Rate My Professor Lei Wu

Lei Wu is the Anson Wood Burchard Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and M.S. in Systems Engineering in 2004 from Xi’an Jiaotong University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2008 from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His professional career includes positions as Senior Research Associate at the Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at the Illinois Institute of Technology from 2008 to 2010, Summer Visiting Faculty at the New York Independent System Operator in 2012, and faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Clarkson University, where he received early promotions to Associate Professor and Full Professor by 2018. He joined Stevens Institute of Technology in 2019 as Associate Professor from January 2019 to August 2020, became Professor in September 2020, and Anson Wood Burchard Chair Professor in June 2022.

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.