Yonghong Chen is a Chinese-American operations researcher and electrical engineer who works as a chief scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Her research involves the application of mathematical optimization to market design and operations of electric power transmission.[1]
Education and career
editChen earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Southeast University in Nanjing in 1990, and a master's degree from the Nanjing Automation Research Institute in 1993. After continuing to work at the Nanjing Automation Research Institute from 1993 to 1998, she completed a PhD in electrical engineering at Washington State University in 2001.[2] Her dissertation, Development of automatic slow voltage control for large power systems, was supervised by Mani V. Venkatasubramanian.[3] She also has an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.[2]
From 2001 to 2002 worked for GridSouth TransCo,[2] a regional power transmission company formed in 2000 by combining assets from three smaller companies in North and South Carolina. GridSouth failed in 2002,[4] and she moved to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO).[2] After over 20 years at MISO, she moved to her present position at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.[1]
Recognition
editChen received the Franz Edelman Award of INFORMS in 2011 for her work on optimization in market design at MISO.[5] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2023, "for contributions in wholesale electricity market design and operations".[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Yonghong Chen", Researcher profiles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, retrieved 2024-09-19
- ^ a b c d Department Seminar Speaker Bio, Iowa State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 29 April 2014, retrieved 2024-09-19
- ^ Venkatasubramanian, Mani V., Graduate students supervised, Washington State University, retrieved 2024-09-19
- ^ John, Leo (2 December 2002), "GridSouth costs Progress $25M", Triangle Business Journal, retrieved 2024-09-19
- ^ "Yonghong Chen", Recognizing Excellence: Award Recipients, INFORMS, retrieved 2024-09-19
- ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2024-09-19
External links
edit- Yonghong Chen publications indexed by Google Scholar