Yifan Dong | Ph.D. Student at Purdue University

About Me

03/2026 Our Paper "Federated Aggregation of Polyhedral Demand Flexibility Sets" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2026.
11/2025 Attended 2025 ASPIRE Annual Meeting in Utah, and presented my work during the technology showcase. [Poster]
09/2024 Attended 2024 ASPIRE Annual Meeting in Utah, and presented my work during the technology showcase. [Poster]
07/2024 Attended 2024 IEEE PES General Meeting in Seattle, and presented my work during the poster session. [Poster]
02/2024 Our Paper "Real-Time Charging Control for Electric Roadways: Formulation and Causal Algorithms" was accepted by IEEE PES General Meeting, 2024.
08/2023 Became a Ph.D. student at Purdue ECE.
06/2023 Abtained the Bachelor's degree at North China Electric Power University (Beijing).

[08/2023 - Present] Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Doctor of Philosophy, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
[09/2019 - 06/2023] North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China.
Bachelor of Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Overall GPA: 93.4/100 (Top 1%)

Y. Dong, G. Chen, and J. Qin, "Federated Aggregation of Polyhedral Demand Flexibility Sets," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2026. [Paper]
Y. Dong, G. Chen, J. Qin, S. Sivaranjani, X. Lu, D. Aliprantis and D. Love, "Real-Time Charging Control for Electric Roadways," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2025.
Y. Dong, J. Qin, S. Sivaranjani, X. Lu, D. Aliprantis and D. Love, "Real-Time Charging Control for Electric Roadways: Formulation and Causal Algorithms," IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2024. [Paper]

Fall 2024: Teaching Assistant, Power Systems Engineering (ECE 31032), Purdue University.
Spring 2026: Teaching Assistant, Power Systems Engineering (ECE 31032), Purdue University.