Research

I am insterested in the intersection of machine learning, optimisation, and system dynamics, with a focus on efficient and robust power system operation and control under high penetration of renewable.

Here are some of my recent research works:

Smart Predict-and-Optimize

  • Xu, Wangkun, and Fei Teng. “Task-aware machine unlearning and its application in load forecasting.” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2024). [paper link, code].

  • Xu, Wangkun, Jianhong Wang, and Fei Teng. “E2E-AT: A Unified Framework for Tackling Uncertainty in Task-Aware End-to-End Learning.” In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 38, no. 14, pp. 16220-16227. 2024. [paper link, code].

Learning-based Power System Stability-Constrained Optimization

  • Xu, Wangkun, Zhongda Chu, Florin Capitanescu, and Fei Teng. “On the Incorporation of Stability Constraints into Sequential Operational Scheduling.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11652 (2024) [paper link].

  • Xu, Wangkun, Qian Chen, Pudong Ge, Zhongda Chu, and Fei Teng. “Efficient Sampling for Data-Driven Frequency Stability Constraint via Forward-Mode Automatic Differentiation.” ISFT-EU (2024) [paper link, code].

Power System Digitalization and Cyber Security

  • Xu, Wangkun, Martin Higgins, Jianhong Wang, Imad M. Jaimoukha, and Fei Teng. “Blending data and physics against false data injection attack: An event-triggered moving target defence approach.” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 14, no. 4 (2022): 3176-3188. [paper link, code].

  • Xu, Wangkun, Imad M. Jaimoukha, and Fei Teng. “Robust moving target defence against false data injection attacks in power grids.” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 18 (2022): 29-40. [paper link, code].

  • Bellizio, Federica, Wangkun Xu, Dawei Qiu, Yujian Ye, Dimitrios Papadaskalopoulos, Jochen L. Cremer, Fei Teng, and Goran Strbac. “Transition to digitalized paradigms for security control and decentralized electricity market.” Proceedings of the IEEE 111, no. 7 (2022): 744-761. [paper link].

Other Researches

  • Buffelli, Davide, Jamie McGowan, Wangkun Xu (internship work), Alexandru Cioba, Da-shan Shiu, Guillaume Hennequin, and Alberto Bernacchia. “Exact, Tractable Gauss-Newton Optimization in Deep Reversible Architectures Reveal Poor Generalization.” In The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. [paper link].

  • Wang, Jianhong, Wangkun Xu (co-first) , Yunjie Gu, Wenbin Song, and Tim C. Green. “Multi-agent reinforcement learning for active voltage control on power distribution networks.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (2021): 3271-3284 [paper link, code].