Recently, Lin Yuzhang, an alumnus of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics, won the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award (NSF CAREER Award). The award aims to recognize outstanding young professors who have the potential to become leaders in various disciplines. It is the highest honor granted by NSF to young scholars. In the next five years, this award will support the scientific research team led by Dr. Lin Yuzhang to carry out research on innovative theoretical framework and technical methods in the field of multi-data fusion and situational awareness of active distribution network, so as to provide provide real-time, comprehensive and reliable information perception basis for large-scale distributed renewable energy at the access side and demand side in the energy Internet.

Lin Yuzhang is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, US. In 2008, he entered the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 2012 and a master’s degree in 2014. In 2018, he received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University (won the Outstanding Doctoral Research Award), and started to teach at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is now mainly engaged in the research on modeling and estimation of smart grid and renewable energy generation, situational awareness, cyber-physical resilience and application of machine learning. He is currently the co-chairman of the IEEE Standard Case Working Group of Power System State Estimation, the editor of the internationally renowned journals IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution and CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, and the reviewer of the international academic publishing organizations Springer and IET academic monographs. He has won the Outstanding Reviewer Award for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He has served as a member of the technical committee, branch chairman and special guest report of many international academic conferences such as IEEE Power & Energy General Meeting (PESGM).