Hongyu Wu
Associate Professor
University Outstanding Scholar | Lucas-Rathbone Professorship in Engineering
Contact information
3093 Engineering Hall
hongyuwu@k-state.edu
Education
- Postdoc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2014
- Ph.D., Control Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 2011
- B.S., Power and Energy Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 2003
Professional experience
Hongyu Wu worked as a researcher at State Grid Energy Research Institute of China upon the completion of his doctorate. From Sept. 2011 to Feb. 2014, he was a senior research associate at Robert W. Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). From Feb. 2014 to Aug. 2016, he was a research engineer in the Power Systems Engineering Center at National Laboratory of Rockies (NLR), where he collaborated closely with universities, national laboratories, governmental agencies and private companies in the power and energy sector to optimize strategies for effectively interconnecting renewable resources and emerging energy efficiency technologies in the electric power system.
Research
Wu’s research is to address the emerging technical challenges in electric power systems with systems engineering approaches that integrate technologies from a wide range of fields including, but not limited to, computer and network systems, communication engineering, cyber physical systems, control science, and mathematical optimization. His research interests focus on:
- Control, operation and planning of power systems (include smart grid and microgrid)
- Cyber Physical Security in Power Systems
- Modeling, optimization and simulation of power systems
- Grid integration of inverter-based resources
- Demand side management
- Electric vehicles to grid
- Electricity market analysis and risk management
- Home/building energy management systems
- Stochastic optimization and quantum computing in power systems
He is an IEEE senior member and has over 15-year academic, national laboratorial and industrial experiences in these areas. Wu’s cyber-physical security agenda is tightly connected to a long-standing foundation in stochastic modeling and optimization for power-system operations. Trained in control and power-system scheduling, and shaped by research experience spanning academia and the National Laboratory of Rockies, he approaches security as an operational problem that must work within the time scales, information limits, and engineering tradeoffs faced by grid operators. This perspective supports an evaluation philosophy that moves from analytic formulations to computational frameworks and testbed-enabled studies.
Supported by sustained federal investment, including projects from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Office of Naval Research, Wu’s group connects foundational methods to diverse operational contexts. His research has advanced attack-resilient grid monitoring and control, resilience-oriented microgrids for remote communities, and security-focused studies relevant to mission-critical power systems, while also engaging multi-institutional initiatives that link engineering design to community priorities. In parallel, his collaborations extend into adjacent infrastructures where energy reliability is co-determined by human behavior and coupled resource systems, including occupant-centric building energy management and food-energy-water applications.
Academic highlights
- NSF Career Award (EPCN Program) 2022
- Department of Defense University Research Infrastructure Program (DURIP) Award 2023
- NSF EPSCoR Research Fellow
- Published over 160 book chapters, journal and magazine articles, conference proceedings, and software copyrights
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2025
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference, 2018
- IEEE PES General Meeting Best Paper, 2015 and 2016