At KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Dr. Qianwen Xu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Electric Power and Energy Systems as well as Director of the Intelligent Sustainable Grid (ISG) Lab. In 2014, Qianwen received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Tianjin University, China, and since 2018, she holds a PhD degree in the same subject from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Between 2018–2020, she worked as a postdoc research fellow at Aalborg University in Denmark, a visiting researcher at Imperial College London, and a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoc Fellow at Nanyang Technological University.

Qianwen’s research interests include advanced control, optimization and artificial intelligence application of sustainable power systems, microgrids, and power converter systems. As project manager, she has received funding from Swedish Research Council (incl. VR Starting Grant), Swedish Energy Agency (incl. Wind Power Program, Building Programme E2B2), STINT (Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education), C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai and Microsoft), Digital Futures, StandUP for Energy, among others. She has published over 50 technical papers, with 15 first-authored journal papers in top IEEE Transactions. She is Vice Chair in IEEE Power and Energy Society & Power Electronics Society, Sweden, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.

Furthermore, Qianwen is a recipient of Humboldt Research Fellowship, Excellent Doctorate Research Work in Nanyang Technological University, and the Best paper award in IEEE PEDG 2020. She is also the winner of Nordic Energy Challenge 2022.

Areas of expertise

Artificial intelligence, Digitalization, Energy storage, Energy systems, Microgrids, Power electronics, Project management, Research, Sustainability

Languages

Chinese, English, Japanese