Dr. Nanpeng Yu

Dr. Yu received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2006. Dr. Yu also received his M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics and Ph.D. degree from Iowa State University in 2010. Before joining University of California, Riverside, Dr. Yu was a senior power system planner and project manager at Southern California Edison. Currently, he is a tenure track assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, CA.

Dr. Yu is the director of Smart Grid Innovation Laboratory at UC Riverside. Dr. Yu is also a cooperating faculty member of the department of Statistics and Center for Environmental Research & Technology. He currently serves as the co-chair for IEEE Big Data Applications in Power Distribution Networks Task Force. Dr. Yu currently serves as the associate editor for International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems.