Dr Qiteng Hong

Senior Lecturer

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

Dr Qiteng Hong is currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Strathclyde. His main research focus is on novel solutions for monitoring, protection and control of power systems dominated by renewable generation. He received his BEng (Hons) degree in electronic and electrical engineering as the top graduate of the year in 2011 and his PhD in electrical engineering (fully funded by National Grid) in 2015, both from the University of Strathclyde.

Dr Hong has successfully led/been involved with 27 research and KE projects, and secured over £4M as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I), among which he is the PI for 19 projects with total funding of £1.13M. In total, he has 58 high-quality publications with 23 journal 35 conference publications.  He is currently leading a team of 10 researchers, with 4 PhD students, 4 research assistants/associates and 2 visiting scholars. He has been involved with the development and delivery of teaching for 4 undergraduate and postgraduate classes at Strathclyde, 3 modules in Chinese universities (North China Electric Power University and Shanghai University of Electrical Power) and 1 module in Strathclyde’s two centres for doctoral training (CDTs). He is also the main developer for four prototype software tools, with the SGMVP online open platform being the first of its kind in the UK, attracting 12k+ visits from 42 countries per year. He is a regular reviewer for 16 leading international journals, and a guest editor for the Energies journal in the special issue on Protection of Future Electricity Systems.

Dr Hong received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE APAP conference in 2019. He played a leading role from Strathclyde in the execution of the EFCC project (£9.6M), which was shortlisted for the Best Innovation Award by Scottish Renewables and the Project Award by British Renewable Energy Awards in 2018. Dr Hong was also awarded the highly prestigious IET prize in 2011 for his outstanding academic performance and he was the recipient of the John Moyes Lessells Scholarship by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013, which supported his visit to Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was also a senior visiting scholar in Tsinghua University between 2018-2019 in China.

Dr Hong has strong engagement with professional organisations, and has been an invited speaker for 15 conferences, seminars and prestigious universities, a member of 14 technical committees/working groups for 5 leading organisations, and the chair or main organiser for 11 international/national prestigious events. Notably, he is a member of IEEE Working Group (WG) P2004, IEEE Task Force on Cloud-Based Control and Co-Simulation of Multi-Party Resources in Energy Internet, and was the only UK Regular Member in the CIGRE WG B5.50. He is the UK representative in the International Executive Committee for CIGRE Next Generation Networks (NGN), and he also led the international NGN webinar preprogramme, where 13 events have been held in 2020-2021 by NGN groups from 8 countries.

Dr Hong is Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of IET.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

    • Power system protection and control
    • Synchronous compensators
    • Application of novel power electronic devices (e.g. virtual synchronous machine) in power systems and their impact
    • Fast frequency response in low inertia system
    • Wide area monitoring and control using PMU data

Prizes and awards

Students' Choice Award
Recipient
2/11/2021
Best Paper Award
Recipient
24/10/2019
British Renewable Energy Awards - 'Highly commended' in the Project Award category
Recipient
2018
“Most innovative project” in the Scottish Renewable Award - shortlisted (4 out of more than 100 submissions)
Recipient
2017
John Moyes Lessells Travel Scholarship
Recipient
21/5/2013
The IET Prize
Recipient
2011

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Publications

Selective auto-reclosing of mixed circuits based on multi-zone differential protection principle and distributed sensing
Kawal Kevin, Blair Steven, Hong Qiteng, Papadopoulos Panagiotis N
Energies Vol 16 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.3390/en16062558
Active phase control to enhance distance relay in converter-interfaced renewable energy systems
Zhang Haobo, Xiang Wang, Hong Qiteng, Wen Jinyu
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Vol 143 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2022.108433
Advanced fault location scheme for superconducting cables based on deep learning algorithms
Tsotsopoulou Eleni, Karagiannis Xenofon, Papadopoulos Theofilos, Chrysochos Andreas, Dyśko Adam, Hong Qiteng, Tzelepis Dimitrios
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Vol 147 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2022.108860
A reliable accelerated protection scheme for converter-dominated power networks
Paladhi Subhadeep, Hong Qiteng, Booth Campbell
22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC) (2022)
A communication-free active unit protection scheme for inverter dominated islanded microgrids
Khan Md Asif Uddin, Hong Qiteng, Egea-Àlvarez Agustí, Dyśko Adam, Booth Campbell
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Vol 142 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2022.108125
Analysis and simulation of current-only directional protection incorporating simple communications
Rajakrom Pannita, Booth Campbell, Hong Qiteng
2022 57th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC) 2022 57th International Universities Power Engineering Conference: Big Data and Smart Grids, UPEC 2022 - Proceedings (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1109/upec55022.2022.9917648

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Professional activities

PhD Viva External Examiner
External Examiner
2/11/2022
Digital Twins for Coordinated Control of Distributed Energy Resources
Contributor
31/10/2022
4th International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems
Member of programme committee
27/10/2022
CIGRE Session 2022
Member of programme committee
28/8/2022
Operating a Net-Zero GB Power System: Challenges and Potential Solutions
Invited speaker
19/8/2022
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems (Journal)
Guest editor
1/7/2022

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Projects

NTOL NPL Timing Over Loran
Ward, Jeremy Stuart (Principal Investigator) Coffele, Federico (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Hong, Qiteng (Co-investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2024
SCADENT – SuperConductor Applications for Dense Energy Transmission (Strategic Innovation Fund - SIF, Discovery Phase)
Yuan, Weijia (Principal Investigator) Hong, Qiteng (Co-investigator) Papadopoulos, Panagiotis (Co-investigator) Zhang, Ming (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
SSE-Protection-Field Trial
Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Tzelepis, Dimitrios (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
Extension/Additional Funding associated with RKES 210195
12-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2025
UKAEA fusion plant
Zhang, Min (Principal Investigator) Hong, Qiteng (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024
Potential solutions for AC protection in converter-dominated networks
Hong, Qiteng (Principal Investigator) Booth, Campbell (Co-investigator) Dysko, Adam (Co-investigator) Egea Alvarez, Agusti (Co-investigator) Tzelepis, Dimitrios (Co-investigator) Xu, Lie (Co-investigator)
Related to rkes 211743
01-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2025
A Real Time Resilience Assessment Framework for Integrated Energy Systems in Future UK Cities.
Booth, Campbell (Principal Investigator) Hong, Qiteng (Co-investigator) Papadopoulos, Panagiotis (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022

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