Research

Research

Loi Lei LAI

School

School of Automation

Title

Professor,PhD supervisor BSc (First), PhD, DSc, CEng, FIET, FIEEE

Research Interest

(1) Smart energy network;

(2) Energy internet strategy and roadmap;

(3) Smart City;

(4) Electricity deregulation include distributed generation;

(5) Big data and smart grid;

(6) Computational intelligence application in power engineering;

(7) Energy storage and electric vehicles;

(8) Communication in advanced metering infrastructure;

(9) Power system under high penetration of renewables

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Contacts

l.l.lai@gdut.edu.cn

Personal Introduction

Professor of Hundred Talent Program,Academic leader of electrical engineering discipline of Guangdong University of Technology,High Level Talent,,IEEE Fellow,IET Fellow,Head of the new generation integrated energy system theory and technology research team.

Engaged in research work on control, operation, management, planning and economy of smart power and energy systems, data science and artificial intelligence, etc., including smart energy in smart cities, energy internet strategy research, power market, big data and smart grid, application of blockchain in smart grid, etc. He has published more than 100 papers in international authoritative journals such as IEEE Trans Smart Grid, published 6 English monographs, participated in 4 English monographs, and served as a member of the editorial board of 7 international first-class journals(IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics,IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems,etc.)。

Education

2005, higher doctorate,Doctor of Science(DSc)City, University of London(Formerly City University London)

1980- 1984 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Aston University, UK 1978 - 1980 Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) Aston University 1976 - 1978 Higher Diploma in Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong

Polytechnic University (Formerly Hong Kong Polytechnic)

Work Experience

2015-now University Distinguished Professor, Guangzhou University of Technology, China 2011-2015 Director of Energy Strategy, Planning, Policy Support, Research and Development Centre, State Grid Energy Research Institute, Beijing China

1989 - 2010 Lecturer, Reader, Chair Professor, City, University of London, UK

1984 - 1988 Senior Lecturer, Staffordshire Polytechnic, UK

Part-time Academic Job

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow

IET (British Society of Engineering and Technology) Fellow

CIGRE (International Commission for Large Grids) Editor, Technical Committee B 534, B537

2015 -Member of the IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee (a total of 14 members worldwide)

2015-Co-Chairman of the IEEE System, Human and Control Society (SMC) Standards Committee

2010-14 Vice Chairman of the IEEE System, Human and Control Society (SMC)

2012 Distinguished Expert of State Grid

2010-13"Yugang Bao Chair Professor "of Zhejiang University

Main Honor

2001-2005 Chairman, Accreditation Panel, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Assessing Hong Kong Polytechnic University BEng (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering

2003 Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation & Management 2003, IEE

2005 -2010 Judge, IEE Innovation in Engineering Awards – Power Category

2010 -2014 Vice President of Membership and Student Activities, Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, IEEE

2010 -2014 Chair, Distinguished Lecturer Programme Committee, Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, IEEE

June 2013 External Members, Departmental Review Panel for Electrical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Oct 2013 General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Manchester UK

Oct 2014 General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Energy Systems, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, San Diego USA

2015 -2018 IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee Member

2018 -now Chair, Standards Committee, IEEE Systems, Man and

Cybernetics Society

2017 -now IEEE Smart Cities Steering Committee Member

2017 -now IEEE Smart Cities Publications Committee Chair

Oct 2017 Keynote Speaker, IEEE SMC 2017 Workshop on Smart Grid for Smart City, Oct 2017, Canada

Oct 2018 Keynote Speaker, IEEE SMC 2018 Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Grid, October 2018, Miyazaki Japan

Nov 2018 Plenary Speaker, IET International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation and Management, Nov 2018, Hong Kong

Some selected prize, honour and award (2000 - 2016)

Jun 2000 Recipient, IEEE Third Millennium Medal and Certificate

Jan 2001 Recipient, 2000 IEEE Power Engineering Society UKRI Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award

Jun 2004 Recipient, 2003 Outstanding Large Chapter Award, IEEE Power Engineering Society

