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Biography

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor
    September 2021 -
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Honorary Lecturer
    August 2023 -
    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    February 2019 - August 2021
    Power Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Supervisor: Prof. Gabriela Hug, SATW Member

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
    September 2014 - January 2019
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
    Supervisor: Prof. Chongqing Kang, IEEE Fellow

  • Visiting PhD Student
    March 2017 - April 2018
    Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, US
    Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Kirschen, IEEE Fellow

  • B.E., Electrical Engineering
    September 2010 - June 2014
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Membership

  • Senior Member, IEEE Power and Energy Society

  • Member, IET

  • Member, International Institute of Forecasters

Academic Services

Associate Editor/Editor

Special Section/Issue Editor

Professional Organization

  • Technical Committee Member (2025-), CIRED China National Committee

  • Technical Committee Member (2025-), CIGRE China National Committee

  • Vice-Chair (2025-), IEEE Customer Systems & Smart Buildings Subcommittee (Secretary: 2023-2025)

  • Chair (2025-), IEEE PES Working Group on Energy Forecasting and Analytics (Secretary: 2019-2022; Vice Chair: 2022-2025)

  • Chair (2025-), CIGRE Working Group on Power-to-heat Sector Integration

  • Member (2025-), IEEE PES Long Range Planning Subcommittee on Emerging Technologies

  • Member (2023-), IEEE PES Outstanding Student Scholarship Committee

  • Chair (2022-), IEEE Task Force on Data Sharing in Energy Systems

  • Secretary (2022-), CIGRE Working Group on Application of 5G Technology to Smart Grids

Competition Organization

  • Technical Committee Member, Hybrid Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition (2024)

  • Technical Committee Member, Day-Ahead Electricity Demand Forecasting: Post-COVID Paradigm (2022)

Conference Organization

  • Program Chair, The 8th International Conference on Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering (CEEPE) (2025)

  • Program Committee Member, AI for Safety-Critical Infrastructures Workshop, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) (2025)

  • Panel Session Chair, Data-driven Power Distribution System Operation, China International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CICED)(2024)

  • Hoster, The 6th Cloud Forum for Overseas Young Scholars, Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (2024)

  • Organizer, Al for Critical Infrastructure Workshop, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2024)

  • Panel Session Chair, Decision-centric Machine Learning for Power Systems Operation: Theory and Application, IEEE PES General Meeting (2024)

  • TPC Member, The Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) (2024)

  • Technical Symposia Chair, IEEE SmartGridComm, Data Analytics and Computation (2023)

  • Tutorial Instructor, IEEE PES General Meeting, Probabilistic Energy Forecasting: Methodologies, Implementation, and Applications (2023)

  • Panel Session Chair, Big Data for Enhanced Grid Performance with Considerations of Data Barriers and Privacy, IEEE PES General Meeting (2023)

  • Tutorial Instructor, Data Sharing & Cybersecurity in Smart Grids, CIRED (2023)

  • Tutorial Instructor, IEEE PES General Meeting, Probabilistic Energy Forecasting: Methodologies, Implementation, and Applications (2022)

  • Workshop Chair, IEEE SmartGridComm, Data Sharing in Smart Grids (2022)

  • Panel Session Chair, IEEE PES General Meeting, Flexibility Exploration and Aggregation from the Consumer Side (2022)

  • Panel Session Chair, IEEE PES General Meeting, Utilisation of probabilistic energy forecasts in power system operation (2022)

  • Panel Session Chair, IEEE PES General Meeting, Observability and Controllability of Power Distribution System in Big Data Era (2020)

  • Panel Session Chair, IEEE PES General Meeting, Smart Meter Data Analytics in Retail Market (2019)

  • Panel Session Chair, IEEE PES General Meeting, Probabilistic Energy Forecasting (2019)

Peer reviewer in Journals

  • Nature Communications

  • Proceedings of the IEEE

  • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

  • IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

  • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

  • IET Smart Grid

  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

  • International Journal of Forecasting

  • Journal of Forecasting

  • Applied Energy

  • Advances in Applied Energy

  • International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems

  • Renewable Energy

  • International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems

  • Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

  • CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems

  • Electric Power Systems Research

  • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology

  • Proceedings of the CSEE (Chinese Journal)

  • Power System Technology (Chinese Journal)

  • Automation of Electric Power Systems (Chinese Journal)