Biography
Wenyuan Tang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2008, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, the M.A. degree in Applied Mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, in 2010, 2014, and 2015, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University from 2015 to 2017. His research interests include electricity markets, data analytics and machine learning, and optimization for power systems. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Power Engineering Letters from 2021 to 2022. He received the R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award in 2021, the NSF CAREER Award in 2022, and the Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award in 2023.
Education
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Ph.D.
2015
Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California -
Master's
2014
Applied Mathematics
University of Southern California -
Master's
2010
Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California -
Bachelor's
2008
Electrical Engineering
Tsinghua University
Research Focus
Highlighted Awards
- NSF CAREER Award (2022)
- Bennett Faculty Fellow Award (2021)
Recent News
NC State Announces 2022-23 Goodnight Early Career Innovators
Posted on March 29, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty
NC State announced its 2022-23 class of Goodnight Early Career Innovators today. This program recognizes and rewards promising NC State early-career faculty whose scholarship is in STEM or STEM education. The 25 faculty selected will receiv …
Wenyuan Tang and Spyridon Pavlidis Receive NSF CAREER Award
Posted on January 31, 2022 | Filed Under: Awards
Congratulations to Dr. Tang and Dr. Pavlidis for receiving prestigious NSF CAREER Awards for their work on electricity market design and ultra-wide bandgap devices.
Tang, Zhou, and Ricketts are Recipients of ECE Faculty Awards
Posted on May 7, 2021 | Filed Under: Faculty
ECE is proud to announce that Wenyuan Tang, Huiyang Zhou, and David Ricketts are the 2021 recipients of the Departmental Faculty Awards — the Bennet Faculty Fellow Award and the William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching Award.
Media Mentions
Department Of Energy Announces Winners Of Solar Forecasting Prize
March 28, 2022
The five winning teams, including NC State’s Wenyuan Tang, will each receive $50,000, and had the best-performing forecasting models and strongest plans to accelerate the adoption of probabilistic forecasts.