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Dr Da Huo

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Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering

Email: d.huo@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Da Huo joined QMUL as a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering in November 2025. His research innovates on machine learning methods and model-based optimisation to operate and plan flexible assets (e.g. battery storage and vehicle-to-grid), distribution systems, and whole systems (e.g. integrated electricity and hydrogen systems) with the objectives of enhancing network security, cost-effectiveness, and reliability. 

Before joining QMUL, he was a Lecturer in Energy Systems Intelligence at Cranfield University in Nov/21 – Oct/25, and a research associate at Newcastle University in Jan/19 – Oct/21 for an EU H2020 MERLON project, working on battery and distribution systems optimisation. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bath in 2018, focusing on the optimisation of multi-vector energy systems. He obtained the B.Eng. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Bath, and in electrical power engineering from North China Electric Power University, both in 2014.

Da has been contributing to the following research projects:

  • AI-Powered, Nanotech-Enabled Microgrids for Communities and Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine, PI, £94k, InnovateUK, 2025 - 2027
  • Place based AI-driven clustering and demand flexibility assessment for net zero, PI, £130k, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2024 - 2025
  • Global Hydrogen Production Technologies (HyPT) Center, Co-I, £6.2m, EPSRC
  • Floatovoltaics for agriculture: assessing environmental benefits of multi-use reservoirs for irrigation and renewable energy generation, Co-I, £250k, InnovateUK
  • Management of Disaster Risk and Societal Resilience (MADIS), Co-I in 2022 - 2023, EPSRC, 2020-2023
  • Prototype Planning Tool for Green Hydrogen Generation and Use in UK Agriculture, Co-I, 2022-2023

Undergraduate Teaching

ECS514U - Design and Build Project in Electronic Engineering

Research

Research Interests:

Dr Huo’s research innovates on machine learning methods and model-based methods to optimise power systems (e.g. smart grid, congestion management, flexibility evaluation and provision) and whole systems (e.g. integrated electricity and hydrogen systems).

