Welcome to Intelligent Sustainable Grid (ISG) Lab @ KTH !
Welcome to Intelligent Sustainable Grid (ISG) Lab @ KTH !
Email: qianwenx@kth.se
Phone: +46 087906356
Address: Teknikringen 33,SE-100 44 Stockholm
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Director: Qianwen Xu
Position: Associate Professor in Electric Power and Energy Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Bio: Qianwen Xu received the B.Sc. degree from Tianjin University, China, in 2014, and PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2018, both in electrical engineering. Then she worked as a postdoc research fellow in Aalborg University in Denmark, a visiting researcher with Imperial College London, and a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoc Fellow in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2018-2020.
She joined KTH Royal Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor in Sep 2020, and she has been promoted to tenured Associate Professor since Feb 2024. She is the director of Intelligent Sustainable Grid (ISG) Lab @ KTH, and co-director of Dig-it Lab (Vinnova competence center).
Her research interests include advanced control, optimization and artificial intelligence application of sustainable power systems, microgrids and power converter systems. As the project manager (PI), she has received funding from Swedish Research Council (incl. VR Starting Grant), Swedish Energy Agency (incl. Future Electricity System program, Wind Power program, Building program E2B2), STINT (Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education), C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai and Microsoft), Digital Futures, StandUP for Energy, etc. She has published over 50 technical papers, with 15 first-authored journal papers in top IEEE Transactions. She is Chair in IEEE Power and Energy Society & Power Electronics Society, Sweden, and Vice Chair of IEEE Power ELectronics Society Technical Committee (TC) 12- Energy Access and Off-Grid Systems. She is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. She is recipient of Humboldt Research Fellowship, Excellent Doctorate Research Work in Nanyang Technological University, Best paper award in IEEE PEDG 2020, etc. She is the winner of Nordic Energy Challenge 2022. Her research work "Smart microgrid for sustainable communities" is selected by Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) 100 list, 2023, as one of the most promising activities in Sweden in terms of societal impact and commercialization.
Qianwen and her ISG research group are working on the following areas:
Advanced control, optimization, and AI/digitalization of sustainable power grids (i.e., power converter dominated systems and microgrids)
Design and operation of sector-coupled energy systems (renewables, energy storage, hydrogen, heating loads, electric vehicles, etc) for building, industry and transportation sectors
News
June 2025 I serve as Invited Session Chairs in IEEE ICCA 2025.
June 2025 I serve as Technical Program Chair in IEEE ICDCM 2025. I also gave a tutorial in IEEE ICDCM 2025 with Prof. Jiawei Chen and Yihao, on "Resilient and Secure DC Microgrids: Decentralized Control, Stability, and AI-Driven Cybersecurity".
June 2025 I gave a talk at Train & Rai Conference, "Innovative Energy Storage Solution for AC Railway Grids" Link: https://trainrail.se/program/innovative-energy-storage-solution-for-ac-railway-grids/
May 2025 We have one journal paper accepted: X. Jiang and Q. Xu*, "Two-Layer Iterative Sizing for Logistics Centers Equipped With Fast Charging Stations," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2025.3570477. Congratulations to Xuan!
April 2025 We have one journal paper accepted: Y. Wan, Y. Zhang and Q. Xu*, "Computationally Efficient Long-Horizon Predictive Control for Power Converter: A Reinforcement Learning Approach," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2025.3555033. Congratulations to Yihao!
April 2025: [New Award] Our project "Safe AI for enhanced sustainable energy systems" is selected by Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) 100 list 2024, as one of the most promising activities in Sweden in terms of societal impact and commercialization. Link: https://www.iva.se/en/what-iva-does/distinctions/ivas-100-lista-eng/safe-ai-for-enhanced-sustainable-energy-systems/
March 2025: [New Appointment] I was elected as Chair in IEEE Power and Energy Society & Power Electronics Society, Sweden
March 2025 We have one journal paper accepted: J. Hu and Q. Xu*, "A Gaussian Process-Regularized Graphical Learning Method for Distribution System State Estimation Using Extremely Scarce State Variable Labels," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2025.3552958. Congratulations to Jiaxiang!
