Professor C.Y. Chung is Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chair Professor of Power Systems Engineering and Founding Director of the Research Centre for Grid Modernisation at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He exerts substantial influence across academia and industry. His research interests include smart grid, micro grid, renewable energy, power system stability/control, power system planning and operation, applications of artificial intelligence, power markets and electric vehicle charging.
Prof. C.Y. Chung advances scholarship that is tightly coupled with engineering practice, following a problem-driven and application-oriented trajectory in which real grid challenges motivate academic advances that are subsequently translated into deployable solutions. He has published over 200 papers in leading international journals, authored three book chapters and holds three U.S. patents. He led the development of the Small Signal Analysis Tool, now deployed by more than 140 utilities and nearly 100 universities worldwide, and which has become an industry benchmark for small-signal stability analysis and control design. During his tenure as NSERC/SaskPower Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid and as the Sask Power Chair in Power Systems Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, he established cross-sector consortia to validate and iterate solutions in representative regional grid settings, yielding replicable and scalable technologies. He also advances impact through technology transfer and entrepreneurship, leading and participating in initiatives that accelerate the engineering, productisation and commercialisation of critical power system technologies.
Prof. C.Y. Chung has received numerous distinctions in recognition of contributions to research, translation and academic service, including the 2021 IEEE Canada P. Ziogas Electric Power Award and the 2021 Saskatoon Engineering Society Educator of the Year Award. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE), the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power & Energy Society (IEEE PES) Distinguished Lecturer. He has served the international community in senior editorial capacities at leading journals, including as Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Consulting Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He will serve as President of the IEEE Power & Energy Society in 2026–2027, becoming the Society’s first President-Elect from outside North America in its 140-year history—attesting to his international stature and sustained leadership.
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