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

• Aalto-IIT Madras visiting funding applications (applied)  2023-2024
• Academic research fellowship project (applied)  2024-2028
• Proposal TKH mobility funding project (applied)  2024-2025
• Proposal: Optimal energy management of Green hydrogen microgrid with ships under The Research Council of Finland AKA Mobility calls for collaboration with South China University of Technology (SCUT), China, Teams of Prof. Zhu Jizhong  2023-2025
• Proposal:Optimal energy management of offshore microgrid with ships under Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore (MPA)  2023-2025
• Proposal:Recovery of Cyber-Physical System from Disasters and Attacks under NTU and ETH  2021-2023
• Proposal:Supporting Sustainable Evolution of Electrical Energy Systems via Closed Loop Consumer Behavior and Market System in the USA  2020-2022
• Proposal:Data based resilience of multi-energy Microgrid (DR-MEMG), Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship 2022  2023-2024
• Proposal: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
• Proposal: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
• Proposal:A holistic building-microgrid energy management (BMEM) solution with multi-energy demand response and automated virtual audit in Singapore (Pending)  2020-2021

Grant Applications

• Aalto startup funding, Aalto University  PI: Li Zhengmao  2023
• 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 “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
• 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- Hot paper (AE paper-market) 2024
• 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
• Best reviewer award for CSEE JPES Feb 2023
• Best reviewer award for CSEE JPES Feb 2022
• 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 guest lecture: “Elements of hydrogen system and storage,” China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China, Jul. 2024
• Invited talk: “Reliable and Economic operation of multi-energy systems,” North China Electric Power University, Beijing China, May. 2024
• Invited talk: “Smart operation of multi-energy systems in both land and mobile form,” North China University of Technology, Beijing, China, Dec. 2023
• Invited guest lecture: “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

Industrial Activties

• Workshop with ABB for the research day 2024
• Workshop with KONE for a research day 2024
• Electricity Power Research Institute, Shandong Province Sep.2014-Jun.2015
• State Grid Corporation, Shandong Province Aug.2014-Sep.2014