Feb 2025 The summary of our hydrogen tutorial in ECCE Europe is published: S. Qazi, A. Abdelhakim, T. B. Soeiro, Q. Xu, S. Bosga and F. Canales, "Electrified Hydrogen Systems: An Overview," in IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, doi: 10.1109/MIE.2025.3548826.
Jan 2025 We have one journal paper accepted: T. Zhao and Q. Xu*, "Two-Stage Planning for Smart Buildings With Flexible Heating Load Considering Climate Change Induced Heat Waves," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2025.3535734. Congratulations to Tianyang!
2025
Dec 2024. Prof. Qing Chang Zhong visited our group and gave a workshop at KTH. Thank you and welcome Prof. Zhong!
Dec 2024. We have two journal paper accepted: M. Agredano-Torres and Q. Xu*, "Decentralized Power Management of Hybrid Hydrogen Electrolyzer—Supercapacitor Systems for Frequency Regulation of Low-Inertia Grids," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2025.3528468. Y. Wan and Q. Xu, "Stability-Guided Reinforcement Learning Control for Power Converters: A Lyapunov Approach," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2024.3522491. Congratulations to Manuel and Yihao
Dec 2024 I gave a PELS webinar, AI and Digitalization as Enablers of the Clean Energy Transition, PELS, Chapter, IEEE PELS San Francisco Bay Area chapter, Dec 2024
Oct 2024: We have one journal paper accepted:Y. Wan, Q. Xu* and T. Dragičević: Reinforcement learning-based Predictive Control for Power Electronic Converters, in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2024.3472299. Congratulations to Yihao!
Oct 2024. I served as Organization committe and WiE chair of IEEE ECCE 2024, and moderated the Leadership Luncheon event. The event is reported in: Q. Xu, S. Narasimhan, Y. Liu and S. W. Butler, "Empowering Future Leaders: Success at the IEEE ECCE 2024 WIE Events [Women in Engineering]," in IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 84-89, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1109/MPEL.2024.3495852.
Oct 2024. We have 2 papers presented at IEEE ECCE, Phoenix, AZ, USA: Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Volt-VAR Control for Three-Phase Unbalanced Distribution System with PV Integration, Design of Grid-Forming Control for AC-AC Modular Multilevel Converter in Railway Traction System. Congratulations to Fei and Yang!
Oct 2024. I gave a Panel presentation on "Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning for Renewable Energy Integrated Power System", IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2024, Croatia, Oct 2024
July 2024. I gave a Panel presentation "Data driven Modeling for Converter Interfaced Assets for Multi-energy Systems", IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Seatle, Washington, USA.
July 2024. We have two papers presented at IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), in Seatle, WA, USA. "Optimal Sizing and Scheduling Systems for Fast Charging Stations Participated in Electricity Market", and "Digital Twin Development for Three Phase Unbalanced Distribution System Identification and Resilience Enhancement". Congratulations Fei and Xuan.
June 2024: [New Appointment] I was appointed as Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
May 2024: We host 3rd Expert Workshop on Design and Operation of Digitalized Sector-Coupled Energy Systems (DigiSect 2024) on 16-17 May.
April 2024: We have one journal paper accepted: M. Agredano-Torres, M. Zhang, L. Söder and Q. Xu*, "Decentralized Dynamic Power Sharing Control for Frequency Regulation Using Hybrid Hydrogen Electrolyzer Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2024.3381491. Congratulations to Manuel!
April 2024: We visited Epiroc AB and I gave a seminar at Epiroc AB on "Advanced control and optimization of sustaniable microgrids". Thanks for invitation and your warm hospitality, Ahmed!
March 2024: I visited Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and gave a seminar about “AI and Digitalization as Enablers of the Clean Energy Transition”, for Lecture Series: Clean Energy Transition in Luxembourg. Thanks for the invitation and your warm hospitality, Prof. Pedro Rodríguez Cortés!
