Research Interests

His research topics include but not limited to the following aspects:

• Hydrogen-based green energy transition for future energy systems.
• Planning and operation of integrated-energy systems: such as (islanded/grid-connected) microgrids, ships, seaports, smart buildings, etc., with integrated power, thermal, and gas networks.
• Tackling diverse uncertainties: such as those from renewable energies, outdoor temperature, gas prices, and ship swinging with the multi-stage (distributional) robust/stochastic optimization methods in multi-energy systems.
• Resilience enhancement of integrated-energy systems with demand response scheme and heterogeneous transportable energy storage.
• Advanced algorithms development and application in multi-energy operations such as approximate dynamic programming, deep reinforcement learning, machine learning, etc.

Research Projects

Funding Applications with Proposals

• Optimal energy management of offshore microgrid with ships under Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) 2023-2025
• Recovery of Cyber-Physical System from Disasters and Attacks under NTU and ETH 2021-2023
• Supporting Sustainable Evolution of Electrical Energy Systems via Closed Loop Consumer Behavior and Market System in the USA 2020-2022
• Data based resilience of multi-energy Microgrid (DR-MEMG), Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship 2022 2023-2024
• Optimal smart online resilient planning and operation of various multi-energy systems under heterogeneous uncertainties and contingencies. Lee Kuan Yew Postd oct oral Fellowship (pending) 2021-2023
• How Can We Activate the Flexibility Market in Singapore?-A City-scale Analys is for Demand side Flexibility Considering the High Penetration of PV Generation and EV Charging Demand in Singapore (Pending) 2020-2021

Grant Applications

• Travel Grant for internal conference  $400, MDPI office  2023
• Travel Grant for internal conference  $400, MDPI office  2022

Participated Project and Research Experience

• Methods for resilience assessment and capacity expansion of power system under State Grid Corporation of China  Research consultant  Jan. 2022-now
• Recovery of Cyber-Physical System from Disasters and Attacks under NTU and ETH project  Research fellow  April. 2021-now
• Supporting Sustainable Evolution of Electrical Energy Systems via Closed-Loop Consumer Behavior and Market System under the National Science Foundation in the USA  Participator/research fellow  Nov. 2019-Apr. 2021
• Recovery of Cyber-Physical System from Disasters and AttackSingapore Ministry of Education under Academic Research Fund Tier-1 project  Participator  April. 2016-2019
• Powering the City project, Future Cities Lab Global, Singapore-ETH Centre  2022
• Optimal operation, design, and simulation of power systems under the project Science and Technology Foundation for Middle-aged and Young Scientists of Shandong Province  Participator  Sep. 2013- Jun. 2016

Professionals

Editorial & Reviewer Experiences

• Worshop Chair for “2024 ADVANCE Workshop - Assembling Digital Solutions for Inclusive and Net-Zero Transition of Community Energy Systems”  May.2024
• Guest editor for International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems May.2024
• Guest editor for “Energies”, “Smart cities”, “Electricity”, “Forecating” and “Processes”  May-2024
• Guest editor for “Frontiers in Energy Research”  May.2024
• Guest editor for Journal of Energy Storage  Mar.2024
• Associate Editor in Heliyon journal  Feb.2024
• Workshop Chair of the IEEE SmartGridComm'24 Workshop  Sep.2024
• Topical Advisory Panel member for MDPI office  Nov.-2023
• Guest editor for “IET Energy Conversion and Economics”  Nov.-2023
• Guest editor for “IET Renewable Power Generation”  Oct.-2023
• Organizing committee for BUILDSIM NORDIC 2024  Oct.2023
• Best reviewer award for CSEE JPES  Feb 2023
• Best reviewer award for CSEE JPES  Feb 2022
• Chairs at the IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration  Oct.2023
• Assistant editor for the official WeChat account of Applied Energy  Apr.2023
• TPC of the IEEE SmartGridComm'23 Workshop  Oct.2023
• Task chair of IEEE GCCE 2023 (IEEE 12th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE))  Oct.2023
• Guest editor for “IET Smart Grid”  Jul.-2023
• Guest editor for “Frontiers in Eneegry research”  Aug.2023
• Guest editor for “Electronics”  Aug.2023
• Guest editor for “IET Generation Transmission & Distribution”  Sep.2023
• Guest editor for “Energies”, “Resources”, “Electricity”, “Electronics” and “Processes”  Jan-2023
• Associate editor for “Frontiers in energy research”  Aug 2022
• Guest editor for “IET Energy Conversion and Economics”  Sep 2022
• Guest editor for “Energies”  Feb-2022
• Guest editor for “Energies”, “Resources”, “Electricity” and “Sustainability”  Feb-2022
• Editor for “Journal of Modern Industry and Manufacturing”  Aug-2021
• Editor for “World Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering”  Jun-2021
• Associate editor and review editor for “Frontiers In Electronics”  Aug-2020
• 800+ papers reviewed for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, IEEE Access, Applied Energy, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, et al.

