I am currently a Full Professor and Doctoral Supervisor with the College of Automation & College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT). I received the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in June 2014. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Faculty of Electronic Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University from Dec. 2019 to Nov. 2022. I was elevated to IEEE Senior Member in Feb. 2023. My research interests include optimization control of cyber-physical energy systems, grid-interactive efficient buildings, and deep reinforcement learning. I am the Principal Investigator for seven projects funded by the National Natural Science Fund of China, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Science and Technology Department of Jiangsu Province, and Education Department of Jiangsu Province. I have published a book and 47 scientific papers (including three ESI highly cited papers, and 27 SCI-indexed papers, Google citation count=1979, SCI count without self-citation=1169) in famous journals and conferences, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Systems Journal, Building and Environment, and serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and a reviewer for more than 30 SCI-indexed journals and many conferences, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IGESC 2016, IECON 2016, WCSP 2016, WCSP 2017, IGESC 2017, IEEE VTC-Fall 2017, IEEE VPCC 2018, IGESC 2018, WCSP 2019, CAC2022, CCDC2023. Moreover, I have 16 authorized invention patents of China on energy management methods for smart buildings and smart grids. In addition, I have received several academic prizes or honors including 2022 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Best Paper Recognition (Ranked first among the top 5 papers), World's Top 2% Scientists (Single Year 2022), the Award for Hundred Excellent Academic Achievement Papers in Natural Science of Jiangsu Province in 2023, Higher Education Science and Technology Research Achievement Award of Jiangsu Province in 2023, the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Hubei Province in 2015, and the Prize for the Excellent Natural Science Paper of Nanjing City in 2018.

Sept. 2010—June 2014  Ph.D. in Communications and Information Systems, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China. (Doctoral supervisor: Prof. Tao Jiang, IEEE Fellow)

Sept. 2007—June 2010   M.S. in Communications and Information Systems, Yangtze University, P. R. China.

Sept. 2003—June 2007   B.S. in Communications Engineering, Yangtze University, P. R. China.

Dec. 2022—Present    Doctoral Supervisor, College of Automation & College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, P. R. China.

July 2022—Present     Full Professor, College of Automation & College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, P. R. China.

Dec. 2019—Nov. 2022   Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Electronic Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P. R. China. (Postdoc supervisor: Prof. Xiaohong Guan, IEEE Fellow, Member of Chinese Academy of Science).

April 2020—June 2020  Associate Professor, College of Automation & College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, P. R. China.

July 2017—April 2020   Associate Professor, College of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, P. R. China.

July 2014—June 2017   Assistant Professor, College of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Nanjing, P. R. China.

Jan. 2022—Dec. 2026  Modeling and Intelligence Design Methods for Multi-Energy Supply Demand Systems with Hydrogen, The National Natural Science Fund of China (Major Program), 1360000 RMB, Grant No. 62192751

Jan. 2020—Dec. 2023   On Joint Energy and Thermal Comfort Management Methods for Smart Office Buildings, The National Natural Science Fund of China (General Program), 600000 RMB, Grant No. 61972214

July 2020—Sept. 2022   On Energy Management Methods for Commercial Building Microgrids Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 80000RMB, Grant No. 2020M673406

Jan. 2015—Dec. 2018   On the Methods of Reducing Energy Cost for Geographically Distributed Internet Data Centers in Smart Grid, The National Natural Science Fund of China for Young Scholars, 200000 RMB, Grant No. 61502252

June 2015—July 2018  On the Methods of Energy Optimization for Internet Data Centers under Smart Grid Environment, The Natural Science Fund of Jiangsu Province for Young Scholars, 200000 RMB, Grant No. BK20150869

June 2015—July 2017  On Joint Energy Management Methods for Geo-distributed Data Centers and Electric Vehicles under Smart Grid Environment, The General Program for Natural Science Research of Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province, 30000 RMB, Grant No. 15KJB110017

[1] Higher Education Science and Technology Research Achievement Award of Jiangsu Province in 2023, April 2024.

[2] The Award for Hundred Excellent Academic Achievement Papers in Natural Science of Jiangsu Province, Dec. 2023.

[3] World's Top 2% Scientists (Single Year 2022), Octo. 2023.

[4]  Jiangsu Government Scholarship for Overseas Studies, June 2023.

[5] IEEE Senior Member, Feb. 2023

[6] Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2022, Ranked First Among the Top 5 Papers), Jan. 2023

[7] An Excellent Young Backbone Teacher of Qinlan Project in Jiangsu Province, July 2022

[8] Advanced Worker in Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, April 2022

[9] Dingxin Scholar, 1311 Talent Project of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Jan. 2020

[10] The Prize for the Excellent Natural Science Paper of Nanjing City, Feb. 2018

[11] The Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Hubei Province, Dec. 2015

[12] The Prize for the Excellent Natural Science Papers of Nanjing City, Dec. 2015

[13] The First Prize for Outstanding Bachelor Dissertation of Hubei Province, Dec. 2007 

[14] The Outstanding Graduate of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, June 2014 

[15] The Outstanding Graduate of Yangtze University, June 2010 

[16] The Outstanding Graduate of Yangtze University, June 2007

[1] Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2024.