March 2024: [New Project] I received a new project funded by EU Horizon as co-PI: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 IDEAL4GREEN (co-PI, main supervisor for a PhD project on microgrid control with Vattenfall, 4 million sek funding share)
March 2024: [New Project] I received a new project funded by Wallenberg as PI: Adaptive and intelligent detection and defense for autonomous cyber-physical microgrids under cyberattacks (PI, Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), 4 million SEK)
March 2024: Our master thesis student Klas Lindgren, received Best M. Sc Thesis Award in IEEE Power and Energy Society & Power Electronic Society Sweden, for the M.Sc. thesis: “Dynamic Control, Modeling and Sizing of Hybrid Power Plants Investigating the optimum usage of energy storage for Fortum’s hydropower“. Congratulations to Klas!
March 2024: I gave a speech on "Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: My Journey as a Young Woman in Electrical Power Engineering" at Parallel Session of NGO CSW68 Forum “Scientific and technological innovation helps gender equality, while stimulating innovation vitality of STEMwomen”.
Feb 2024: [New Appointment] I'm promoted to Associate Professor (tenured) at KTH
Feb 2024: I gave a speech on "Using hydrogen electrolyzer power electronics to balance high share of wind power" in workshop on hydrogen’s role as an integral part of the energy system at KTH Energy Platform.
Feb 2024: Together with other experts in power system operation, I co-organize a special issue on "Operations of DERs for Providing Grid Services in Renewable-rich Power Systems" by the IET Journal of Energy Conversion and Economics.
Jan 2024: I served as Organization committee and Women in Engineering Chair, IEEE 16th Annual Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2024
Jan 2024: I served as Organization committee and Women in Engineering Chair, IEEE 14th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Luxembourg, 2024
Jan 2024: I served as Organization committee and Special Sessions Chair, 19th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2024) , Kristiansand, Norway. 2024
Jan 2024: I served as Organization committee and Regional Chair, 18th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (IEEE ICCA 2024), Iceland, 2024
Jan 2024: We have one journal paper accepted: M. Zhang and Q. Xu*, "Deep Neural Network-Based Stability Region Estimation for Grid-Converter Interaction Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2024.3355525. Congratulations to Mengfan!
Jan 2024: We have one journal paper accepted: Y. Wan, Q. Xu and T. Dragičević, Safety-Enhanced Self-Learning for Optimal Power Converter Control," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2024.3363759. Conguratulations to Yihao!
Jan 2024: I visited University of Navara and gave a seminar on "Advanced control, optimization and digitalization of sustaniable power grids" in International Workshop on Informatics With Applications (WIWA 2024), Spain. Thanks for invitation and your warm hospitality, Yuemin!
Jan 2024: Together with other experts in power electronics for Power to X technologies, I co-organize for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Powr Electronics Special Issue on “Power Electronics Role in Future Renewables and Power-to-X Systems”
2024
Dec 2023: [New Appointment] I'm elected as vice-chair of IEEE Power ELectronics Society Technical Committee (TC) 12- Energy Access and Off-Grid Systems.
Dec 2023: We have one journal paper accepted: M. Zhang, G. Guo, S. Magnússon, R. C. N. Pilawa-Podgurski and Q. Xu*, "Data Driven Decentralized Control of Inverter based Renewable Energy Sources using Safe Guaranteed Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2023.3341632. Congratulations to Mengfan!
Nov 2023: We have one journal paper accepted: M. Zhang, G. Guo, T. Zhao, Q. Xu*, DNN Assisted Projection based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safe Control of Distribution Grids, in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2023.3336614. Congratulations to Mengfan!
Nov 2022: I served as thesis examiner and gave a seminar on “Advanced control, optimization and digitalization of sustainable power systems” at Center of Sustainable Electric Networks and Sources of Energy (SENSE) at TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Thanks for invitation and your warm hospitality, Prof. Kai Strunz!
Oct 2023: Together with other experts in power electronics, I co-organize for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Powr Electronics Special Issue on “Design and Validation Methodologies for Power Electronic Components and Systems"
Oct 2023: I served as Organization committee and Women in Engineering Chair, IEEE 15th Annual Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Nashville, TN, USA
Oct 2023: We have one paper presented at IEEE 15th Annual Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (top power electronic conference), Nashville, TN, USA, "An Online Digital Twin based Health Monitoring Method for Boost Converter using Neural Network". Congratulations to Yizhou!
