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Rui Bo (柏瑞 in Chinese)
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Fellow IET, Senior Member IEEEDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringAffiliated Faculty, Department of EconomicsMissouri University of Science and Technology235 Emerson Electric Co. Hall301 W 16th StreetRolla MO, 65409Phone: 573-341-6400Email: rbo@mst.edu, rui.bo@ieee.org
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Dr. Bo is an associate professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T, formerly known as University of Missouri Rolla), and an Affiliated Faculty of the Department of Economics at Missouri S&T. He received the BSEE and MSEE degrees in electric power engineering from Southeast University (China) in 2000 and 2003, respectively, and received the Ph.D. degree from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) in 2009. He worked at ZTE Corporation and Shenzhen Cermate Technologies Inc. as a software engineer and then architect from 2003 to 2005, respectively. From 2009 to 2017, he worked at Mid-continent Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) at Eagan, Minnesota, USA as an engineer, senior engineer, and then principal engineer and project manager. He joined Missouri S&T in 2017 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2023.
Dr. Bo is a Fellow of IET, and a Senior Member of IEEE. His research interests include, but not limited to, computation, optimization and economics in power system operation and planning; high performance computing; electricity market simulation, evaluation and design. He has authored and co-authored over 100 technical papers in peer reviewed journals and international conferences. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, and IEEE Power Engineering Letter. He is the founding chair of IEEE Task Force on Advanced Methods for Computational Intensive Power System Planning Applications, vice-chair of IEEE PES Bulk Power System Planning Subcommittee, and secretary of IEEE PES Power System Economics Subcommittee. He was a source-code contributor to the world-renowned open-source research and education software package in power systems, A MATLAB Power System Simulation Package (MATPOWER), and a contributor to the the first PES Technical Roadmap report "IEEE Power and Energy Technology Assessment and Roadmap" published in June 2024.
Dr. Bo is a recipient of National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2024 and DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2018. He is also a recipient of 2022 IEEE St.Louis Section Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award, 2021-2022 Dean's Scholar Award, 2020 Missouri S&T Faculty Excellence Award, 2020 University of Missouri System President’s Award for Career Excellence - Early Career, 2012 IEEE Twin Cities Section Outstanding Engineer Award, and MISO Outstanding Achievement Award.
News
[2024/11] Dr.Bo received 2024 Missouri S&T Faculty Research Award.
[2024/9] Dr.Bo has been appointed an affiliated faculty of the Department of Economics at Missouri S&T.
[2024/4] Dr.Bo has been elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
[2024/1] Dr.Bo received the prestigious CAREER Award from National Science Foundation in January 2024. News release from Missouri S&T.
[2023/10] Our team won the second place with a $20,000 prize award in the fourth and final phase competition of the Hydropower Operations Optimization (H2Os) Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) . News release from Department of Energy. Congratulations to the team, Dr.Bo, Haotian Chen, and Siyuan Wang!
[2023/09] Missouri S&T team along with their industry partners demonstrated new battery charging technology to the U.S. Department of Energy.
[2023/04] Waqas ur Rehman received 2022-2023 CEC Dean’s PhD Scholar Award. He is one of the seven recipients of this award. Congratulations to Waqas!
[2023/03] Dr.Bo received 2022 ISC Distinguished Investigator Award from Missouri S&T Intelligent Systems Center (ISC).
[2023/03] Our team is one of the nine winners in the Phase 1 competition of the Digitizing Utilities Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity (OE). As one of the three winners in Track 1 - Load Modeling, we will receive $75,000 cash prize and advance to Phase 2 of the competition. Congratulations to the team, Dr.Bo, Ronit, Milad, Siyuan and Haotian!
[2023/01] Waqas ur Rehman's dissertation titled "Control and Optimization of Energy Storage System in Power Distribution Systems" has been selected for the final round of Grid Edge Technologies Dissertation Prize Challenge. As a finalist, Waqas has been invited to participate in the on-site 3-Minute Challenge which will take place in the IEEE PES Grid Edge Technologies Conference and Exposition on April 11 and 12, 2023 at San Diego Convention Center. Congratulations to Waqas!
[2023/01] Our team is a runner-up and won $10,000 prize award in the third phase competition of the Hydropower Operations Optimization (H2Os) Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) . News release from Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Missouri S&T. Congratulations to the team, Dr.Bo, Siyuan Wang, Yang Chen and Haotian Chen!
[2022/11] Dr.Bo received 2022 IEEE St.Louis Section Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award.
[2022/09] Our team won $1500 prize award in the Phase Two competition of the Hydropower Operations Optimization (H2Os) Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) . We are one of the seven teams receiving prize awards. Congratulations to the team!
[2022/07] Our team won $1000 prize award in the Phase One competition of the Hydropower Operations Optimization (H2Os) Prize, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) . We are one of the eight teams receiving prize awards. Congratulations to the team, Dr.Bo, Hossein, Haotian, Yang and Siyuan!
[2021/10] Dr.Bo received 2021-2022 Missouri S&T College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) Dean's Scholar award, and 2020-2021 Missouri S&T Outstanding Teaching Commendation.
