Publications

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Journal Articles

1. Hualong Liu and Wenyuan Tang, “Multi-objective bi-level programs for optimal microgrid planning considering actual BESS lifetime based on WGAN-GP and info-gap decision theory,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 89, 111510, 2024.

2. Tawsif Ahmad, Ning Zhou, Ziang Zhang, and Wenyuan Tang, “Enhancing probabilistic solar PV forecasting: Integrating the NB-DST method with deterministic models,” Energies, vol. 17, no. 10, 2392, 2024.

3. Rongxing Hu, Ashwin Shirsat, Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Yiyan Li, Si Zhang, Wenyuan Tang, Mesut Baran, and Ning Lu, “Adaptive cold-load pickup considerations in 2-stage microgrid unit commitment for enhancing microgrid resilience,” Applied Energy, vol. 356, 122424, 2024.

4. Junhui Zhang, Lizhi Ding, Xiaonan Lu, and Wenyuan Tang, “A novel real-time control approach for sparse and safe frequency regulation in inverter intensive microgrids,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 5550–5558, 2023.

5. Hualong Liu and Wenyuan Tang, “Quantum computing for power systems: Tutorial, review, challenges, and prospects,” Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 223, 109530, 2023.

6. Ashwin Shirsat, Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Rongxing Hu, Victor Paduani, Bei Xu, Lidong Song, Yiyan Li, Ning Lu, Mesut Baran, David Lubkeman, and Wenyuan Tang, “A secure and adaptive hierarchical multi-timescale framework for resilient load restoration using a community microgrid,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 1057–1075, 2023.

7. Chen Yin, Jianxiao Wang, Wenyuan Tang, Gengyin Li, and Ming Zhou, “Health-aware energy management strategy toward Internet of Storage,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 7545–7553, 2023.

8. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Ultra-short-term spatiotemporal forecasting of renewable resources: An attention temporal convolutional network based approach,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 3798–3812, 2022.

9. Zhaoyuan Wu, Ming Zhou, Jianxiao Wang, Wenyuan Tang, Bo Yuan, and Gengyin Li, “Review on market mechanism to enhance the flexibility of power system under the dual-carbon target,” Proceedings of the CSEE, vol. 42, no. 21, pp. 7746–7763, 2022.

10. Yuhua Du, Xiaonan Lu, and Wenyuan Tang, “Accurate distributed secondary control for DC microgrids considering communication delays: A surplus consensus-based approach,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1709–1719, 2022.

11. Xiaochu Wang and Wenyuan Tang, “Modeling and analysis of baseline manipulation in demand response programs,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1178–1186, 2022.

12. Ashwin Shirsat and Wenyuan Tang, “Data-driven stochastic model predictive control for DC-coupled residential PV-storage systems,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 1435–1448, 2021.

13. Ashwin Shirsat and Wenyuan Tang, “Quantifying residential demand response potential using a mixture density recurrent neural network,” International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 130, 106853, 2021.

14. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Scenario reduction for stochastic day-ahead scheduling: A mixed autoencoder based time-series clustering approach,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 2652–2662, 2021.

15. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Interval based transmission contingency-constrained unit commitment for integrated energy systems with high renewable penetration,” International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 119, 105853, 2020.

16. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Stochastic multistage co-planning of integrated energy systems considering power-to-gas and the cap-and-trade market,” International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 119, 105817, 2020.

17. Junkai Liang, Ashwin Shirsat, and Wenyuan Tang, “Sustainable community based PV-storage planning using the Nash bargaining solution,” International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 118, 105759, 2020.

18. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Sequence generative adversarial networks for wind power scenario generation,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 110–118, 2020.

19. Jianxiao Wang, Haiwang Zhong, Junjie Qin, Wenyuan Tang, Ram Rajagopal, Qing Xia, and Chongqing Kang, “Incentive mechanism for sharing distributed energy resources,” Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 837–850, 2019. (This paper received the 2021 CSEE Second Prize Paper Award)

20. Wenyuan Tang and Rahul Jain, “Aggregating correlated wind power with full surplus extraction,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 6030–6038, 2018.

