The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has recently announced the list of IEEE Fellows for 2024, a prestigious honor that recognizes outstanding achievements in the fields of electrical, electronics, and computer engineering. Among the new fellows, two are from the Energy Internet Research Institute (EIRI) of Tsinghua University, a leading research institute in China that focuses on the innovation and development of energy internet technologies and applications.
Professor Guo Qinglai, the Deputy Director of the Energy Management and Control Research Center of EIRI, was elected as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to system-wide voltage control in power systems. Professor Guo is a distinguished professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, a recipient of the Ministry of Education’s High-end Talent Program, and a winner of the Special Award of the 16th China Youth Science and Technology Award. He is also the Technical Program Chair of the IEEE PES Energy Internet Coordinating Committee, and the Co-Chair of the IEEE Energy Internet Working Group, Smart Grid Voltage Control Working Group, and Cyber-Physical Systems Working Group. He serves or has served as an editorial board member of several international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Review, etc. He is also an executive director of the Energy Internet Special Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, and a member of the Energy Internet Special Committee of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering. His main research interests include power grid energy management technology, voltage stability and voltage control, cyber-physical systems (CPS), electric vehicles and other fields. He has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award First Prize once (second completed person), the National Technology Invention Award Second Prize once (fourth completed person), and provincial and ministerial level science and technology awards 10 times.
Professor Xie Xiaorong, the Advisor of the Railway Flexible Power Supply Research Center of EIRI, was elected as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to analysis of subsynchronous resonance in electrical power systems. Professor Xie is a distinguished professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University, the Vice Dean of the Carbon Neutrality Research Institute, and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He has been engaged in long-term research on power system stability analysis and control, subsynchronous resonance/oscillation, renewable energy integration, and flexible transmission and distribution systems. He has undertaken many national-level scientific and technological projects. He proposed the multidimensional quantitative analysis theory and machine-network coordinated control method for multi-mode subsynchronous oscillation, and innovated the key equipment technology for subsynchronous oscillation control and protection of large-scale turbine units and new energy stations. His research results have been applied to several thermal power/new energy bases and DC transmission projects, with remarkable effects. He has published 4 monographs, more than 300 papers, and applied for more than 100 invention patents in his research field. He has won the National Science and Technology Progress Award Second Prize once and more than 10 provincial and ministerial level/industry association first prizes. He serves or has served as an editorial board member of several journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, etc. He was elected as an IET Fellow, and is a committee of several IEEE, IEC, and Cigre working groups.
IEEE, short for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is an international association of engineers in the fields of electronic technology and information science engineering. It has more than 420,000 members in more than 160 countries. IEEE Fellow is the highest level of membership and the highest honor conferred by the organization. The elected fellows need to make significant contributions to the advancement or application of engineering science and technology, and bring great value to society. Each year, peer experts select from members who have outstanding contributions, and the number of elected fellows does not exceed one-thousandth of the total number of IEEE members.
