In January 2020, Imperial College London formally hired Professor Kang Chongqing of EEA, Tsinghua University as a visiting professor for a tenure of three years. During the tenure, he will mainly rely on the Energy Future Lab in the Faculty of Engineering of the Imperial College London to carry out teaching, academic reports, visits and exchanges, cooperative research, joint training of doctoral students, and so on. It is known that with the honorary academic title conferred by the Imperial College, the visiting professor will mainly focus on teaching and scientific research and carry out mutually beneficial cooperation with relevant departments of the Imperial College, and also participate in the title promotion assessment for teachers in the Imperial College London.

In 2019, Professor Kang Chongqing and Professor Gorenzibeck (Goran Strbac) of Imperial College applied for and won the project "Sustainable Development of Urban Energy System: Policy Design, Operation Optimization and Market Coordination" of the China-EU International Cooperative Research Program (NSFC-JPI_UE) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and set up the "Tsinghua University - Imperial College Intelligent Power and Energy System Joint Research Center". After being hired, Professor Kang Chongqing will further strengthen and deepen the all-round cooperation between Tsinghua University and Imperial College in the field of electric power and energy.

Imperial College is a world-class university with an international reputation for teaching and scientific research. Imperial College ranked ninth in the QS ranking of global universities in 2020. Because of its disciplinary advantages, Imperial College ranks first in Europe among the most innovative universities in the world as published by Reuters. The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Imperial College London, engaged in the modeling and analysis of power system operation, planning, safety and economy, and the application of power electronic technology in power system, etc, ranked 5th in the QS discipline ranking in 2018 and 10th in THE discipline ranking, which proves its remarkable academic reputation in the world.

Kang Chongqing, Professor and Dean of EEA of Tsinghua University, Director of Energy Internet Innovation Research Institute, and Director of Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute; mainly engaged in the research on power system planning, power system dispatching and operation, renewable energy, low-carbon power technology, and energy Internet, winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and leader of scientific and technological innovation in the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow. Served as Deputy Secretary-General of Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, Chairman of the Education and Youth Committee, Vice Chairman of the International Cooperation Committee, and Vice Director of Beijing Society of Electrical Engineering. The editor-in-chief of International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems of the international journal SCI and a member of the editorial board for many domestic and foreign journals. A member of the SC C1 Strategic Advisory Committee of CIGRE (Conference International des Grands Reseaux Electriques), the convener of the C1.39 working Group, and the chairman of the Special Committee on Power system Development and Economics (C1) of the CIGRE China National Committee, a member of the IEEE PES long-term Strategy Committee, and a member of IEEE PES Fellow Nomination Resource Committee. Published 5 Chinese and English monographs and more than 300 papers, including more than 100 on IEEE Transactions.