Primary Job Title Professor and Head of School of Electrical & Information Engineering Primary Organization 
University of Sydney
Location Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australasia Gender Male
Professor Z.Y. Dong obtained Ph.D. from the University of Sydney in 1999. He is Professor and Head of School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the University of Sydney, and a contractor with Ausgrid and EPRI, USA.
He is also director of Faculty of Engineering and IT research cluster on Clean Intelligent Energy Networks, and Academic
Director of Tsinghua University - Sydney University Research Alliance on Energy Networks at the University of Sydney. His immediate role was Ausgrid Chair and Director of Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks (CIEN), the University of Newcastle, Australia.
He also worked at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and as Manager for system planning with Transend Networks (now TASNetworks), Australia (power transmission company for TAS). His research interest includes smart grid, power system planning and stability, load modeling, renewable energy, electricity market, and computational methods.
He is an editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, IEEE PES LETTERS, IEEE TRANS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, IET RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION, and Springer/State Grid Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. He is an international Advisor for the journal of Automation of Electric Power Systems. He also serves as guest editor for International Journal of Systems Science. He has been a contractor with EPRI, USA since 2001.
He has over 10 EPRI projects, 12 ARC grants, 4 grants under HK RGC & ITF scheme, 2 theme based projects in Hong Kong, and many industrial R&D and consulting projects in power system planning, stability, smart grid, electricity market analysis and load modeling areas.
He leads the $12.6m CSIRO flagship project of Future Grid for gas and electricity network co-planning. He also worked with Australia and US Defense, and Australia Federal Government Department of Broadband and Digital Economy on smart grid cyber security project. He is a member of IEEE taskforce on power system cascading failure, and a chapter coordinator for CIGRE work group on load modeling.
He is the Deputy Chair for Smart Grid Australia Study Group and leads its research domain on cyber physical systems. He is member representing SGA at International Federation of Smart Grid.
Prof Dong has published over 460 technical papers/books/book chapters, and received over $10 million (his part) research and industrial grants. His Scopus H-index is 29 and Google Scholar H-index of 39.
Prof Dong has been supervising/co-supervising/supervised over 40 PhD students including over 20 PhD graduated and working in industry and research/academia in Australia, Europe, Asia and America.
He established an active team at Ausgrid Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks to provide RD&D support for the $100m (+$500m from Ausgrid) Smart Grid, Smart City demonstration project.
