Tsinghua University-IET Academic Forum on Electrical Engineering--the 510th Doctoral Student Forum of Tsinghua University was successfully held in Sanbao Academic Base of Tsinghua University in Beijing from 11 to 13 May. More than 140 teachers and doctoral students in the direction of electrical engineering from the universities such as Tsinghua University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiaotong University, as well as the China Electric Power Research Institute and the State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company, attended the Forum.

This Forum, themed the “Smarter and Greener Energy Internet", invites PhD students from Tsinghua University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and China Electric Power Research Institute to attend. It consists of one main venue and three sub-venues, including keynote report, doctoral oral report and poster presentation. The topics include power system analysis, new energy power generation, electric vehicles, high voltage technology, new power electronics technology and new electrical technology. A total of 125 papers and posters were displayed in this Forum, and 50 doctoral students gave oral presentations. Two new special sessions were set for papers to discuss the application of integrated energy system and artificial intelligence in power industry.

The report meeting was held on the morning of May 12, and Mr. Zhang Ning, Chairman of the research team of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, presided over the main report meeting; Mr. Zheng Zedong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering, briefly introduced the development of the doctoral student forum and encouraged students to exchange widely and learn from each other; Ms. Zhang Wan, client manager of IET in China, and Mr. Qiao Baoyu, editor of the Proceedings of the CSEE as the sponsors, said that editor departments of IET journals and Series Journals of the China Electric Power Research Institute have maintained good cooperation with the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University for a long time and will continue to support the Doctoral Student Forum of the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University.

In the main part of the keynote reports, Daniel Kirschen, Professor of Washington University, with the theme of "Distributed Energy Grid and Energy Storage Dielectric Material", analyzed the development status of distributed energy and the application of energy storage dielectric materials. Yi Chen-yi, Associate Professor of Tsinghua University, introduced the latest research progress of solar cells with the theme of "High Efficiency and Low Cost Dye Sensitization and Perovskite Solar Cells". Professor Yang Gan from the British Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), with the theme of "Preparing a Great Submission Package: How to make your article stand out and impress without overturning the editor", described the writing problems that graduate students need to pay attention to when submitting to English magazines. Wang Jianxiao, a doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, as a representative of doctoral students, introduced the potential application of shared economy in power system with the theme of "Sharing Economy in Smart Grid: A Potential Pathway to Sustainability".

In the two new special sessions of the Forum, Ms. Zhang Ning and Ms. Wei Huai of the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University introduced the related research progress of integrated energy system, and shared their thoughts on integrated energy system research. Wang Yi and Chen Kunjin, doctoral candidates of Department of Electrical Engineering, introduced the large data research progress of intelligent distribution and the application of in-depth learning in power system. During the two special discussion sessions, the students had a heated discussion on the issues of interest.

A total of 50 doctoral students participated in the oral reports in the three sub-venues. They demonstrated their research results by giving speeches in Chinese or English. The sub-venue reports set up questioning links, which provided a platform for teachers and doctoral students to communicate in depth, and achieved the goal of colliding ideas, broadening their horizons and inspiring progress. In addition, the doctoral academic forum of the Department of Electrical Engineering adopted the mechanism of participating by academic papers. All doctoral students are required to submit an unpublished or published paper. At the same time, the forum provided poster display and voting on the paper posters. Teachers and doctoral students participating in the forum can vote and evaluate the paper posters they are interested in. The poster display of the papers provides doctoral students with the opportunity to show their scientific research achievements to the faculty and students. It also provides a platform for teachers and doctoral students to communicate and collide in cross-domain thinking, and activates the academic exchange atmosphere of the Doctoral Student Forum of the Department of Electrical Engineering. After the doctoral student forum, the posters of the Doctoral Forum will be on display in the West Main Building for a week.

This Doctoral Student Forum has received strong support from the British Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Journal Center of the CSEE in terms of funding and submission channels. The unpublished English papers of this doctoral student forum can be recommended to the Open Access--Journal of Engineering published by IET after being approved by the Academic Committee of this Forum.