[2] Reviewer of more than 30 SCI-indexed journals and many conferences, including IEEE TSG, IEEE TII, IEEE TSTE, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TIE, IEEE TPD, IEEE TPDS, and IEEE/CAA JAS.

[3] Committee Member of Youth Working, Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), 2023.

[4] Committee Member of Youth Working, Chinese Institute of Command and Control (CICC), 2023.

[5] Technical Session Chair, The 7th IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration, 2023.

[6] Council Member of Smart Grid and Aritificial Intelligence Sub-Committee, IEEE PES (China) Smart Grid and & Emerging Technologies Satellite Committee, 2021.

[1] Z. Chen, L. Yu, S. Zhang, S. Hu, and C. Shen, Multi-agent Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning for Operation Optimization of Grid-interactive Efficient Commercial Buildings, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, DOI: 10.1109/TAI.2024.3366869, 2024.

[2] L. Yu, D. Yue, Y. Tan, S. Zhang, Y. Yang, C. Dou, and V. Kuzin, Online distributed coordination operation for grid-interactive efficient residential buildings, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2023.3339761, 2023.

[3] T. Zhang, L. Yu, D. Yue, C. Dou, X. Xie, L. Chen, Two-timescale coordinated voltage regulation for high renewable-penetrated active distribution networks considering hybrid devices, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, DOI: 10.1109/TII.2023.3308348, 2023.

[4] L. Yu, Z. Xu, X. Guan, Q. Zhao, C. Dou, and D. Yue, Joint optimization and learning approach for smart operation of hydrogen-based building energy systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2023, 14(1):199-216.

[5] L. Yu, Z. Xu, T. Zhang, X. Guan, and D. Yue, Energy-efficient personalized thermal comfort control in office buildings based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning, Building and Environment, 2022, 223,109458:1-12.

[6] L. Yu, S. Qin, M. Zhang, C. Shen, T. Jiang, and X. Guan, A review of deep reinforcement learning for smart building energy management, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021, 8(15):12046-12063.  

[7] L. Yu, Y. Sun, Z. Xu, C. Shen, D. Yue, T. Jiang, and X. Guan, Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for HVAC control in commercial buildings, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2021, 12(1):407-419.

[8] L. Yu, W. Xie, D. Xie, Y. Zou, D. Zhang, Z. Sun, L. Zhang, Y. Zhang, and T. Jiang, Deep reinforcement learning for smart home energy management, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020, 7(4): 2751-2762.

[9] L. Yu, D. Xie, C. Huang, T. Jiang, and Y. Zou, Energy optimization of HVAC systems in commercial buildings considering indoor air quality management, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2019, 10(5): 5103-5113.

[10] L. Yu, T. Jiang, and Y. Zou, Online energy management for a sustainable smart home with an HVAC load and random occupancy, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2019, 10(2): 1646-1659.

[11] L. Yu, T. Jiang, and Y. Zou, Price-sensitivity aware load balancing for geographically distributed Internet data centers in smart grid environment, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2018, 6(4): 1125-1135.

[12] L. Yu, T. Jiang, and Y. Zou, Distributed real-time energy management in data center microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2018, 9(4): 3748-3762.

[13] L. Yu, D. Xie, T. Jiang, Y. Zou, and K. Wang, Distributed real-time HVAC control for cost-efficient commercial buildings under smart grid environment, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018, 5(1): 44-55.

[14] L. Yu, T. Jiang, and Y. Zou, Distributed online energy management for data centers and electric vehicles in smart grid, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2016, 3(6): 1373-1384.

[15] L. Yu, T. Jiang, Y. Zou, and Z. Sun, Joint energy management strategy for geo-distributed data centers and electric vehicles in smart grid environment, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2016, 7(5): 2378-2392.

[16] L. Yu, T. Jiang, Y. Cao, and Q. Qi, Joint workload and battery scheduling with heterogeneous service delay guarantees for data center energy cost minimization, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2015, 26(7): 1937-1947.

[17] L. Yu, T. Jiang, and Y. Cao, Energy cost minimization for distributed Internet data centers in smart microgrids considering power outages, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2015, 26(1): 121-130.

[18] L. Yu, T. Jiang, Y. Cao, and Q. Qi, Carbon-aware energy cost minimization for distributed Internet data centers in smart microgrids, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2014, 1(3): 255-264.

[19] L. Yu, T. Jiang, Y. Cao, and Q. Zhang, Risk-constrained operation for distributed Internet data centers in deregulated electricity markets, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2014, 25(5): 1306-1316.

[20] T. Jiang, Y. Cao, L. Yu, and Z. Wang, Load shaping strategy based on energy storage and dynamic pricing in smart grid, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2014, 5(6): 2868-2876.

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