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Lu Chao

Associate Professor

Research Direction

power system intelligent control and dispatching, wide area measurement system in smart grid, applications of data mining and deep learning techniques, control of energy storage system

Room 2-101, West Main Building, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 10084, P. R. China

luchao@tsinghua.edu.cn

010-62782011

  • Biography
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  • Research Project
  • Publications
  • Social service

Biography

Chao Lu has been appointed Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University since 2009. He received the Bachelor's degree of Electrical Power Engineering with honors in 1999, and a Ph.D in Electrical Power Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2005. His research interests include complex system analysis and control in smart grid, wide area measurement system, applications of data mining and deep learning techniques and applications of energy storage system.

He has been the PI of more than 15 academic and industrial projects. He is the author of 1 books on power system dynamic identification and control, and has published more than 80 academic papers in the peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is an IEEE senior member, and Associate Editors of IET Generation Transmission and Distribution, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy System. He has been awarded ten academic and scientific awards.

Educational Background

1999-2005, Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

1995-1999, Bachelor of Eng., Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

Work Experience

Dec, 2009 - present, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

May, 2011 – Apr, 2012, Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI, USA

Aug, 2005 - Dec, 2009, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Honors and Awards

(1) Research Awards

First Prize of Technical Invention Award by the Ministry of Education in 2015

Third Prize of the Liaoning Science and Technology Award in 2013

Third Prize of Chinese Electric Power Technology Award in 2012

Second Prize of National Energy Science and Technology Award in 2011

Chinese CIGRE Youth Researcher in 2010

First Prize of Chinese Electric Power Technology Award in 2008

First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award by China Southern Power Grid in 2008.

First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award by Northeastern Power Grid in 2008.

Third Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award by Beijing City in 2008.

(2) Teaching Awards

First Prize of Tsinghua University Outstanding Class Teacher Award in 2008.

Teaching

(1)Undergraduates Courses

Signals and System, Springs of 2009, 2010 and 2013, >140 students, 48 course hours

Graduate Advising

(1)Graduated Students

Post-Doc: Miao Yu

Ph.D. : Jingbo He, Lili Li, Chao Wu, Junbo Zhang, Yi Zhao

M.S.: Guannan Bao, Hanchen Xu, Kangyi Li

(2)Current Graduate Students

Post-Doc: Yi Zhao

Ph.D. candidate: Junjie Lin

M.S. candidate: Yinfeng Wang

(1)Selected Academic Funds

2017 - 2020, Power System Transient Voltage Stability Assessment based on Massive Wide-area Time Series Data. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). (PI)

2012 - 2014, Power System Damping Control based on Data Driven Method. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). (PI)

2012 - 2015, Protection and Control of Complex Power System based on Wide-area Measurements. Ministry of Science and Technology. (co-PI)

2011 - 2014, Power System Dominant Dynamic System Identification and Wide-area Robust Adaptive Control based on Ambient Signals. NSFC. (co-PI)

2011 - 2013, Platform and Case Studies on the Internet of Things Supporting System. Ministry of Science and Technology.

2008 - 2010, Key Technologies of Power System Ambient Signals Identification, Key State Laboratory of Power System. (PI)

2006 - 2009, Researches on the Influences and Simulation of ±800kV HVDC transmission system, Ministry of Science and Technology.

Prof. Chao Lu has published 1 book, 14 international journal papers, 30 conference papers and 40 Chinese journal papers. About 11 patents have been authorized, and other 15 patents are in applications.

(1)Books

Chao Lu, Junbo Zhang, Yingduo Han. Power System Wide-area Dynamic Identification and Control, Science Press, Jan. 2015.

(2)Selected Journal Papers

Yi Zhao, Zhichang Yuan, Chao Lu*, Guoli Zhang, Xiu Li, Ying Chen. Improved model-free adaptive wide-area coordination damping controller for multiple-input–multiple-output power systems. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Oct. 2016, 10(13):3264-3275.

