Tsinghua University – P.R. of China

Tsinghua University was established in 1911. Since China opened up to the world in 1978, Tsinghua University has developed at a breathtaking pace into a comprehensive research university. At present, the university has 14 schools and 56 departments with faculties in science, engineering, humanities, law, medicine, history, philosophy, economics, management, education and art. The University has now over 25,900 students, including 13,100 undergraduates and 12,800 graduate students. As one of China’s most renowned universities, Tsinghua has become an important institution for fostering talent and scientific research, and is ranking the first in Engineering in China.

The Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University was founded in 1932. After 80 years of development, it has established an excellent education and research reputation in China and around the world. The electrical engineering major is ranking the first in China and ranking the 15th in QS. More than 10,000 students have graduated. Thirty-six alumni, either previous/current faculties or graduated students, are elected as Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science or the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Many graduates have become full-time professors in China and the other countries, chief engineers or general managers of China’s power related industrial companies, and influential statesmen serving the country. Currently the Department of Electrical Engineering is mainly engaged in the educational and scientific activities in the broad field related to the generation, transmission, and distribution of electrical power and energy systems.

Prof. Hongbin Sun is a full professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Tsinghua University (THU), IET(IEE) Fellow, the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor of Education Ministry of China, assistant director of State Key Laboratory of Power Systems in China. Professor Sun received his double B.S. degrees from Tsinghua University in 1992, his PhD degree from Dept. of E.E., Tsinghua University in 1997. From 2007 to 2008, he was a visiting professor with School of EECS at the Washington State University in USA. He has worked with industry for the last 20 years on electric power system operation and control issues with specific interests in the smart grids, renewable energy resource integration, electrical vehicle to power grid, smart home/building and big data. He is the principal investigator for an on-going MOST-sponsored 973 program which studies the next generation of EMS for smart grids. He is also the principal investigator for several international collaborative projects on smart grids, such as Tsinghua-Berkeley joint research fund and China-UK Joint Research Fund (NSFC-RCUK_EPSRC). He is the co-author of over 280 peer-reviewed papers and 4 books, and held over 80 patents in China and 2 patents in USA. He is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and associate editor of IET Renewable Generation. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of four international journals and two Chinese journals, and the organizing committee of several international conferences.

Completed and on-going projects (as PI)

• National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, “Smart Control Center for Smart Grids”, 2011-2014
• National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), “Smart Grid Energy Management and Control Based on Generation-Grid-Demand Coordination”, 2013-2017
• Tsinghua-Berkeley joint research fund, “Exploiting Renewable Energies for a Sustainable Power Grid: A generalized aggregate modeling and control architecture for distributed energy resources”, 2014-2015
• China-UK Joint Research Fund (NSFC-RCUK_EPSRC), “Role  of  energy  storage  in  enhancing operation and stability performance of sustainable power systems (RESTORES)”, 2014-2016
• Innovative Research Group of National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Fundamental Research on Power System Smart Dispatch and Control for Accomodation of Large-scale Renewable Power Generation (Dispatch Part)”, 2014-2016.
• National Key Technology R&D Program of China, “Combined Scheduling and Operation Control of Electricity and Heat Considering Wind Power Accommodation”, 2015-2017
• Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Fundamental Study on Energy Management of Multi-energy Flow”, 2016-2020
• Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of China, ”Research and Demonstration on Energy Management of Multi-energy Flow”, 2016-2017

Facilities
Center for high performance computing. Energy Management System (EMS) advanced application software and the simulation platform.

