitts, B.G. “Efficient Implementation of FIR filters Based on a Novel Common Subexpression Elimination Algorithm”, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Calgary 2010.

[28] Díaz-Amador R., Castillo-Guerra E., Cárdenas-Barreras J., “Adaptive threshold estimation for voice authentication systems” 155 Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustics’08, Paris, July 2008.

[29] Lee, W & Castillo-Guerra E., “Measurement of audible inspirations in pathological voices”, 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustic, Acoustics’08, Paris, June 2008.

[30] Díaz-Amador R., Castillo-Guerra E., Cárdenas-Barreras J., “Adaptive management of speaker verification thresholds,” IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagara Fall, Ontario, 2008.

[31] Weyrich Morris, G. B., Castillo-Guerra, E., Sharaf, A. M. & Stevenson, M., " Optimal fault predictors for arc-type faults in radial and meshed alternating current distribution systems,”IEEE Electrical Power Conference on Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources, Montreal, Canada, 2007.

[32] Cárdenas Barreras, J., Castillo-Guerra, E., “Improvements to speaker verification by accurately segmented speech,” XIII Convention of Electrical Engineering, CIE 2007, Santa Clara, Cuba, 2007.

[33] Englehart, K., Castillo-Guerra, E., Kizhantham, A., Scheme, E., Reynolds, R., & Briggs K. “UNB Speaker Recognition System”, Speaker Recognition evaluation Workshop, SRE'05, June 7-8, Montreal, 2005.

[34] Castillo-Guerra, E., “Algorithm for automatic characterization of breathiness in pathological speech,”IFMBE Proceedings CLAEB 2004, III Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering", Vol. 5, 2004, João Pessoa, Brazil.

[35] Castillo-Guerra, E. & Dennis F Lovely, “Contributions to a modern approach to dysarthria classification,”25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Cancun, Mexico, August 2003.

[36] Castillo-Guerra, E., “Algorithms and programs for pathological dysarthric speech”, II International Congress in Logaoedics and Phoniatry, Havana, 2004.

[37] Peres, D.A., Castillo-Guerra, E., “Toward automatic judgments of audible inspirations pathological voices,” International Congress on Telecommunication, TELEC'2004, Santiago de Cuba, 14-16 July 2004.

[38] Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lovely, D.F. “Suboptimal classifier for dysarthria assessment,” 8th Ibero-American Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP'2003, Havana, November, 2003.

[39] Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lovely, D.F. “Acoustic analysis of abnormal rate in pathological dysarthric speech,” XI Symposium of Electrical Engineering, SIE'2003, Santa Clara, June, 2003.

[40] Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lovely, D.F. “Expert system for dysarthria classification,” V Congress of the Cuban Society of Biomedical Engineering, Havana, June, 2003.

[41] Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lovely, D.F. “Perspective of new techniques for dysarthria classification,” 10th Annual GSA Research Conference, Fredericton, NB, Canada, 2002.

[42] Castillo-Guerra, E., & Lorenzo Ginori J.V., “Experiences in the quantification of tremor in pathological speech,” Symposium of Electrical Engineering, SIE'2001, June, 2001.

[43] Castillo-Guerra, E., & Hernández-Díaz Huici M.E. “Automatic characterization of pathological speech: monoloudness,” II Latino-American Congress on Biomedical Engineering, Havana’2001, Havana, May, 2001.

[44] Castillo-Guerra, E., & *Ferrer Riesgo, C.A. “Characterization of pitch breaks in pathological speech,” II Latin-American Congress on Biomedical Engineering, Havana, May, 2001.

[45] Castillo-Guerra, E., &. *Méndez Rodríguez, N.L., “Methodology for obtaining a pathological dysarthric speech database,” VII International Symposium on Social Communication, Santiago de Cuba, January 2001.

[46] Castillo-Guerra, E., & Hernández-Díaz Huici M.E., “Prosody analysis in dysarthric pathological speech,” Social Communication Symposium, Santiago de Cuba, January 1999.

[47] Castillo-Guerra, E., & Ferrer Riesgo, C.A., “Studies on pitch-related parameters in pathological voices,” Social Communication Symposium, Santiago de Cuba, January 2001.

[48] Castillo-Guerra, E., “Adaptive equalization in telephone channel,” XIII Symposium of Electrical Engineering, SIE'1997, Santa Clara, 1997.

Patent Applications

[1]      Amiri Farahani Mohsen, Castillo-Guerra, E., Bruce G. Colpitts, “A Recurrent Adaptive Noise Canceller for Brillouin Signal Enhancement”, US Patent application serial number 61/504879, filled July 2011.

[2]     Amiri Farahani Mohsen, Castillo-Guerra, E., Bruce G. Colpitts, “A Correlation-based Method to Estimate the Position of the Peak in Noisy Lorentzian and Gaussian Curves”, US Patent application serial number 61/504850, filled July 2011.

Eduardo Castillo Guerra, Ph.D., M.Sc.