Yinfeng Wang, Chao Lu*, Lipeng Zhu, Guoli Zhang, Xiu Li, Ying Chen. Comprehensive modeling and parameter identification of wind farms based on wide-area measurement systems. Journal of Modern Power System and Clean Energy,2016,4(3):383-393.

Jingyi Zhang, Chao Lu, Jie Song. Dynamic Performance-Based Automatic Generation Control Dispatch with Frequency Sensitivity Identification. International Journal of Production Research, 2016, 54(21):6532-6547.

Yipeng Dong, Xiaorong Xie, Chao Lu, Baorong Zhou, Qirong Jiang. Local-area STVS control system. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Dec. 2016, 10(15):3901-3909.

Xinran Zhang, Chao Lu, Shichao Liu, Xiaoyu Wang. A Review on Wide Area Damping Control in Interconnected Power Systems. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016, 57:45-58. (IF: 5.901)

Xinran Zhang, Chao Lu, Xiaorong Xie, Joe Dong. Stability Analysis and Controller Design of a Wide-area Time-delay System Based on the Expectation Model Method. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Jan 2016, 7(1):520-529.

Lipeng Zhu, Chao Lu, Yuanzhang Sun, Time Series Shapelet Classification Based Online Short-term Voltage Stability Assessment, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Mar 2016, 31(2):1430-1439.

Chao Lu, Bonian Shi, Xiaochen Wu, Hongbin Sun. Recent Developments of PMU/WAMS in China, IEEE Power & Energy Magazine, Sep-Oct 2015, 13(5):60-71.

Chao Lu, Yi Zhao, Men Kun, Liang Tu. A Novel Wide Area Power System Stabilizer based on Model Free Adaptive Control, IET Control Theory and Applications, Aug. 2015, 9(13):1996-2007.

Junbo Zhang, Chao Lu, CY Chung, Yingduo Han. Online Re-Dispatching of Power Systems Based on Modal Sensitivity Identification. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Sep. 2015, 9(12):1352-1360.

Chao Lu, Xinran Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang, Yingduo Han. Mathematical Expectation Modeling of Wide-Area Controlled Power Systems with Stochastic Time Delay, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, May 2015, 6(3):1511-1519.

Junbo Zhang, CY Chung, Chao Lu, Kun Men, Liang Tu. A Novel Adaptive Wide Area PSS Based on Output-Only Modal Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Sep. 2015, 30(5):2633-2642.

Chao Lu, Hanchen Xu, Xin Pan, Jie Song. Optimal Sizing and Control of Battery Energy Storage System for Peak Load Shaving. Energies. 2014, 7(12):8396-8410.

Junbo Zhang, Chao Lu, Yingduo Han. MIMO Identification of Power System with Low Level Probing Tests: Applicability Comparison of Subspace Methods. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2013, 28(3):2907-2917.

Jingbo He, Chao Lu, Xiaochen Wu, et al. Design and experiment of wide area HVDC supplementary damping controller considering time delay in CSG. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, 2009, 3(1):17-25.

Chao Lu, Jennie Si, Xiaorong Xie. Direct heuristic dynamic programming for damping oscillation in a large power system. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, Aug. 2008, 38(4):1008-1013.

Xiaorong Xie, Chao Lu. Optimization and coordination of wide-area damping controls for enhancing the transfer capability of interconnected power systems. Electric Power System Research, Jun. 2008, 78:1099-1108.

(1) Professional Society Membership

Senior Member of IEEE

Member of CIGRE and the national committee of China

(2) Editorship in International Journals

Associate Editor & Guest Editor in Chief, IET Generation Transmission and Distribution

Associate Editor, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy System

Associate Editor, Foundations and Trends in Electric Energy Systems

(3) Technical Committee or special session of Conference

Member of Program Committee of IEEE ICNSC, IEEE TENCON

Chairs or Co-chairs of special sessions in IFAC Congress, IEEE CASE, IJCNN, IEEE APCCS