Publications

  • Guder, Mennan; Balta-Ozkan, Nazmiye; Huo, Da; Mirzania, Pegah, "Data-driven decision making: Harnessing energy data for policy," Simulation and Machine Learning Models for Energy Policy Design, pp. 41-73, 2026, Elsevier.
  • Mirzania, Pegah; Huo, Da; Balta-Ozkan, Nazmiye; Panigrahi, Niranjan; Knox, Jerry W, "Decarbonising Agriculture with Green Hydrogen: A Stakeholder-Guided Feasibility Study," Sustainability, vol. 17, no. 20, pp. 9298, 2025, MDPI.
  • Sarmah, Tanaya; Balta-Ozkan, Nazmiye; Konak, Abdullah; Shrimpton, Elisabeth; Sass, Karina Simone; De Macedo, Marina Batalini; Mendiondo, Eduardo Mario; Nardocci, Adelaide Cassia; Huo, Da; Jacobson, Michael Gregory, "Usability of agricultural drought vulnerability and resilience indicators in planning strategies for small farms: A principal component approach," Climate Services, vol. 38, pp. 100569, 2025, Elsevier.
  • Zhao, Alexis Pengfei; Alhazmi, Mohannad; Huo, Da; Li, Wanzi, "Psychological modeling for community energy systems," Energy Reports, vol. 13, pp. 2219-2229, 2025, Elsevier.
  • Pengfei Zhao, Alexis; Li, Shuangqi; Huo, Da; Alhazmi, Mohannad, "Unmanned aerial vehicles versus smart grids," IET Smart Grid, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. e70000, 2025.
  • Zhao, Alexis P; Huo, Da; Alhazmi, Mohannad, "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Microgrid Defense," IET Renewable Power Generation, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. e70089, 2025.
  • Shrimpton, Elisabeth A; Sarmah, Tanaya; Balta-Ozkan, Nazmiye; Malki, Sanaa; Jelloul, Ahmed; Ouikhalfan, Mohammed; Nilahyane, Abdelaziz; Kouisni, Lamfeddal; Huo, Da, "Unpacking drought impacts and adaptive strategies in Morocco–perspectives from small-scale farmers," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, pp. 105732, 2025, Elsevier.
  • Shrimpton, Elisabeth A; Sarmah, Tanaya; Balta-Ozkan, Nazmiye; Malki, Sanaa; Jelloul, Ahmed; Ouikhalfan, Mohammed; Nilahyane, Abdelaziz; Kouisni, Lamfeddal; Huo, Da, "Corrigendum to ‘Unpacking drought impacts and adaptive strategies in Morocco–perspectives from small-scale farmers’[Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduct. 128 (2025), 105732]," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, pp. 105754, 2025, Elsevier.
  • Zhao, Alexis P; Li, Shuangqi; Li, Zhengmao; Ma, Zixiao; Huo, Da; Hernando-Gil, Ignacio; Alhazmi, Mohannad, "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Cyberattacks on Microgrids," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2025, IEEE.
  • Alhazmi, Mohannad; Li, Olivia Peijin; Huo, Da; Zhang, Hanjin; Bao, Zhaoyao, "Can digital twin technology revolutionize wildfire management and energy resilience in Los Angeles?," Energy Reports, vol. 14, pp. 3118-3131, 2025, Elsevier.
  • Pengfei, Zhao; Li, Shuangqi; Huo, Da; Alhazmi, Mohannad, "Unmanned aerial vehicles versus smart grids," IET Smart grid, vol. 8, no. 1, 2024, The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
  • De MacEdo, Marina Batalini; Benso, Marcos Roberto; Sass, Karina Simone; Mendiondo, Eduardo Mario; Da Silva, Greicelene Jesus; Da Silva, Pedro Gustavo Câmara; Shrimpton, Elisabeth; Sarmah, Tanaya; Huo, Da; Jacobson, Michael, "Brief communication: Lessons learned and experiences gained from building up a global survey on societal resilience to changing droughts," Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 2165-2173, 2024, Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany.
  • Shrimpton, Elisabeth A; Balta-Ozkan, Nazmiye; Sarmah, Tanaya; Huo, Da; Marais, Lochner, "Re-evaluating drought indicators: Learning from small-scale farmers in South Africa," International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 113, pp. 104820, 2024, Elsevier.
  • Zhao, Pengfei; Li, Shuangqi; Cao, Zhidong; Hu, Paul Jen-Hwa; Gu, Chenghong; Yan, Xiaohe; Huo, Da; Luo, Tianyi; Wang, Zikang, "Socially governed energy hub trading enabled by blockchain-based transactions," IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2023, IEEE.
  • Li, Shuangqi; Zhao, Pengfei; Gu, Chenghong; Huo, Da; Zeng, Xianwu; Pei, Xiaoze; Cheng, Shuang; Li, Jianwei, "Online battery-protective vehicle to grid behavior management," Energy, vol. 243, pp. 123083, 2022, Pergamon.
  • Huo, Da; Santos, Marcos; Sarantakos, Ilias; Resch, Markus; Wade, Neal; Greenwood, David, "A reliability-aware chance-constrained battery sizing method for island microgrid," Energy, vol. 251, pp. 123978, 2022, Pergamon.
  • Zhao, Pengfei; Li, Shuangqi; Hu, Paul Jen-Hwa; Cao, Zhidong; Gu, Chenghong; Yan, Xiaohe; Huo, Da; Hernando-Gil, Ignacio, "Two-stage co-optimization for utility-social systems with social-aware P2P trading," IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1875-1887, 2022, IEEE.
  • Li, Shuangqi; Zhao, Pengfei; Gu, Chenghong; Li, Jianwei; Huo, Da; Cheng, Shuang, "Aging mitigation for battery energy storage system in electric vehicles," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 2152-2163, 2022, IEEE.
  • Li, Shuangqi; Zhao, Pengfei; Gu, Chenghong; Huo, Da; Li, Jianwei; Cheng, Shuang, "Linearizing battery degradation for health-aware vehicle energy management," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 4890-4899, 2022, IEEE.
  • Santos, Marcos; Huo, Da; Resch, Markus; Wade, Neal; Greenwood, David, "Very Short to Medium-term Demand and Generation Forecast: A Study Case in Austria," IET Conference Proceedings CP785, vol. 2021, no. 6, pp. 2559-2563, 2021, The Institution of Engineering and Technology Stevenage, UK.
  • Huo, Da; Wade, Neal; Greenwood, David; Novakovits, Philipp; Hacker, Joachim; Papadaskalopoulos, Dimitrios; Chrysanthopoulos, Nikolaos; Strbac, Goran; Resch, Markus; Rajarathnam, Uma, "Local distribution network management through optimal flexibility scheduling: the Austrian pilot of the Horizon 2020 MERLON project," 2021 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), pp. 1-6, 2021, IEEE.
  • Liu, Jichun; Chen, Xue; Xiang, Yue; Huo, Da; Liu, Junyong, "Optimal planning and investment benefit analysis of shared energy storage for electricity retailers," International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 126, pp. 106561, 2021, Elsevier.