Dec 2005 Honorary graduate, City, University of London, UK

https://www.city.ac.uk/alumni/graduation/honorary-graduates

Jun 2006 Recipient, Prize paper awarded by IEEE Power Engineering Society Energy Development and Power Generation Committee for the Transactions paper published in Energy Conversion in 2003

Jan 2007 IEEE Fellowship

Jul 2009 Recipient, Prize paper awarded by IEEE Power & Energy Society, Energy Development and Power Generation Committee for the Transactions paper published in Energy Conversion in 2007

Mar 2012 Distinguished Expert, State Grid Corporation of China

Jun 2013 Recipient, 2012 Scientific Chinese Award, China

Oct 2013 Recipient, Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Citation: For outstanding contributions to planning and organization of the Celebration Lecture Series in the United Kingdom and China

Oct 2014 Recipient, Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Citation: For significant contributions and outstanding service to the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society

Jan 2015 Named in National Distinguished Expert, China Honour list (1% of National Distinguished Experts were selected)

Oct 2016 Recipient, Most Active Technical Committee Award(Technical Committee on Intelligent Power and Energy Systems), IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Selected Activities for International Conferences (2000 -)

2000 Conference Chair IEE/IEEE International Conference on Electric Utility Deregulation and Restructuring and Power Technologies 2000, London UK

2005 Conference Chair IEE International Conference on Energy Trading and Risk Management, London UK

2013 Conference Chair IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Manchester UK

2014 Conference Chair IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Energy Systems, San Diego USA

2017 Conference Chair The 2nd clean energy technology and Industry Development Conference,Chengdu China (http://conf.1000thinktank.com/ce2017/)

2020 Technical Programme IEEE International Conference on Smart Cities Co-chair (Virtual conference)

Main Achievements

1. Loi Lei Lai, Intelligent System Applications in Power Engineering - Evolutionary Programming and Neural Networks, John Wiley & Sons, UK, July 1998.

2. Loi Lei Lai (Editor), Power System Restructuring and Deregulation: Trading, Performance and Information Technology, John Wiley & Sons, UK, Sept 2001.

3. Loi Lei Lai and Tze Fun Chan, Distributed Generation - Induction and Permanent Magnet Generators, Wiley, Oct 2007.

4. 赖来利,陈梓芬 著, 孔祥新 等译, 分布式发电——感应和永磁发电机, 中国机械工业出版社, Nov 2009, I S B N: 9787111282877.

Some selected papers (2016 - now)

1. C Jia, Z Xu, L L Lai and K P Wong, “Risk based power system security analysis considering cascading outages,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, April 2016, pp. 872-882.

2. H R Chi, K F Tsang, K T Chui, H Chung, B W K Ling and L L Lai, “Interference-Mitigated ZigBee Based Advanced Metering Infrastructure,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 12, No. 2, April 2016, pp. 672-684.

3. 赖来利,赖俊升, “智能电网计算与需求侧管理的关键技术及方法,” Southern Power System Technology, May 2016.

4. C S Lai, Y Jia, L L Lai and Z Xu, M D McCulloch and K P Wong, “A comprehensive review on large-scale photovoltaic system with applications of electrical energy storage,” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 78 (2017) pp. 439–451.

5. C S Lai, Y Jia, Z Xu, L L Lai, X Li, J Cao and M D McCulloch, “Levelized cost of electricity for photovoltaic/biogas power plant hybrid system with electrical energy storage degradation costs,” Energy Conversion and Management 153 (2017) pp. 34–47.

6. R He, J Deng and L L Lai, “Reliability Evaluation of Communication Constrained Protection Systems using Stochastic-flow Network Models,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 9, Issue 3, May 2018, pp. 2371 – 2381.

7. D Wang, K Meng, X Gao, J Qiu, L L Lai and Z Y Dong, “Coordinated Dispatch of Virtual Energy Storage Systems in LV Grids for Voltage Regulation,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 14, Issue 6, June 2018, pp. 2452 – 2462.

