Chao REN
Research Topic
Big Data Analysis, Power Engineering, Federated Learning, Large-Scale System Security and Stability Assessment, Quantum Computing.
Brief Biography
Received the B.E. degree from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in Jul. 2017. Received the Ph.D. degree from the Interdisciplinary Graduate School and awarded the Winner of Graduate College Research Excellence Award (Each Year Only one Graduated Ph.D. is Awarded Among all Colleges and Schools in NTU) ,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in Feb. 2022, supervised by
Cham Tao Soon Prof. Yan Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore),
Assoc Prof. Arijit Khan (Aalborg University, Denmark), and
Assoc Prof. Teoh Eam Khwang.
Currently, I am Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Principal Researcher (Forskare) in School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
From 2022 to 2023, I am Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow (Principal Investigator) in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
My current supervisor is Prof. Mikael Skoglund (Head of Department of Intelligent Systems in KTH, IEEE Fellow).
Previously, my supervisors were Prof. Zhao Yang Dong (Head of Department of Electrical Engineering in Cityu, IEEE Fellow), Assoc Prof. Han Yu (NTU), and President's Chair Prof. Dusit Niyato (NTU, IEEE Fellow).
Latest News
[Nov. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.
[Oct. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing.
[Sep. 2024] One paper was accepted by Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024 (NeurIPS'24).
[Aug. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
[Aug. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
[Jul. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing.
[Jul. 2024] Severd as Special Session Organizer for The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse (Metaverse 2024).
[Jul. 2024] One paper was accepted by Energy Conversion and Economics.
[Jun. 2024] Severd as Editoral Board for IET AI for Engineering.
[May. 2024] Our latest FedFM survey paper about "Advances and Open Challenges in Federated Learning with Foundation Models" was released in Arix 2404.15381.
[May. 2024] Severd as TPC member for IEEE SmartGridComm 2024.
[Apr. 2024] One paper was accepted by International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024 (IJCAI'24).
[Apr. 2024] Severd as PC member for ACM e-Energy 2024.
[Mar. 2024] Join the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
[Feb. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
[Jan. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024 (ICC'24).
[Jan. 2024] Severd as Special Session Organizer for ICIEA 2024.
[Dec. 2023] Severd as PC member for IJCAI 2024.
[Dec. 2023] Invited talks in Hunan University and Southeast University.
[Oct. 2023] One paper was accepted by IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.
[Sep. 2023] One paper was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
[Sep. 2023] One paper was accepted by IET Energy Systems Integration.
[Sep. 2023] Invited to serve as an PC member for FL@FM-NeurIPS’23.
[Sep. 2023] Invited to serve as an PC member for AAMAS 2024.
[Aug. 2023] One paper was accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
[Aug. 2023] Severd as Special Session Organizer for ECCE Asia 2024.
[Jun. 2023] One paper was accepted by IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems.
[Sep. 2023] Invited to serve as an PC member for FL-ICML’23.
[May. 2023] Our latest QFL survey paper about "Towards Quantum Federated Learning" was released in Arix 2306.09912.
[Apr. 2023] One paper was accepted by CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems.
[Feb. 2023] Invited to serve as an PC member for ICME 2023.
Education
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Period: Aug. 2017 – Feb. 2022, Singapore
Submitted thesis in July 2021, defended in Feb 2022, received degree in Feb. 2022.
Winnner of Graduate College Research Excellence Award (Each Year Only one Graduated Ph.D. is Awarded Among all Colleges and Schools in NTU)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme, across School of Computer Science
Engineering and School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Supervisor: Prof. Yan Xu (EEE, NTU), Co-Supervisor: Prof. Arijit Khan (Aalborg University, Denmark), Mentor: Prof. Teoh
Eam Khwang (EEE, NTU), Chair: Prof. Dusit Niyato (SCSE, NTU)
Thesis Title: Advanced Big-Data Analytics for Future Smart Grid Security Assessment
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Period: Sep. 2013 – Jun. 2017, Nanjing, China
Outstanding Graduate Award by NUAA
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA)
Bachelor of Engineering, School of Computer Science and Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Ran Wang (CS), Co-Supervisor: Prof. Kun Zhu (CS), Prof. Qiang Xie
(CS)
Concentration on Data Analytics, Robust Optimization, and System Engineering
Thesis Title: Robust Optimization for Performance Boundary Analysis of Microgrid Energy Dispatching Strategy
Working Experience
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Period: Mar. 2024 – Present
Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Principal Researcher (Forskare), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
My own grant “Modern Smart Grid Stability Assessment Using Advanced Big Data-Analytics Techniques” for Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) research partner institution with KTH in Sweden, cooperating with Prof. Mikael Skoglund (Head of Department of Intelligent Systems in KTH, IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Zhao Yang Dong (Head of Department of Electrical Engineering in Cityu, IEEE Fellow).
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Period: Jan. 2023 – Mar. 2024
Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow (Principal Investigator), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
My own grant “Modern Smart Grid Stability Assessment Using Advanced Big Data-Analytics Techniques” for NTU in Singapore, cooperating with Prof. Zhao Yang Dong (NTU, IEEE Fellow), Nanyang Asst. Prof. Han Yu (NTU), and Prof. Dusit Niyato (IEEE Fellow, NTU).
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Period: July. 2022 – Dec. 2022
Research Fellow in Trustworthy Federated Ubiquitous Learning Research Lab (AI Singapore-TrustFUL), Singapore
Work for AISG project under Prof. Han Yu and Prof. Dusit Niyato in NTU.
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Period: Jan. 2022 – Jun. 2022
Student Assistant in Trustworthy Federated Ubiquitous Learning Research Lab (AI Singapore-TrustFUL), Singapore
Work for AISG project under Prof. Han Yu and Prof. Dusit Niyato in NTU.
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Period: Sep. 2021 – Dec. 2021
Student Assistant in Singapore Power Group-NTU Joint Lab (SP Group-NTU Joint Lab), Singapore
Work for SP project under Prof. Yan Xu in NTU.
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Period: Jan. 2021 – Sep. 2021
Student Assistant in Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab (SCALE@NTU), Singapore
Work for Singtel project under Prof. Yan Xu in NTU.
Period: Jan. 2018 – Oct. 2018, Singapore
Student Assistant in Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)
Work for ERI@N project under Prof. Yan Xu in NTU.
Current Grant
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“Advanced Modern Smart Grid Stability Assessment with Big Data-Analytics Techniques”, by Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) research partner institution with KTH in Sweden [Principal Investigator] - (SEK 300,000)
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“Modern Smart Grid Stability Assessment Using Advanced Big Data-Analytics Techniques”, by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) [Principal Investigator] - (S$ 100,000)
References
Prof. Yan Xu
Cham Tao Soon Professor in Engineering
Director, Center for Power Engineering
College of Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Dong Zhao Yang
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
Chair Professor
Head of Department of Electrical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong, China
Prof. Mikael Skoglund
IEEE Fellow
Professor
Head of Division of Information Science and Engineering
Head of Department of Intelligent Systems
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Prof. Dusit Niyato
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
President's Chair Professor
College of Computing and Data Science
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Han Yu
Associate Professor
College of Computing and Data Science
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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