Awards

  • Amazon Research Award, Amazon Science, Amazon, Seattle, WA, Jan 2023

  • Best Papers, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Jul 2022

  • YIP Finalist Award with the Same YIP Award ($450K), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Jan 2022

  • Service Award, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU, Jan 2022

  • Sun Award, Demonstrating Leadership, Office of Research & Sponsored Projects Administration, ASU, Sep 2021

  • NSF Carrer Award, National Science Foundation, Jan 2021

  • IEEE Senior Member, IEEE, Nov 2020

  • Merit Award for Outstanding Service as the Chair of Big Data Webinar Task Force, Analytic Methods for Power Systems (AMPS) Committee, IEEE Power and Energy Society, Aug 2020

  • Best Papers, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Aug 2020

  • Centennial Award, Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA), ASU: Link, Apr 2020

  • Outstanding IEEE Young Professional Award, IEEE Phoenix Section, Mar 2020

  • Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate School, ASU: Link, Feb 2020

  • IEEE Foundation Recognition on the Service of PES Scholarship Plus Scholar Selection Committee, IEEE Foundation, 2019

  • Best (Excellent) Paper Award, IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference, Beijing, 2019

  • Best Paper (Presentation) Award (Ranking First of 203 Papers), IEEE North American Power Symposium, Wichita, KS, 2019

  • 2nd Place in Accuracy and 1st Place in Speed, RTE International Competition on "Learning to Run a Power Network", TeamName: Learning_RL, Method: Reinforcement Learning (Stationary MDP for Convergence + Action Space Pruning + Reduce State Space for Q-Learning), Paris, France, 2019

  • Winner Award, Chunhui Cup in the International Competition on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Area: Renewable Integration, Guangzhou, 2018

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration, Beijing, 2017

  • Best Paper Award (Ranking First), IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, Beijing, 2016

  • Fellowship, TomKat Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2015

  • Best Papers, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, National Harbor, MD, 2014

  • Finalist, Best Poster/Position Paper Finalist, NSF Young Professional Workshop on Exploring New Frontiers in Cyber-Physical Systems, Washington D.C., 2014

  • Ranking First in all Papers, IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Vancouver, Canada, 2013

  • Fellowship, ABB Fellowship in recognition of the work on Power System State Estimation, ABB Inc., USA, 2013

  • Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Taiwan, 2012

  • Fellowship, Dean's Graduate Fellowship, The Nicholas Minnici, E 1959, CMU, 2010

  • Fellowship, China Instruments and Control Society Fellowship, 1 out of 300, China, 2005

  • Scholarship, Rockwell Automation Scholarship, top 1%, USA, 2005

  • Extremely Outstanding Academic Performance, top 1%, HUST, 2005

  • Champion, Spaceflight Cup (Embedded System Design), HUST, 2005

Services

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Dec 2021

  • Co-Chair, Data Analytics and Computation Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids, Oct 2022

  • Consortium Chair Comprehensive Cybersecurity Technology for Critical Power Infrastructure AI-Based Centralized Defense and Edge Resilience, Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation, 2021-Now

  • Subcommittee Secretary IEEE PES Big Data & Analytics Subcommittee, Analytic Methods for Power Systems (AMPS) Committee, IEEE Power and Energy Society, 2021-Now

  • Member, Technical Committee Program, The ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy), 2022

  • Co-Chair on Publication and Chair on Treasure and Website, IEEE North American Power Symposium, 2020

  • Permanent Member by Invitation, Graduate College Faculty Mentor Academy, Graduate School, ASU, 2020

  • Chair, Tutorials, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), 2020

  • Tutorial Speaker, Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics in Smart Grid, IEEE PES General Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2020

  • Chair, Conference Committee, IEEE Phoenix Section, 2019 - Now

  • Founding Taskforce Chair, Webinar Taskforce, IEEE PES Task Force on Big Data Applications on Power Distribution Systems, 2017-Now

  • Chair, Big Data and Blockchain Penal, IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference, Beijing, Nov 21-23, 2019

  • Special Representative of ASU Fulton Schools of Engineering, New 3+2 program (BS+MS) between ASU and Partner Universities, Wuhan, Nov, 2019

  • Committee Member, Region Scholarship Plus Committee, 2018 - Now

  • Member, New Faculty Advisory Committee, 2019

  • Faculty Member, U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Energy, 2018-2019

  • Proctor, Master Comprehensive Exam, Feb 15, 2019

  • Member, Faculty Search Committee, 2018

  • Guest Lecture, FREEDM, National Science Foundation, Summer 2018

  • Guest Lecture, IEEE PES Phoenix Student Chapter, Summer 2018

  • Book Review, CRC Press, LLC.

  • Technical Program Committee, Symposium on Information Processing and Optimization for Smart Grids, IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2017

  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Smart Grid, Sustainable Energy, Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Information Theory, Automation Science and Engineering, Vehicular Technology, Transactions on Automatic Control (TACON), IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, 2008-Now