8. F Xu, B Huang, X Cun, F Wang, H Yuan, L L Lai, A Vaccaro, “Classifier economics of Semi-Intrusive Load Monitoring,” International Journal on Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Elsevier, 103 (2018) pp. 224–232.

9. Y F Wang, L P Huang, M Shahidehpour, L L Lai, H L.Yuan, F Y Xu, “Resilience-constrained hourly unit commitment in electricity grids,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 5604-5614, Sep. 2018.

10. D Wang, J Qiu, L Reedman, K Meng, and L L Lai, “Two stage energy management for networked microgrids with high renewable penetrations,” Applied Energy, vol. 226, pp. 39-48, Sep. 2018.

11. F Y Xu, X Cun, M Yan, H Yuan, Y Wang and L L Lai, “Power market load forecasting on neural network with beneficial correlated regularization,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol 14, No. 11, November 2018, pp. 5050 – 5059.

12. C Huang, L Wang and L L Lai, “Data-driven Short-term Solar Irradiation Forecasting Based on Information of Neighboring Sites,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 66 (12) (2019) 9918–9927.

13. W W Y Ng, J Zhang, C S Lai, W Pedrycz, L L Lai and X Wang, “Cost-sensitive weighting and imbalance-reversed bagging for streaming imbalanced and concept drifting in electricity pricing classification,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2019, pp. 1588-1597.

14. C S Lai, G Locatelli, A Pimm, Y S Tao, X Li, L L Lai, “A financial model for lithium-ion storage in a photovoltaic and biogas energy system,” Applied Energy, Vol. 251, 1 October 2019, 113179.

15. D Wang, R Wu, X Li, C S Lai, X Wu, J Wei, Y Xu, W Wu, L L Lai, “Two-stage optimal scheduling of air conditioning resources with high photovoltaic penetrations,” Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118407

16. Y Wang, L Huang, M Shahidehpour, L L Lai and Y Zhou, “Impact of cascading and common cause outages on resilience-constrained economic operation of power systems in extreme conditions,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2020, pp. 590 – 601.

17. Y. Wang, Z. Huang, Z. Li, X. Wu, L. L. Lai, and F. Xu, “Transactive Energy Trading in Reconfigurable Multi-carrier Energy Systems,” Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2020, pp. 67-76.

18. Y F Wang, Z H Huang, M Shahidehpour, L L Lai, Z Q Wang, and Q S Zhu, “Reconfigurable distribution network for managing transactive energy in a multi-microgrid system,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 11, No. 2, March 2020, pp. 1286 – 1295.

19. H Yuan, J Li, L L Lai and Y Y Tang, “Low-rank matrix regression for image feature extraction and feature selection,” Information Sciences, Volume 522, June 2020, pp. 214-226.

20. J Zheng, C S Lai, H Yuan, Z Y Dong, K Meng and

L L Lai, “Electricity plan recommender system with electrical instruction-based recovery,” Energy 203 (2020) 117775.

21. Z Zhao, R Cheng, B Yan, J Zhang, Z Zhang, M Zhang and

L L Lai, “A dynamic particles MPPT method for photovoltaic systems under partial shading conditions,” Energy Conversion and Management, 220 (2020) 11 113070.

Main Projects

2015-2016, analysis of electricity price reform and policy recommendations in Guangdong Province, Guangdong price and Industry Development Association, presided over by

2017 to now, the new generation of comprehensive energy system theory and technology research team, high-level scientific research project (NATURAL SCIENCE) of universities in Guangdong Province,

2017-2018110kv substation eddy current loss analysis and optimization method research, Guangzhou Power Supply Bureau Co., Ltd

2018-2019, Foshan Electric Power Construction Group Co., Ltd. presided over the research on Key Technologies of building comprehensive energy saving for big data center

2019 to now, research on Key Technologies of automatic inspection of transmission lines and intelligent identification of power equipment defects based on multi rotor UAV has been entrusted and presided over by the enterprise

Research Team