Ph.D. (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University)

B.Eng. (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University)

Zhigang Li received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees both in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2011 and 2016, respectively. From 2014 to 2015, he was a visiting scholar with the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Argonne National Laboratory. He was an Associate Professor with South China University of Technology. He was a recipient of the top academic honor for PhD candidates at Tsinghua University, and received the Excellent PhD Thesis Award of Tsinghua University. He was the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE). He was selected as one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier. He is among the World’s Top 2% Scientists for 2022 and 2023 reported by Stanford University. His research focus includes energy internet, low-carbon smart grid, renewable energy resource management, and AI-enabled optimization theory.

He has published 107 peer-reviewed technical papers in top journals including four ESI highly cited ones. He received the Best Conference Paper Award of the 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting, the Best Paper Award by the CSEE, and the Best Paper Award by the 7th Purple Mountain in 2022. He received the 2021 First-Class Science and Technology Award of the Education Ministry of China and the 2022 Second-Class Natural Science Award of Shanxi Province.

He is an IEEE Senior Member, and a CSEE Senior Member. He serves as editorial members of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Power Engineering Letters and CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, and is a past Associate Editor of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy.

For the full list of Prof. Zhigang Li’s publications, please visit his Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ay7N3FAAAAAJ

Selected Publications from 2021-2024:

1. Hongyuan Liang, Zhigang Li*, Mohammad Shahidehpour, Nianjie Tian, Youquan Jiang, J. H. Zheng, Jisong Zhu, “Deriving Sufficient Conditions for the Exact Relaxation of Complementarity Constraints in the Energy-Storage-Concerned Optimization Problems,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2024.
2. Shuhan Li, Zhigang Li*, Mohammad Shahidehpour, Wenjing Huang, J. H. Zheng, “Dispatchable Region for Distributed Renewable Energy Generation in Reconfigurable AC‒DC Distribution Networks with Soft Open Points,” Applied Energy, vol. 371, 123704, Oct. 2024.
3. Zhigang Li, Yiru Chen, Zhaoxi Liu, J. H. Zheng, Q. H. Wu, “Reliability Assessment of Integrated Electricity and District Cooling Systems Considering Thermal Dynamics of Pipelines and Buildings,” International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol. 158, 109934, July 2024.
4. Zhigang Li, Zijing Zhang, J. H. Zheng, “Data-Driven Robust Look-Ahead Power Dispatch with Preidentification of the Worst-Case Scenario Using Combined Multilayer Perceptron,” IET Renewable Power Generation, pp. 1-13, Feb. 2024.
5. J. H. Zheng, Z. T. Liang, Yuanzheng Li, Zhigang Li*, Q. H. Wu, “Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning with Privacy Preservation for Continuous Double Auction Based P2P Energy Trading,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 6582-6590, Apr. 2024.
6. Jinyu Yu, Zhigang Li*, Jiahui Zhang, Xiang Bai, Huaichang Ge, J. H. Zheng, and Q. H. Wu, “Efficient Contingency Analysis of Power Systems Using Linear Power Flow with Generalized Warm-Start Compensation,” International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, vol. 156, Feb. 2024.
7. Yanqi Liu, Zhigang Li*, Wei Wei, Jiehui Zheng, “Data-Driven Dispatchable Regions with Potentially Active Boundaries for Renewable Power Generation: Concept and Construction,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 882-891, April 2022.
8. Tong Zhang, Zhigang Li*, Qiuwei Wu, Shixian Pan, Q. H. Wu, “Dynamic Energy Flow Analysis of Integrated Gas and Electricity Systems using the Holomorphic Embedding Method,” Applied Energy, vol. 309, March 2022.
9. Dapeng Chen, Zhaoxia Jing, Zhigang Li*, Hedong Xu, Tianyao Ji, “Exact Relaxation of Complementary Constraints for Optimal Bidding Strategy for Electric Vehicle Aggregators,” IET Renewable Power Generation, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 2493-2507, Sept. 2022.
10. Zhigang Li, Xinyu Liang, Fan Hu, Wen Xiong, Renbo Wu, J. H. Zheng, Q. H. Wu, “Stochastic Accelerated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Hedging Communication Noise in Combined Heat and Power Dispatch,” CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 696-706, June 2023.
11. Weiye Zheng, Zhigang Li*, Huansheng Zhou, “Efficient Robust Look-Ahead Dispatch Incorporating Critical Region Preparation in Gap Time”, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 4840-4843, Sept. 2021.
12. Weiye Zheng, Yunhe Hou, Zhigang Li*, “A Dynamic Equivalent Model for District Heating Networks: Formulation, Existence and Application in Distributed Electricity-Heat Operation”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.12, no. 3, pp. 2685-2695, May 2021.