Rate My Professor Lei Wu

Professor Wu's research interests center on optimization and statistical analysis applied to power system operations and electricity markets, public policy and technical issues associated with electricity transmission and distribution under market restructuring, economic implications of renewable energy integration, and co-optimization of critical interdependent infrastructures. These include power and energy system optimization and control, modeling of large-scale power systems with high penetration of demand response and renewable energy, and community resilience microgrids. Notable publications include the book Artificial Intelligence Enabled Computational Methods for Smart Grid Forecast and Dispatch (Springer, 2023), "Robust Optimization for the Day-Ahead Scheduling of Cascaded Hydroelectric Systems" (IEEE PES General Meeting, 2022), "An Asymptotic Stability Guaranteed Droop-Free Control Scheme for Normalized Active Power Consensus in Microgrids" (IEEE PES General Meeting, 2023), and "A Review on Control Schemes of HVDC-Integrated Offshore Wind Farms for Fast Frequency Support" (2024). He has received the IEEE Fellow designation in 2022, NSF CAREER Award in 2013, IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award in 2011, Jess H. Davis Memorial Award for Research Excellence from Stevens in 2020, Stevens Research Excellence Awards in 2022 and 2023, IEEE PES Transactions Prize Paper Award in 2009, and IEEE PES Student Prize Paper Award in 2014 as advisor.