Supervision
I supervise and support PhD, master’s, and undergraduate students working across power-system optimisation, machine learning, cybersecurity, and energy data science.
PhD researchers
Chenghao Lv (Official co-supervisor)
2026–Present · Decision-focused learning for power-system planning
Wei Hong (Unofficial co-supervisor)
2023–Present · Quantum computing for power-system optimisation
Related work: Qubit-Efficient Quantum Annealing for Stochastic Unit Commitment (paper).
Le Fang (Unofficial co-supervisor)
2023–Present · Learning for power-system dynamics and uncertainty quantification
Related work: Flow-based Polynomial Chaos Expansion for Uncertainty Quantification in Power System Dynamic Simulation (paper)
Master’s project research
Freyr V. Einarsson
2026–Present · Learning for power-system optimization
Thesis: Data-driven AC optimal power flow with differentiable convex optimisation layers.
Group project supervision
Projects supervised through Data Science and Digitalisation in the Energy Sector have led to work on renewable-energy siting, environmental sensing, connected vehicles, and digital infrastructure.
- A. Pedraza, E. Geirsson, F. Adams, M. Ahmad, N. Dawda, W. Xu, Y. Yu, and D. Tuncer, “Assessing Land Eligibility for Solar Photovoltaic Deployment in the UK,” IEEE 60th International Universities Power Engineering Conference, 2025. Paper.
- Anthony, Belcher, Wangkun Xu, et al., “Assessing the Efficacy of IoT-Based Forest Fire Detection: A Practical Use Case,” arXiv:2407.09117, 2024.
- Bunsantrakul, Teeratat, Wangkun Xu, et al., “Poster: Unveiling Urban Emissions from Bangkok Air Monitoring,” ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2024.
- Cano, L. Barrera, Wangkun Xu, et al., “A Comparative Perspective of Data Regulation Frameworks and Their Implications for Connected Vehicles,” ACM SIGCOMM Joint Workshops, 2022.
Undergraduate thesis projects
Machine unlearning via neural-network linearisation
Alina Zhu · 2024–2025
Thesis: Machine Unlearning via Neural Network Linearization and Influence Functions.
Machine unlearning under poisoning attacks
Renwei Liu · 2024–2025
Thesis: Effect of Poisoning Attack on Influence Function and the Performance of Different Machine-Unlearning Algorithms.