I received my B.S. degree and Ph. D degree in 1999 and 2004 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, respectively, both in electrical engineering. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, from 2004 to 2006, and at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, from 2009 to 2011. I also spent three years in the industry. From 2006 to 2009, I worked at the Power Dispatch & Communication Center of the Shanghai Municipal Electrical Power Company, where I served as a dispatcher and automation systems manager. Since 2011, I have been an associate professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. In addition, I was a visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology during Sept. 2015-Sept. 2016. I have been a tenured Associate Professor since 2022.  

My main research interests include stability analytics, optimal control, and strategic decision-making in energy and power systems, particularly when integrating high-penetration renewable generations. I have co-authored more than 200 technical papers, including 130 peer-reviewed international journal papers. My publications' citations in Google Scholar are 6263, with an H-index of 37. In addition, I hold more than 20 issued/pending patents. 

I am an IET Fellow, IEEE senior member, INFORMS member. I am serving as Associate Editor of several journals, including IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, IEEE Trans. on Smart Grids, IEEE Power Engineering Letters, and Control Engineering Practice, etc. I also was a guest editor of IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion. In addition, I am a member of the Pannel of Beijing Municipal Power Emergency Committee, a technical committee member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) TC5.4 Large Scale Complex Systems, and a council member of the Digital twin system in power system technology sub-committee, IEEE PES China.

I teach three courses every year: "Engineering Game Theory" for graduate students, "Principle of Automatic Control" for undergraduate students, and "Basics of Power System Operation and Management" for undergraduate students. I have supervised 9 Ph.D. students (three of them have graduated) and 4 Master's students (all have graduated). They received one Journal best paper award (IEEE Trans. on Power System, 2018-2020) and two conferences' best paper awards. I adhere to the spirit of "learn by doing and for creating" in my teaching. Specifically, in the course "Engineering Game Theory", I encourage the students to apply the principles and methodologies of engineering game theory to their own research. So far, many final projects have been published in top-tier journals and conferences, including IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy, and Applied Energy.    

Since 2018, I have been serving as the Vice Director of the Research Institute of Power and Energy Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University. The establishment of the institute can trace back to 1952. Currently, it is the largest institute in our department. It consists of 5 R&D teams with 35 in-service faculty members, including 13 full professors (including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Science), 8 associate professors (tenured/tenure-track), 3 with senior professional titles, and 12 with associate senior professional titles. I am in charge of routine management of the institute for academic activities and research projects.

• Recent Papers

1. S Wu, F Liu*, Z Wang, et al, Minimum Energy Demands of Energy Storages for Fast Frequency Response: Formulation, Solution, and Implementation, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

2. P Yang, F Liu*, W Wei, Z Wang, Approaching the Transient Stability Boundary of a Power System: Theory and Applications, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 

3. Y Su, F Liu*, Z Wang, et al. Multi-Stage Robust Dispatch Considering Demand Response Under Decision-Dependent Uncertainty, to appear in IEEE Transactions. on Smart Grid. 

4. Q Long, J Liu, F Liu, Y Hou, Submodular Optimization of Dynamic Thermal Rating for Cascading Failure Risk Mitigation Considering Braess Paradox, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.

5. Y Zhang, F Liu*, Z Wang, Y Chen, S Feng, Q Wu, Y Hou, On Nash-Stackelberg-Nash Games under Decision-Dependent Uncertainties: Model and Equilibrium, Automatica, in press.

6. Y Zhang, F Liu*, Y Su, Y Chen, et al. Two-Stage Robust Optimization under Decision Dependent Uncertainty, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, early access online. 

7. Y Zhang, F Liu*, Z Wang, Y Su, W Wang, S Feng, Robust Scheduling of Virtual Power Plant under Exogenous and Endogenous Uncertainties, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, in press.

8. Y Su, F Liu*, Z Wang, S Mei, Q Lu, Online distributed tracking of generalized Nash equilibrium on physical networks, Autonomous Intelligent Systems 1 (1), 1-12, 2021

9. P Yang, F Liu*, T Liu, DJ Hill, Augmented Synchronization: Bridging the Theory-Practice Gap in Transient Stability Analysis, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

10. Y Su, Z Wang, M Cao, M Jia, F Liu*, Convergence Analysis of Dual Decomposition Algorithm in Distributed Optimization: Asynchrony and Inexactness, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

11. Z Wang, W Wei, C Zhao, Z Zheng, Y Zhang, F Liu*, Exponential Stability of Partial Primal-Dual Gradient Dynamics with Nonsmooth Objective Functions, Automatica 129, 109585

• Recent Talks

• "Stability Analytics for Future Power Systems with HIgh-penetration of Renewables and Inverter-based Resources", COOL Research Seminar, Peking University

• "Augmented Synchronization of Power System and Its Distributed Analytics", Forum for the 90th-anniversary celebration of Electrical Engineering Department, Tsinghua University,  Sept. 2022. 

• "Control Design of Energy Storage for Frequency Support", IEEE General Meeting, July 21, 2022

• "Towards Equilibrium-independent Stability Analytics for Future Power Systems: The Concept of Augmented Synchronization", International Top-Level Forum on Engineering Science and Technology Development Strategy & the 6th Purple Mountain Forum, Nanjing, China, Oct. 2021

• Recent Academic Projects 

1. 2022-2024, Stability Supporting Capability Assessment of Energy Storage Clustering. Sub-project of National Key Research and Development Plan. (PI, RMB 3,500,000)

2. 2020-2023: Supply-Demand Balance Mechanism and Methodologies Enabling Renewable Energy Dominated Power Systems, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Sub-project of the Joint Research Fund in Smart Grid under the cooperative agreement between NSFC and State Grid Corporation of China). (PI, RMB 3,400,000)

3. 2018-2021: Autonomous Control and Operation of Distributed Generation Clusters in Distribution Networks, Natural Science Foundation of China (Key Project), (co-PI, )

4. 2017-2020: Generic Control Protocol Design for Integrating Massive Heterogeneous Distributed Resources, Natural Science Foundation of China, (PI,  RMB 696,000, evaluated as excellent by NSFC)

• Recent Industrial Projects 

1. 2022-2024: Developing Online Assessment and Visualization System for Stability Supporting Capability of Large-scale Energy Storage Clustering, China Three Gorges Co. Ltd. （Co-PI, RMB 10,420,000)

2. 2021-2024: Control Theory and Methodologies for Future Power Systems with High-penetration of Renewables and Power Electronics, State Grid Co. Ltd., (PI, RMB 3,310,000)

3. 2021-2021: Synchronous Stability and Voltage/frequency Control of Pure New Energy Power Systems with Large-scale Energy Storage, State Grid Qinghai Electric Power Company, (PI, RMB 1,067,080)

4.  2021-2021: Planning of Large-scale Storage for Applications in Source-network-load-storage Coordination, China Three Gorges Corporation, (PI, RMB 644,000)

5. 2019-2021: Impacts of Massive Inverter-based Sources on Power System Stability and Countermeasures, Chinese Electric Power Research Institute, (PI, RMB 750,000)

6.  2019-2021: Applications of Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems to Support the Receiving Terminals of UHVDC Systems, Henan Electric Power Research Institute, (PI, RMB 1,000,000)