Founded in December 2010, the Institute of Intelligent Grid and Renewable Energy is a leading research platform with the advantage of integration of internal strengths, which will nurture emerging discipline and attract social resources. Its academic staffs were all graduated with Ph. D degree and have long-term overseas research experience. The institute is currently undertaking national key projects, national natural science foundation of China and other provincial projects and participated in several overseas research projects. It published more than 200 papers, 50 of which were included in SCI database. One paper received IEEE Power Electronics Transactions Second Prize Paper Award in 2017. The institute has close cooperation with Arizona State University, University of Alberta, Nanyang Technological University, Technical University of Denmark, Munich Technical University, China Electric Power Research Institute.

Main research interests: grid interfacing and control of renewable energy, development of photovoltaic/wind/battery energy inverters, microgrid, intelligent distribution network, power quality, novel power electronics devices, distributed energy storage, flexible ac/dc transmission/distribution technology.