Prof. Zhao ( Joe ) Dong

Biography

Director, Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks, The University of Newcastle

Prof Dong is Ausgrid Chair and Director of the Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks (CIEN) at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was previously with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and the University of Queensland, Australia. He also worked as (power transmission) system planning manager at Transend Networks, Australia. His research interest includes smart grid, power system planning, power system security, load modeling, renewable energy systems, electricity market, and computational intelligence and its application in power engineering. He is an editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, and IEEE POWER ENGINEERING LETTERS. He is an international Advisor for the lead Chinese journal of Automation of Electric Power Systems.

He has been a contractor and listed researcher with Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), USA since 2001, and has successfully carried out 7 EPRI R&D projects in power system stability, power system contingency assessment, power system computing and load modeling areas. He has won over 10 ARC grants, 3 grants under HK RGC & ITF scheme, many industrial R&D and consulting projects in power system planning, stability assessment and electricity market analysis and load modeling areas. He is a member of IEEE taskforce on power system cascading failure, and a chapter coordinator for CIGRE work group on load modeling. Prof Dong has published over 340 technical papers, approximately half of them are referred journal publications.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Sydney, 1999
• Graduate Certificate in Education, University of Queensland, 2002
• Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), 1993

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Research

Research keywords

• complex systems
• computational intelligence & data mining
• cyber physical systems
• electrical vehicle
• electricity market
• power engineering
• smart grid
• wind power

Research expertise

•Smart grids

•Power system planning

•Power system stability and control

•Electricity market simulation, operations and management

•Data mining & its application in power/energy systems engineering

•Computational Intelligence & its application in power/energy systems engineering

•Optimisation techniques and numerical techniques & its application in power/energy systems engineering

•Grid computing & data mining tools for real time power system security assessment

Collaboration

Key Collaborative Partner Institutions

Research Institutions

• State Grid Electric Power Research Institute / NARI, Nanjing, China

•Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), USA

•Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), USA

•EDF, France

•CSIRO (Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization), Australia

Utility Companies/System Operators/Consulting Firms

•Hong Kong Electric Company, Hong Kong

•China Light and Power Company, Hong Kong

•AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator, previously NEMMCO), Australia

•Powerlink Queensland, Australia (Transmission network service provider, Queensland)

•Transend Networks, Australia (Transmission network service provider, Tasmania)

•TransGrid, Australia (Transmission network service provider, NSW)

•ESIPC, Australia (Transmission network service operator, South Australia)

•Western Power Corp, Australia (utility, transmission network service provider, Western Australia)

•Stanwell Corporation, Australia (Generator)

•Snowy Hydro, Australia (Generator)

•Midwest ISO, USA (System Operator)

•Hill Michael Consulting, Australia

•UniQuest, Australia

•EDF, France

Universities

•The University of Sydney, Australia

•The University of Western Australia, Australia

•Queensland University of Technology, Australia

•The University of Queensland (School of Economics in energy economics research), Australia

•Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

•National University of Singapore, Singapore

•Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

•University of Tennessee, USA

•The University of Hong Kong

•North China Electric Power University, China

•Shandong University, China

•Hunan University, China

•Tsinghua University, China

•South China University of Technology, China

•Zhejiang University, China

•City University, Hong Kong

•Guizhou University, China

•Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

•Chongqing University, China

•Sichuan University, China

•Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Languages

• Cantonese
• English
• Mandarin

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
099999	Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified	60
090699	Electrical And Electronic Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified	35
080199	Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing Not Elsewhere Classified	5

Centres and Groups

Centre

• Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks (CIEN)
• Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER)
• PRC - Centre for Complex and Dynamic Systems and Control

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Teaching

Teaching keywords

• EMS / SCADA
• Electricity market
• Load modelling
• Renewable energy
• power system dynamics & stability
• power system planning

Teaching expertise

•power system dynamics & stability

•power system planning

•Electricity market

•Load modelling

•EMS / SCADA

•Renewable energy