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.