Honorable Advisors

Professor Shijie Cheng, a distinguished power systems expert, was born in July 1945 in Tongshan, Hubei Province, China. As a professor and doctoral advisor, he has made significant contributions to the field of electrical engineering. Professor Cheng has served on the Electrical Engineering Discipline Review Group of the State Council's Academic Degrees Committee during its fourth and fifth terms. He is recognized as an expert with outstanding contributions to the nation, and has been honored as an Excellent Science and Technology Worker, Science and Technology Elite, and Excellent Teacher in Hubei Province. In 2007, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Professor Cheng graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1967, obtained his master's degree from Huazhong Institute of Technology in 1981, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary in 1986. He returned to Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1988, was promoted to professor in 1991, and became a doctoral advisor in 1993. Currently, he serves as the Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Director of the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Power System Safety and Efficiency, and is an IEEE Fellow. He is also the Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, a Fellow of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, and President of the Hubei Provincial Society for Electrical Technology. His international experience includes positions at the University of Calgary in Canada, the Technical University of Munich in Germany, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Professor Cheng has dedicated his career to research in power systems and automation, achieving significant results in adaptive control, intelligent control, and subsynchronous oscillation of power systems. In recent years, he has pioneered research on power system stability control based on energy storage principles. His innovative work in high-temperature superconducting magnetic energy storage and rotational energy storage for power system stability control has been groundbreaking. He has received numerous accolades, including the National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Prize), the Provincial Natural Science Award (First Prize), two Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards (First Prize), two Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards (Second Prize), and the National Education Commission's Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Prize). Professor Cheng has published over 370 academic papers in domestic and international journals and conferences, with 40 indexed by SCI and more than 180 by EI. He has also authored and translated one monograph each and holds three national invention patents.