CV
My latest CV can be found here.
Education
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016
- B.S. in Automotive Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China, 2012
Work experience
- June 2022 - Present: Career Computational Research Scientist
- Energy Analysis and Environmental Impact (EAEI) Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Leading multi-disciplinary teams in electric vehicle infrastructure planning, wildfire risk modeling, and AI-powered grid/transportation technologies
- April 2019 - May 2022: Career-Track Computational Research Scientist
- Energy Analysis and Environmental Impact (EAEI) Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Research on transportation electrification and power system resilience
- October 2016 - March 2019: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Energy Storage and Distributed Resources (ESDR) Division, LBNL
- Computational Research Division (CRD), LBNL
- Focus on grid integration of distributed energy resources
- September 2012 - September 2016: Graduate Student Researcher
- Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC)
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
Research Grants (Select)
- HEVI-LOAD Augmentation for National-Scale Infrastructure Assessment, PI, funded by DOE, $1.5M
- Medium- and Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Projections, PI, funded by CEC, $1.55M
- Low-Latency Digital-Twin Solutions to Address National Community Priorities, PI, funded by DOE/LBNL LDRD, $250K
- H2 Infrastructure Planning for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle, co-PI, funded by SCAG, $150K (LBNL portion)
- San Francisco and Bay Area Regional Medium- and Heavy-Duty Electrification Roadmap, co-PI, funded by DOE VTO, $250K (LBNL portion)
- California’s Deep Decarbonization Pathways: A Holistic Multi-Layer Assessment, funded by UCOP, $390K (LBNL portion)
- Early Career Development LDRD Award, funded by DOE/LBNL, $225K/year over 2 years
- Mitigating and Managing Extreme Wildfire Risk in California, funded by UCOP, $500K for 3 years
- Artificial Intelligence Based Heavy-Duty Fleet Charging to Enable Distributed Energy Resource Integration, funded by CEC, LBNL portion: $300K, LBNL PI
- Non-Road Decarbonization Potential Analysis, LBNL PI, funded by DOE, $200K
- Electric Truck Research and Utilization Center (eTRUC), California’s premier Research Hub for Electric Technologies in Truck Applications (RHETTA), funded by CEC, LBNL portion: $320K
- HPC4Mobility, phase II, funded by DOE, VTO, $300K for 1 year, PI
Honors and Awards
- 2025 IEEE PES Prize Paper Award, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
- Best Paper Award, 2025 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- Best Paper Award, 2024 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
- 2023 R&D 100 Award (The Oscars of Innovation)
- Distinguished Achievement Award, US DOE Vehicle Technology Office, 2023
- Early Career Development Award, LBNL, 2019
- Commencement Student Speaker Finalist, UCLA Engineering School, 2017
- Student Support Program Grant from 2016 IEEE T&D conference, Mar. 2016
- Student Travel Grant from IEEE SmartGridComm’15 Symposium, Nov. 2015
- Cum Laude Award at College of Automotive Engineering, Jilin University, Jul. 2012
- Jilin University Excellent Student Award, 2010, 2011
- Jilin University First-Class Scholarship, 2009, 2010, 2011
Skills
- Research Areas:
- Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Planning and Load Analysis
- Wildfire Risk Modeling and Grid Resilience
- AI and Machine Learning for Energy Systems
- High Performance Computing for Transportation and Power Systems
- Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) Optimization
- Technical Skills:
- Power system modeling and optimization
- Transportation electrification analysis
- Data-driven decision making
- Parallel computing and large-scale simulations
- Grid integration of distributed energy resources
Publications
Soroush Vahedi, Junbo Zhao, Brian Pierre, Fangni Lei, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Kang He, Charles Jones, Bin Wang, "Wildfire and power grid nexus in a changing climate," Nat. Rev. Electr. Eng., vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 225–243, Apr. 2025, doi: 10.1038/s44287-025-00150-0.
O. Anderson, N. Yu, W. Hong, and B. Wang, "Impact of flexible and bidirectional charging in medium- and heavy-duty trucks on California decarbonization pathway," Appl. Energy, vol. 377, p. 124450, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124450.
X. Ding, W. Hong, Z. An, B. Wang, and W. Du, "Deepot: Parking Lot Identification Using Low-Resolution Satellite Imagery," 2025 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2025.
S. Mohammadi, V.-H. Bui, W. Su, and B. Wang, "Surrogate Modeling for Solving OPF: A Review," Sustainability, vol. 16, no. 22, Art. no. 22, Jan. 2024, doi: 10.3390/su16229851.