Oct 2023: I served as organizing committee chair for Future Digileaders '23 — Digital Futures.
Sep 2023: I gave a tutorial on “Renewable energy-hydrogen based energy systems for islanded and grid applications”, IEEE 25th Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, and IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo Europe (EPE ’23 ECCE Europe), Aalborg, Denmark
Sep 2023: [New Appointment] I was appointed as Co-Director of Dig-IT lab and TF leader for Internationalization.
Sep 2023: [New Project] I received a new project funded by Vinnova as coPI: Dig-IT lab Sustainable Industry (co-PI and co-director, VINNOVA national competence center, main supervisor and PI for a PhD project with 4 million sek funding share)
Sep 2023: I gave a speech on "Data-driven Modelling and Coordination of Sustainable Power Systems with Smart Converters" in Workshop on Data-driven methods with energy applications at KTH Digitalization.
Aug 2023: We have one journal paper accepted: Y. You, Q. Xu and C. Fischione, "Hierarchical Online Game-Theoretic Framework for Real-Time Energy Trading in Smart Grid," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2023.3308055. Congratulations to Yang!
July 2023: We have one journal paper accepted: M. Zhang, Y. Zhang and Q. Xu*, "Transfer Learning based Online Impedance Identification for Module Multilevel Converters," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2023.3299194. Congratulations to Mengfan!
June 2023: I served as organizing chair for Digital Futures Summer Research Internships Programme
Aug 2023: We have one journal paper accepted: M. Zhang, P. I. Gómezb, Q. Xu* and T. Dragicevic, Review of online learning for control and diagnostics of power converters and drives, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.113627 Congratulations to Mengfan!
July 2023: We have one journal paper accepted: G. Guo, M. Zhang, Y. Gong, Q. Xu*, Safe multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for real-time decentralized control of inverter based renewable energy resources considering communication delay, Applied Energy, 2023, Volume 349, 2023 Congratulations to Guodong!
July 2023: We have two papers presented at IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Orlando, FL, USA (top power system conference), "Multiple System Function Supports with Inverter-Dominated Virtual Power Plants", "Decentralized Coordination and Stabilization of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems in DC Microgrids". Congratulations to Boda and Mengfan!
June 2023: [New Appointment] I obtained Docent (associate professor) at KTH and gave my docent lecture: Advanced control, optimization and digitalization of sustainable power and energy systems.
June 2023: [New Project] I received a new project funded by EU and Trafikverket as co-PI: Europe’s Rail Flagship Project 4 - Sustainable and green rail systems (co-PI, EU,Trafikverket, main supervisor and PI for a PhD project with 4 million SEK funding share / Total 4.6 million euro)
June 2023 I gave a tutorial, “Advanced Control and Management of DC Microgrids”, IEEE 14th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2023), Shanghai, China.
May 2023: We have one paper presented at American Control Conference (ACC), San Diego, USA (top control conference), "Explicit Reinforcement Learning Safety Layer for Computationally Efficient Inverter-Based Voltage Regulation". Congratulations to Xinyu (our master student)!
May 2023: We have one journal paper accepted:B. Li and Q. Xu*, "A Machine Learning-Assisted Distributed Optimization Method for Inverter-Based Volt-VAR Control in Active Distribution Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2023.3279303. Conguratulations to Boda!
