Staff Profile

Education/working background:

May 2024 - now: NUAcT research fellow, Newcastle University

Oct 2023 - Apr 2024: Senior power system researcher, Energy Institute, University College Dublin (Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Keane)

Jun 2022 - Sep 2023: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau (Supervisor: Prof. Yonghua Song)

Aug 2021 - May 2022: Research Engineer in Urban Energy Strategic Planning, State Grid (Suzhou) City&Energy Research Institute

Sep 2016 - Jun 2021: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University (Supervisor: Prof. Yi Ding)

Sep 2012 - Jun 2016: B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University

More information can be found on the Personal Website and Google Scholar.

My research interests mainly focus on addressing the reliability challenges during the decarbonization of energy systems. More specifically, including modelling, optimization, and evaluation of hydrogen-integrated energy systems.

Current research funding:

• Hydrogen integration into energy systems, NUAcT fellowship, ￡ 50k startup, 2024-2029, PI
• Carbon mitigation potential of building clusters in energy-receiving cities considering friendly interaction with power systems, the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China, 100k RMB, 2024-2027. PI.
• Operational reliability evaluation of multi-source and heterogeneous urban multi-energy systems, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China, 200k RMB, 2022-2025. PI.
• Research on key technologies for regulating flexible resources considering the deep integration of power-communication networks, the National Natural Science Foundation of Macao, 1.53m MOP, 2023-2025. Co-PI.

Other project experiences:

• Resilience quantification and enhancement of energy system operations with hydrogen integration, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships, ~￡ 200k, 2024-2026 (early terminated).
• Research on new power system construction in typical countries such as the UK and Germany, State Grid Jiangsu, 300k RMB, 2022-2023, PI. 
• Operational reliability of integrated energy systems considering demand side flexibility and flow dynamics, Zhejiang University, 20k RMB, 2018-2021, PI.
• Demonstration of the distributed energy system with multi-energy complementary integration and optimization, the National Key R&D Program of China, 20.31m RMB, 2017-2021.
• Regional multi-energy system planning and operation based on digital twin technology, China Southern Power Grid R&D project, 1.88m RMB, 2020-2023.
• Research and application of regional multi-energy supply systems based on a unified energy flow model, State Grid, 0.45m RMB, 2017-2019.
• Research and application for interactive trading of clean energy, electricity load, and energy storage, State Grid, 3.77m RMB, 2020-2021.
• Research on intelligent interactive energy systems with bilateral interaction of supply and demand in electricity market environment, State Grid Zhejiang, 0.60m RMB, 2017-2018.
• Data-driven multi-energy supply and demand experiment and simulation platform, Zhejiang University, 1.5m RMB, 2016-2018.

Honours:

• Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow
• NUAcT research fellow
• Outstanding paper at the 2022 Integrated Intelligent Energy Conference
• Zhejiang Electric Power Science and Technology Progress Award
• Award of Honor for graduate
• First Prize for Outstanding Papers at the Academic Annual Meeting of the Energy Internet Special Committee of the Society of Electrical Engineering
• Academic Rising Star of Zhejiang University Doctoral Student

Professional membership and academic services:

• Guest editors of Special issues in Engineering Report, Frontiers in Energy Research, Integrated Intelligent Energy, and Journal of Northeast Electric Power University
• Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Power System, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Applied Energy, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Journal of Modern Power Systems, CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, Electric Power Systems Research, etc.
• Director of “IEEE PES Electric Vehicle Satellite Committee-China” 
• Session Chair of 2022 IEEE ICPS Asia
• Consultant for Suzhou and Zhejiang Governments for NetZero transitions.

Patents:

• Method for programming energy storage devices in power-gas coupling system based on reliability constraints. US11562445B2.
• A reliability evaluation method of integrated electricity and gas systems based on integrated optimal power flow. CN201910033159.6.
• An improving method for the operational reliability of the multi-energy device. CN201910621448.8.
• A demand response method for the multi-energy device. CN201811202661.7.
• A handling approach for integrated electricity-heat power flow. CN201811639858.7.
• A reliability evaluation method of the energy system containing multiple combined heat and power plants. CN201811582654.4.
• A planning method of storage devices in integrated electricity and gas systems considering reliability constraints. CN202011115587.2.
• An analytical operational reliability evaluation method for integrated electricity and gas systems. CN202011115733.1.
• A configuration method of combined heat and power plants considering electricity-heat demand response. CN201910401970.5.
• A multi-energy load prediction method based on energy consumption state transitions. CN202110461232.7.

Talks:

• Offshore Wind + Green Hydrogen——Make Ireland Green Again, University of Macau, Feb 2024.
• Enhancing Offshore Wind Integration by Integrated Electricity and Gas Systems With Hydrogen Blending, University College Dublin, Feb 2024.
• Modelling, optimization, and reliability evaluation of hydrogen blended energy systems, University of Macau, Oct 2023.
• Reliability issues during the decarbonization of energy systems – the case of hydrogen blended electricity and gas systems. Young scholar conference at Beijing Jiaotong University. 2023.2.
• Optimal Energy Flow in Integrated Electricity and Gas Systems With Injection of Alternative Gas. University of Macau, Dec 2022.
• Operational Risk for Integrated Power and Gas Systems Considering Varying Hydrogen Concentrations With High Penetration of Wind. 2023 IEEE IAS Global Conference on Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Technologies (GlobConHT). 2023.3.
• Steady-State Optimal Power Flow in Integrated Electricity and Gas Transmission Systems with Hydrogen Injections. 2022 IEEE/IAS Industrial and Commercial Power System Asia (I&CPS Asia). 2022.7.
• Study on Carbon Emission and Impact Factor based on LMDI method: the Case of Jiangsu. 2021 International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON). 2021.12.
• Operational reliability evaluation of distributed multi-energy systems considering optimal control of energy storages. 2021 IEEE/IAS Industrial and Commercial Power System Asia (I&CPS Asia). 2021.7.
• Bidding and Offering Models in Generation-Grid-Load-Storage Transactions Based on Flexible Order Types. 2021 6th Asia Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering (ACPEE). 2021.4.
• Contingency Management in Integrated Electricity and Gas Systems Considering Gas Flow Dynamics. 2020 Applied Energy Symposium: low carbon cities& urban energy systems (CUE). 2020.10.
• A bi-Level equivalent model of scheduling an energy hub to provide operating reserve for power systems. 2020 Tsinghua-HUST-IET Electrical Engineering Academic Forum. 2020.5.
• Optimal Sizing and Asset Utilization Efficiency Analysis of the Distributed Multi-Energy System Considering the Energy. Academic annual conference of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE). 2019.8.
• Cooperation of demand response and traditional power generations for providing spinning reserve. 2017 International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE). 2017.8.

Course modules:

• Power System Operation and Control at Zhejiang University
• Introduction to the Internet of Things at the University of Macau

Supervisory:

• Co-supervisory for three PhD students at the University of Macau