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Peter Yuen

 

Specialisation

Tropical storm tracking and wind probability.

Research interests

Climate and mathematical modelling. Tropical storm tracking and probabilistic forecasting. Storm windfield modelling. Storm data compression.

Telephone

+44 (0)1483 204163

Fax

+44 (0)1483 278312
Email pcy@mssl.ucl.ac.uk

Short curriculum vitae

Peter Yuen is a Research Fellow in the Department of Space and Climate Physics at University College London. Peter joined the Tropical Storm Risk consortium in August 2004 and is working on innovative developments to TSR's award-winning Tropical Storm Tracker. Previously he worked on a number of large industry research projects in the Far East and the UK . Peter has a PhD in computer science, a PGCE in mathematics from Cambridge University , several publications in leading academic journals and many years experience of IT, software engineering, project management and teaching.

Recent publications

Estimation of error in curvature computation on multi-scale free-form surfaces. Journal of Computer Vision, volume 48, number 2, pages 131-149, 2002.

Curvature computation on free-form 3-D meshes at multiple scales. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, volume 82, pages 1-22, 2001.

Multi-scale free-form 3D object recognition using 3D models. Image and Vision Computing, volume 19, number 5, pages 271-281, 2001.

Curvature and torsion feature extraction from free-form 3-D meshes at multiple scales. IEE Proceedings Vision, Image and Signal Processing, volume 147, number 5, pages 454-462, October 2000.

Free-form 3-D object recognition at multiple scales. Proceedings of the Eleventh British Machine Vision Conference, pages 446-455, September 2000.

Recovery of curvature and torsion features from free-form 3-D meshes at multiple scales. Proceedings Asian Conference on Computer Vision, pages 1070-1075, 2000.

 > Chinese Embassy visit to Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre
 > Nature papers: Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma
 > Alert 23
 > UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Are We On Target?
 > Workshop: UK Flood: Recent Lessons; Future Prospects
 >  Hazard & Risk Science Review 2007

education and training
 >  Natural Hazards for Insurers Certificate Course
 >  Masters in Geophysical Hazards
 >  BUHRC Workshops

 >  Tropical Cyclones
 >  UK & European Weather
 >  North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)

 >  BUHRC Alert
 > Cat Reports
 > Hazard & Risk Science Reviews
 >  Issues in Risk Science
 >  Working Papers in Disaster Studies & Management
 >  Technical Papers
 >  Miscellaneous Papers
 >  Journal Papers
 >  Articles
 >  Books
 >  Presentations
 >  PhD Abstracts