May 2023: [New Project] I received a new project funded by Swedish Energy Agency as Sweden PI: Sustainable mobility and logistics for post-pandemic second-tier cities (Sweden PI , Swedish Energy Agency, EU, 3.39 million SEK/1 million euro)
May 2023: I gave a seminar on Advanced Control-Optimization and Digitalization of Sustainable Power and Energy Systems", IEEE Power Electronics Society webinar
April 2023: [New Award] Our project "Smart microgrid for sustainable communities" is selected as one of the most promising activities in Sweden in terms of societal impact and commercialization. Link: https://www.iva.se/det-iva-gor/utmarkelser/ivas-100-lista/smart-microgrid-for-sustainable-communities/
April 2023: I served as invited speaker and panelist “Control of renewable energy –hydrogen-based energy systems for isolated and grid connected applications” in 2nd Expert workshop on Design and Operation of Digitalized Sector-Coupled Energy Systems, Viena, Austria
March 2023: [New Appointment] I was appointed as Associate Editor in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
March 2023: Manuel received Best Presentation Award at APEC for the paper: Dynamic power allocation control for frequency regulation using hybrid electrolyzer systems. Congratulations to Manuel!
March 2023: We have two papers presented at 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA (top power electronic conference), "Dynamic power allocation control for frequency regulation using hybrid electrolyzer systems", "An MPC based Power Management Method for Renewable Energy Hydrogen based DC Microgrids". Congratulations to Manuel and Mengfan!
Jan 2023: I visited ABB and gave a seminar at ABB on "Advanced control, optimization and digitalization of sustainable power and energy systems". Thanks for invitation and your warm hospitality, Zhibo!
Jan 2023: Together with other experts in multilevel converter, I co-organize for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Special Section on Multilevel Converters as an Enabler for Grid Modernization.
2023
Dec 2022: [New Project] I received a new project funded by Swedish Energy Agency as PI: Intelligent and multifunctional control in future power converter-dominated grids (PI , Swedish Energy Agency, future electricity programme, 4 million SEK)
Dec 2022: [New Project] I received a new project funded by Swedish Energy Agency as PI: Customer-aware and grid-interactive energy management for smart buildings ( PI, Swedish Energy Agency, 3.3 million SEK)
Nov 2022: I was invited as a panelist for Panel: High Voltage Power Grid Developments and Sustainable Solutions in KTH Energy Dialogue 2022 – Cooperation & Internationalization
Nov 2022 I gave a tutorial on “Advanced control, stability and reliability of vehicular electric power systems” in 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific (ITEC Asia-Pacific 2022), Zhejiang, Nov 2022
Oct 2022: [New Award] Our project “Renewable energy-hydrogen based microgrid for sustainable Arctic communities” received the prestigious 1st place winner for Nordic Energy Challenge 2022. link: https://www.nordicenergy.org/article/presenting-the-winner-of-nordic-energy-challenge/
Oct 2023: We have one paper presented at IEEE 14th Annual Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (top power electronic conference), Detroit, MI, USA, "Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Voltage-Var Control in Distribution Power System" . Congratulations to Mengfan!
Oct 2022 I gave a speech on “AI for future sustainable power systems”, Internet day (Internetdagarna) conference, Stockholm
Sep 2022: [New Project] I received a new project funded by Vinnova as KTH PI: Smart Converters for Climate-neutral Society: Artificial Intelligence-based Control and Coordination (co-PI, Sweden’s Innovation Agency (Vinnova), 3M SEK funding share /total 7M SEK)
Sep 2022: I gave a seminar on "Advanced control, optimization and digitalization of sustaniable power grids" at E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University
June 2022: I served as organizing chair for Digital Futures Summer Research Internships Programme
June 2022: We have a new paper accepted: M. Zhang, Q. Xu*, X. Wang, "Physics Informed Neural Network based Online Impedance Identification of Voltage Source Converters", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 3717-3728, April 2023
May 2022: [New Project] I received a new project funded by STINT: Resilience-oriented modeling and optimization of sustainable power systems for climate neutral society (PI, Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), Sweden, 600000SEK). PI in China is from Prof. Ying Chen from Tsinghua University funded by NSFC.