Key publications

• Zhaoguang Pan, Qinglai Guo, Hongbin Sun, “Interactions of district electricity and heating systems considering time-scale characteristics based on quasi-steady multi-energy flow”. Applied Energy, 2016(167):230-243.
• Runze Chen, Hongbin Sun, Qinglai Guo, Hongyang Jin, Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, “Profit-seeking Energy-Intensive Enterprises Participating in Power System Scheduling: Model and Mechanism”, Applied Energy, 2015(158), Page(s): 263-274
• Kening Chen, Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, Hongbin Sun, “Robust restoration decision-making model for distribution networks based on information gap decision theory”, IEEE Trans. On Smart Grid, V6, N2, 2015, Page(s): 587-597
• Hongbin Sun, Chen Runze, Qinglai Guo, Jing Wang, Yang Zhang, Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, “A Two-Level Distribution Approach for Power Network Modeling”, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, V30, N3, 2015, Page(s): 1496-1504
• Runze Chen, Hongbin Sun, Qinglai Guo, Zhigang Li, Tianhu Deng, Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, “Reducing Generation Uncertainty by Integrating CSP with Wind Power: An Adaptive Robust Optimization Based Analysis”, IEEE Trans. Sustainable Energy, V6, N2, 2015, Page(s): 583-594
• Hongbin Sun, Qinglai Guo, Boming Zhang, Ye Guo, Zhengshuo Li, and Jianhui Wang, Master-slave-splitting based Distributed Global Power Flow Method for Integrated Transmission and Distribution Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid,  V6, N3, 2015, Page(s): 1484-1492
• Tao Ding, Rui Bo, Fangxing Li, Hongbin Sun, “A Bi-level Branch and Bound Method for Economic Dispatch with Disjoint Prohibited Zones Considering Network Losses”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, V30, N6, 2015, Page(s): 2841-2855
• Chen Chen, Jianhui Wang, Zhengshuo Li, Hongbin Sun, Zhaoyu Wang, “PMU uncertainty quantification in voltage stability analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, V30, N4, 2015, Page(s): 2196-2197
• Zhengshuo Li, Jianhui Wang, Hongbin Sun, and Qinglai Guo, “Transmission contingency analysis based on integrated transmission and distribution power flow in smart grid”, IEEE trans. Power Systems, V30, N6, 2015, Page(s): 3356-3367
• Zhengshuo Li, Qinglai Guo, Hongbin Sun, and Jianhui Wang, “Storage-like devices in load leveling: Complementarity constraints and a new and exact relaxation method”, Applied Energy, 2015(151): 13-22
• Zhigang Li, Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, and Hongbin Sun, “Efficient location of unsatisfiable transmission constraints in look-ahead dispatch via an enhanced Lagrangian relaxation framework”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, V30, N3, 2015, Page(s): 1233-1242
• Zhigang Li, Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, Hongbin Sun, Bin Wang, “Adjustable robust real-time power dispatch with large-scale wind power integration”, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, V6, N2, 2015: 357-368
• Qinglai Guo, Hongbin Sun, Boming Zhang, Jianhui Wang, Chen Chen, “Cyber-Physical Modeling and Cyber Contingency Assessment of Hierarchical Control Systems”, IEEE Trans on Smart Grid, V6, N5, 2015: 2375-2385
• Tao Ding; Rui Bo; Fangxing Li; Qinglai Guo; Hongbin Sun; Wei Gu; Gan Zhou, "Interval Power Flow Analysis Using Linear Relaxation and Optimality-Based Bounds Tightening (OBBT) Methods," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems , V30, N1, 2015, Page(s): 177-187.
• Tao Ding, Rui Bo, Fangxing Li, Qinglai Guo, Hongbin Sun, "Exact Penalty Function Based Constraint Relaxation Method for Optimal Power Flow Considering Wind Generation Uncertainty," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, V30, N3, 2015, Page(s): 1546-1547
• Wenchuan Wu, Jianhua Chen, Boming Zhang, Hongbin Sun, “A Robust Wind Power Optimization Method for Look-ahead Dispatch”, IEEE Transaction on Sustainable Energy, V5, N2, 2014, Page(s): 507-515
• Zhengshuo Li; Qinglai Guo; Hongbin Sun; Shujun Xin; Jianhui Wang, "A New Real-Time Smart-Charging Method Considering Expected Electric Vehicle Fleet Connections," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, V19, N6, 2014,  Page(s): 3114-3115
• YuntaoJu, Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, Hongbin Sun, “An Extension of FBS Three-phase Power Flow for handling PV nodes in Active Distribution Network”, IEEE Trans. On Smart Grid, V5, N4, 2014, Page(s): 1547-1555
• Tao Ding, Rui Bo, Wei Gu, Hongbin Sun, "Big-M Based MIQP Method for Economic Dispatch with Disjoint Prohibited Zones", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,V29, N2, March 2014, Page(s): 976 - 977
• Qinglai Guo; Shujun Xin; Hongbin Sun; Zhengshuo Li; Boming Zhang, "Rapid-Charging Navigation of Electric Vehicles Based on Real-Time Power Systems and Traffic Data," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.5, no.4, pp.1969-1979, July 2014
• Tao Ding, Rui Bo, Wei Gu, Qinglai Guo, Hongbin Sun, "Absolute Value Constraint Based Method for Interval Optimization to SCED Model", IEEE Transaction on Power Systems,V29, N2, March 2014, Page(s):980 - 981
• Hongbin Sun, Qinglai Guo, Boming Zhang, Wenchuan Wu, Bin Wang, An Adaptive Zone Division Based Automatic Voltage Control System with Applications in China, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 2013,28(2):1816–1828
• Hongbin Sun; Feng Gao ; Strunz, K. ; Boming Zhang，Analog-Digital Power System State Estimation Based on Information Theory-Part I: Theory, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2013, SG-4(3) : 1640 - 1646
• Hongbin Sun, Feng Gao ; Strunz, K. ; Boming Zhang ; Qingxin Li，Analog-Digital Power System State Estimation Based on Information Theory-Part II: Implementation and Application, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2013, SG-4(3) : 1647 - 1655
• Zhengshuo Li, Qinglai Guo, Hongbin Sun, Yao Wang, Shujun Xin, Emission-concerned Wind-EV Coordination on the Transmission Grid Side with Network Constraints: Concept and Case Study, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2013, SG-4(3) : 1692 -1704
• Qinglai Guo, Hongbin Sun, Mingye Zhang, Jianzhong Tong, Boming Zhang, Bin Wang, Optimal Voltage Control of PJM Smart Transmission Grid: Study, Implementation, and Evaluation, IEEE Transaction on smart grid, 2013, SG-4(3) : 1665 - 1674
• Tao Yang, Hongbin Sun, Anjan Bose, Transition to a Two-Level Linear State Estimator-Part I: Architecture, IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, 2011, PWRS-26 (1): 46 – 53
• Tao Yang, Hongbin Sun, Anjan Bose, Transition to a Two-Level Linear State Estimator-Part II: Algorithm, IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, 2011, PWRS-26(1): 54 - 62