International Academic Activities

• Workshops for Aalto Hydrogen Center- Sep.2023
• Workshops for Aalto Hydrogen Breakfast Series- Oct.2023
• Nordic Roadmap Workshop- Oct.2023
• Guest editor for the special session in “IEEE ICEI 2023” in Shenyang China”- 20-22 Nov 2023.
• Guest editor for special session in “2023 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (IEEE ETFG 2023)” “Multi-Energy Systems to Facilitate Low-Carbon Energy Transition”- 3-6 Dec 2023
• Volunteer for the 11th International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT-Asia) 2022
• Technical Program Committee member of 4th Annual International Conference on Energy Development and Environmental Protection [EDEP 2021] Jul-2021
• Attended the Distinguished Lecture on the “Dynamic Estimation and Control of Power System” by Prof Bikash Pal at Imperial College London 2020
• Attended the webinar "2021 Top 5 Papers of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid” 2022
• Workshop for future resilience project midterm review with researchers from NTU, NUS, ETH, and all kinds of industrial companies
• IEEE PES student member

International Academic Awards

• Web of Science- highly cited paper (TSE paper) 2024
• Associate Editor for IET Renewable Power Generation 2024
• Associate Editor for PLUS one 2024
• Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 2024
• Associate Editor for IEEE Access 2024
• Associate Editor for Heliyon 2024
• Best reviewer award for CSEE JPES 2024
• Best Editor Award for IET ECE 2024
• Best Reviewer Award for IET ECE 2024
• Best Reviewer Award for Global Energy Interconnection 2024
• Web of Science- highly cited paper (AE paper) 2024
• Best Reviewer Award for IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 2023
• Best Reviewer Award for IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 2023
• Best Reviewer Award for MPCE 2023
• World top 2% scientists-2022 (Rank: 173359) 2023
• Web of Science- highly cited paper (TSG paper) 2023
• Web of Science- highly cited paper (TII paper) 2023
• The ECE premium awards Feb-2023
• Applied Energy 2018 “Highly Cited Research Paper” Award Oct-2020
• Web of Science- highly cited paper 2021
• Web of Science- highly cited paper 2019
• The ECE premium awards Feb-2021
• Chinese government award for Outstanding self-finance students abroad Aug-2021
• Shortlisted candidate for Wallenberg - NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows Jan-2020
• The 2nd prize of Outstanding Practice Achievement for provincial professional degree postgraduates 2016

Invited Talk and Presentation

• Invited talk: “Optimization of Microgrid,” Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Sep. 2023
• Invited talk: “Optimal Operation of Mobile and land-based Multi-energy Microgrid,” Southeast University, Nanjing China, May. 2023
• Invited talk: “Optimal Smart Operation of Ship Energy Systems,” China Three Gorges University, Yi Chang, China, Sep. 2021
• “Smart operation of the multi-energy system via reinforcement learning”, Shanghai Insitute of Technology, Shanghai, 2022
• Presentation at ISGT-Asia 2022, Singapore 2022
• Invited talk for iSPEC conference Nov-2020
• 2019 IEEE/IAS 55th Industrial & Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference, CA. Oral presentation
• 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, USA. Poster presentation