Francis (Yunhe) Hou
Associate Professor
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2005
- B.E., Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1999
- Power system analysis and control
- Power system planning and operation
- Power system protection
- Power transmission and distribution
- Electric drive and control
- Electric railway systems
- Power system restoration following major outages
- Cyber-physical resilience of power grids against extreme events
- Geometric security analysis and control under endogenous and exogenous uncertainties
- Planning and operation with converter-interfaced devices and AI data centers
- Computational optimization, cyber-physical resilience, and learning-based methods for energy systems
- 2026: IEEE Fellow, for contributions to theory and decision support tools for power system restoration
- 2026: Inaugural Faculty Fellow, Power and Energy Center, Virginia Tech
- 2022 – 2025: World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University/Elsevier (career-long list 2023 – 2025)
- 2021 – 2025: Top 1% Scholar Worldwide, Essential Science Indicators (Clarivate)
- 2022 – Present: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
- 2021 – Present: Chair, IEEE PES Task Force on Power System Restoration with Renewable Energy Sources
- 2022: Best Conference Paper, IEEE PES General Meeting
- 2021: IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Outstanding Paper Award
- 2020: IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion First Place Best Paper, Energy Development and Power Generation
- 2020 – Present: Expert, IEC SC 8A Working Group on terms and definitions for renewable energy generation
- 2019: Best Conference Paper, IEEE PES General Meeting
- 2016: Guest Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, Special Issue on Modeling and Advanced Control of Wind Turbines/Wind Farms
- 2015 – Present: Associate Editor, IEEE Power Engineering Letters
- 2015 – 2022: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
- 2015: Best Conference Paper, IEEE PES General Meeting
- 2011 – 2026: Associate Editor, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy