Education

B.S. – Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

Ph. D. – Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Teaching

• Renewable and Efficient Power and Energy Systems
• Power Generation Operation and Control
• Power System Protection
• Electric Power Systems
• Electric Power Laboratory

Areas of Research

• Renewable Energies
• Microgrid
• Distributed Generation
• Smart Grid
• Power Delivery
• Power Electronics Application
• Power System Protection
• Power System Restructuring
• Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Experience

Dr. Gao has published more than one hundred fifty technical papers in international journals and conferences. He has co-authored a book entitled “Modern Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” published by John Wiley & Sons in United Kingdom. His research has been funded by many funding agencies and sponsors. In 2009, he won the US National Science Foundation CAREER award for wind power research. He received the Best Paper Award in the Complex Systems Track at the 2002 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Jan. 2002. Since June 2003, Dr. Gao has been a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr. Gao currently serves as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, an Associate Editor for the IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS, and he has been an active Reviewer of many leading journals and conferences. He currently serves as the Secretary of IEEE Power Electronics Society Denver Section.He has been active in various technical committees of IEEE societies and conference organizing committees. He is a member of the Power and Energy Education Committee (PEEC) of IEEE PES (Power and Energy Society). He served as General Chair to host 2012 IEEE Symposium on Power Electronics and Machines in Wind Applications (PEMWA) in Denver, CO, USA. He was a Technical Cochair for IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference, held in Dearborn, MI, USA, September 7-11, 2009. He was also a Technical Program Cochair in the Organizing Committee of 2013 IEEE GreenTech Conference held in Denver, April 2013. He will serve as the General Chair to host North American Power Symposium (NAPS 2016), September 18-20, 2016, Denver, USA. Dr. Gao has been invited to serve on the grant review panel for many funding agencies including the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Funding Agencies and Sponsors

• US National Science Foundation
• US Department of Energy
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• US Army Research Office
• US Office of Naval Research
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• US Electric Power Research Institute

Leading Journals and Conferences

• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS
• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS
• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID
• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENERGY CONVERSION
• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
• IET RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION
• IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER DELIVERY
• IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC)
• IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting