B.S. - Northwestern Polytechnical University,
Xi'an, China
Ph. D. - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Experience
Dr. Gao has been an active reviewer of leading
journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE
Transactions on Smart Grid and many more. He was a Technical
Co-chair in the Organizing Committee of 2009 IEEE Vehicular Power
and Propulsion Conference, held in Dearborn, Michigan, USA,
September 7-11, 2009. Dr. Gao served on the grant review panel
for the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of
Energy, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
of Canada. In September 2007, Dr. Gao was elected as a member of
the Sigma Xi. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Honor Society and served as an HKN Faculty
Advisor. Since June 2003, Dr. Gao has been a Senior Member of the
IEEE. He received the Best Paper Award in the Complex Systems
Track at the 2002 Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences (HICSS), Jan. 2002.
Areas of Research
Renewable Energy
Electric Power Systems
Smart Grid
Hybrid Electric Vehicles
