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Zhengmao Li

Assistant Professor

T410 Dept. Electrical Engineering and Automation

Aalto University

10 Bd Maarintie 8 02150 Espoo Finland

zhengmao.li@aalto.fi

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Bio

    Dr. Li received a Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2020. During 2019-2021, he was a Research Fellow with the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA under IEEE Fellow, Prof. Wu Lei. From 2021-2023, he was a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University and Singapore ETH Center under IEEE Fellow, Prof. Wang Peng and Prof. Xu Yan. From April. 2023, Dr. Li joined Aalto University as an Assistant Professor.
    Till Now, he has published 63 journal papers, 14 conference papers, 2 books, and 2 patents. Among them, there are 20 first/corresponding-authored journal papers of which one co-first author nature series journal, 17 are top-tier journals, and 7 first/co-authored conference papers. He got Google Scholar citations 3939 times (h index 33, i10 index: 49) and in total 14 highly cited research papers (11 of which are first-authored journal papers, TOP 1%) and 5 hot paper (TOP 0.1%). One paper is regarded as pioneering research on the IEEE Innovation Spotlight website. In 2023, he was selected into the World’s Top 2% of Scientists in the subfield of “Energy”. In 2024, he was selected into the World’s Top 0.5% of Scientists in ScholarGPS. In 2025, one of his first author paper won the best paper award among 2000+ papers from IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He won the best reviewer of the journals IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy(twice), CSEE JPES, and IET Economic Conversion Management, and the best editorial award from IET ECE.
    For funding application, as the lead PI, he got the start-up funding from Aalto Univeristy as the assistant professor; Unite seed funding from Aalto to TUM Gemeny; Unite Seed funding from Finland to USA; Unite seed funding for Research & PhD”, entitled "Physics-Informed AI for Configuration of Hydrogen Infrastructure in Energy Systems (PAIR-H2); Visiting professorships at TU Darmstadt.
    Dr. Li serves as an associate editor and guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Industry Application, IEEE Access, Scientific Reports, Journal of Energy Storage, IET Renewable Power Generation, Heliyon (SCI Journal under cell), Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems, Frontiers in Energy Research, and IET Economic Conversion Management journals. He has successfully applied for more than 10 special issues and conference topics.
    Besides, he won the Forbes TOP 100 elites award in 2024; leads the AI+Energy sector in Finland and serve as the ELLIS member. He also leads the wechat official account and promote the energy research to all Chinese societies. He formed the company and collaborate with researchers from all over the world.

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