March 2022: I served as invited speaker and panelist “Data driven modelling and coordination of future sustainable power systems with smart converters” in Expert workshop on Design and Operation of Digitalized Sector-Coupled Energy Systems, Hamburg, Germany
March 2022: I served as invited speaker and panelist, “Digital Transformation and AI for Energy Security” in C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Research Symposium, Miami, USA, March, 2022
Feb 2022: I served as Topic Chair in IEEE 14th Annual Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, USA
Fen 2022: I gave a keynote speech “Advanced control and operation of microgrids” in 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations in Energy Management and Renewable Resources, India, Feb, 2022
Jan 2022: [New Appointment] I was appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
2022
Nov 2021: M. Zhang, Q. Xu, C. Zhang, L. Nordström and F. Blaabjerg, "Decentralized Coordination and Stabilization of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems in DC Microgrids," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1751-1761, May 2022
Nov 2021: [New Project] I received a new project funded by Nordic Energy Research and Swedish Energy Agency as co-PI: Resilient Digital Sustainable Energy Transition (co-PI, Vice project manager, Nordic Energy Research, Swedish Energy Agency, 2million SEK funding share /total 8M SEK)
Nov 2021: [New Project] I received a new project funded by Swedish Energy Agency as PI: Using hydrogen electrolyzer power electronics to balance high share of wind power (PI, Swedish Energy Agency, 3.39 million SEK)
Nov 2021: [New Project] I received a new project funded by Swedish Resarch Council as PI: High fidelity modeling and resilience optimization of microgrids (PI, Swedish Research Council (VR) Starting Grant, 4 million SEK)
Sep 2021: We have one journal paper accepted: X. -K. Liu, C. Wen, Q. Xu and Y. -W. Wang, "Resilient Control and Analysis for DC Microgrid System Under DoS and Impulsive FDI Attacks," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 3742-3754, Sept. 2021
June 2021: I received the news that my application for ERC starting grant has gone through the 2nd stage interview.
Aug 2021: We have one journal paper accepted: Q. Xu, T. Dragicevic, L. Xie and F. Blaabjerg, "Artificial Intelligence based Control Design for Reliable Virtual Synchronous Generators," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 9453-9464, Aug. 2021.
June 2021: [New Project] I received a new project funded by C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute as PI: Data-driven control and coordination of smart converters for sustainable power system using deep reinforcement learning (PI, C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai and Microsoft), USA, collaborate with UC Berkeley, around 3.3 million SEK)
June 2021: [New Project] I received a new project funded Digital Futures as PI: Autonomous coordination and control of smart converters for sustainable power systems (PI, Digital futures, Sweden, 2 million SEK)
April 2021: We have one journal paper accepted: Q. Xu, N. Vafamand, L. Chen, T. Dragicevic, L. Xie and F. Blaabjerg, " Review on Advanced Control Technologies for Bidirectional DC/DC Converters in DC Microgrids," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 1205-1221, April 2021
Feb 2021: We have one journal paper accepted: Q. Xu, C. Zhang, Z. Xu and P. Wang, " A Composite Finite-Time Controller for Decentralized Power Sharing and Stabilization of Hybrid Fuel Cell/Supercapacitor System with Constant Power Load," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 1388-1400, Feb. 2021
Jan 2021: We have one journal paper accepted: Q. Xu, Y. Xu, Z. Xu, L. Xie and F. Blaabjerg, " A Hierarchically Coordinated Operation and Control Scheme for DC Microgrid Clusters under Uncertainty, " IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 273-283, Jan. 2021
Jan 2021: [New Appointment] I was appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Jan 2021: [New Appointment] I was elected as Vice Chair in IEEE Power and Energy Society & Power Electronics Society, Sweden
2021
Oct 2020: [New Award] We received Best Paper Award in 2020 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG): Q. Xu, L. Xie and T. Dragicevic, "Distributed Finite-time Power Management for Hybrid Energy Storage Systems in DC microgrids," 2020 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2020, pp. 170-174.
Oct 2020: I served as Organization committee and Women in Industrial Electronics Chair in 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2020), Singapore
Oct 2020: I gave a tutorial on “Advanced Control Technologies for DC Microgrids and Bidirectional DC-DC Converter” in IEEE 11th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Dubrovnik, Croatia, Oct, 2020
Oct 2020: I gave a tutorial on “Generic and systematic stability study in power electronics systems” in 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Singapore, Oct, 2020
Sep 2020: I started at KTH as Assistant Professor and established Intelligent Sustainable Grid (ISG) Lab @ KTH.