  • Hu, Shuai; Xiang, Yue; Huo, Da; Jawad, Shafqat; Liu, Junyong, "An improved deep belief network based hybrid forecasting method for wind power," Energy, vol. 224, pp. 120185, 2021, Pergamon.
  • Sarantakos, Ilias; Zografou-Barredo, Natalia-Maria; Huo, Da; Greenwood, David, "A reliability-based method to quantify the capacity value of soft open points in distribution networks," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 5032-5043, 2021, IEEE.
  • Huo, Da; Gu, Chenghong; Greenwood, David; Wang, Zhaoyu; Zhao, Pengfei; Li, Jianwei, "Chance-constrained optimization for integrated local energy systems operation considering correlated wind generation," International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 132, pp. 107153, 2021, Elsevier.
  • Santos, Marcos; Huo, Da; Wade, Neal; Greenwood, David; Sarantakos, Ilias, "Reliability assessment of island multi‐energy microgrids," Energy Conversion and Economics, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 169-182, 2021.
  • Huo, Da; Santos, Marcos; McGrath, Jim; Wade, Neal; Greenwood, David, "Flexibility Scheduling for Distribution Systems: A Case Study in Austria," IET Conference Proceedings CP785, vol. 2021, no. 6, pp. 1915-1919, 2021, The Institution of Engineering and Technology Stevenage, UK.
  • Shen, Yichen; Gu, Chenghong; Xiang, Yue; Fu, Yang; Huo, Da; Li, Junlong; Zhao, Pengfei, "Dynamic service restoration for integrated energy systems under seismic stress," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable energy, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 527-536, 2021, IEEE.
  • Zhao, Pengfei; Gu, Chenghong; Huo, Da, "Coordinated risk mitigation strategy for integrated energy systems under cyber-attacks," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 4014-4025, 2020, IEEE.
  • Huo, Da; Santos, Marcos V; Greenwood, David M; Wade, Neal S; Resch, Markus P, "Optimal battery sizing for a distribution network in Austria to maximise profits and reliability," CIRED CP767, vol. 2020, no. 1, pp. 13-16, 2020, The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
  • Zhao, Pengfei; Gu, Chenghong; Cao, Zhidong; Shen, Yichen; Teng, Fei; Chen, Xinlei; Wu, Chenye; Huo, Da; Xu, Xu; Li, Shuangqi, "Data-driven multi-energy investment and management under earthquakes," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 6939-6950, 2020, IEEE.
  • Xiang, Yue; Meng, Jinpeng; Huo, Da; Xu, Lixiong; Mu, Yunfei; Gu, Chenghong; Hou, Kai; Teng, Fei, "Reliability‐oriented optimal planning of charging stations in electricity–transportation coupled networks," IET Renewable Power Generation, vol. 14, no. 18, pp. 3690-3698, 2020, The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
  • Zhao, Pengfei; Gu, Chenghong; Cao, Zhidong; Xiang, Yue; Yan, Xiaohe; Huo, Da, "A two-stage data-driven multi-energy management considering demand response," Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp. 588-595, 2020.
  • Deng, Runqi; Xiang, Yue; Huo, Da; Liu, Youbo; Huang, Yuan; Huang, Cheng; Liu, Junyong, "Exploring flexibility of electric vehicle aggregators as energy reserve," Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 184, pp. 106305, 2020, Elsevier.
  • Yang, Qingqing; Li, Jianwei; Cao, Wanke; Li, Shuangqi; Lin, Jie; Huo, Da; He, Hongwen, "An improved vehicle to the grid method with battery longevity management in a microgrid application," Energy, vol. 198, pp. 117374, 2020, Pergamon.
  • Zhu, Yuanbin; Huo, Da; Gu, Chenghong, "Chance-constrained optimization for multi-energy hub system with dynamic thermal rating," 8th Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG 2019), pp. 1-6, 2019, IET.
  • Zhao, Pengfei; Gu, Chenghong; Huo, Da; Shen, Yichen; Hernando-Gil, Ignacio, "Two-stage distributionally robust optimization for energy hub systems," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 3460-3469, 2019, IEEE.
  • Huo, Da; Gu, Chenghong; Ma, Kang; Wei, Wei; Xiang, Yue; Le Blond, Simon, "Chance-constrained optimization for multienergy hub systems in a smart city," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 1402-1412, 2018, IEEE.
  • Huo, Da; Le Blond, Simon; Gu, Chenghong; Wei, Wei; Yu, Dongmin, "Optimal operation of interconnected energy hubs by using decomposed hybrid particle swarm and interior-point approach," International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 95, pp. 36-46, 2018, Elsevier.
  • Huo, Da; Wei, Wei; Le Blond, Simon, "Optimisation for interconnected energy hub system with combined ground source heat pump and borehole thermal storage," Frontiers in Energy, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 529-539, 2018, Higher Education Press Beijing.
  • Wei, Wei; Gu, Chenghong; Huo, Da; Le Blond, Simon; Yan, Xiaohe, "Optimal borehole energy storage charging strategy in a low carbon space heat system," IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 76176-76186, 2018, IEEE.
  • Huo, Da; Gu, Chenghong; Yang, Gang; Le Blond, Simon, "Combined domestic demand response and energy hub optimisation with renewable generation uncertainty," Energy Procedia, vol. 142, pp. 1985-1990, 2017, Elsevier.
  • Yu, Dongmin; Zhang, Huiming; Huo, Da; Le Blond, Simon, "CHP sizing and domestic building energy cost optimization," 2016 51st International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), pp. 1-6, 2016, IEEE.
  • Wei, Wei; Huo, Da; Le Blond, Simon, "Borehole active recharge benefit quantification on a community level low carbon heating system," 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), pp. 1-5, 2016, IEEE.
  • Huo, Da; Liu, Yinghan; Gu, Chenghong; Le Blond, Simon, "Optimal flow of energy-hub including heat pumps at residential level," 2015 50th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), pp. 1-5, 2015, IEEE.
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Supervision

I am interested in supervising research students in the areas of:

  • AI for energy systems. This includes but not limited to, smart grid control and management, vehicle-to-grid, network constraints management, energy flexibility evaluation and utilisation, energy forecasting.
  • Whole systems management incorporating renewable energy
  • Techno-economic assessment
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