On December 5, 2023, Claudio Adrián Cañizares, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Professor at the University of Waterloo, Director of the Waterloo Sustainable Energy Research Centre, and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, was appointed as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University. The appointment ceremony, along with a lecture, took place at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics. Professor Kang Chongqing, Dean of EEA, presented Professor Cañizares with certificates of appointment as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Energy Internet Innovation Research Institute of Tsinghua University. Over 50 faculty members and students from the EEA, including Deputy Dean Yu Zhanqing, Associate Professors Liu Feng and Guo Hongye, Assistant Researchers Wang Peng and Dai Jing from the Energy Internet Innovation Research Institute, attended the ceremony and lecture.

Kang Chongqing presenting the appointment certificate of Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University to Professor Claudio Adrián Cañizares

Kang Chongqing presenting the appointment certificate of Distinguished Visiting Professor of Energy Internet Innovation Research Institute of Tsinghua University to Professor Claudio Adrián Cañizares

Following the appointment ceremony, Deputy Dean Yu Zhanqing hosted a special academic lecture by Professor Claudio Adrián Cañizares. The lecture was titled “Carbon Neutral Energy Transition in Canada: A Case Study of Ontario”. In his presentation, Professor Cañizares systematically introduced the current status of Canada’s power system development and the primary energy structure on the generation side in different regions. Using Ontario as an example, he analyzed characteristics such as power market rules, user-side electricity consumption behavior, and pricing features. He also provided an outlook on the carbon-neutral transformation path of the Canadian power system based on the current application status, policy orientation, and development prospects of emerging resources such as hydrogen and electric vehicles. After the lecture, faculty and students from EEA engaged in in-depth discussions with Professor Cañizares, exploring topics such as the application scenarios of artificial intelligence in power systems.

Professor Claudio Adrián Cañizares presenting an academic lecture

At Professor Claudio Adrián Cañizares’ academic lecture

Group photo after the event

Professor Claudio Adrián Cañizares is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, Professor and Hydro One Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE). He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Professor Cañizares has received several prestigious awards, including the 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award, the 2016 IEEE Canada Power Award, and numerous recognitions and awards from IEEE PES technical committees and committees.