Assoc. Prof. XU Yan

Co-Investigator of Control, Detection and Recovery of Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems

Dr Yan Xu is co-investigator of the Control, Detection, and Recovery Schemes of Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems module at Future Resilient Systems. He is also associate professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) and cluster director at the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N).

His research interests include power system stability and control, microgrid, and data-analytics for smart grid applications. Dr Xu is an editor for IEEE Transactions (TSG and TPWRS), IET Journals (GTD and ECE), and China's power engineering international journals (CSEE JPES and MPCE). He is also serving as the chairman for IEEE Power & Energy Society Singapore Chapter.

He received his bachelor and masters in Engineering degrees from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China in 2008 and 2011, respectively, and his PhD degree from The University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2013. He conducted postdoctoral research with the University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship, and then joined the Nanyang Assistant Professorship at NTU.

Research interests

Power system, microgrid and smart grid data-analytics

Award/recognition

2020: IET Energy Conversion & Economics, Premium Paper Award for “Multi-stage coordinated operation of a multi-energy microgrid with residential demand response under diverse uncertainties”
2020: Third Prize, 2020 WCCI Competition “Learning to Run a Power Network (L2RPN)”
2019: IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Atlanta, Best Paper Award (paper #1)
2019: IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Atlanta, Best Paper Award (paper #2)
2018: 11th IET Int. Conf. Advances in Power System Control, Operation and Management (APSCOM) Conference, Hong Kong, Best Paper Award
2018: Applied Energy Highly Cited Paper Award in year 2018 for Z. Li and Y. Xu*, “Optimal coordinated energy dispatch for a multi-energy microgrid in grid-connected and islanded modes,” Applied Energy, vol.210, pp. 974-986, Jan. 2018.
2017: IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2), Beijing, China, Best Paper Award
2017: IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Chicago, Best Paper Award

Affiliation

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore