Dr. Hsiao-Dong Chiang, received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Dr. Chiang is the founder of Bigwood Systems, Inc. (BSI), Ithaca, NY and Global Optimal Technology, Inc., Ithaca, NY. He was awarded Chang-Jiang Chair professorship from 2006-2009. He was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 1997 and became a Full Professor in 1998 at Cornell.
He and his group at Cornell have published more than 350 refereed journal and conference papers. The H-factor of his publication is 29. Dr. Chiang has been awarded 12 US patents and 4 overseas patents, with another 9 US patents pending. He is currently on the Editorial Board of IEEE Japan and on the Journal of Electric Power Systems and Components.
Professor Chiang's research effort is focused on both theoretical developments and practical applications. Particular areas include nonlinear system theory, nonlinear computations and their practical applications to electric circuits, systems, signals and images. He and his co-workers have developed a comprehensive theory of stability regions for general nonlinear dynamical systems (including continuous, discrete, interconnected, hyperbolic and non-hyperbolic nonlinear systems) and their practical applications. He and his co-workers have developed BCU method and Group-based BCU method for fast direct stability assessments for electric power systems. He has developed a new global optimization methodology, called Trust-Tech methodology and is working with his team on the practical applications of Trust-Tech methodology. He and his group also work on the development of computational methods for nonlinear analysis and control of large-scale systems.
Electric power system analysis and optimization. Electric Power System dynamic simulation and stability analysis. Nonlinear System stability analysis and control. Nonlinear Circuits and Systems. Nonlinear Optimization and applications. Distribution Networks: Analysis, Control and Optimization. Machine learning and data mining.
- 2011. "ELITE: Ensemble of Optimal, Input-Pruned Neural Networks Using TRUST-TECH." IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 22 (1): 96-109. .
- 2010. Direct Methods for Stability Analysis of Electric Power Systems: Theoretical Foundation, BCU Methodologies, and Applications. : 494 pp.. New York: Wiley. .
- 2009. "Application of TRUST-TECH methmodology in optimal power flow of power systems." In Optimization in the Engery Industry , 297-318. Springer. .
- 2008. "TRUST-TECH-based Expectation Maximization for Learning Finite Mixture Models." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 30 (7): 1146-1157. .
- 2006. "Trust-Tech Paradigm for Computing high-quality optimal solutions: methods and theory." In Modern Heuristic Optimization Techniques: Theory and Applications to Power Systems. John-Wiley. .
Selected Awards and Honors
- IEEE Fellow (IEEE) 1997
- PES Working Group Award (IEEE Power Engineering Society) 1996
- Outstanding Education Award (Cornell University) 1990
- Presidential Young Investigator Award (National Science Foundation) 1989
- Engineering Initiation Award (National Science Foundation, U.S.A) 1988
- BS (Electrical Engineering), National Taiwan University, 1979
- MS (Electrical Engineering), National Taiwan University, 1981
- Ph D (Electrical Engineering), University of California-Berkeley, 1986