Liang Du, Ph.D.

 
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Affiliated Faculty Fellow, Center for Sustainable Communities
    Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification

  • Contact Information:
    Email: ldu at temple dot edu
    Office: Room 717, Engineering Building
    Phone: (215)204-5614
    Mailing Address: 1947 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122

Interests and Current Research

  • Alternative Energy: Renewables, Hydrogen, Storage, Electrified Transportation

  • Machine Learning Architectures and Applications in Energy/Health Nexus

  • Large-scale Optimization, High-dimensional and Topological Machine Learning

News
  • [May 2024]: Our paper "Multilevel Data-Driven Battery Management: From Internal Sensing to Big Data Utilization".awarded 2023 IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (TTE) Second Place Prize Paper Award.

  • [March 2024]: Congrats to our partner Plug Power on receiving multiple awards from DOE Hyderogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office. We are also so proud to be a subrecipient. Thank you DOE HTFO and Plug.

  • [Janurary 2024]: We welcome three new Ph.D. students (Mozhi, Zhicheng, and Mingyu) and also welcome back Shengyi.

  • [October 2023]: Visited Plug Power for project review meeting and also gave a talk at GE Global Research, both in Albany area!

  • [April 2023]: Our project "Predictive and Adaptive Load Management for Energy Storage Systems at Cloud-Edge" together with EnerSys is funded by PA Department of Community and Economic Development.

  • [April 2023]: Congrats to Kaitlyn on successfully defense her dissertation.

  • [March 2023]: Congrats to Zhenyu on landing a summer internship with PJM Interconnection.

  • [January 2023]: Dr. Du receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

  • [November 2022]: Dr. Du is appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

  • [November 2022]: Dr. Du is selected as an Early-Career Fellow by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, under its Gulf Research Program.

  • [September 2022]: Our project "AlterEnergy: renewable energy technologies for sustainable recovery of Ukraine", with Харківський політехнічний iнститут (Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute) is funded.

  • [July 2022]: Congrats to Saeedeh on passing her Ph.D. dissertation defense!.

  • [June 2022]: Our project "Data-Driven Prognostic Health Monitoring of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems" is funded by Plug Power.

  • [May 2022]: Our paper "An Efficient Power Flexibility Aggregation Framework via Coordinate Transformation and Chebyshev Centering Optimization" has been selected as one of the Best Conference Papers submitted to the 2022 IEEE PES General Meeting.

  • [April 2022]: Congrats to Shengyi on passing his Ph.D. dissertation defense! All the best wishes to your new journey as an assistant professor at Shanghai University.

  • [April 2022]: Congrats to Kaitlyn on passing her Ph.D. prelim exam.

  • [January 2022]: Our project, Center for Smart Technologies for Environmental and Energy Sustainability, has received a 2022 Catalytic Collaborative Research Initiative Program Award from Temple's Office of the Vice President for Research. PI is Dr. Rominder Suri@CEE, with co-PIs Drs. Saroj Biswas@ECE, Rongjia Tao@Physics, Krishna Kant@CIS, Darius Balciunas@Biology, and myself. This is a two-year award, 2022-2023.

  • [December 2021]: Dr. Du gave a talk (virtually) at Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Lab.

  • [December 2021]: Congrats to Dongsen on passing her Ph.D. dissertation defense! All the best wishes to your new journey at GE Global Research Center.

  • [December 2021]: Congrats to Shengyi on successfully completing his Fall research internship with ISO New England.

  • [November 2021]: Our co-organized IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification Special Issue on "Advanced Energy Storage Technologies and Safety Management for E-Mobility" is online, please consider submitting your work.

  • [August 2021]: Our proposal "SCC-PG: Planning for Resilience and Equity through Accessible Community Technology: Developing a Community-Led Planning Tool for Climate Readiness", together with Dr. Christina Rosan @ Temple Geography and Urban Studies, Dr. Sarah Williams @ MIT, and Dr. Megan Heckert @ West Chester University, is funded by the National Science Foundation.

  • [August 2021]: Welcome Abtahi Reza and Zhenyu Zhao, both joined our group to pursue their Ph.D.

  • [August 2021]: Congrats to Shengyi on successfully completing his Summer research internship with Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab.

  • [April 2021]: Our project "Unifying and Securing Naval SCADA Networks through Scalable SDN", together with Dr. Yan Li @ Penn State, is funded by the Office of Naval Research.

  • [Feburary 2021]: Our project "Integrated Controller for Transactive Electric Vehicles Charging", together with Dr. Xiaonan Lu, is funded by the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.

  • [August 2020]: Congrats to Shengyi and Dongsen on successfully completing their Summer research internship with Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute North America.

  • [April 2020]: Our project "INVEST: Intelligent, Networkable, and Versatile Energy Storage Technology", together with Dr. Xiaonan Lu, is funded by the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.

  • [April 2020]: Congratulations to Kaitlyn! She is awarded the prestigious scholarship SMART Scholarship by the U.S. Department of Defense. She is the first Temple Engineering Ph.D. student to receive this prestigious scholarship.

  • [November 2019]: Our project "A Smart Home Platform to Visualize Energy Management and the Digital Internet of Energy" is funded by Constellation Energy, an Exelon Company.

  • [June 2019]: Our project "Prognostic Utility Asset Health Monitor", together with Dr. Xiaonan Lu, is funded by the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.

  • [August 2018]: Welcome Kaitlyn Sitch, who joined our group to pursue her Ph.D.

  • [May 2018]: Dr. Du is selected for the 2018 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, thank you ORAU.

  • [Jan 2018]: Welcome Dongsen Sun and Shengyi Wang, both joined our group to pursue their Ph.D.