Dr. Shan Cheng received the Bachelor’s degree in electronic information engineering from Henan Polytechnic University and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Chongqing University in 2005 and 2013, respectively. Since July 2013, he has been with China Three Gorges University, where he is currently the Director of Microgrid Research Center. 

Dr Cheng’s research interests include power system optimization & control, energy management and operation optimization of smart grid, and intelligent optimization algorithm & its application to power system. Since 2013, he has been the PI for 6 grants supported by National Science Foundation Committee, Hubei Provincial Department of Education, etc. He has published more than 20 SCI/EI indexed academic papers in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, etc. He was Session Chair of IEEE IGBSG 2018, and is TPC Chair of IEEE IGBSG 2019.