Chao REN
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Chao REN (任超)
Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Researcher (Forskare)
Doctor of Philosophy
Office: KTH Main Campus |
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Research Topic
Big Data Analysis, Federated Learning, Power Engineering, Quantum Computing, Large-Scale System Security and Stability Assessment.
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
[Mar. 2025] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
[Mar. 2025] Call for Journal Paper - "Data-Driven Methods for Enhancing Power Systems Stability and Control with Large Scale Renewable Energy Resources"--IET Energy System Integration.
[Mar. 2025] Call for Conference Paper - "Communication, Localization, and Sensing for Industrial Applications"--The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2025.
[Mar. 2025] One paper was accepted by IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
[Mar. 2025] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.
[Feb. 2025] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
[Feb. 2025] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
[Jan. 2025] One paper was accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.
[Jan. 2025] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
[Jan. 2025] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
[Dec. 2024] One paper was accepted by The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'25).
[Dec. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
[Nov. 2024] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
[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] One paper was accepted by Energy Conversion and Economics.
[Jun. 2024] Call for Conference Paper - "Integrating Sensing, Communication and Computing (ISCC) for NextGeneration Metaver"--The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse (Metaverse 2024).
[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] Call for Conference Paper - "Artificial Intelligence for Power Electronics dominated Power Systems"--The 19th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (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] Call for Conference Paper - "Smart Control and Operation of Modern Energy Storage Systems"--The 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference-ECCE Asia (IPEMC 2024-ECCE Asia) .
[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.
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
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).
Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Principal Researcher (Forskare), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden -
Period: Jan. 2023 – Mar. 2024
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).
Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow (Principal Investigator), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore -
Period: July. 2022 – Dec. 2022
Work for AISG project under Prof. Han Yu and Prof. Dusit Niyato in NTU.
Research Fellow in Trustworthy Federated Ubiquitous Learning Research Lab (AI Singapore-TrustFUL), Singapore -
Period: Jan. 2022 – Jun. 2022
Work for AISG project under Prof. Han Yu and Prof. Dusit Niyato in NTU.
Student Assistant in Trustworthy Federated Ubiquitous Learning Research Lab (AI Singapore-TrustFUL), Singapore -
Period: Sep. 2021 – Dec. 2021
Work for SP project under Prof. Yan Xu in NTU.
Student Assistant in Singapore Power Group-NTU Joint Lab (SP Group-NTU Joint Lab), Singapore -
Period: Jan. 2021 – Sep. 2021
Work for Singtel project under Prof. Yan Xu in NTU.
Student Assistant in Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab (SCALE@NTU), Singapore Period: Jan. 2018 – Oct. 2018, Singapore
Work for ERI@N project under Prof. Yan Xu in NTU.
Student Assistant in Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)
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
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
Chair Professor
Head of Department of Electrical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong, China
IEEE Fellow
Full Professor
Head of Division of Information Science and Engineering
Head of Department of Intelligent Systems
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Full Professor
Director General
Aerospace Information Research Institute
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Cham Tao Soon Professor in Engineering
Director, Center for Power Engineering
College of Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
President's Chair Professor
College of Computing and Data Science
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Associate Professor
College of Computing and Data Science
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore