Bio
Dr. Fangxing (Fran) Li is a joint researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Presently he holds an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at The University of Tennessee. He is one of the core faculty members of the NSF Engineering Research Center, CURENT, which is funded by NSF at about $4 million per year in 10 years. He is presently the Campus Director of CURENT. He is the director of the Smart Home & Grid Lab (SHGL). His current interests include renewable energy integration, distributed energy resources, energy markets, reactive power, demand response, and power system computational methods.Dr. Li had worked at ABB Electrical System Consulting (ESC), a.k.a. ABB Consulting, in Raleigh, NC, from February 2001 to August 2005 as a Senior Engineer and then a Principal Engineer before joining UT. During his employment at ABB, he has been significantly involved first in power distribution system and then in power market analysis. In particular, he was the lead developer of GridView Releases 1.0 and 2.0. Presently, GridView is a major power-market simulator with a number of users at power utilities and Independent System Operators (ISOs), as well as being an internal consulting tool for ABB consultants. He had also worked as a part-time engineer at Electrical Distribution Design (EDD) Inc., Blacksburg, VA from 1998 to 2000 and an engineer intern at NARI (China) in 1997. He received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Southeast University (China) in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in 2001. He is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the state of North Carolina. Professor Li is a Fellow of IET (formerly IEE), a Senior Member of IEEE (2005), a Member of Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society, an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, an Editor of IEEE Power and Energy Society Letters, a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, an Editorial Board Member of CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems, and an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) by Springer. He serves the IEEE PES PSPI Committee as a Secretary (2010-2014) and Vice Chair (since 2014) and other positions within IEEE PES. He is the President of North America Chinese Power Professional Association (2013~2015). He has been a chair/organizer of numerous panel sessions at a number of international conferences.