21. Jianxiao Wang, Haiwang Zhong, Wenyuan Tang, Ram Rajagopal, Qing Xia, and Chongqing Kang, “Tri-level expansion planning for transmission networks and distributed energy resources considering transmission cost allocation,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1844–1856, 2018.

22. Jianxiao Wang, Haiwang Zhong, Wenyuan Tang, Ram Rajagopal, Qing Xia, Chongqing Kang, and Yi Wang, “Optimal bidding strategy for microgrids in joint energy and ancillary service markets considering flexible ramping products,” Applied Energy, vol. 205, pp. 294–303, 2017.

23. Wenyuan Tang and Rahul Jain, “Dynamic economic dispatch game: The value of storage,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 2350–2358, 2016.

24. Wenyuan Tang and Rahul Jain, “Market mechanisms for buying random wind,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1615–1623, 2015.

25. Wenyuan Tang and Rahul Jain, “Hierarchical auction mechanisms for network resource allocation,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 2117–2125, 2012.

Conference Proceedings

1. Hualong Liu and Wenyuan Tang, “Optimal shared energy storage capacity configuration in multi-energy microgrids considering battery lifetime loss based on relaxation techniques,” 40th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025.

2. Hualong Liu and Wenyuan Tang, “An MILP approach for modeling and analyzing the BESS for smoothing renewable fluctuations considering BESS capacity attenuation in the bulk power system with high inverter-based resource penetration,” 40th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025.

3. Hualong Liu and Wenyuan Tang, “Dispatch models for electricity-heat-gas systems with concentrating solar power plants using info-gap theory and analytic hierarchy process,” 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Chicago, IL, USA, 2024.

4. Hualong Liu and Wenyuan Tang, “Leveraging an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm to solve combined heat and power economic dispatch problems,” 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Chicago, IL, USA, 2024.

5. Hualong Liu and Wenyuan Tang, “Optimal operation of multi-energy microgrids: A hybrid methodology using stochastic programming and asymmetric Nash bargaining,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2024.

6. Hualong Liu, Shweta Meena, Wenyuan Tang, and Srdjan Lukic, “A multi-objective approach for optimal microgrid planning based on info-gap decision theory,” IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), Seattle, Washington, USA, 2024.

7. Junkai Liang, Wenyuan Tang, Suwei Zhai, Kaiyuan Yu, and Dongdong Wang, “Attention mechanism based probabilistic day-ahead net-load forecasting with behind-the-meter solar,” 7th IEEE Conference on Energy Internet and Energy System Integration (EI2), Hangzhou, China, 2023.

8. Hualong Liu and Wenyuan Tang, “Decomposing locational marginal prices in look-ahead economic dispatch,” 55th North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Asheville, NC, USA, 2023.

9. Shweta Meena, Hualong Liu, Hao Tu, Srdjan Lukic, and Wenyuan Tang, “A benchmarking tool for state-of-the-art microgrid design approaches,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Nashville, TN, USA, 2023.

10. Junhui Zhang, Lizhi Ding, Xiaonan Lu, and Wenyuan Tang, “Sparse and safe frequency regulation for inverter intensive microgrids,” IEEE IAS Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, USA, 2022.

11. Xiaochu Wang, Keith DSouza, Wenyuan Tang, and Mesut Baran, “Assessing the impact of high penetration PV on the power transformer loss of life on a distribution system,” IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT Europe), Espoo, Finland, 2021.

12. Rongxing Hu, Yiyan Li, Si Zhang, Ashwin Shirsat, Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Wenyuan Tang, Mesut Baran, David Lubkeman, and Ning Lu, “A load switching group based feeder-level microgrid energy management algorithm for service restoration in power distribution system,” IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), Washington, DC, USA, 2021.