[2021/07] Waqas ur Rehman won the second prize in the 2021 IEEE PES General Meeting Student Poster Contest. Congratulations to Waqas!
[2021/07] Dr.Bo, along with experts from MISO, Hitachi Power Grids and NREL, will deliver a tutorial "Planning Beyond Reliability - Economics Driven Transmission Planning Under Market Environment: Fundamentals, Applications, Benchmark and Challenges" in 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting.
[2021/07] Out paper titled "Sizing Energy Storage System for Energy Arbitrage in Extreme Fast Charging Station" has been selected as one of the Best Conference Papers in 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting. Congratulations to Waqas!
[2021/02] Call For Papers: On behalf of the Guest Editorial Board, I invite you to contribute your research work to the Special Section on "Local and Distribution Electricity Markets" in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. The detailed information can be found here. Look forward to your submission!
[2020/11] Dr.Bo received 2020 Missouri S&T Faculty Excellence Award.
[2020/06] Dr.Bo received 2020 University of Missouri System President’s Award for Career Excellence - Early Career.
[2020/08] Our paper titled "Risk-constrained Bi-level Optimization for Virtual Bidder Bidding Strategy in Day-Ahead Electricity Markets" has been selected as one of the Best Conference Papers in 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting. Congratulations to Hossein!
[2020/05] Our team, in partnership with S&C Electric Company, has been selected by Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative (EIPC) for EIPC High Renewables Futures Study, which is to evaluate the impacts of high renewable penetration on generation and transmission performance across the Eastern Interconnection in the US.
[2020/04] Thanks to Google for providing GCP Research Credit to support our research!
[2019/06] Dr.Bo received 2019 Missouri S&T Faculty External Recognition Award.
[2019/05] Dr.Bo received 2019 College of Engineering and Computing Research Acceleration Award from Missouri S&T.
[2019/04] Our team has been selected by the Department of Energy in 2019 to conduct research on modeling and analyzing the role of pumped storage in asset and system optimization. Dr.Bo was interviewed by Missouri S&T: Researchers seek to improve hydropower, lower electricity costs.
[2018/10] Dr.Bo was interviewed by Missouri S&T: Missouri S&T researchers win multimillion dollar grant to build fast-charging stations for electric cars.
[2018/08] Dr.Bo chaired the kickoff meeting of the newly founded IEEE Task Force on Advanced Methods for Computational Intensive Power System Planning Applications in the 2018 IEEE PES General Meeting in Portland USA in August 2018.
[2018/07] Dr.Bo received the prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award in July 2018.
[2018/07, 2018/09] Dr.Bo was interviewed by Missouri S&T: Partnership among Missouri S&T, Ameren and Hyperion pursues improved energy technology, and interviewed by Energy News Network Report: Utility investment in fiber optics could enhance smart grid.
[2017/04] Missouri S&T's Mars Rover Design Team won the 2017 University Rover Challenge, becoming the first team from the United States to win the University Rover Challenge (URC) since 2010. Congratulations!
About Dr.Bo's research
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The power engineering program at Missouri S&T is a mature program with high national recognition, strong industrial support, and multi-disciplinary ties. Missouri S&T has consistently ranked in the top five power programs receiving funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Missouri S&T is one of the five partner universities of the NSF Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Engineering Research Center (ERC). The power program will also receive $1.5M strategic initiative funding from the University of Missouri system to develop the Electrified Transportation Distribution System Laboratory.
The ECE department has 36 faculty members, approximately 500 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. The department has strong industry partnership with Boeing, Honeywell, Cisco, IBM, Apple, Google, Sony, John Deere, Ford, Intel and Nucor Steel. Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Missouri S&T are respectively ranked 62 and 67 nationally in the US by 2019 US News and World Report.
Missouri S&T (formerly known as University of Missouri - Rolla) is one of the nation’s leading research universities. It was founded in 1870 as one of the first technological institutions west of the Mississippi. Located about 100 miles west of St. Louis in the community of Rolla, Missouri S&T is an accessible, safe and friendly campus surrounded by Ozarks scenery. Missouri S&T offers degrees in engineering, the sciences, liberal arts, humanities and business, with master’s and Ph.D. programs available in many of the science and engineering programs and master’s degrees in biological sciences, business administration and technical communication. With nearly 9,000 students enrolled online and on campus, Missouri S&T is big enough to accommodate a diverse population but small enough for individuals to stand out.
Missouri S&T is the University of Missouri System’s only highly selective university. It is ranked #80 among public universities in the US by 2019 US News and World Report. Among all US universities, Missouri S&T is ranked #157 by 2019 US News and World Report, #124 by Times Higher Education, and #126 by QS University Ranking.
Missouri S&T is well known for its engineering programs. In 2017, Missouri S&T was ranked #3 in top engineering schools by college factual, #15 public college with the highest-earning graduates by Forbes, #24 top STEM college by Forbes. Missouri S&T was ranked #63 in top undergraduate engineering schools and #89 in top graduate engineering schools by US News&World Report. In 2019 national online college rankings, Missouri S&T was ranked #17 in 2019 Best Online Master's Electrical Engineering Degrees.
