Jiazuo HOU
Associate Professor, Tongji University
former Cornell, NUS, HKU, Imperial, HUST, ZJU
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Hello! This is Jiazuo Hou.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my research work!
Email: houjz@tongji.edu.cn
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Research Interest
Cost-effective cyber-physical resilience for renewable-intensive power systems
Stability and security region of power electronics-enabled power grids
Hardware-in-the-loop cybersecurity prototype for power delivery systems
First-of-its-kind open-source cybersecurity testbed for power delivery systems
Research Motivation driven by First Principle: [Research]
#9 Bio-inspired Cyber-immunity: Does innate cyber-immunity exist? How to optimally establish acquired cyber-immunity? How do cyber-immunity propagate across power networks? [PDF][IEEE]
#8 Infinitesimal-attack-high-impact Phenomena: Can an infinitesimal cyber-attack trigger 10^2 MW power reversals within 10 seconds from 10^3 km away? [PDF][IEEE][Open-source HVDC Cybersecurity Testbed]
#7 Attack-induced Butterfly Effect: How many catastrophic chain reactions can a tiny cyber-attack unleash? How bad can it get? [PDF][IEEE]
#6 Physical Security Region: How to guarantee the existence of security regions? How to enlarge this security bubble? How to achieve inverter-security-constrained optimal-power-flow? [PDF] [Elsevier]
#5 Cybersecurity Paradigm Shift: What happened during the cybersecurity paradigm shift from power systems to power electronics? Cybersecurity before/during/after cyber events? [PDF] [Elsevier]
#4 Cybersecurity Cost-benefit Trade-off: What are cyber-defense benefits? At what cost? [PDF][IEEE]
#3 Insecurity Region & Cybersecurity Margin: What if inadequate cyber-defense resources/budgets? How to minimize attack-induced insecurity region? How to maximize cybersecurity margin? [arXiv] [IEEE]
#2 Multi-objective Attacker: What if multiple cyber-attack targets/outcomes? [PDF][IEEE]
#1 Heterogeneous Defendee: What if diverse cyber stakeholders with conflicting costs/benefits? [PDF][IEEE]
Experience
Tongji University China 06/2025 - present
Associate Professor
Cornell University USA 11/2024 - 04/2025
Postdoctoral Associate Mentor: Prof. Anna Scaglione
National University of Singapore Singapore 04/2023 - 10/2024
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mentor: Prof. Jimmy Chih-Hsien Peng
jointly at the National University of Singapore and the Singapore-ETH Centre
Imperial College London UK 10/2022 - 02/2023
Visiting Scholar Host: Prof. Fei Teng
State Grid Corporation of China China 07/2018 - 08/2018
Intern State Grid Smart Grid Research Institute
Education
The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China 09/2019 - 03/2023
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Yunhe Hou and Prof. David J. Hill
Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. Wuhan, China 09/2016 - 06/2019
M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Jiabing Hu
Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China 09/2012 - 06/2016
B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Huanhai Xin
Award
Outstanding Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 2023
Outstanding Reviewer IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy 2023
Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) Singapore 2024
(invited poster) (only 350 young researchers from 35 countries were invited)
Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) Singapore 2023
Postgraduate Scholarship The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong SAR 2019-2023
Skill
Extensive expertise in cyber resilience of power systems, power electronics, and high-voltage direct-current technology.
Solid background in power system stability, cybersecurity, optimization, and operation.
Proficient in
- Power system: Matlab, PSCAD, RTDS, OpenDSS, SMART-DS;
- Embedded system: DSP, FPGA, LabVIEW, PLC, Zigbee;
- Optimization: CVX/Yalmip, Gurobi/Mosek, GAMS;
- Coding: Python, C, 8086/8088 assembly language.
Experience with machine/deep learning, probability, and statistics.
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