13. Xiaochu Wang and Wenyuan Tang, “A self-reported baseline demand response program for mitigation of baseline manipulation,” IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), Washington, DC, USA, 2021.

14. Ashwin Shirsat, Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Rongxing Hu, Ning Lu, Mesut Baran, David Lubkeman, and Wenyuan Tang, “Hierarchical multi-timescale framework for operation of dynamic community microgrid,” IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), Washington, DC, USA, 2021.

15. Junkai Liang, Wenyuan Tang, and Xiaonan Lu, “Toward distributed optimization for critical service restoration with distributed energy resources,” 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2020.

16. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Stochastic multistage co-planning of integrated energy systems,” IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Conference and Exhibition (T&D), Chicago, IL, USA, 2020.

17. Yuxuan Gu, Jianxiao Wang, Kedi Zheng, Qixin Chen, Wenyuan Tang, Jianing Liu, and Kaiwen Zeng, “Cost sharing mechanism for reactive power management amidst P2P energy sharing,” IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020.

18. Rishabh Gupta and Wenyuan Tang, “Price-driven siting and sizing of distributed generation,” IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020.

19. Ashwin Shirsat and Wenyuan Tang, “Sensitivity analysis of time-of-use rates on operations of home energy management systems,” IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020.

20. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Fuzzy clustering based scenario reduction for stochastic day-ahead scheduling in power systems,” IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020.

21. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Wind power scenario generation for microgrid day-ahead scheduling using sequential generative adversarial networks,” 10th IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), Beijing, China, 2019.

22. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Optimal trading strategies in continuous double auctions for transactive energy,” 51st North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Wichita, KS, USA, 2019.

23. Ashwin Shirsat and Wenyuan Tang, “Identification of the potential of residential demand response using artificial neural networks,” 51st North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Wichita, KS, USA, 2019.

24. Xiaochu Wang and Wenyuan Tang, “Designing multistep peak time rebate programs for curtailment service providers,” 51st North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Wichita, KS, USA, 2019.

25. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Optimal trading strategies for energy hubs equipped with power-to-gas technology,” 50th North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, ND, USA, 2018.

26. Xiaochu Wang and Wenyuan Tang, “To overconsume or underconsume: Baseline manipulation in demand response programs,” 50th North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, ND, USA, 2018.

27. Junkai Liang and Wenyuan Tang, “Hedging wind risk through a power-to-gas enabled integrated energy system,” 50th North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Fargo, ND, USA, 2018.

28. Wenyuan Tang, Ram Rajagopal, Kameshwar Poolla, and Pravin Varaiya, “Model and data analysis of two-settlement electricity market with virtual bidding,” 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2016.

29. Chenye Wu, Wenyuan Tang, Kameshwar Poolla, and Ram Rajagopal, “Predictability, constancy and contingency in electric load profiles,” 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Sydney, Australia, 2016.

30. Wenyuan Tang, Junjie Qin, Rahul Jain, and Ram Rajagopal, “Pricing sequential forward power contracts,” 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Miami, FL, USA, 2015.

31. Wenyuan Tang, Rahul Jain, and Ram Rajagopal, “Stochastic dynamic pricing: Utilizing demand response in an adaptive manner,” 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2014.

32. Wenyuan Tang and Rahul Jain, “Buying random yet correlated wind power,” 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Venice, Italy, 2014.

33. Wenyuan Tang and Rahul Jain, “Dynamic economic dispatch among strategic generators with storage systems,” 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, IL, USA, 2014.

34. Wenyuan Tang and Rahul Jain, “Game-theoretic analysis of the nodal pricing mechanism for electricity markets,” 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Florence, Italy, 2013.

35. Wenyuan Tang and Rahul Jain, “Stochastic resource auctions for renewable energy integration,” 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, IL, USA, 2011.

36. Wenyuan Tang and Rahul Jain, “Hierarchical auctions for network resource allocation,” 2nd International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets), Shanghai, China, 2011.