S. Vahedi, J. Zhao, J. Dong, B. Wang, and J. Lian, "Resilience Assessment for Distribution Systems during Hurricanes: A Learning-Based Framework," in 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Jul. 2024, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1109/PESGM51994.2024.10688425.
Ali Hassan, Shahid Aziz Khan, Rongheng Li, Wencong Su, Xuan Zhou, Mengqi Wang, Bin Wang, "Second-Life Batteries: A Review on Power Grid Applications, Degradation Mechanisms, and Power Electronics Interface Architectures," Batteries, vol. 9, no. 12, Art. no. 12, Dec. 2023, doi: 10.3390/batteries9120571.
Can Huang, Qinran Hu, Linwei Sang, Donald D Lucas, Robin Wong, Bin Wang, Wanshi Hong, Mengqi Yao, Vaibhav Donde, "A Review of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) for Wildfire Mitigation: Policies, Practices, Models and Data Sources," Policy Regul. IEEE Trans. Energy Mark., vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 187–197, Sep. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TEMPR.2023.3287027.
W. Hong, A. Jenn, and B. Wang, "Electrified autonomous freight benefit analysis on fleet, infrastructure and grid leveraging Grid-Electrified Mobility (GEM) model," Appl. Energy, vol. 335, p. 120760, Apr. 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120760.
W. Hong, B. Wang, M. Yao, D. Callaway, L. Dale, and C. Huang, "Data-Driven Power System Optimal Decision Making Strategy under Wildfire Events," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan 2022.
B. Wang, R. Yin, D. Black, and C. Chan, "Multistage and decentralized operations of electric vehicles within the California demand response markets," in Decision Making Applications in Modern Power Systems. Academic Press, 2020, pp. 411–439.
Y. Xiong, B. Wang, C. Chu, and R. Gadh, "Vehicle grid integration for demand response with mixture user model and decentralized optimization," Applied Energy, vol. 231, pp. 481–493, Dec. 2018.
C. Chan, B. Wang, J. Bachan, and J. Macfarlane, "Mobiliti: Scalable Transportation Simulation Using High-Performance Parallel Computing," 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018.
B. Wang, J. Bachan, and C. Chan, "ExaGridPF: A Parallel Power Flow Solver for Transmission and Unbalanced Distribution Systems," Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2018 IEEE Power Energy Society, 2018.
B. Wang, Y. Wang, H. Nazaripouya, C. Qiu, C. C. Chu, and R. Gadh, "Predictive Scheduling Framework for Electric Vehicles With Uncertainties of User Behaviors," IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 52–63, Feb. 2017.
Talks
November 01, 2024
Seminar at UC Davis, Transportation Study Seminar, Davis, CA
June 01, 2024
Conference presentation at DOE VTO Annual Merit Review, Virtual
March 01, 2024
Seminar at Stanford Bits & Watts Initiative, Smart Grid Seminar, Stanford, CA
June 01, 2023
Conference presentation at DOE VTO Annual Merit Review, Virtual
September 01, 2021
National Lab Round Table at Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council, National Lab Round Table, Virtual
September 01, 2021
Webinar at ASME Webinar Series, Virtual
April 01, 2021
Webinar at DOE OE Wildfire Mitigation Webinar, Virtual
August 01, 2020
Conference presentation at Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) organized by California Energy Commission, California
October 01, 2019
Seminar at Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), Clemson, SC
September 01, 2019
Conference presentation at 2019 ACM/EIGSCC Symposium on Smart Cities and Communities, Portland, OR
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Editorial Services:
- Invited special issue editor, Frontiers in Energy Research Journal, “Resilience of Interdependent and Critical Infrastructures”, March 2021
- Conference Leadership:
- Technical Session Chair, 2020 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference
- Panel Session Chair, 2019 IEEE PES General Meeting
- Workshop co-chair, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications
- Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (2017-2019)
- Professional Committees:
- Workgroup chair, IEEE PES, intelligent grid and emerging technologies (iGET) committee
- Senior Member, IEEE
- Review Services:
- Invited Reviewer for IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transaction on Transportation Electrification, IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, Applied Energy, and others
Advising Services
- Current and Recent Advisees:
- Xianzhong Ding, postdoctoral researcher, LBNL (2022-present)
- Wanshi Hong, research scientist, LBNL (2020-present)
- Multiple summer interns (2013-2023)
Professional Membership
