Dr. Zongjie Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UConn). She is also the Associate Director of the Eversource Energy Center. Before joining UConn, she was post-doctoral research associate in Systems Engineering at Cornell University from 2018-2021.

Education

• Cornell University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Joint Ph.D. Training;
• Harbin Institute of Technology, China, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., M.S., and B.S..

Research Interests

Dr. Wang is recognized for her innovation in optimizing hybrid T&D operations and for her impactful research on DER behaviors and market dynamic integration. She has been lead-PI of multiple projects in the center funded by the DOE, NSF, Eversource Energy, national labs, ISO-NE, and MISO, with an overarching aim of enhancing the power grid’s reliability and resilience. On March 19, 2024, Dr. Wang has been selected for the prestigious OPTIMA award for the TRANSFORMATIVE project, with a grant of $4.5 million from the Department of Energy.

Dr. Wang is also dedicated to enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and serves on the College of Engineering Vergnano Institute for Inclusion DEI Committee. Prior to UConn, Dr. Wang spent over six months with the Ministry of Energy in Accra, Ghana, focusing on enhancing power quality and reducing outages through improved grid infrastructure planning and market dispatch. This experience underscores her commitment to impacting underrepresented communities and addressing global renewable energy integration challenges. As General Chair of the 56th North American Power Symposium (NAPS) she will bring NAPS to UConn in 2025, giving it a focus on students, academic, and workforce educational & training. Since 2021, she has mentored many UConn undergraduates to publish research papers and secure long-term career positions in the industry. As a core contributor to our center’s Grid Modernization Graduate Certificate, she has developed and delivered courses for this program and received top evaluations (5/5) from students, including industry professionals, for their practical relevance.

Dr. Wang is a member of IEEE and Power & Energy Society (PES). She has been a member of the PEEC steering committee, IEEE PES Subcommittee, IEEE Smart Buildings, and Customer Systems, IEEE Bulk Power System Operations Subcommittee, IEEE PES Renewable Systems Integration Coordinating Committee, IEEE PES Power & Energy Education Committee (PEEC), Association for Information Systems. She has served as a Guest Editor on a Special Issue of the International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering. Dr. Wang has collaborations with power system operators in the industries and other institutions, for example, ISO New England, New York ISO, Resource Innovations, MIT, Ohio State University, and the Technical University of Denmark, among others.

Professional Services

• Panel Reviewer, NSF Energy, Power, Control, Network (EPCN) Program. 2021-present.
• IEEE PES Subcommittee, Smart Buildings and Customer Systems. 2021-present.
• IEEE Bulk Power System Operations Subcommittee. 2021-present.
• IEEE PES Renewable Systems Integration Coordinating Committee. 2021-present.
• IEEE PES Power & Energy Education Committee (PEEC). 2021-present.
• Member, NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program -- Weather.
• Innovation and Smart Energy and Resilience -- IUCRC WISER. 2021-present.
• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 2018-present.
• Reviewer, Electrical Power Systems Research. 2018-present.
• Reviewer, Energies. 2018-present.
• Reviewer, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 2018-present.
• Track Programme Committee, Association for Information Systems. 2018-present.
• Reviewer, IEEE PES General Meeting. 2012-present.
• Reviewer, Journal of Engineering, 2016-present.
• Reviewer, International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks. 2016-present.
• Reviewer, Proceedings of CSEE. 2014-present.
• Reviewer, Automation of Electric Power Systems. 2014-present.
• Reviewer, IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and EXPO Asian-Pacific. 2014-present.
• Reviewer, Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology. 2014-present.
• Special Issue Reviewer, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. 2014-present.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue-International Journal of Energy Optimization Engineering. 2014-2015.
• Research Assistant, Power System Research Group, Cornell University. 2014-2017.
• Research Assistant, Renewable Energy System Lab, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2012-2014.
• Member, IEEE, 2010-present.