Shunbo Lei
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Shunbo Lei |
I am an assistant professor at CUHK - Shenzhen. I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) mentored by Prof. Yunhe Hou and Prof. David Hill, and then a research fellow at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor working with Prof. Johanna Mathieu and Prof. Ian Hiskens. I was also a visiting scholar at Argonne National Laboratory hosted by Prof. Jianhui Wang. I received my PhD degree from HKU where Prof. Yunhe Hou was my primary supervisor and Prof. Ron Hui was my co-supervisor, and my BE degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
I am serving as the chair for IEEE PES TF on FlexGEB to Enhance Resilience, and the secretary for IEEE PES Loads Subcommittee. I am also serving as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Energy Reports, and Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems.
I received the Young Resilience Fellowship by the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering of the Netherlands, and the 2019-2021 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Top 5 Outstanding Papers Award.
Openings for PhD/master students, postdocs and visitors: I am actively looking for self-motivated students, postdocs and visitors to conduct research in areas of power and energy, optimization and learning. Please feel free to drop me an email with your CV, transcript and publications (if any).
Recent research activity highlights:
IEEE PES SBLC Task Force on Flexible Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings to Enhance Electric Service Resilience (FlexGEB) (Please register to receive updates and join our activities if you are interested)
Newly accepted paper: Assessing the Performance of Global Thermostat Adjustment in Commercial Buildings for Load Shifting Demand Response
Newly accepted paper: Power Economic Dispatch against Extreme Weather Conditions: The Price of Resilience
Special Issue: Energy Reports Special Issue on “Innovative Methods and Techniques for Power and Energy Systems with High Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources”
Research Interests
Electric power systems, microgrids, multi-energy systems
Grid-interactive efficient buildings, energy storage
Resilience of interdependent critical infrastructures
Optimization methods, machine learning, reinforcement learning
News & Updates
01/2022: Our paper “Assessing the Performance of Global Thermostat Adjustment in Commercial Buildings for Load Shifting Demand Response” is accepted for publication in Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability.
01/2022: Our paper “Power Economic Dispatch against Extreme Weather Conditions: The Price of Resilience” is accepted for publication in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
12/2021: I am appointed as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Power Engineering Letters.
12/2021: I received the Top 5 Reviewers Award (First Position) from IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid for my service in 2021. Thanks for the recognition!
05/2021: Our paper “Sample Robust Scheduling of Electricity-Gas Systems Under Wind Power Uncertainty” is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
04/2021: Our paper “Performance of Existing Methods in Baselining Demand Response from Commercial Building HVAC Fans” is accepted for publication in ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.
03/2021: I received the Professional Development Award from the University of Michigan Postdoctoral Association. Thanks for the support!
01/2021: Our paper “Coordinated Scheduling of Integrated Power and Natural Gas Grids in Consideration of Gas Flow Dynamics” is accepted for publication in Energy.
10/2020: We are organizing two panel sessions on “The Interplay Between Energy Efficiency and Demand Response for Smart Buildings: Implications for Power Systems” at 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting. Meet you there in July 2021!
08/2020: Our paper “Generation Scheduling to Limit PM2.5 Emissions and Dispersion: A Study on the Seasonal Management System of South Korea” is accepted to 2020 International Conference on Smart Grids and Energy Systems (SGES).
08/2020: Our paper “Optimal Cyber Defense Strategy of High-Voltage DC Systems for Frequency Deviation Mitigation” is accepted to 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm).
07/2020: We are organizing a Special Issue on “Engineering Techniques and Technologies to Enhance Power System Resilience” in IET The Journal of Engineering. Check out the Call for Papers [link]. Papers can be submitted via the ScholarOne site. The deadline is February 28, 2021. We look forward to receiving your contributions!
07/2020: Our paper “Stay Cool and Be Flexible: Energy-Efficient Grid Services Using Commercial Buildings HVAC Systems” is accepted to 2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings.
07/2020: Our paper “Mobile Emergency Generator Pre-Positioning and Real-Time Allocation for Resilient Response to Natural Disasters” is recognized as an ESI Highly Cited Paper (Web of Science).
06/2020: Our paper “Data-based Resilience Enhancement Strategies for Electric-Gas Systems against Sequential Extreme Weather Events” is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
05/2020: I am invited to give a talk in the session “Decision-Making in a Distributed Paradigm of Future Energy Systems” at 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Meet you there virtually in November!
05/2020: Our paper “Baseline Estimation of Commercial Building HVAC Fan Power Using Tensor Completion” is accepted to Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC) 2020 and will be included in a special issue of Electric Power Systems Research.
04/2020: Our paper “Overhead Transmission Line Outage Rate Estimation under Wind Storms” is recognized as a Top Downloaded Paper (Wiley 2018-2019).
03/2020: Our paper “Radiality Constraints for Resilient Reconfiguration of Distribution Systems: Formulation and Application to Microgrid Formation” is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
01/2020: I received the Best Reviewer Award from IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid for my service in 2019. Thanks for the recognition!