The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG) have recognized the following Authors, Reviewers, and Associate Editors for their outstanding contributions to the journal in 2021.

Ranked Papers (2021)

  1. Y. Wang, Q. Chen, T. Hong, and C. Kang, “Review of Smart Meter Data Analytics: Applications, Methodologies, and Challenges,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 3125-3148, May 2019.
  2. S. Lei, C. Chen, Y. Li, and Y. Hou, “Resilient Disaster Recovery Logistics of Distribution Systems: Co-Optimize Service Restoration With Repair Crew and Mobile Power Source Dispatch,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 6187-6202, Nov. 2019.
  3. X. Wang and F. Blaabjerg, “Harmonic Stability in Power Electronic-Based Power Systems: Concept, Modeling, and Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 2858-2870, May 2019.
  4. C. Zhang and Y. Xu, “Hierarchically-Coordinated Voltage/VAR Control of Distribution Networks Using PV Inverters,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 2942-2953, July 2020.
  5. W. Tushar, T. K. Saha, C. Yuen, D. Smith, and H. V. Poor, “Peer-to-Peer Trading in Electricity Networks: An Overview,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 3185-3200, July 2020.

Outstanding Reviewers of IEEE TSG in 2021

  • Yue Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Shunbo Lei, Chinese University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen
  • Eduardo  Martinez-Cesena,  University of Manchester
  • Yi Wang, The University of Hong Kong
  • Qianzhi Zhang, Iowa State

Yue Chen

Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China

Yue Chen (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2015, the B.S. degree in economics from Peking University in 2017, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2020. From 2018 to 2019, she was a visiting student with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. Her research interests include optimization, game theory, mathematical economics, and their applications in smart grid and integrated energy systems. She was the awardee of Stanford Bits & Watts Postdoctoral Fellowship, and was selected as the 2020 EECS Rising Stars by UC Berkeley and the 2020 CEE Rising Stars by Carnegie Mellon University.

Shunbo Lei

School of Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen
Guangdong, China

Shunbo Lei (Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2017. He was a visiting scholar with Argonne National Laboratory from 2015 to 2017, a postdoctoral researcher with HKU from 2017 to 2019, and a research fellow with the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor from 2019 to 2021. He is currently an assistant professor with The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen. His research interests include power systems, resilience, grid-interactive efficient buildings, optimization and learning.

Eduardo Martinez-Cesena

The University of Manchester
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Manchester, UK

Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in power systems from the Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, Morelia, Mexico, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in power systems from The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., in 2012. He is currently an Academic Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester. His research interests include the planning and design of electricity infrastructure under uncertainty (e.g., photovoltaic (PV) systems, wind farms, and distribution networks), power system economics, energy system resilience, optimization techniques, and, especially, planning of community multi-energy systems in consideration of integrated electricity–heat–gas networks and local and system-level needs.

Yi Wang

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China

Yi Wang received the B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in June 2014, and the Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in January 2019. He was a visiting student with the University of Washington from March 2017 to April 2018. He served as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Power Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich from February 2019 to August 2021. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include data analytics in smart grids, energy forecasting, multi-energy systems, Internet-of-things, cyber-physical-social energy systems.

Qianzhi Zhang

Iowa State University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ames, IA

Qianzhi Zhang (Graduate Student Membe, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Shandong University of Technology and Arizona State University in 2012 and 2015, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. He was a research engineer with Huadian Electric Power Research Institute from 2015 to 2016. His research interests include voltage/var control, power/energy management, system resilience enhancement, application of advanced optimization, and machine learning techniques in power system operation and control.

Outstanding Associate Editors of IEEE TSG in 2021

  • Kyri Baker, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Ali Hooshyar, University of Toronto
  • Alfredo Vaccaro, University of Sannio

Kyri Baker

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering,
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO, USA

 

Kyri Baker (Member, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, 2010, and 2014, respectively. From 2015 to 2017, she was with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA. Since 2017, she has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and a courtesy appointment with the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests include power system optimization and planning, building-to-grid integration, and applications of machine learning in energy.

(Based on document published on 30 April 2020).

Ali Hooshyar

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

Ali Hooshyar (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Canada Research Chair in Electric Power Systems with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests include protection and control of renewable energy systems and smart grids. He is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and IEEE Power Engineering Letters. He is also an Associate Editor of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

(Based on document published on 26 July 2021).

Alfredo Vaccaro

University of Sannio
Benevento, Italy

Alfredo Vaccaro (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electronic engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. From 1999 to 2002, he was an Assistant Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Salerno. From March 2002 to October 2015, he was an Assistant Professor of electric power systems with the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include affine arithmetic-based methods for uncertain power system analysis and self-organizing architectures for decentralized smart grids computing. Prof. Vaccaro is an Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Power System, IEEE Trans. on Smart Grids, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and he is the Chair of the IEEE PES Awards and Recognition Committee.

(Based on document published on 9 March 2020).

Prof. Claudio Canizares
EIC Transactions on Smart Grid