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DWH Project Funding

$76,000

Known Leveraged Funding

$0

Project Description

Dr. Liang Du is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University. Since joining Temple, Dr. Du has been mentoring 8 Ph.D. students, including 3 female and 1 DoD SMART Scholar, 1 joint master thesis with Lund University, Sweden, and 18 undergraduate researchers, including 1 from Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil, and 1 from Tsinghua University, China. His research focuses on electric power grid modernization, energy systems integration, de-centralized and autonomous power architectures, data-driven analytics, and renewable integration. Prior to joining Temple, he was an Electrical Engineer with Schlumberger in Sugar Land, TX, and played a leading role in the design and commercialization of the world’s first fully electrified and automated hydraulic fracking fleets. Dr. Du received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities in 2018 and serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. He won an IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PES GM) 2021 Best Paper on Bulk Power Generation and Transmission and a PES GM 2022 Best Paper on Power System Modeling and Analysis. He contributes to the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community by serving its IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo since 2018 as panel chair, publication chair, co-program chair, and treasurer, and he is projected to be the general chair in 2025. He received his B.Eng. in Automation from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a Research Intern at Eaton Corp. Innovation Center (Milwaukee, WI), Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (Cambridge, MA), and Philips Research N.A. (Briarcliff Manor, NY) in 2011, 2012, and 2013, respectively.